skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a slightly more wieldy way of creating a copy of the array. So still has the inefficiencies. It also is only a syntactical help with adding things onto an array; it doesn't help with removing items.
The approach is undeniably dramatic but the primary purpose is to highlight that using biometrics for passwords is beneficial for most people and shouldn't be dismissed.

I personally used a pin code on my second phone because I was fearful of the biometrics chatter but this article convinced me that using the fingerprint scanner is safer in most scenarios than otherwise.
Another possibility is that they just keep them that way now but want to have the guns, ammunition, and training ready if the situation in the country should take a sudden downturn. I know a few very liberal people who have bought guns recently primarily because they don't want the crazies to be the only ones who are armed. They would undoubtedly change their storage methods e.g. if Trumpists decide to violently contest or reject the results of an election.

ETA: How are guns not a sort of trophy for the majority of gun (especially handgun) owners? That's certainly how my gun-afficionado friends on FB seem to treat the ones they post about. Almost certainly never fired at all, let alone in anger.
Never. Use. Google. Delays all social media now
From what I remember, the Western expert opinion about wearing masks in public changed from "a weird East Asian habit" to "something that could be useful" around March 2020. The debate continued beyond that mostly because the issue had already been politicized. And because people who are used to prosperity are often unable to handle the uncertainty of living through a major change. Too many people prefer experts who don't change their minds over those who do.

I also remember experts expecting effective vaccines by the end of 2020 already in January or February 2020. The key scientific challenge in vaccines was never about developing them but about collecting sufficient evidence that the vaccines are effective enough and safe enough in diverse populations. And beyond that, getting the vaccines approved and distributed to billions of people before the pandemic is over were even bigger challenges.

One thing contrarians often miss is that science is fundamentally about building and changing the consensus. It's not about convincing yourself that you have discovered something new, but about trying to convince yourself that you are wrong. And failing to do that, trying to convince the relevant audience that you have in fact discovered something new. Believing in something is a matter of faith. Convincing a skeptical audience that is nonetheless open to new ideas is science.
Yeah how did I know the first actual concrete example would involve COVID? jfc
Out of curiosity, what switch would that have been? Was it a 220/120V setting?
I interviewed with ExpressVPN (NetworkGuard) not too long ago. While the founders are American and they're incorporated in the Virgin Islands, their actual base of operations is Hong Kong and they have no intention of moving out despite the recent upheaval there. So either they have serious guanxi, which seems improbable for pasty white dudes (sorry, but in China race matters), or they're very naive.
HN is not overly censoring, but it [0] is very disapproving of overly divisive and flaming content. Also, HN is not one person. And the comment you linked is not even negative at the moment.

[0] In this case, both community and moderators.
Your concept of Fortran sounds a little out of date to me; have you taken a look at it in the past 31 years?
if ( (BMPa & BMPB) & (Ra & Rb & Rc & Rd)){
//Do Something
}

^This is the algorithm they describe. They make it sound like there is some mystic computation going on. This is how biological computation networks work. A lot of the complexity is just what’s needed to get an analog system to perform digital computation.
Are you a censor if you own the platform?

You can't come into my print shop and print Nazi literature. Could you print it yourself? Sure. So I'm not preventing you from printing it - I'm preventing you from printing it on my equipment.

I.E - No, that's not censorship.
This is just the Windows product lifecycle.

- Windows 3.0 crashed all the time, Windows 3.1 was great

- Windows 95 and 98 were okay, I don't remember having much of a problem with them.

- Windows ME was terrible, Windows XP was great

- Windows Vista was terrible, Windows 7 was great

- Windows 8 was terrible, Windows 10 is great

- Windows 11 will be terrible, but there's always looking forward to Windows 12.

If anything I'm heart-warmed that a new generation will get to experience their own Windows ME/Vista/8 debacle. It's a coming of age story every computer kid must experience.
On windows search, I never understood why it was so bloody slow, particularly on network drives. If I traverse the same folders programmatically I get a result in seconds or less. The search function will takes an order of magnitude that, and I don’t believe it is searching anything else than file names. And don’t even dare changing the sorting order of the search result, because of course it must trigger a new search from scratch.

Which leads me to the same conclusion than many other flaws in Windows. I don’t think the windows team at Microsoft uses windows themselves. They must all have macs at home or perhaps don’t care much about computers. But clearly those obvious UX failures do not seen to annoy them.
The US is not lacking in either press or economic freedom compared to ‘peer’ nations.
Reading what you say, one would conclude that countries with restrictive gun laws do not oppress minority groups in any way, nor have they ever.
I don’t think the demand curve is matching supply at this point, and the processors, while powerful, will be outdated in a relatively short timeframe. Utilising them in a build farm would be one way to put any excess to good use.
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OP mentioned specifically VC-backed sea floor mapping companies; I assume those plan to monetize via natural resource drilling.
Very sad news. Like many commenting here, I cut my teeth on a Spectrum; a +3, when I was about 6 or 7. I remember my dad painstakingly inputting the code for an analogue clock program from a book. It took him hours but once I saw the result I was hooked and wrote all kinds of silly little programs, slowly learning what I could create.
Sounds like this is just a lawsuit away from not being a thing anymore.

All the former employee would have to do is to illustrate that the 4 weeks was enshrined in policy somehow, then boom.
Do you have a link or reference to this word list?

Additionally with just 256 words you can easily do four words for 32 bits.
I see it more as:

Win 7: good

Win 8: bad

Win 8.1: good

Win 10: bad (there were early issues)

Win 10 later: good (they were fixed)

Win 10 even later: bad (remember when people's files were being deleted)

Win 10 now: good

Win 11: bad (mainly due to growing pains)

Win 11 soon: good
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Ideas which can help improve cloud computing experience
That's what PeerTube is. You self-host an instance using their open-source code, and other users can sign up for it.
I had a ZX81 and then a 48k ZX Spectrum. He revolutionised the computer industry in this country, so many of us got into the industry because of what he did. A true visionary.
HN has not been a serious place for civil discussions in a long time. Users are now actively hostile towards opinions that don't score well on reddit. A larger percentage of posts contribute little to the discussion. Many of the early members who helped shape the community have left. The "interesting" posts that are supposed to make up the front page have steadily gone down in quality.
This is total BS. Theories are dangerous. If they weren't, nobody would ever care about them. They are dangerous because they can be inspiring, sometimes inspiring action. You can say you don't want to ban the theory, only the actions, and that's a legitimate position. It reduces you to post-facto behavior only, however (which may be just fine for you). Many societies and people within them over time have not been fine with that. What they've done about it varies, from draconian bans on theories and punishment for those advocating them, to much milder versions such as "you can no longer use the services of a private company to talk about your ideas".

The general population is not equipped with enough information or enough time to meaningfully distinguish between bullshit and non-bullshit. Just yesterday, there was a post about a new long article/paper/publication by Stephen Wolfram, and the comments there made it clear that even among the academic community relevant to what he writes about, there's widespread disagreement about whether he's an egotistical empty vessel or the second coming of Einstein and Newton's lovechild (with a possible bias towards the former).

I'm all for elevating the agency and capabilities of "the general population", but pretending that a random discoverer of a video on self-use of CRISPR is going to be able to sensibly identify what may be of value and what may be dangerous is just incredibly naive.

And note: the problems do not arise with the general member of the public who decides to do their own deep dive after coming across an idea. If that was the universal response to encountering unfamiliar or controversial ideas, we might be in good shape. The problem is that most people have neither the time nor the inclination to do this, and so stuff just ends up floating around in their impressions of the world, unresolved, but perhaps casting doubt on stuff that is almost certainly true (or false).
> hard to believe that the two-generations-newer, more-efficient (and powerful) A15 + larger battery is not going to be more performant

The last generation, 12, had less battery life than its predecessor :p
Well, I am not sure it'd be painless to boot up a macOS machine or an Ubuntu desktop that hadn't been getting updates for months - probably not 4hr, but there'd be some annoyance.
Those rules were written when you could find another service. Nowadays communication platforms are too centralised to be allowed to remove content at will.

The other issue here is the person was banned for life from using YouTube, which is a far cry beyond having some of his content removed for not fitting the platform.

With great power comes great responsibility. The banhammer is being wielded too sloppily and that is hurting people in real ways, because parts of the web are now of central importance to daily life. Private companies in other sectors that can similarly impact people's lives are regulated in what they can do to their customers.
Same - I would switch immediately if it worked well in China. Express VPN used to work, but after weeks of outages I switched to Astrill.
"Cold War Mentality", thats a Chinese embassy talking point.....
Too true. The real problem here, in my humble opinion, is that the mechanism by which the citizens of the United States can fundamentally alter the government (via constitutional amendment) require sizable majorities and broad consensus (I realize that this is primarily a feature), while the mechanism by which the the United States government can alter fundamentally alter itself (via the extra-constitutional mechanism we call Judicial Review) requires a simple majority of 5/9 unelected "justices". We've seen this mechanism, over the course of ~230 years, bootstrap a pathetically weak federal government into a unitary behemoth which dominates our state and local governments. And the only way to get off the train is violent revolution! It's like a bad joke.

We need to acknowledge that human beings have a right to self-governance, that this includes the right to form new governments via democratic referenda, and that governments that prevent this are engaged in something which, upon inspection, cannot be distinguished from imperialism.
> There obviously is an unspoken "we're all grown ups here" type of social contract in these sorts of things.

It's absolutely not grown-up behavior to remove terms from an explicit business contract (employment agreement) and move them to an implicit, unwritten "I know it when I see it" social contract.

Obviously there's some actual limit that your platonic grownup has in mind, between 2 weeks and 40 weeks of PTO per year. Just write it down.
You're literally doing the thing where you rephrase things to put words in his mouth. Either you are incapable of entertaining certain thoughts dispassionately, or you're on a quest to paint him with the worst brush. Oddly, you don't seem to be aware that you're doing it. Reminds me of the Remove Stallman affair. When autism meets normies, the normies shriek and start reading moral judgements into things.

e.g Black people do have a lower IQ, in aggregate, in the US. Are we supposed to pretend that's not true when it's been measured?
Whenever people make "the new decentralized YouTube" or whatever, everyone cuts them down and say "nobody wants that, they just want an easy centralized service with everything". At some point we have to accept that's what we've gotten in nearly every field: 2-3 monolite providers that control the market.

If people want that, then fine, but they can't then be regulated as if we had a vibrant decentralized market. We need democratic control and certain guarantees rights.
For me, I need it to actually pay taxes on my US properties from abroad. Many US tax authorities inexplicably block foreign traffic. Several paid services I use don't allow payments unless the card and the IP address are from the same country.

But by and large I agree, most people are duped into believing it's somehow more secure.
It'll be people voting with their money/download. As an example, I will not be using Clubhouse when it launches on Android, they had a long time to launch and took their sweet time.
I think this mostly applies to TLDs with more than 3 letters. I have email on a .me and a .red and I have never had anything reject me.
Be honest. Your manager will decide how many days you get off = unlimited
Democratization of chem isn't responsible for the dispersal, the lack of regulation and proper labeling is. This occurs at the manufacture level not the level of research chemists.
I work for my wife, so with a wink and a nod I get time off whenever I want it. Incredibly, there is no rule against a spouses working for each other where I am employed! And it’s not like management doesn’t know about this conflict of interest— my wife owns the company. I am the only employee, though, so I have some leverage.
What was said: "I've seen mods allowing blatant rule violations because of good discussion"

What was read: "I've seen mods censoring stuff because of good discussion".

Sometimes you just want to give up.
This is a really cool idea. I tried a few technical queries I did on DDG today and didn't get amazing results - hence the warning in the About page about this engine giving you things you didn't know you were looking for, rather than specific facts. But the examples others have posted sound promising and refreshing. I would love to read about the algorithms behind this and how modern web design gets detected in order to punish it...
Or maybe nothing would have happened because the CCP would have chosen not to use concentration camps on an armed population.
Free speech is not oppression.

The US is a free democracy. Nobody is coming to seize your children and beat their culture out of them. Even if they were, or planned to bulldoze your cemetery, the US has a very well trained, staffed and equipped paramilitary police system and full on militarised domestic National Guard. Largely because they are policing such a gunned up population. So thanks for that. If they are coming for your children, a few light arms are not going to stop them, and they have a huge amount of practical experience in making sure that’s true.

Widespread access to firearms simply escalates conflict in society. It escalates personal disputes, escalates interactions with law enforcement, escalates disparities in power between the violent and nonviolent.

Many developed nations, in fact almost all of them, have very low gun ownership rates, yet these abuses you seem to think would be inevitable have not happened in them. It turns out liberal democracy (liberal as in free and equal, not as in socialist) is pretty robust as long as it has solid support by the population. The best way to maintain that trust is the ability to exercise your rights and express your opinions without fear.
My first computer was a home-built ZX81 (manufactured in my hometown of Dundee) given to me by a capable and nerdy family friend, which was quickly replaced by a ZX Spectrum Plus 2 (it had colour and built-in tape deck) that Christmas - a move which has shaped my life ever since.

I have fond (ish!) memories of typing in hex codes and BASIC from computing magazines to create games and demos, and having the ability to see and edit that code almost certainly give me the start of the career I have now.

RIP Sir Clive.
Some people are just missing that part of their development that helps them to intuitively grasp what counts as abuse when there are no clear written rules. You can't just ask them to be reasonable. I worked for a company that ordered free dinner for folks who stayed late. No limit to what you can eat, but if you're feeling a little hungry, grab a slice of pizza! Well, sure enough a few people ruined it for everyone by taking armfuls of pizza home with them, enough to feed 10 people. I'm talking multiple whole pizza pies, boxes and all, straight to their cars. "It was for employees, and there were no written restrictions" was the justification. So, that perk ended.
It's wise to launch on only one platform to start, focus on there, learn, and then launch on alternative platforms. Particularly if you're developing everything native.

Are there any non-Apple created apps with large user base that are truly iOS only? There probably are, but as an android user, I don't know.
I just found this... https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/9233/
To be fair, cars are probably in their way out too. Their are indeed inefficient and dangerous tools. But yeah, being able to connect cities, people with the best society can offer is a benefit much greater than people using guns to threat one another.
I think the point was that the rate is low enough that the risk of being murdered is not a concern for most people most of the time - yes, it is abnormally high relative to other countries, but it's also so low that it's extremely unlikely to be an individual's cause of death.

Your odds of being murdered in the U.S. are very low compared to many other ways of dying (see e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db395.htm), so yeah, it'd be great to see the murder rate lowered (that's always good, right?), but even if you did something drastic that managed to cut the odds in half, it would not have any discernible impact on most people's day to day lives nor on their ultimate cause of death because so few people end up dying that way.
Did the homicide rate drop occur after the increasing restriction, or was it already low/dropping?
You can have more variety with a few types of restaurants than with lots of types of restaurants, I doubt the two are completely correlated.
"You cannot harm the computer in this way."

This seems quite likely to have been inspired by some of the intro documentation for the Apple ][, apparently written by Jef Raskin. Short comment about it from a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077364
My ip12 has shown 1.5 Gbps, that’s 4 hours of Netflix content per second…
>>That is a different kind of "rich". It's "I can buy a full news studio if I want"-rich.

There are 3 problems with that.

1. Even if you took 100% of their wealth, no income, their entire wealth, it would not even pay the interest on the debt. Let alone anything meaningful

2. You still have not defined "the rich" I want a number. 1 Billion? 10 Billion? 100 Billion? Give me an income or even wealth number..

3. It is not actually true. And it is easily proven as we have a few example. The most famous was Bernie. He was always "Millionaires and Billionaires do not pay their fair share" until he became a millionaire then just like that is was "Billionaires do not pay their fair share". Then you have many champagne socialists on YT spending millions on homes, cars, etc all talking about how the "rich do not pay their fair share" and ofcourse they are not the rich

>>And most of them are paying much less taxes over their income than you or I, in percentage.

Playing with the tax rates is not going to change that, in fact most of them increasing the tax rates will cause a inverse in collections as it becomes more profitable to evade..

If you look at the amount of revenue the IRS collects from Income tax as a percent of GDP it is almost a flat line, it does not matter what the rate it, the IRS ends up collecting about the same amount.

>>Such a tax can never reach 110%

Sure it can, in a number of ways because it is not a single taxing entity, State, Federal, Local.. They do not have to allow you to deduct the taxes you paid to the other entities, infact that is a big issue today with the SALT limits. Then you have people proposing WEALTH based taxes, which could exceed the actual income a person made if they are asset heavy and income light.

> it can go to 70% or 80%, but it would be orders of magnitude more, in absolute numbers. But as I said, none of them pays that. They'd rather provoke a war than pay that.

No Shit, that is just strait up theft. I dont know how anyone could even begin to justify 50+%.. I am opposed to income based taxation in the first place, but Shit 80%? really.

So I am left to ask.

1. Please define "Rich" in a actual dollar amount

2. Please define what you believe is a "fair" marginal rate for all income based taxation (state, federal, and local) for a person making this "rich" income.

3. If the government cannot collect the amount if needs to pay for goods and service how or (who) do you propose they make up the difference?
I get it.

I just don't understand why anyone thinks judges should be adjudicating trust and safety issues, why they think that will lead to better outcomes, or why forcing private actors to carry speech they won't want to (which seems to be the goal of such proposals) is in any way proper.

Not to mention the staffing issues you're going to have, running all these disputes through the courts...
Then don't!

Bloat is the moat were stuck in.

An unsustainable sin,

a cognitive load,

too heavy to comprehend,

a house of cards,

the opposite of smarts.
It was a point agreeing with the person they were replying too. The social rules of technical communities and informal gaming communities are very different, and the commenter highlighted that. I wouldn't want the same name in a technical and gaming community for basically that reason.