skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know that an operation will not complete sychronously (e.g. because it requires a network transaction) then normal Task might actually be more efficient, because the heap allocation would be required anyway and you safe the additional branches.
“Drömminge” is most likely a reference to a place outside of Värnamo in Småland [1]. As a native speaker (although not a linguist), my guess is that the name is derived from “Dröm” (dream), conjugated into “Drömma” (to dream), and then into “Drömminge” which with the “-inge” suffix turns it into a place name: “Place of dreaming”.

[1]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Dr%C3%B6mminge#ma...
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Yeah, legally if they accepted the offer already then the offer can no longer be 'pulled'.
Reminder : there's still a $10k bounty for rooting the Quest.

Thousands of enthusiasts are waiting for it, opening this platform could create an huge homebrew scene, and free us from Facebook. If you're into Android reverse engineering, please give it a shot.
XREngine – open-source WebGL Metaverse Engine
I wonder what långfjäll means? It’s a wonderful chair and isn’t on the list.
Yes it’s similar to Fox and CNN, but with an audience in the billions instead of the tens of millions.
It's the totality of the evidence taken together, not a series of things to be considered independently. When a lot of "coincidence" add up, they cease being coincidences. Or, at the very least, if there's no serious investigation by the people in charge of something so significant, an injustice is being done.

Also, factory farming is far safer than all other forms of farming. If the outbreak was unrelated to WIV and centered in Wuhan, wet-markets and exotic animal markets are the likely culprit.
I recently joined a series B startup valued at ~$200M with ~100 staff and was granted what amounts to be ~0.015% over 4 years. (So if I had all my options now they'd be worth ~$28k). Seems like that might be a bit low comparatively, have I been fleeced?
I'd say it's true for any nonstandard pdf form resume; I don't use latex to make mine but I've yet to find an application tool that actually pulled my information correctly. I keep a plain text version which I use for the upload portion then when I get to the attachments portion (typically trying to get a cover letter out of me) I remove the plain one and add my nice pdf version. Saves tons of headaches dealing with the various application software. If I think they'll be doing the processing after app submission, I'll send both versions. I've even had hiring managers flat out ask for plain text resumes too.
I doubt that gains from symbolic AI or any algorithmic improvement will outpace Moore’s law in the long run. I certainly wouldn’t want to spend decades working to improve AI, only to have my work undercut by cheaper silicon.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Yes, and somehow they're also marked as important even though it's from an unknown contact with none of my contacts CC'd.
Is "Lu" her nickname?

'Looking back, Lu divides her career path into two parts.'
bad copy editor?
I had a backpack melt because of this. There is a hole through and through, about the size of a half dollar.
I'm sure there is not an exact equivalent between Swedish "defame" and English "defame", but wouldn't airing any negative news about a person be defamation? If Löfven was found sexually abusing a child in flagrante delicto, wouldn't it ruin his otherwise fairly good reputation to let the public know this fact?
Like most people engaged in tone-policing, you have an awful tone.

The author of the article owes nothing to "the provider of cURL's largest install base and the richest company that ever existed".
The original cable was published in the meantime [1]. I don't see any mention of "dangerous research taking place in unsafe conditions". Why don't you read it for yourself? It's only three pages.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-state-depart...
Given that you understand it well -- do you know why the compiler accepts async void in the first place?
The extraspectral hues require mixing light of at least two different wavelengths (red and blue in different proportions), while the other hues can all be made from a single wavelength of light. I understand that lithium chloride can burn with a magenta flame, but that just means that its combustion reaction produces light with that particular distribution of wavelengths in its spectrum - similar to a white flame which would have red, green, and blue.

Pigments work differently than light emitting sources, as they absorb light that is not present in the reflected color. So a magenta pigment is not all that special, it just means it absorbs green. Quinacridone and crystal violet (hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride) are two such examples, each capable of a brilliant magenta or purple color from a single molecule.
Cryptocurrency schemes are public but their technology is complex enough (vs their typical participant) that it is not at all necessary to present false information. If anything it is this fact alone makes cryptocurrencies innovative over traditional fraud schemes. No overt deceit required - only average ignorance and gullibility. Being open, decentralized and harder to stop will likely allow them to scale at least a couple orders of magnitude larger before they collapse.
I am rereading a novel from French author René Barjavel: “the ice people” on this exact theme. Scientists in the South Pole discover an ancient civilization 900k years old. Its also fun because he anticipates the near future quite accurately from 1968 when he wrote it. Well worth a read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_nov...
We can go back and forth on this. I don't agree with you about the P-curves, you will make well-constructed rebuttals to anything I say about this, we can reconstruct the thread from the search bar, let's not bother.

I'd like to think we might be on the same page about Schneier and curves.
cancelled my SciAm subscription today, it's not longer about science but woke politics in every issue
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It all comes down to burden of proof. The more circumstantial evidence of a lab leak piles up, the more reasonably open-minded people will tend to shift their priors in that direction.

You will only accept hard evidence, yet you are aware that parties in China have actively removed some possible evidentiary sources. And others in USA promoted a campaign to shut down lines of enquiry, whilst withholding relevant information.

Many disciplines use Bayesian statistical models. In this case it may be the only way to "prove" a lab leak - assuming that were actually true.

I understand how this makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist. I hate that. It would certainly be better to have hard evidence. I belive we have to reserve judgement in it's absence. And keep investigating both avenues.
Fuck off. The what iffer in this case is looking for someone to blame.

That’s generally not productive, not helpful, and in this case, they’re hoping to blame the people who foresaw this very issue and wanted to stop it.

Not helpful at all, but you’re here sucking his cock like he is going to solve it on his own.
This is moving the goalposts.

Bitcoin fanboys love to talk about the future where you can buy groceries and order pizza with btc. Do you typically use a bank wire for those transactions?

I don't.
Thank you! I didn't know that existed. I gotta test the performance of that compared to something like a list or array with an explicit lock, which is otherwise my go to solution precisely for performance reasons.
"we’d be laughing at them just like we did for the bulldozer architecture"

I remember buying the Phenom II X6 1100T day one (December 2010) because we were all waiting for AMD to rise like a phoenix and dethrone Intel's incredible Core series chips

10 months later (October 2011) Bulldozer finally launched, before crashing and burning on the launch pad almost immediately

It was a hard time being an AMD fan a decade ago :(
What do you expect out of trading? To get a soul-inspiring philosophical revelation? But trading is simply trading...exchanging things you have for things others have that you believe will in net bring more benefit to you. Get your soul-enriching experiences elsewhere, and use the money you get from trading to help find them.
Yes, google is antagonistic to GPL licensed software.
That seems on the low end, but not unreasonable. What’s your cash salary, how many years of experience do you have, will you get annual refreshers and what do you think are the odds you’ll exit with a unicorn valuation? Now, do the same math except with an established company to compare with. Which one pays you more? And how much do you value startup culture vs. big co culture?
I think the main point is that Covid is not over, and another eviction moratorium is not out of the question.

So yes, you can be more picky to avoid an eviction, but what if an eviction is not an option next year? What do you do then? From what I've heard some landlords are moving the bar from the top 30% of tenants to the top 10% and would prefer to keep a unit empty just to get them.
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How long ago was that and where?
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/11/26/previously-unpub...

wow
Sometimes I wonder if the WWW was created as the ultimate outrage generation machine.
Encourage Use of “Good” Mobile Apps
I would like an app that gamifies app usage to encourage the use of "good" apps like Ankidroid and discourages the use of "bad" apps like TikTok.

So far I've only found apps that discourage app usage but none that allow you to select "good" apps that you're encouraged to use.

I'm not really sure how to even phrase that in a way that could be understood by a search engine.
If we started today from scratch, I think timezones wouldn't be set by towns but by arbitrary numbers or letters (something like "+8:00 DST-2")

Having to chose a single town on each timezone is just bound to be problematic whatever the criteria are, and it would also mean endless arguments about changing timezone names when the chosen town doesn't meet these criteria anymore.
I'll disagree on that. GIMP has no dedicated tool to draw basic geometric shapes because it's an image editor, not a painting tool. For its devs to add such a tool will not be hard because GIMP can already do it in a more advanced way by stroking selection. If anyone wants to try: make a new image > rectangle/ellipse selection (shortcuts R/E) > press / (in keyboard) > write some of and enter on "Stroke selection..." > enter. If there's a problem with GIMP, it's being pretty complicated (then again it's an advanced program), perhaps more than its competitors.
Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era
It is not recommended to directly expose the textual time zone identifier for that reason. CLDR for example provides a mapping from the tzid to the translated name, and that can be tailored. In case your client doesn't like that internal identifier, the correct response would be abolishing the textual time zone identifier (there has been multiple attempts so far).
Lab leak doesn't mean engineered. It could have been wild samples collected and brought to the lab which then were handled by a careless technician.
It is ridiculous to compare the risk of the government commandeering your asset to risks such as natural disasters, pandemics, or even rioting.
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My chaotic side would love yearly elections or competition to decide which town will be the winner for each timezones every year.

Bonus points if it's an online poll where the game becomes hacking as much votes as possible without getting caught.
A good place to start is asking your supervisor or HR person what can be done. For example you might be able to take out a loan or the company might be able to repurchase the stock.
> I'd like to think we might be on the same page about Schneier and curves.

Agreed.

As I think we're both agreeing that it's a subject where well informed people could have a reasonable debate and disagreement, if you've got a reasonable link you'd suggest for the perspective you've taken it would be helpful to provide it (I provided the BADA55 curve page for that purpose)! (I could suggest one, but I'd prefer one you like!)
Probably not a deal breaker, just another thing people moving from cities out into the countryside would have to adapt to. I agree that being a distance from all the basics seems hard.
I have been following AMD because of their hardware improvements.l since 1xxx. I was not financially savvy at that time. If I was, I would have bought their stocks
Had a problem with Airbnb in Scotland several years ago. The unit smelled of a gas leak and we did not feel safe. (Also, the unit was not quite as advertised, but this was a secondary concern). Host came out said it wasn't a problem opened some windows, and left. We came back an hour later with all the windows opened and the smell was still there. Opted not to stay in the room because we did not feel safe, opened a support request with Airbnb telling them the situation and moved to a hotel for the next few nights (had 4 different Airbnb's over 3 week period -- no other problems). Airbnb asked for all this documentation and dragged it out several weeks of escalations. Finally told me they "could not verify I didn't stay in the room" (even though they asked for hotel bill for hotel down the street, which I provided), so they were not going to refund it. They also deleted my negative review of the host because "I did not stay in the room" Since they were talking out both sides of their mouth I disputed the charge with my credit card and sent a screenshot to Airbnb.

What took over 5 weeks of back and forth was resolved in 2 hours. Airbnb even gave me $100 credit for my trouble...
Cross-browser testing on the cloud: advantages and disadvantages
Never heard of this or received an offer like this. Are you based in the US? Because if you are it sounds like you and your coworkers took a bad deal.
Yeah its probably different iron oxides: fe(II) <-> fe(III) and not free iron.
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Is there some low level hardware documentation available given that the software is not open source?
Another way to think about that is like cash. When someone gives you some cash, should they be able to sneak into your sock drawer and take it back? Would you accept payment that came with a remote control held by someone else when you have no such way to recover your goods or services or time?

Insurance and dispute resolution are separate jobs from the job of the money itself.
I think what's going on here is that tech leadership folks know that the models the scientists develop eventually need to feed into their live product (so need to be "production ready"), but there isn't enough work to have two teams; one to develop the models, and one to run them in production. Thus, the ideal employee is an expert in everything! That's valuable, but not likely to be something you find when both data science and SRE are deep fields where people are very successful only knowing one of them ;)

I work on something called Pachyderm, which is a Kubernetes-based data storage and job execution system that tries to bridge this gap. We have a managed solution (https://hub.pachyderm.com) where we provision your Kubernetes cluster and do all the management (keeping the software up to date, authentication and authorization, etc.) and in fact don't even expose kubectl to you. You'll never see any of the Kubernetes stuff (though you might recognize certain error messages, I suppose). You just supply your code and a specification for how data flows around your pipelines, add your data, and we do the rest. Data scientists can interact with the versioned inputs and outputs through notebooks, but you're getting the full suite of production features behind the scenes -- a history of exactly which data inputs went into which data outputs, incremental processing, seamless autoscaling (set cpus: 8, gpus: 1 in your pipeline specification, and we find you a machine that meets that spec, add it to your cluster in less than a minute, schedule your work there, and remove the machine when the job finishes), etc.

Sorry for the sales pitch. I pretty much never use HN to shill my paid work, but it seems especially relevant to this sort of problem. Maybe you don't need the unicorn employee that is an expert in multiple fields -- focus on the data science and let us actually deal with the ugliness of computers ;)

(And if you do like Kubernetes but don't want to write your own orchestration system, Pachyderm itself is open source.)
Comparing AWS EC2 pricing [1] and AWS Lambda [2].

Assumption: Let's say you run an application / function with 5 qps traffic, needing 256 MB RAM max, 50ms execution time.

EC2: t2.micro instance - 1 instance available as always free, hence using as a baseline. This comes with 1 vCPU and 1GiB RAM - cost $0.0116 / hour x 750 hours a month = $8.7 / month.

Lambda: For 5 qps traffic, it would amount to 13,392,000 requests in a month. With a 256MB instance, and 50ms of execution time, that comes to $2.48 / month, after accounting for 1M free requests.

The math goes in EC2's favor once you cross 20 qps.

Can a t2.micro run such a load - oh yeah!

[1]: AWS EC2 On-demand pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
[2]: AWS Lambda pricing: https://dashbird.io/lambda-cost-calculator/
There’s some significant differences between that case law, and this situation.

The mortgagee in that case applied to the court for relief, and had to make ongoing payments during the period that relief was granted. The relief did not put the creditor at a substantial risk of bankruptcy.

If the regulation was tested, I think it would have survived the constitution. But I don’t think all of the conditions of it would. I’m skeptical that the criteria for qualifying, and the process for applying would have passed, and I think SCOTUS would probably expect more clarity on the obligations of applicants (ie around partial payments).

The constitution still exists during an emergency, and there’s still a bar that must be met when infringing upon the rights it grants. But SCOTUS tends to avoid ruling on the constitutionality of a law in cases where the simpler explanation is that the law was not appropriately applied.
Gestalt?
Portuguese man of war?
It means long mountain, and it's probably taken from a specific mountain with that name even if it sounds generic. Probably this one: https://www.svenskaturistforeningen.se/guider-tips/leder/lan...
Landley's blog is interesting, too. http://landley.net/notes.html He often describes the step-by-step development process for building the Toybox tools.
I think for C# one of the strong async use-cases was the same one as for Javascript having async/await: UI programming. UI environments are mostly single-threaded, and if you want to modify UI elements you have to perform that operation on the UI thread. Doing e.g. a HTTP download in a background thread and directly manipulating a progress bar from there wasn't possible. With async/await that can multiplex all those async tasks onto the UI thread this now gets feasible. With the move to more declarative UI patterns this argument might now get more mood, but I don't have enough recent experience to tell.

On the server end, I strongly agree with you that for 95% of applications a threaded environment - and even using plain OS threads - would likely be easier and fast enough. But I guess everyone also wants to support the remaining 5% of applications, like "build a 100k clients proxy server".

Btw: Fibers can also be viral. E.g. if they are multiplexed on a single OS thread (non work-stealing scheduler) you still can't block in them, and need fiber-aware methods of everything. If you use a work-stealing scheduler then methods which use thread-local storage might be subject to undefined behavior, because the currrent thread might change inside the execution of the function at an invisible yield point.
Where did you even come from? Absolutely nothing to with my comment, the comment above mine, or the one above that. I'm talking about helmets and issues in how Loyola cites their sources, not the effects of the Vietnam war on domestic policing. Go make your own thread if that's relevant to the article but you won't get a good discussion here.
If this is true, Peter Daszak and any implementers should get the death penalty for such a cavalier attitude towards these activities. It is such a willfully negligent set of actions and this looks extremely bad for him and his acolytes.
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They're missing an explanation for one of the more famous but subtle IKEA naming puns.

"Indira" is at this page says an Indian name and also the name of an India-inspired IKEA bedspread. But bedspred in Swedish would be "överkast" which would translate directly as "over throw" but could also be read as "over caste". From a Swedish PoV the Indian caste system looks like a social ranking system and to Swedes one of the most famous (and thus presumably socially high ranking) Indians "just happened" to be named... Indira.
Hey, I too bought an 1100T before Bulldozer launched, and it gave me many years of great service.

Unfortunately, I needed to replace that server before Zen showed up, so the next iteration was (and is) an Intel chip. (Slightly tempted to upgrade it again ~soon, but not impressed by Intel's current "lower-power" Xeon designs, AMD's Epyc Embedded last had an iteration in Zen 1 and according to leaks won't see a new one until 2023(!) and Zen 4, and AArch64 is not bad but I haven't seen anyone selling a server board that was in the right spot between size/power/performance/price yet...)
There's more than science here. This is also game theory, if a lab leak is still plausible. Why was this being researched? Who knew about it and why was it covered up, and to what extent was it covered up?

Personally I think it's naive that people are omitting human and government intentions from all this, as if they are not actors in complex political world. These huge world changing events don't happen in a vacuum, and government actors are usually aware of all these ongoing research efforts for agendas and specific goals, which of course includes misleading the public.
nice, i’d love to see a mobile web browser that supports wasm