skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Windows 10 for the first time in years and was taken aback by the fact that despite Firefox being my default browser, a ton of Microsofty things open in Edge anyways. For example: search a term in the start menu and get the magnifying glass options for looking up related terms. They all just open in Edge for me anyway.
Yeah that would work better than using nil. And it would make it clear that it was being initialised to whatever the default value for that type is.

Though, of course, most coders would leave out the second step here since the compiler initialises all variables with their type's default value ;)
Samidh's notes on FB internal memo “Our position on Polarization and Elections”
I unblocked Facebook right now from my hosts file so I could message someone and couldn't figure out why Facebook failed to load. I tested HN and viola I see that the entire world has sent Facebook requests to 0.0.0.0 lol
Good lord I think you just helped me understand why I have come to hate this line of work (web development) 20 years in.

I see now that much of my ability to accomplish a task/feature/project is now out of my control - I'm now so highly dependent on 3rd parties and spend the day sorting out stuff to glue together rather than actual creative work.
Alternatively, this can be read as: even an isolated island nation with low population, almost no migration into the country, and high compliance rates was unable to stop COVID via lockdowns (and no vaccines).
Presumably the DNS being down also wreaks havoc in their internal infrastructure as services can no longer resolve each other's names.
Yeah, sorry.

Really looking at your other answers: the industry does seem to be realizing it needs your unified API, and you’re in there getting hired to implement it. You are doing the work, and the only real problem is that you think it should take a lot less than fifty years.

If you take email as a model, your future career path probably includes forming a weed standards organization, issuing a lot of weed standards RFCs, and helping people implement them.
stop using Windows!! no one is forcing you to use Edge on Linux
I wonder if they can be recycled
> first widely popular fully-functional powerful general-purpose ARM-based laptop ever being produced on a massive, industrial scale.

I submit if you need to qualify your use of the word "laptop" with fully eight adjectives or adjectival phrases to avoid ambiguity with pre-existing products, that it's probably not "revolutionary" by definition.

The M1 is a good CPU. It's incrementally better than the Intel CPUs used in earlier versions of the same product.

It is very notable in that it was produced in-house and not purchased from Intel. And that says important things about the business climate in which Apple finds itself. But that's not the same thing as "revolutionary" in a technological sense. It does what competing chips do, somewhat better.
I'd like to hear Microsoft's explanation for this "feature".
Climate change was a known fact as far back as the early 80s. Chernobyl happened in 1986.

The fear-mongering was absolutely not justified given that we will soon be facing climate crises that will make Chernobyl and Fukushima seem miniscule.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
> but they can change their own rules

In terms of the morality of contraception, they can't change their "rules" on it any more than they could change the "rule" against murder.

Priestly celibacy could be changed though I don't know how it would solve problems. Do you believe that a someone being able to become ordained after getting married would stop pedophiles? Maybe I don't understand what you're saying because I don't see how that would be the case. It could possibly lower the chance of them committing other sexual sins but on the topic of homosexual activity it wouldn't change a thing since there always condemned no matter who does it.

Any thoughts on that?
According to the link I provided above, it's 6% and they are accelerating replacement of coal with nuclear.
Ultimately, the fossil fuel industry is to blame.

They campaigned HARD against nuclear usually under shadowy organizations and usually supporting solar (which, at the time, was completely infeasible). [1]

Now that we've got so many restrictions in place around nuclear and solar/wind are pretty feasible, the fossil fuel industry has done a 180. They now promote nuclear over solar/wind precisely because they know it will take years for nuclear to become viable again. [2]

They got all the regulations into place to stop nuclear from being deployed and now advocate it knowing it's going to be hard, politically, to rollback those restrictions.

Personally, I think the right move at this point is renewables + battery storage and working to eliminate nuclear restrictions. It's not an either or choice, let's do both.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...

[2] https://news.kochind.com/news/2018/the-nuclear-option
Same process, you need to repeat it for each color that you would want printed.

This video shows a bit of the process such as the Rubylith sheets used to create masks for each color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxddg3dNKgw
Elektra 0.9.8 Redshift Release
We need somebody to write:

“Considered harmful” considered harmful
Walt Disney was making propaganda on behalf of the (soon to be named by then-president Eisenhower) military industrial complex, having been vetted by the FBI.
0830 actually :/

But to be fair... seems like it was a good call to not do it Friday night :D
The problem is, it's not a level playing field. 100 incidents of a person ploughing into a bus queue and killing a child, each is news for a day, everyone accepts the tragedy and moves on. A self-driving car does it once though, and the mob will be at the factory gates with torches and pitchforks.
But that's the issue: glibc's ctype does work beyond ASCII: it works for ISO-8859-*. It's pointless because that's pretty much all it can work for.
It won't because actual DL products solve problems that are not sexy but still works objectively better than traditional ML for most tasks.

The best example of this is OCR/Document Intelligence. The old ML approaches of the 1990-2000 are really no match for what we have now. It's gotten to a point where extracting handwritten text is done reliably for very cheap. Same goes for tables and key-values extractions which require a higher level of understanding that simply wasn't available before.

So no, it won't crash and you'll keep seeing these pieces every month that "AI can't do X" until we actually achieve X and then the goalpost is moved.
The # of types of parallel ports was never that simple. One port, many possible speeds and support modes.

> And now? You buy a new laptop... usb-c charging, great. You need another charger, you go to the store, find a usb charger, buy it, plugi it in - everything fits - but it won't charge. You need a fast charger... back to the store, bring it home, doesn't charge. You need a PD charger and not a QC charger...

All the chargers I've gotten are multi-mode.

And yes buying a tiny charger is a problem. Yes it sucks, but back in the bad old days I had an android phone that came with a charger that could barely charge it if I was streaming video on the phone while it was plugged in. Oops!

I've also had laptops that came with such a weedy charger that it had similar issues.

FWIW my el-cheapo USB-C hub, charges almost everything.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/
And a lot of people seem to be coming to HN to find out why, judging by how laggy HN is getting right now...
And the alternative is... ?
I haven't read it but I understand where you're coming from here.

Does this doc talk about the problems with nullability / ternary logic? What about algebraic sum types? Those have always been some of the most difficult aspects of relational data modeling, at least with respect to SQL.
Good point, but does the TikTok algorithm allow each user to connect evenly with every other user on the network graph? Or does it "pocket" people into groups of related interests? e.g. I heard there was a trucker subculture on TikTok that talks about the best truck stops,etc, but I've never even seen one of those videos.
Exactly. Completely clueless statement.
Off the top of my head, this sounds like dependent typing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type . Simply put, it allows you to define types that are generic on specific values, rather than other types. So with normal typing you have generics like List<T>, but with dependent typing you can do Int<1, 10> like you described. Similarly, you can define types like the type of odd integers, or the type of lists with at least 3 elements, etc. They are very cool, but as you can imagine complicated to implement. In general dependent types can make type checking a program undecidable.

You might also be interested in the numeric subtypes you can declare in some Pascal languages, like Ada. See http://www.isa.uniovi.es/docencia/TiempoReal/Recursos/textbo... for some examples. In Ada you can define subtypes, like the set of integers from 1 to 10. You can also define subtypes on floats, characters, and enums. You can also define the overflow rules for your type to a certain degree. It isn't quite as powerful as dependent types, I don't think you can really make it as generic, but still an interesting feature. One very interesting property of Ada is the ability to make arrays which are indexed by a non-integer type. So you can make a enum for the days of the week, then declare an array of strings indexed by the days of the week type. Then you can do things like "array[Saturday]" to access values. Effectively this lets you make an array of 7 values with strongly-typed indexing.
Just eroded trust. Go ahead. Support that kind of behavior

Choice over force
> hanging out with a bunch of people wearing white nationalist apparel and holding a sign that references a racist meme

Getting a rise out of the easily-offended is as old as time. Your Mom jokes go back centuries. Satirizing those who take themselves so seriously that they take offense at words and images is downright Shakespearean. Late 20th century stand-up comedy relied on inducing offense. Andrew Dice Clay was particularly good at this.

The elevation of negative subjective feelings as the primary determinant of moral wrongness in the last couple decades has basically killed comedy.

I'm tickled pink that VC and others are still doing the Lord's work, here.
I really wish they'd focus on just making be best HW/SW that they can and respecting the user. For awhile I was rooting for them, they seemed the least bad of the tech giants. I was hoping they'd strategically differentiate themselves from the antitrust FAAG pack (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google).
Exactly, thank you for bringing this up; Comparison stays true even if we include quite outlandish estimates for Chernobyl.
...and where do you go when AWS/Signal's servers go down?

How about choosing something that's federated?
https://matrix.org/
Post requests with fetch() in a GTM Custom Template
I had a CS professor in college who every year would give a speech about a hypothetical engineer designing pipe fittings that are eventually used in concentration camp gas chambers. The point is not that if something you make is used for evil that makes you a bad person, but that you should pay attention to the broader consequences of your work even if it appears innocuous, and if you find out it's being misused, do something about it. Quit or complain to your boss or tell the media or alter your design or something.

I'm sorry to jump to Nazis, I know you're not supposed to do that on the internet. I'd like to explicitly state that I don't think McKinsey employees are as bad as Nazis. This comment just reminded me of that very valuable lesson in engineering ethics.

In this case it's not really relevant - engineers on consulting projects are not "back office staff". They're part of the team, on site, in meetings, making decisions.
That'll depend on the length of the outage, other tasks they can do during it, and the uptime and market penetration of any competing services.

I don't think much of a lesson is going to occur here. It'll be a brief blip that impacts few meaningfully.
Let’s hope it’s this. Everyone will just shrug and move onto the next hopefully less evil site
That's totally weird because I have never watched a political video on YouTube, yet my whole suggested feed is filled with it. Even in the first 3 suggested videos. All of it is very far right conservative. Never touch it. I login to see if anyone I'm interested in has posted anything new then get off the platform. Have no clue how to get out of it.
While (editorial commentary aside) the basic facts in that article are accurate as far as I can tell, I'd be careful with that source - The Epoch Times is a mouthpiece for Falun Gong's political interests and engages in disinfo programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

They also previously ran a large sockpuppet network on Facebook and the Facebook ad platform (both of which have since been banned) so they may have a bit of a bone to pick with the platform.
>To me there is nothing more alarming than the corporate overlords invading my home.

I've worked from home for a while and pre-pandemic it seemed to be fine. However, I started to have issues when everybody could do every part of their job from home. More urgent requests in off-hours, simply because people had access 24/7. I used to take 60 to 90 minutes a couple nights a week just to take my time on some work that required thought or extreme focus. There were times that moved to Saturday in the past year.

I started hating going to the basement where my office is. I have a TV and seating for movies, but use it much less than I used to.
It was a mistake to communicate with the users on a platform that they use? Instead of trying to get them on signal, losing 90% of leads in the process and making each of your sales cost x10 much?
But then who gets priority here? The Netherlands or Indonesia? And it can easily be debated Indonesia as we know it would not exist without the VOC...
Oculus is also down
My accounts are disposable and disposed of - my "reputation" means nothing to me, and I think people who bought into gamified reputation are suckers. Liberty.
I've been doing a pretty good job of moving my client's communications to Signal out here.

I feel bad for everyone who relies on whatsapp bots for making stuff happen, though. These are getting really common out here for a lot of things and it always worries me that it's such a linchpin. They're really handy and save a lot of bullshit phone calls from having to be something people deal with for simple stuff like pharmacy delivery. I can get food from the local place down the street that's only really open for lunch and totally off the map for uber eats, for example... if this persists a few more hours those mom and pop type shops aren't going to have as great a day.
Converting natural language to bash using GPT-3
I wonder how they do on the L.A. freeway with average traffic that goes to heavy and average again where there's a police chase happening in a torrential downpour... im sure more scenarios that happen in life at once can be added on ... yet don't worry the AI knows all the millions of scenarios on top each other and will be able to handle it like an attentive human driver would in such situations.
Maybe an event like this will spur some people into... not doing that? Yes I'm aware of the ubiquitous nature of whatsapp in many developing nations. Have also successfully got a lot of people moved onto using Signal for anything they care about.
This sounds so extremely far-fetched and designed to create a negative impression of Facebook. Does anyone even take this seriously? If yes, why?

> mobile phones are addictive

> internet is used to organize protests
OMG, have you tried to charge it from a sane 5V charger?
Can't tell them to switch if whatsapp is down!

More guidance required.
From the article "Reports in 2013 said he had turned down Sir Richard Branson's offer to fly him into space with Virgin Galactic" and "Shatner has a fear of flying"

I just feel the need to point out: Maybe Shatner feels safer on Blue Origin because the Virgin Galactic craft have wings, whereas Blue Origin craft don't?

Edit: There can't be "a man! on! the wing!" if there's no wing. ;-)

[I'll show myself out...]
Looks like the routing is goofed. Loops over and over - DDoS attacking themselves.

mtr -r -c10 -w -b a.ns.facebook.com
Start: 2021-10-04T10:02:50-0600
Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev

...

4.|-- ae-2-rur101.cosprings.co.denver.comcast.net (162.151.51.125) 0.0% 10 12.6 11.9 9.6 19.0 2.9

5.|-- 24.124.155.233 0.0% 10 9.3 10.2 9.1 12.4 1.1

6.|-- 96.216.22.45 0.0% 10 12.0 14.0 11.6 31.3 6.1
7.|-- be-36041-cs04.1601milehigh.co.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.43.253) 20.0% 10 14.6 13.5 11.6 20.5 3.0
8.|-- be-3402-pe02.910fifteenth.co.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.38.126) 0.0% 10 12.2 12.0 11.5 13.2 0.5
9.|-- 173.167.59.170 0.0% 10 13.8 17.8 12.0 34.7 8.4
10.|-- 129.134.40.74 0.0% 10 15.3 12.6 11.4 15.3 1.1
11.|-- 129.134.43.226 0.0% 10 18.9 15.3 12.6 20.3 3.0
12.|-- 129.134.98.166 0.0% 10 12.5 14.2 12.5 20.4 2.3
13.|-- 129.134.54.61 0.0% 10 34.2 30.8 28.9 34.2 1.8
14.|-- 129.134.53.61 0.0% 10 29.8 31.1 28.9 36.5 2.7
15.|-- 129.134.53.61 90.0% 10 31.9 31.9 31.9 31.9 0.0
> no good estimate of the indirect deaths and illness

Don't we have Geiger counter that can measure the amount of radiation emanating from nuclear power plants, including Chernobyl?
Yes it is.

Alternatives beyond signal that normies can use: Email.

Spread the word!
as always with government power you should ask if you would be alright with your political enemies on the other side of the aisle having full access to abuse the new government power, because they probably will at some point.
Yeah, but most people are fine with (or at least resigned to) capitalism. What they object to is a lack of choice - especially when their choice is being actively subverted by a huge monopolistic entity

(that said, if/when this feature does land, opt-in is definitely the way to go for Brave to show themselves to be completely non-scummy)
You can skip submitting a phone number. They don't make it obvious but an option to skip is there at sign up. Though from personal experience it may make the moderation system more aggressive towards your account.
Foreign money secretly floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted.
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This question doesn't deserve downvotes. While the answer is quite clearly in the negative (this will be a process failure, not a human failure), it looks as though it was asked in good faith, and might not be so obvious to those outside the industry.

Vote buttons are not a substitute for proper responses to legitimate enquiry.
> Yes, nuclear waste has to be dealt with, but there's very little of it and we already have to deal with it.

A little nuclear waste goes a long way. If you have any concrete,
practical suggestions for ways to deal with it, the world needs you.
Summarizing them here will make me an advocate.
Here in Europe, WhatsApp actually powers many neighborhood watch groups, and so when it goes down, basically a formal crime reporting system also goes down.
Expecting to get messages on WhatsApp alternatives tonight ...
Look at the downvoted coming. Wow. 10 points loss in like 30 minutes. Pathetic forum. Have fun in you echo chambers. You’re no better than Reddit with the Gen Z crowd taking over. Congratulations, HN mods. Telling Paul Graham.
On the contrary, it's said far too much. Facebook is extremely valuable for a lot of people. I dislike Facebook as much as most people on here, but saying "it's totally pointless" is silly and it's not surprising that those who say it are ignored by those who use Facebook.
Andrew Yang leaves democratic party
Looking at past legislation/court rulings from the early days of the internet is pointless. They ruled that AOL had to allow other applications access to AOL IM, yet present day third party apps aren't given access to Apple's iMessages or Facebook Messenger.
Let me correct that title: teenager jailed for theft
I don't have enough time for "Considered Harmful" articles any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
for one example of this look at certain ethnic food catering/delivery services that exist in many major cities and operate almost exclusively on facebook.
> I don't know where you got this from.

from the fucking part I fucking quoted for your fucking convenience? here I'll even give you a link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874408

I've never said the claim was Casey's
I guess the "prophets" at Victory Channel / Flashpoint called down Holy Fire on the Facebook infrastructure in retribution ... https://youtu.be/FbSkFuvqFdA?t=1127 . (I'm an Evangelical Christian but those folks are nuts ... Mario Murillo, Lance Wallnau, Hank Kunneman, Gene Bailey, etc.)
So the comment that the 'PhD' reference was responding to was Muratori laying out how he figured a simple terminal renderer could be implemented, using two texture lookups in a single drawcall [0].

In the course of that, Muratori allowed, almost in passing, that of course you would need, in order to do that:

> a glyph atlas encoding the cell-glyph coverage in whatever way makes it easiest to compute your ClearType blending values

Now, it does not strike me as beyond the realm of possibility that that step might be suitable for academic research. It calls for an efficient encoding of cleartype-ready glyph data with comprehensive coverage of unicode glyph space (not codepoint space). That's not trivial, and - as the DHowett reply suggests - it would take a literature review to determine if someone has already accomplished this (and he also suggested that so far as he was aware this was not how any other terminal was implemented, implying this is not simply some well known solved problem).

I mean, sure, he could be wrong about that - it might be exactly how another terminal implements it; there might already be published research on the topic; or it might just be much simpler than it appears. But it's not crazy to, on glancing at that problem, consider that it seems like it might actually require genuine original high level research.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...
It's hilarious to me that people quote the person that wrote TAOCP to justify not thinking about performance at all.
Let this be permanent - not a huge loss for humanity.
Actually I'd argue that the biggest problem would be to wait for the TTL to expire after you've fixed the problem.
Unfortunately this was a case where the naive algorithm wasn't fast enough so we needed to optimise. But this particular part of it wasn't the solution.

We instead ended up changing our data format in a way which reduced cache misses.