skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The library on Github is here https://github.com/material-components/material-components-i...

It went into maintenance in July without a big announcement; this thread explaining why is new.
It doesn’t make up for it. I live in Texas and considered moving to CA. The math was not quite simple but at the time (about 3 years ago) to roughly keep standards of living , my paycheck would have to be about $50k higher.

The property taxes (now climbing to about $10k/year for a decent size family home in metro area) and still kinda lower sales tax (effectively climbs to 8.25% (state set maximum, includes state + county/city)) just don’t add to to California’s income tax + property taxes.

Granted there’s much more to all of it. Texas salaries is much lower then CA.. and then you also have the polar opposite of left vs right :(
I'm sorry your existence has you fearing people different from you. It's terribly pitiful and sad to show such weakness as you have here.

I hope you can learn and grow to be better, but you obviously have far to go.

You poor person you. Your family must be ashamed.
NATO's Cognitive Warfare Project – Reference Documents
> How to deal when the solid waste are stick on the toilet surface?

Truly a place to learn the best secrets to make your life better.
> From what I understand people were willing to go through this for Brexit to happen.

Well, some people. And even then, this wasn't brought up by the Leave campaign - they were all sun-lit uplands, etc. Nothing negative would come from Brexit! etc.etc.
A lot of broken links in that article
Then perhaps this tool and this operating system are not for you... Windows is good for some things, privacy ain't one of them, and you need to either live with it, work hard to protect your privacy within it, or leave it.
There is, it's called COM, and Windows as an operating system and ecosystem is built on top of it. (Though COM as a specification is not limited to Windows)

The language you use for defining the types is creatively named "Interface Definition Language (IDL)", and the "MIDL" compiler converts the interface definitions into C & C++ types and objects which can be used. Both via in-process/inter-process function calls, or via RPC/DCOM (Distributed COM).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model#DCE/RPC...

"As a cross-language component model, COM relies on an interface definition language, or IDL, to describe the objects and associated functions. The COM IDL is based heavily on the feature-rich DCE/RPC IDL, with object-oriented extensions. Microsoft's own implementation of DCE/RPC, known as MSRPC, is heavily used as the primary inter-process communication mechanism for Windows NT services and internal components, making it an obvious choice of foundation."

"DCOM (Distributed COM) extended the reach of COM from merely supporting a single user with separate applications communicating on the Windows desktop, to activating objects running under different security contexts, and on different machines across the network. With this were added necessary features for configuring which users have authority to create, activate and call objects, for identifying the calling user, as well as specifying required encryption for security of calls."

If you want to learn more about this (it's an incredibly powerful concept that has a wide range of uses and is very much still used today), my recommendation would be:

1. The book: "Essential COM (1997)" by Don Box, one of the architects of COM at Microsoft in the 90s

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-COM-Don-Box/dp/0201634465

2. The online tutorial "COM in plain C", which is one of the only (it might even be, like, THE only) resources for learning how COM actually works, since generally you use C++ frameworks to interact with it and they cover up all the details.

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13601/COM-in-plain-C

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Disclaimer: I'm no expert in COM myself, I'm also working through these same learning materials.

I have a strong interest in FFI/Interop between languages and so have been working through things like "What is an ABI, conceptually?", understanding the C++ Itanium ABI, reading about vtable's, manually emulating C++ classes and class-inheritance with C structs of function pointers (vtables) etc.

COM is foundational here so it's the thing on my list atm. Hope you find this useful!
Makes sense as AFAIK they are reliant on China with their economy
I’m willing to bet good money that the real estate in the SFBA is driven much more heavily by FAANG stock than startup stock…

Startups mint multi-millionaires. FAANG does it at scale day in and day out.
> the idea of an anti government meme detection

That's a fun strawman you made, but the actual idea in the post was that telemetry might note when different programs do events like save.
Hoogle – Haskell API search engine
Fediverse Observer
I see no ads on that page. Using an 'ad-blocking' DNS.
Unfortunately I don't think that a shareholder's agreement is what one would be looking for in the large majority of cases. If serious investment is required then obviously it would be a good idea, but a weekend or part-time project between 3 friends doesn't need a company to be incorporated before starting, but a vesting schedule with a cliff should probably have been agreed in almost all cases.
First malaria vaccine approved for use in children in Africa
Installing apps on a single touch (bypassing the app store)
Sure. More the reason to have a rough representation that is public in a transparent company.

Cant make good decisions without full information.
They are certainly left or hard-left and are very critical of US, NATO, and Israel. If they view themselves as activist-journalists, it seems a logical choice to focus their criticism on the US, where (in theory) they have some chance of moving policy through public opinion.

There is approximately zero chance of their reporting swaying Xi, Putin, or Assad. US adversaries get plenty of unfavorable reporting in more mainstream channels.
> this is Russia, and the interpretation of laws changes depending on who and how rich you are.

show one legislation where this is not true
The definition of “tech” keep expanding. Amazon is a retail company, not tech. Walmart would be “tech” too. Loan processing is not tech, neither id advertising (all social media companies).

I’m a traditional EE, and don’t want to be associated with “tech” even though I actually work in technology.
How biodiversity loss is jeopardising the drugs of the future
Internet changed to internet in 2016
They're one step ahead of you:
https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/serverside
Passwords are only verified on login. Does it seems reasonable that there are millions of logins to Gmail from mobile devices every second?

Back of the envelope: 2 million logins per second would mean about 170 billion logins per day. With 7 billion people on the planet, that'd mean about 25 logins per day from each man, woman and child.
A few Gladwells of anecdata: our local ASDA (big but not a megastore) has had reasonably frequent empty shelves in various products. I think the medium-large Tesco down the road has also had empty shelves (but that's secondhand from people I know who shop there.) Similarly secondhand, from family up north, the major supermarkets up there have been missing products.
In it's prime it was estimated to be selling 10,000 units a month! https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-30-19913640...
Ads are a form of brainwashing if you ask me. I've been able to avoid most of them for years by ad blocking and staying clear of TV. Just looking at the shit regular television watchers buy and consume, it really seems like ads warped their sense of reality. They do it by normalizing a lifestyle that fits their product, and through constant exposure people start believing it. Filling the subconsciousness with lingering desires for fake experiences. Its ridiculous and harmful.
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
Noticed they sign you out if using Spotify in a country other than the one you signed up with. Got auto signed out because I tunneled to London with my VPN and launched the app. I worked around that by doing split tunneling, and excluded Spotify from using the VPN connection.
Partners aren't with Microsoft. They're vendors and service providers that live off of scraps from the mothership. If they were to do something malicious, it would potentially cost them their business. I'm sure Microsoft itself doesn't care if under 1% of desktops use tools like this to turn off their telemetry.
Webmasters is such a small target audience. Is it really for them? I just visited a bunch of these sites which all look exactly same and didn't even open any video. I was just frustrated to see the backlinks from originating from absolute irrelevant place and going to exclude them.

But probably you are right. If it doesn't cost them anything then why not. Someone will visit or may even share those links. That's what spam is for.
Hey, co-founder of HOTG.ai here! Nice to see how folks are getting more interested in WASM and deployments. We hadn't specifically targeted the serverless cloud area but we are considering it. We are an edge first company (mobile web, mobile, embedded linux etc). Are you using WASM in production today? If not, why not?
I agree that there is little to be gained from requiring perfection, I think there is considerable value in trying to do everything that is within reason. And there are a lot of reasonable things one can do to be nice to users. Allowing the user to install a piece of software without having to alter their system at all is a good thing.

And this brings us back to where this discussion started: it takes real effort to write non-trivial Python code that will run just by installing the program itself. The path of least resistance is to dump all the problems in the lap of the user, which many Python programmers tend to do in practice. That's not very nice to the consumer.

I think Python could benefit from developing empathy with the consumer.
If anything, I'd guess it's closer to being the other way around. Encryption allows us to pull in about 40 years of research in packet radio and protocols that run on top of it; that plus the HAM bands is an internet that no government entity can control, or even locate geographically (without a ton of in-person effort).

I imagine that prospect is frightening to a lot of 3-letter agencies.

> There is absolutely no need for encryption to get mesh working.

The internet learned the hard way that encryption is very important, even for casual use. I'm not sending emails -- even, especially, to my friends -- that aren't encrypted.
NYT Rectracts Number of Children Hospitalized by Covid-19 (From 900K to 63K)
Is it cheeper to compress air / nitrogen into liquid that can be expanded or more effective to run electrolysis on water to get hydrogen and oxygen and burn that ( when needed) ?
Discussion from when this was posted on Show HN a couple weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683887
An engineer dedicated to bugfixes and crash investigations, rather than feature development. Not a common title anymore, but you'll still find them attached to products that use their own kernel, like switches and network storage.
Vivaldi is okay, but it is not really FOSS and it is based on Chromium
> You'd be a fool to take the Bay Bridge on a Friday afternoon.

Yet, so many do, don't they?

:)
Berkshire stores value when times are good, they makes exceptional deals when there is crash and they can buy good stuff cheap. They always have cash and the don't have to sell assets to buy stuff.

Unless you think that there will be no financial crisis or severe recession again, Berkshire will probably shine again.
How to Deal with Complexity Like a Pilot Part Two
The equipment that makes the hydrogen, the equipment where the hydrogen is used, the pipes connecting these, the valves and sensors and pumps touching the hydrogen -- all these work in many places around the world, constantly. If hydrogen were the universal solvent ruining anything it touches, as the pearl clutchers on the internet seem to say, this wouldn't be possible.

SOME materials have trouble with hydrogen. But this is a problem that can be, and is, worked around as needed. It's a nuisance, not a showstopper.
There is a middle ground - start something yourself, bootstrap, get profitable, spend the revenue how you see fit without restriction, and own it all. And you can still exit down the road if you so choose.
I think there is a certain amount of implied trust when visiting a site, especially with JavaScript.

Just like if I visit someone's house, I trust them to not look through my bag while I'm not looking, even though they easily can.

And when that trust is gone, it's pretty much gone for good, just like if I go to a venue and find out they rummaged through my coat pockets, I'm not going back.

Maybe not everyone thinks this way, but I sure do. I consider an untrustworthy website to be tainted. It is unlikely to produce enough benefit to outweigh whatever they may be getting up to, whatever it may be. And the sooner I cease investing time in it, the quicker I can find a new alternative and begin building trust with them.
How much do you think is reasonable?
>the EULA is a contract in which you give up some of your rights in exchange for not being sued for copyright infringement for copying the software from disk into RAM. This is copying under copyright law and the 1976 Copyright Act.

That sounds ludicrous, I can't believe it. Is there a precedent of this argument being used in court that you know of?
I don’t want a hospital I’m in to “just get by”…
> There is no doubt that he really is guilty of leaking US secrets.

How is it different from the Washington Post leaking the Pentagon papers? Honest question, not snarky.
Note that the client would only need to do this on a failed attempt.

So if i typed "Password" on mobile. The client would first send the request as "Password". If that succeeds, then no worries. If it fails, then the client could send a second request by reversing the case of the first letter. In this case, it would send a second request for "password".

At most, it is 2 login requests per password. Many other commenters here are incorrectly stating that 3 requests would be necessary, but this is untrue. A letter can only have 2 possible cases (uppercase or lowercase). So the client sends the originally typed one, and if that fails, then it flips the case of that first letter. That is the only alternative. There is not a third option.

A well-built login form would restrict users after 3-5 login attempts anyway and require a password-reset process. So that is 6-10 client requests to the backend (n * 2). That shouldn't be hitting any sort of rate limit.
With how I've seen ad tech evolve so far, I am sure they would include cross-domain tracking in their payloads and you would need to turn it off via a good ad blocker.
In my case I later realized it was due to being not very well-off with multiple siblings.

Once I used up that box of crayons, that very well may have been my last set of crayons.

Of course, in reality crayons that you can't use are not that much better than crayons you don't have.
Congrats for reaching this state. I really like the clean and simple interface.

What I am missing are a few more sentences about hosting. I saw the documentation about the variables and the commands to host a dev environment, but which commands should I use to run it in production?
Not even that long ago. I've used Piwik / Matamo at a couple places in the past 5 years.

Honestly a lot of analytics for an app can be done serverside and client side is just icing on the cake to make the data richer.
This was one of the world's foremost mathematicians, an unprecedented genius who was born into relatively poor circumstances (by Western standards and by modern standards) and who was completely self-made. There's footage of his very modest family home, so if you're going to try to claim he's somehow "privileged" above and beyond an extremely poor person in the US today, that would be laughable. It's true he wasn't a child prodigy, but so what? You're trying to crap on Von Neumann's
adult accomplishments, which is what's impressive here (there's loads of child prodigies that flop as adults), by claiming without any basis that they're a product of his parent's success when Ramanujan is conclusive proof that this isn't a necessary condition for a Von Neumann calibre genius to arise. Another thing your analysis ignores is that intelligence is partly genetic, so of course smart kids are going to often have richer parents. If their parents are extremely smart then most likely they've figured out a way to make some money. No surprise there.
HEPA filters were developed for radioactive dust during the Manhattan Project. Only several years later did the technology get declassified and started being used in biology and medicine.
You need 500 lines of code for that??? Oh, because you're using a genetic algorithm that doesn't start with a good plan. It would be much simpler to find a very small number of parameters for a templated piecewise linear function. No training cost, should only be a few lines of code: this is solvable through straightforward algebra, no guesswork required [1]. Love the visualization, though.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122880...
Where I used to live in East Texas there was one of these, well, at least a few decades ago. Never knew exactly what it was for. But it is a mirror image of the pictures. The things you learn later in life because of the internet.
I think this is an overstatement. I don't think his mistake came close to delaying the development of QM for a "few decades". On the contrary, he was a major contributor to the mathematical foundations of QM, and, on balance, certainly advanced the field more than he retarded it, even considering his blunder.
It seems like there should be a law requiring this to be explained in plain terms at offer and each month to options holders. For example they should show you a graph with the x-axis as exit valuation and the y-axis as "your payout". Those are the numbers that really matter to most employees.
Probably longer than most would find acceptable! I did some work with genetic algorithms about twenty years ago and the author mentions some of the optimizations that could be done to improve performance.
He ended up not being the decisive factor, but as the above said, he advocated for a nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union, and was already part of the nuclear decision-making process - he was invited to participate in the decision for which cities to strike in Japan but was ultimately overruled because he suggested to hit target with no military importance and high concentrations of civilians. He thought (very wrongly) that coexistence with the Soviets was impossible and that they had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Here are sources if you want:

"Von Neumann, four other scientists, and various military personnel were included in the target selection committee that was responsible for choosing the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the first targets of the atomic bomb. [...] The cultural capital Kyoto, which had been spared the bombing inflicted upon militarily significant cities, was von Neumann's first choice"

"He was quoted in 1950 remarking, "During a Senate committee hearing he described his political ideology as "violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm". If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Nuclear_weapo...)

I don't think that I need to give sources as to why nuking the USSR would have had a huge negative impact.
Better: introduce fish in the numerous ponds of stagnant water these folks use...they eat mosquitos...vaccines treat the symptoms, but do nothing for the cure...it boggles the mind these countries do nothing to fix the problem they create.

Remove the mosquitos, say goodbye to malaria. The lies in the book "silent spring" removed DDT from the market, effectively killing over 500 million people due to malaria...that author is the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world...
Maybe the old guard, and its commitment to PWR, had to die off before society could try alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Reactor_types

The advocates of PWR (and adjacent) actively suppressed all the alternatives. For their own reasons. Like military and civilian dual use technologies.

We have new reasons. Like finance, flexibility, and tech. We can and should do what we want, unbeholden to the founders of nuclear age.
"in exchange for not being sued for copyright infringement for copying the software from disk into RAM"

I am not a lawyer, but this sounds very wrong. If you buy a book or a painting, and take a photo with it , you have not violated copyright
It's one bit per alphabetic character, isn't it?
Why does it have to mean giving anyone power? We could for example enact privacy laws that make it illegal to share personal data. That gives no one power, and takes away power from corporations. We could enact laws that prevent targeted advertising, which would make it pointless to gather a lot of the data they gather in the first place. That doesn’t make the bad politician any more powerful. So on.
I believe yes, irrespective of whether these are true holograms or using lenticular screens.

I could not find more details on the technology (beyond the basics that I already know).

Using a very large number of pixels is required to make good light-field displays. The high pixel density mentioned is reachable if the high DPI resolutions of smartphones is applied to a large screen display.

The challenge of refreshing the pixels is handled by having large number of electronic cards driving each section of the display (as seen diagrammatically on their website), which is perhaps where the high cost is.

I could not find if there is a lenticular screen somewhere in the display stack or not; my best guess is that it should be there.
Exactly, there is a lot of trust involved, even without executing JavaScript, but especially when so. This is why I stay away from sites I don't find trustworthy.

I also close the tab if I'm presented with a paywall, a modal newsletter subscription prompt, impossible cookie banners, etc.

I think of it as a "the medium is the message" type of thing, and if the medium is tainted then the message can't be any better, so why read it?
The most constructive answer is to stop using/supporting/supplying demand for software that doesn't respect the user. Rather than people trying to remove the same warts over and over, progress could be made on a more permanent solution; namely, identifying gaps in the open source ecosystem where the only current solutions are proprietary.
You can build your own high-flow HEPA filter for about $45:

1x 20-inch box fan ($20)
1x 20x20 MERV-13+ MPR-2400+ HVAC air filter ($20)
1x roll of duct tape ($2.50)

Air particle meters and other testing show they work just as well as big expensive machines (it's just the filter doing all the work). This is indeed a dirt cheap way to improve overall health.
You Shouldn't Become a Programmer
> The bigger criticism of Von Neumann is that he set back quantum mechanics for a few decades: https://twitter.com/orzelc/status/1446414513465696256

Really skeptical of this. Not only did he write a famous "little book" on QM (which is still readable to this day), but hidden variable theories are pretty much disproved in QM. So even if he was wrong about the theorem, he was still right about the principle. There's a wikipedia on it here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-variable_theory

I spent a long time studying QM and never heard of anyone taking hidden-variable theories seriously so I don't know what this tweet is about.
I have a firm belief that Lifehacker created a trend that undermined the use of the term, resulting in a tragedy of the commons.
Your "source" is a tweet that makes a claim with almost no justification.