skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SF apartments I lived in for a few years would have been unlivable without A/C -- indoor temps would exceed 80F often. Not sure if it's because multi-story buildings don't get shade from trees, or something else.
> I mean you are dropping the whole colds are coronaviruses too part though.

There's only 4 coronaviruses that causes a cold: HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E, and HCoV-NL63

The rest are rhinoviruses.

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That's literally only 7 coronaviruses to care about (including the 4 that cause "common cold").
you can physically mail someone cash if you want to, the question isn't if you can, the question is if it makes sense for the vast majority of users, which is really the yardstick things should be measured against.
> He thought (very wrongly) that coexistence with the Soviets was impossible and that they had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Jeez. To drop all jokes, this guy is a lunatic. I'm not sure why people aren't pointing to this as a decisive criticism, since no amount of genius can excuse the idea that civilians need to be attacked or that populations can't coexist and need to be exterminated.

This is the first I've heard of any of this. My "coziness" with the military industrial complex would be to help design weapons using AI. I'm simply fine with that. I wouldn't be advocating for the extermination of a population! That's not military-industrial coziness, that's psychopathy.

The whole point of joining the military industrial complex is to advocate the opposite of what is represented here. That's the only way that real change can be made. Focus on military targets, not civilian populations. Remind people that although the goal is victory, the war will end one day (i.e. coexistence is never impossible). And so on.
A bit naive to assume there isn't quite a bit of centralized control of media in the West. Not only are the media largely owned by a scant few large conglomerates - the government itself also gets routinely involved in controlling the narrative.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html
I recently deployed a small, static site using a Cloudflare Worker Site, using the Wrangler CLI tool to publish it - I'd never used Cloudflare Workers before, but it was easy, and whole dev UX from start to finish was superb!

I looked into Cloudflare Pages first, which on the face of it would be a better fit - but AFAICS it can only deploy from code hosted in a GitHub repo. Not even git in general, but specifically only with GitHub - and I'm using Azure DevOps.

I'd love to see additional deployment mechanisms for Pages - ideally support would be added to Wrangler, so I could deploy from a CD pipeline hosted anywhere, just like I can for Workers.
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1446840997867147278...

He was Kurdish, not Turkish.
How is using a laptop in any way convenient while walking around?
Purging history never was the answer to changing your name or gender. It’s not practical, not pragmatic, and not under one’s control. Just like with many restrictions, the answer is social/legal contracts and not technical prohibition.
A truly global phone number regex is quite literally impossible to make. There are too many combinations and expectations built into these conventions. You listed several here.

The "best" solution is to separate country code into a different field or input. Then have everything other than the country code (generally called a "subscriber number") added to another input.

Then on the backend you would essentially strip out all the non-numeric characters from the subscriber number and combine the country code and stripped "subscriber number" into an E.164 format number and store that in the database.

(Source) I have spent a decade dealing with phone numbers in databases and web forms. This is the "best" way to handle it, and even it isn't bulletproof, but it works 99.8% of the time. The best way to handle the other 0.2% of cases is to make a descriptive error message that explains to the user how you are expecting them to input their number (ie. No extensions, etc).

Here is the E.164 standard: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.164/
NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen
Book Review: The Hits Just Keep on Coming
I think advancements in advertising has added more value to the average human life in the last 20 years than NASA has. If any human wants to learn how rockets fly or how to make focaccia bread, thanks to advertising YouTube will provide that information.
Not too much. It got some afternoon/evening sunlight. Not too much directly. But I will move it to a better place once I get done with my renovation works.

After you said it, I also started to wonder whether they are die-hards, because what's the chance of wonders, eh? :) Probably the just drop the leaves and stay in hibernation until environment gets better. I'm so glad I didn't get rid of it because of my ignorance.
Building Your Career in Open-Source
That would as a minimum not slow anybody down much, it won't contain JS, both of which are an advantage.

Of course, my adblocker will still block it, using the block element feature (also useful with nag bars etc).
I always thought it was strange that they still called the rigid, inflexible 3.5" disks "floppies." They certainly weren't floppy like the 8" and 5.25" were.
Do you think Lincoln was a lunatic?
What do you think of France where the media is highly political, but politics no bi-polarized (13 parties in big elections, 5 large movement/ideologies)?

We even learn at school that no writing can be objective since humans write them but what matters is to identify ideological stances and read enough subjective angles to have at least an opinion on where stakeholders stand if not "the truth"?
Just about any challenger bank like Revolut will give you free virtual cards to spin up/down, incl. limit definitions.
i.reddit.com for the mobile experience. Bonus is it looks like iOS 6.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Medical Devices
All the time with my personal data. You don't even need to install anything. Many applications and websites will do share your data to Facebook. Friends too. It's great.
This paper examines several SQL implementations. I was struck by the contrast between PostgreSQL, where they didn’t find any bugs, and MySQL, where there were so many bugs they gave up testing because it was too hard to check if they had already been reported.
> PO boxes cost money

So does a license.
I'm sure the potential for spreading a virus for an employer knowingly not taking preventable measures will be challenged in court.

Its not really a side effects lottery any longer. This is complete nonsense.
> So you can (and probably should) do almost any memory management as you would in C++

Well that's already out the door because I almost never use shared_ptr in C++ code. The C++ core guidelines recommend using unique_ptr whenever possible. If you're going to use shared_ptr literally everywhere you do dynamic allocation, you'd be better off using a tracing GC to avoid the extra pointer indirection (and cache miss) with every dereference.

It seems to me that Cito should have manual memory management because a manual memory language can be trivially mapped onto a GC language (just turn every free or delete to an nop), while the inverse problem is intractable in the general case.
Are you asking a question?
I disagree. California even ignoring the jobs is a fantastic place to live. The culture, people, food and arts, nature/beaches/forests, diversity and weather is something I have not been able to find anywhere else in the world. That’s not even taking into account the extremely high pay, meeting of the minds and country level GDP engine.
Reading the website this is for committee members only (it has nothing to do with if a project is eligible). This seems to largely be a requirement for tax reasons.

As a side note, I find it unfortunate that often when things like this get posted, e.g. a foundation who supports free-software in this case, the first posts are not "this is a great thing", but instead someone goes through the website until they find something they disagree with and creates a negative debate and misinformation (several people here already understood the sentence to mean that projects led by non-PhDs can't apply).
I’m a dentist. That’s non-tech I think.

I like HN for the fairly diverse things they get posted. I don’t read a lot of the deep techy stuff because I don’t understand any of it. But the discussions are often pretty interesting and it’s a (in my head) better use of browsing time than Reddit.
Possibly I'm misunderstanding your post. In what sense did Windows 95 have protected memory? Even DOS programs could overwrite important Windows addresses, to say nothing of the convenient win32 APIs MS provided to scribble all over other applications memory space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHR_Partners

Hunter Biden still has active business relationships with, what is essentially, the Chinese Communist Party. The extent of strategic corruption of the current Democrat Leadership is unclear.

If there's ever going to be war, or at least a takeover attempt of Taiwan, it will be whilst China still has influence over the current US President, ie. 2024 or earlier.

Why spend trillions on a military when you can just buy off the main leadership of your competitor...
Sounds reasonable...classic movie...he didn't mention how many times Bill banged the blonde...or possibly others.
Sorry, that just makes no sense to me. I'm talking about mobile military equipment that talked microwave only to other mobile military equipment. Equipment that would be deployed in a war zone, where AT&T probably wasn't present. Like a connection between a forward air control post and a rear echelon camp. Both being (typically) a bunch of tents and vehicles in the middle of nowhere. Downstream from that was voice/data channels that wouldn't care what AT&T or anyone else was doing.

You seem to be talking about military use of FIXED (not portable/tactical) microwave, which is a different space.
I think it's Dracaena Marginata I have. Not 100% sure, since it totally lives outside it's normal environment in northern Europe, so it's thin and naked, so visual similarities may be deceptive. :)
Since the 21H1 update you might start noticing connection drops since a new wlan autoconfig feature has been added: if windows can't ping home reliably, it will restart your nic.

Yep.
Much better, because you still do have the JIT data, it is similar to having done a couple of GraalVM runs gathering profile data.

Here is an overview of using it with Maven

https://www.morling.dev/blog/building-class-data-sharing-arc...

And here is the documentation for the JIT/AOT and JIT server preview for J9, https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/docs.

By the way, this is also the way that ART evolved after the short lived AOT attempt.

Nowadays a modern version of ART will have a tiered execution of fast startup interpreter (when no native code is available), a JIT with PGO data gathering, AOT compilation from only the parts that matter when the device is idle, upload of PGO profiles into the store so that every device of similar class doesn't start from zero when an APK gets installed.

If the PGO dataset changes, then it backs into JIT again, and recompiles the native code again on idle.
I'd love to chat with you more about this if possible. Is there a way to get in touch?
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Can someone who is downvoting this care to enlighten a lay person like myself who just wants to know what this is all about?
Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: How I learned to love pseudoscience
Whoops, I didn't notice that the two L's were still capitalized in the normalization example a few comments up.
That approach (sans AI) hasn't fallen out of favor. Ad blockers still do it, they just also support blocking them from loading. There's no benefit to loading an ad if you're going to hide it, it's always wasteful. Growing computing power and bandwidth doesn't change that.
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A good demonstration of the perils of Proportional-only control -- if the only input to the system is only the instantaneous distances to obstacles, the car can't make any decisions that take into account its momentum. This means it's destined to overshoot the target, as we see in the demos.

Consider: if you were given a freeze-frame view of the car in the exact right spot, what controls would you send it to keep it there? It'd be impossible to say without knowing the car's velocity - if the car was in the process of reversing, it should apply forwards acceleration to come to a stop, but if it was in the process of going forwards it should apply reverse acceleration.

The solution is to add Derivative control. This would look like a second set of inputs to the system comprised of the difference between the current measurements and the prior ones.
It's probably not legal but it's in the "no one really cares territory" since to actually enjoy the translation, you need to either buy a copy of the game or pirate it. In the former case, great, a sale made to a person that would've never otherwise bought the game and in the latter it makes no real difference since you were never marketing to that person anyways.

The English release of Steins;Gate is actually an edited version of the fan translation, so the property owners couldn't have been that upset with the fan translators.
It’s worth noting that filter efficiency is a function of particulate size. A MERV13 and a HEPA filter are nearly equivalent for filtering pollen, but have drastically different performance for smoke and virus particles.

There’s a plot 1/3 of the way down the page that shows the curves:

https://frdmtoplay.com/nagivating-air-purification/
The west increasingly has completely independent news sources via places like YouTube.
Reading this tweet thread, the authors website, and then their gofundme has me curious how much is being left out. I'm empathetic for someone losing their job, especially over voicing a health concern, but after reading everything available, something doesn't feel right.

This excerpt from their GoFundMe makes it seem like this is the person who's unhappy and silent on every team theyre on, and only decides to "get one back" when they finally get let go after the employer has exhausted all attempts at finding a team they can be productive on.

> I worked at Apple for six years. I experienced misconduct and abuse on every team I was on, but I pushed through it. I knew if I spoke up about it, my career in tech would be over.

Regardless, I empathize with this person losing their job, and hope they can find a career where they can be happy and productive.
I think other kenwood models are at least a bit better than that, but nothing really comfortable afaik.

There's also bluetooth-enabled TNCs you can use with phone apps, but then you again have phone + TNC + radio.

All-in-one's seem to be mostly just trackers that send position, without extra features, at least the ones I've seen.

EDIT: the PicoAPRS can at least be used as a TNC+transmitter over usb, so that could be combined with a smartphone for a two-device pair.
How Important Was the Battle of Lepanto?
Streaming Video Content Major Driver for Media Companies Entering Video Gaming
I agree. Windows is malware. Its good or bad bits are irrelevant, it's perfectly usable as an OS, but in the meantime it's loaded with malicious intent and its business advantage is ruthlessly exploited at every turn. So I don't think that the tool itself is that much useful either. It's good popularity for their creators, that's for sure, who very successfully jumped on the Win10 telemetry paranoia bandwagon.

And who I think should change to Linux or BSD is not just business, it's governments especially. How they enable an auto-updating system of another superpower is beyond me.
I would like to say "then pay!" however the ad machines Google and Facebook built are so powerful, that a paid system doesn't seem to really work ... and even paid sources add ads. Annoying world.
Behavioural insights prepped and ready to go – Dec 5 2020
Squid Game is entertaining the world. There's a different feeling in S. Korea
as a former 25U and 25A i've heard stories of what happened to birds that landed on that tropo ::shudder::
> There is no doubt that he really is guilty of leaking US secrets.

He did no such thing.

He published secrets somebody else leaked.

Just like journalists have done for decades.
No kidding. I’m really impressed with a full window management system in the terminal like that. The way it creates a spatial desktop and supports the mouse in such a way? The “translucent blur” effect! Incredible!

Anyone actually use this to get real work done? And if so, why not just use a normal GUI?
Looking at the source code is pretty useless unless you compile it yourself...
Nuclear has killed people and caused havoc in (to be fair, a small number) of people's neighborhoods, it's not unreasonable for those people to be traumatized by it and campaign against it, even if at scale they are wrong. Vaccines simply haven't done anything like that, it's a fantasy. I think it does a real disservice to those people with genuine concerns to cluster them in with conspiracy theorists and it's bad for society to do that.
What kinds of repair needs do you usually run into that require vendor's technicians? Is it e.g. electrical, or are they the stereotypical "everything is a computer" type of problems that everybody complains about in cars? Can you try to fix even mechanical problems yourself, or are those typically not the issue?

Asking out of plain curiosity.
... and I hadn't even heard of covid on Dec 5th 2020!

This is the money quote for me:

“In addition to the sheer magnitude of the coming vaccination effort, the vaccines will be new & are #likely to be only #partially effective for a yet #unknown period of time. There may be so-called #adverse #events rightly or incorrectly attributed to the new vaccines,…”

How did they know??!
You can use it to issue DMCAs and as a basis for lawsuits even if you wouldn't actually win - most victims don't have the resources to exercise their rights.
The point remains that its UI isn’t the same across platforms, like for example it uses whatever the local system font is instead of whatever the designer decides.
Nuclear should be used for desalination as much as power generation. Leftover power from desalination should be used to backup wind/solar. There needs to be a hybrid approach not a one or nothing.

Use desalinated water to make arid places habitable, perhaps extract economic benefit from that.

I think transmitting power from a distant and isolated nuclear powerplant is a big problem (power loss). Does anyone here know why power plants can't transmit power using laser beams (line of sight..or reflected) to downstream substations for power conversion? Also, why aren't sea waves used for power generation more? They're very reliable.
Yeah it was "less unprotected" at best. It was also trivial to deadlock the entire machine with user-mode code (the DirectX system-wide mutex being the most obvious example)
Airr: Highlight moments from audio. Host async audio conversations
Isn't flying jets into Taiwan's ADIZ without announcing yourself also an act of war, technically? The Chinese do that all the time.
> But sometimes it didn't work so well: https://vocaroo.com/1oCxkWyNDusp

Huh. I never heard that in the 70s and 80s. Cool.
OS X circa 10.6 – 10.9. Aesthetically pleasing, with lots of tonal contrast and touches of color to highlight important items. Clickable elements are clearly clickable, and the UI is reasonably dense, but it never looks overcomplicated or busy.
> its own spent fuel is only dangerous for on the order of a thousand years

"only".
A lot of these channels will have to leave the platform as anti fake news and disinformation laws get tougher
It's an unrealistic model of diffusion; 4 grains of sand in a vertical stack do not spread out leaving 0 at the node where the stack used to be.
Man Ray’s Slow Fade from the Limelight
It's not surprising if you understand how HEPA filters work, the particulate sizes that they're effective for, and the particulate sizes of viruses. Most people are not familiar with one or more of those things, so these stories are worth amplifying to the end of the earth and back, so that we can be better prepared to deal with this pandemic and the next.
Nothing stopped you from doing it before, only difference is, now you can do it openly. Hopefully for good purposes.
Thanks! May I ask you to open a Github issue on this, and I’m sure we can get u up an running. HN isn’t a great support forum :)
Those are in-band signals to the switching equipment. The equipment would “hear” those tones and translate them into “machine instructions”. That’s why phreakers could exploit the system by generating those tones themselves and playing them into the phone microphone.
It’s getting tougher for the first job but not for the 2nd, where word of mouth (a strong referral from a colleague who worked with you) carries much more weight than resume.

My understanding is the Googles of the world are de-emphasizing degrees but they can’t hire everyone. And you have to pass their technical interview.
> "Failing at life" would appear to mean dying.

In my country it's simply not possible to communicate effectively without WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. If I refuse to use these things, I might as well simply ostracize myself from society. For some people, it could cost them their jobs, actually putting them at risk of dying.

> FB is basically a kind of entertainment

No. Facebook is communication, jobs, local information, even a market place with local groups where people sell their stuff. It's hard to describe just how thoroughly this company has managed to infiltrate my society and its way of life. People write pop songs about getting blocked on Instagram.
I’m a manager at a smallish community bank. I ended up here because I was looking for a place to keep up with the world that wasn’t the google news main page, twitter, or facebook.

I got hooked on the condescending, presumptuous, all knowing commentary. I’m kidding!

I really got hooked on the many, many gems I’ve found (links & comments) about many of the various things I’m interested in: music, nutrition, leadership, psychology, even religion, etc, etc, etc. I’ve learned a lot here.

I’ve been lurking for a couple of years, but finally made an account the other day. This is my first comment!
In the west, governments collude with the media entities. This collusion is not discussed in the mainstream or in the academia that much, as the latter is part of that collusive cooperative. In China, CCP controls the media. The difference between China and the West is one level of indirection.
I counter-disagree :) I hope you don't mind. Here is why: It's a fun place and the weather is amazing, however I wouldn't call it diverse (diversity of thought as well) and I wouldn't say the pay is high because of the high cost of living.
Sure. I'm downvoting because I think the original article is an interesting and useful exposition of genetic algorithms. I don't think it intends to be the software that would run inside a self-parking car.

I downvoted because I thought that the comment's dismissive tone is not helpful, and doesn't encourage the sort of content I like to see on Hacker News. I like it when enthusiastic people make cool stuff that explains an idea well. I don't like it when commenters are incredulous that others aren't doing something the same way they would, or generally are cruel and condescending about someone else's enthusiasm. "Not impressive" is just such an unhelpful thing to say, and not what I come here for, so I downvoted.

This comment in particular seems to be a great example of "middlebrow dismissal" in the original sense from pg.