skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing's defense of this POS system is also mind-boggling. "Oh, since we put inappropriate engines on an outdated airframe, the airplane would pitch up under heavy thrust... so we cobbled together this amateur-hour system to mask that behavior."

If a pilot can't control the airplane's pitch, he's not a pilot. Boeing's excuses don't even begin to qualify as excuses.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

I HAVEN'T POSTED IN AT LEAST AN HOUR, ASSHOLES. AND IF I'M NOT ELIGIBLE TO POST, WHY DID YOU LET ME PRESS THE "REPLY" BUTTON AND TYPE OUT A BUNCH OF VERBIAGE?

HACKER NEWS = USER-HATING JAGOFFS
Because JavaScript never had threads so I/O in JavaScript has always been non-blocking and the whole ecosystem surrounding it has grown up under that assumption.

JavaScript doesn't need a GIL because it doesn't really have threads. WebWorkers are more akin to multiprocessing than threads in Python. Objects cannot be shared directly across WebWorkers so transferring data comes with the expense of serializing/deserializing at the boundary.
In British English, a physician's or dentist's office is called a surgery. Thus, for Britons, going to the surgery just means visiting the doc; it does not have the same connotations of going under a knife that it has for Americans.
I wanted JJ because not mRNA and is accepted in several countries.

The JJ mechanism of action is better understood and less risky, in my view at least it is more acceptable for emergency approval.
> A man cannot turn 20 years old and 120 years old at the same time

Interesting example, because he could get in a spaceship at age 19, travel out and back at very high speeds, and arrive back at Earth 101 years later having aged just one year. He turned 20 and 120 at the same time.

I realize I've turned myself into a prime example of the pedantry you mentioned, but what I mean to say is that strict logic can be misleading if we don't have the whole picture, which we probably don't.
OK a mask with someone else's face
> Real relationships don't depend on x platform. All they require is you, and the other person.

Hear Hear!

> Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health

Then don't use it!
Aside from maybe intro calculus, I'm not sure what math you learn in K-12 has a lot to do with being a math major. Of course, you need some math (arithmetic) foundation for almost everything.

I actually did well in math throughout high school but it wasn't a particularly strong skill of mine in university. And I could have no more majored in math (or physics) than I could have flapped my arms and flown.
Officially, it's all metric but in practice, it depends.

For people, height is in feet and weight is in pounds.

For distance, it's metric all the time. And that's how we measure our groceries.

For temperature, it's Celsius (except when taking someone's temperature, in which case it could be either).

For the size of your house, it'll be square feet.

And I'm sure a lot of what I just said this will depend on age and location.
Scary and also helpful. Over reaching telemetry bad. But pragmatic, anonymous, usage metrics? Maybe worked this time.
I think it can't use the same recipe. Sam's approach for CPython uses biased reference counting. Internally, Pypy uses a tracing garbage collector, not reference counting. I don't know how difficult it would be to make their GC thread-safe. Probably you don't want to "stop the world" on every GC pass so I guess changes are non-trivial.

Sam's changes to CPython's container objects (dicts, lists), to make them thread safe might also be hard to port directly to Pypy. Pypy implements those objects differently.
Women didn't leave the field of computer science, men just joined it in droves when they realized that you can build tons of cool shit with computers and it isn't just a big calculator. Men joining the field shifted the gender balance, but they didn't drive out any women when they did it.
It's a valid question to ask.
The NFT pretty much acts as an entry in a shared public database.

This means if it’s a popular NFT, multiple games can support the asset by building support for it in game.
This seems like a positive move.

I can't imagine that a game would ever be improved by having a blockchain waste my electricity as opposed to just having an efficient database store the same data on AWS.

Realistically, these are all just scams, and they aren't trying to improve games at all.
The URL is meaningless. The act of NFT Y being minted by X is what matters, even if the URL stops working. The value relies on a social contract.
Ask HN: How do you host a website for 500 years?
Based on OP, 150-200K is actually really low, no?

When i read these things, I'm never sure if it's reality or what.
What's your plan for "anonymized" data that's all hilariously easy to de-anonymize? Example: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...
> Then speed is set by how fast you type.

Ideally, but that's not always the case. For example, let's say my goal is to write the program that outputs Hello World. In some languages it's as fast as writing the literal characters. The only extra burden is maybe to put quotation marks around them.

"Hello World"

13 characters total. But if I did this in Java for instance, well that's a different story. Now the program looks like this:

class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}

87 characters total. The original program could have been written 6 times over in the time it took to write just this one. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is that not only do I have all that extra syntax, I have a whole bunch of new concepts to contend with including classes, scopes, functions, function composition, console arguments, lifetimes, access, types, arrays, objects, and methods. I can't just do a thing, I have to do all this extra work before I can do the thing. In the first case I have a single concept in my mind: String. In the second case I have to keep not only N concepts straight, but how they compose as well, and all the arcane rules therein.
> What specifically is the problem with asyncio?

Watch the very NSFW (lots of swearing) but hysterically funny video "node.js is bad ass rock star tech" on youtube sometime ;). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
It would be possible to implement telemetry that would answer these questions in mostly unobjectionable fashion, but without more information one can see how this could be described as "scary". I certainly hope that forms aren't just being sent back home to Mozilla as-is. However, a monthly ping with statistics like "out of between 50 and 200 documents, between 10 and 50 of them used javascript" wouldn't harm anything. They could even add a random error to the statistics...
COOP+COEP won't change how CORS works, but it means you can't have no-cors resources on your page unless they have CORP headers
A lot of the drag on a prop comes from the tip of the blade.

More blades means more drag.
I can buy digital rights to anything via nft. I can buy a land property title.

The whole point of blockchains like Ethereum is to not 'disappear'
Stupid question, but where do you find em to apply to? The $500K jobs or otherwise, the 100 startups.
The only way to withdraw the money made on the marketplace is to buy marketplace items and trade them for money via online payments / cryptocurrency, which is against their ToS. Looks like they aren't enforcing that, though.
Good point. Windows COM did not follow your suggestion, leading to all sorts of awkwardness in applications that have compute- and ui-threads and share objects between the two.
Object destruction becomes non-predictable and can hold up a UI thread.
I'm not a fan of "collectibles" or "cosmetic items" or whatever they are called these days in games, but even I can see the use case where you can gain those in-game and then manage them outside of the game, trade them with other players, and maybe bring them with you to the next version of the game or even to another game. NFTs enable this without having to build any of the infrastructure to support it.
Yes Google was able to catapult YouTube playback pages in all Google search results after acquisition, just one example
Priceless and timeless advice for both internal and external engagements.
That sounds like a solution in search of a problem…
You Are Doing Marketing in the Wrong Way
I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop
> The amount of Tether in circulation has increased over 150-fold since then, so presumably their reserves have increased as well.

They just got punished for not having actual reserves match their circulation. What basis is there to presume that their reserve is matching their circulation now?
The note/tone sounds similar to the "ding" sound on a passenger aircraft...just repeated quickly.
But I also think there are major issues with the current configuration of the tech industry! They just aren't because of monopolies. It is not helpful to misdiagnose a real problem. It is not helpful to have only a hammer and call every problem a nail.

Yeah, the situation involves a contradictory litany of complaints. Google/Facebook/etc are terrible because they suppress free speech and terrible because they allow it. They're terrible because monopolize online advertising and terrible because they facilitate it.

The purpose of breaking up a monopoly is to allow competition to facilitate the provisioning of whatever good a monopoly provides. Lots of people imagine breaking up or regulating Facebook will prevent the variety of abuses that we see. But if you look at the "competitive Internet", you can observe a sea of garbage in the form of endless popups, malware and eCommerce fraud. Things seem little more thought-out than "I want this to stop", which is hardly a recipe for constructive change.
Moxie's recent post is a fantastic illustration of how NFTs as they are currently implemented are bullshit, https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448066579611234305

I'm not sure I'd go so far to call them an outright scam, but they're highly fragile assets that likely won't stand the test of time.

I would be interested to see if someone is working on implementing NFTs in a way that I can feel confident that the digital art will remain provably attached to the NFT for decades and centuries in future.
Social media and deep learning capture the aesthetic quality of the landscape
Afaik Manjaro have their own company, so it's easier to make contracts about software support.

Additionally, pine64 have already worked with them on the pinebook and pinebook pro as default distro.

Personally, I don't like Manjaro either, but it's easy enough to use a different distro and is probably good enough for most.
Facebook drew up some pretty clear guidelines about what was permitted in terms of posting covid related opinions. That makes it very simple for them to make decisions regarding removing flagged posts about masks or vaccines.

Facebook doesn't have a set of approved guidelines on what news Ethiopian media can report about their own domestic conflict. The article doesn't share the content of the post in question, so it's impossible to tell, but they don't say that it violated Facebook's general community guidelines in regards to hatespeech or provoking violence. The article just states an opinion of one person that the local media created a post blaming the wrong group.

I don't see how facebook can judge whether that news report is right or wrong. It's just he said/she said.
"Viable" as in "you have no other choice sometimes". This forces you to deal with 3 libraries each with their own quirks, pitfalls and incompatibilities. Sometimes you even deal with dependencies reimplementing some parts in a 4th or 5th library to deal with shortcomings.

I really don't care that much which of them survive, I just want to rely on less of them
That is true, but what if the shared count were initialized to one and the creator thread frees an object when the shared count is equal to one and the local count is decremented zero? (Since it knows it holds one shared reference.) Then the increment and decrement would be avoided for non-shared objects.
Thats fine.

I'm talking about empirical research about motivation rather than platitudes though. It would be wonderful if all of my students were motivated to learn the subject matter I teach, believe me. However, it is more useful to understand their motivation and engage with it. That can include identifying ways to link what would motivate them to learn a subject matter (personal interests) to the class material.

Favor shouldn't really enter the equation when linking motivation and education.

c.f.: https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/
In the NFT case you’re buying a URL pointing to the instructions not the instructions haha, and they can disappear or change and also you don’t own them.
Yeah, the most permissive CORS allows everything, although it's kinda risky to do if you don't understand the consequences.
It's wasn't Betty Crocker.

The powdered egg effect for cake mixes is from the Duff and Sons, 1930s - https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/ar... .

You can read their 1933 patent application (Patent #: US002016320) at https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=02016320&SectionNum=3&ID... .

Column 1, starting at line 22.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171027-the-magic-cakes-... gives more context to the story, giving it a different slant:

> But the eggs may only have been part of cake mix's success. “I think it was frosting,” she says. When premade frosting and elaborate decorations came in, turning focus away from the substance of the cake, and onto its exterior, that may have really given the idea legs. We all want to have a way to demonstrate our love, and frosting – as a way turn a simple cake into a castle, a football field, a church – brought that. “And that, I think, is what changed the fate of cake mixes,” she says.
This is a great list of influences on the design (from the article comments where the prototype author Sam Gross responded to someone wishing for more cross pollination across language communities):

—————

"… but I'll give a few more examples specific to this project of ideas (or code) taken from other communities:

- Biased reference counting (originally implemented for Swift)

- mimalloc (originally developed for Koka and Lean)

- The design of the internal locks is taken from WebKit (https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/)

- The collection thread-safety adapts some code from FreeBSD (https://github.com/colesbury/nogil/blob/nogil/Python/qsbr.c)

- The interpreter took ideas from LuaJIT and V8's ignition interpreter (the register-accumulator model from ignition, fast function calls and other perf ideas from LuaJIT)

- The stop-the-world implementation is influenced by Go's design (https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fad4a16fd43f6a72b6917eff65... )"
Just to be clear, I am not opposed to you or anyone else taking Ivermectin. Whatever floats your boat.

What I am opposed to is someone laboring under the misconception that taking Ivermectin is a replacement for being vaccinated, wearing a mask, or taking any real precautions against spreading Covid.
I think that would be illiquidity -- having only assets that need to be converted, rather than dollars themselves -- rather than insolvency, right?
Conservatives have been squeezed out from the US politics in less than half decade.

GOP is in hands of reactionary right radicals who don't have conservative values.
A lot of NFTs are backed by IPFS URLs. Some are pure on-chain SVGs.

But even the ones that are mere API URLs are still far superior to arbitrary, closed-standard in-game proprietary marketplaces that prevent user ownership and exchange of digital assets they've earned.

What if Steam rugpulls your game that you spent 2 years of your life working on? Can't do shit about it. Say what you will about crypto but plausible neutrality of the platform itself is a huge win for content creators and users.
I don't know if fragmented is the right word. Just like desktop Linux, mobile Linux has pretty much settled on one major standard (Phosh a la Gnome) and slightly less popular alternative (Plasma Mobile a la KDE). Sure, you can go about customizing it to your whims, but fragmentation isn't nearly that bad, especially since the distribution options are so much lesser.

The problem really is getting the commercial software people want on the phone. But if you just want to use it as a phone (e.g. no special apps or mobile games), it does most of that in a pretty streamlined manner (albeit, rougher than the commercial options).
> People looking to be doctors don't generally get chemistry PhD's

What are you talking about, people with chemistry PhD's are by definition doctors. Are you talking about physicians? You don't need to be a physician to develop medicine, a chemistry phd is more than enough to join a pharma company.
> feel joy when others are blessed, and feel pain when they suffer.

Most people will probably acknowledge that it's more complicated than that. I think it might have to do with how easily comparable the other person's life is to our own.

I can't explain it well, but here's an example:

I saw a video of a child surprising their step-dad with paperwork for the official name change (kid accepting the Dad's last name). The Dad cried out of joy.

The video made me feel good.

On the other hand, seeing someone that I graduated highschool with getting promoted and being more successful than me makes me jealous.

Why? Because he has something and I don't, but would be within the realm of possibility to achieve. This behavior can also be observed in monkeys, so I don't question it too much.
Our team is building out upgraded support for UE developers that want to target WebAssembly. Here's a link to our Discord server:

https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
There has always been a healthy amount of skepticism about Tether in the crypto community. Your cryptofans narrative does not accurately reflect reality.
Beautiful. Keep going! I'll only be playing outside of walled gardens myself.
I'm not sure I am following. Aren't materialized views just formal, cached results of a query? That wouldn't bog down a table.
I think these things are hard to be sure about, but there still is good evidence that covid vaccines are sterilizing in a lot of cases. The rate of infection is still lower for vaccinated people right when controlling for other demographics?
You can enable the flag to turn on experimental parallelism

https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.h...
i don't think i'm a bot. what makes you say that?
> seems easier than a pure lie

Aren't Tether and Bitfinex firms with a documented track record of repeatedly telling "pure" lies?
> Why try when a bunch of educated men don't think you can succeed?

I haven't seen a single person on HN say that women can't succeed in this field.
The more I hear scam w/o reasoning, the more likely i am to buy nfts.

This is just like bitcoin in 2011.
Thank you for your perspective. Are there any U.S. services which default balances into Tether this way? Trying to get a sense for whether the shockwaves will be principally offshore or not.
I don't even see a way that you could guarantee electrical power supply for 500 years, much less web hosting. Without relying on a power company, solutions like solar panels and windmills only last 30 years or so, with maintenance. Gas and diesel generators are obviously a non-starter.

The closest thing you could get would be drawing up a 500 year contract with a web hosting or media company that you think has a good chance of being around long after you're dead, in a country whose legal system and currency you think has a chance of being around long after you're dead.
The New York Times would say “experts say the exodus was fueled by QAnon conspiracy theories which have flourished as Facebook refuses to remove them.”

The Guardian is an extremely liberal paper, but they simply do not approach the level of disinformation that you see in American papers.
>even I can see the use case where you can gain those in-game and then manage them outside of the game, trade them with other players, and maybe bring them with you to the next version of the game or even to another game.

All of this sounds completely dependent on the game designers, which is the opposite of decentralized, no? What requires NFTs? You can't just "bring" something into another game.
This is incredibly similar (but not verbatim) to another blog post on the front page right now. Did one of these bloggers drastically improve their blogging velocity by rewriting a post?
> Research indicates that individuals with breakthrough infections can have viral loads that are as high as unvaccinated individuals, and some percentage report courses of illness that are virtually identical to a typical course of illness in unvaccinated individuals

But that's totally expected (depending of course on how you define "some"). If the vaccine had 100% efficacy, it would be shocking. The fact that it doesn't is not a surprise.

I'm assuming the point you're trying to make is vaccines aren't as good as expected. If the point is just that there is still value in developing treatments even with vaccines, than yes i agree with you.
>Did you also remove "a single demographic" from these other nations gun violence statistics?

This demographic is unique to the US and a product of its unique history.

>If you remove the poorest segment of the US population form all statistics, I'm sure the US is going to look a lot better in many ways compared to the full population of other nations.

I don't blame you for believing this but the gun violence rate in this demographic is about an order of magnitude higher than that for other impoverished demographics. In any case I'm not making a statement about them, only pointing out that they distort the overall statistics for the greater US, which has implications for the assertion that gun violence is a widespread problem in the US. Yes, poverty is correlated with [gun] violence, but not nearly to the same degree among all groups of people in the US (and the world).
The counter to that argument is that the brick-and-mortar chains don't claim to be platforms or marketplaces for other products. The business model of a Walmart is pretty simple. Buy wholesale, sell retail.
It's almost like you'd have to believe that more than one western culture is historically patriarchal.
Show HN: Chip-8 interpreter with a fancy GUI made using C++ and Dear ImGui
An NFT that turns into a poop emoji after you buy it
SteamVR works fine on Linux, but the only wired/lighthouse headset that works well is the Index. Most wired headsets, especially consumer ones, don't bother, so you'll have a hard time with really anything but the Index. As for Quest on Linux, the closest you'll get is with ALVR, which only has experimental builds for Linux. Sadly, it has 2-3x the latency of VD and poor NVIDIA support. I follow their development very closely, though, and it's certainly getting better.
To be fair the level of competition in physical stores is way beyond what we have online.
if you're trading them, then aren't they fungible?
The Fauci-19 bioweapon scamdemic proves that everyone owes the Government tax cattle kid objects to gang rape.
JS now has shared array buffers.