skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! I'm curious how vscode.dev fits in with GitHub Codespaces. Are they competing products, or is Codespaces only a superset of the other?
Don't most of us, nowadays? :)
I think they kinda tried with the windows store + arm windows surfaces. The market didn't like it.
> The article specifically mentions that that is not the case.

The citation they're using doesn't load for me. I'm looking at results like this:
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
> The analysis showed that the vaccine's effectiveness in preventing hospitalization and death remained high at 90% for at least six months, even against the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.

> Haven’t we seen previous reports that basically state that lockdowns and or massive restrictions seem to have a negligible effect on spread?

Those reports, even if they're completely valid which is questionable, only show that government-mandated lockdowns have similar effects to voluntary behavior changes in response to waves of COVID infection, which again the OP does not control for.
The old testament says to stone the adulteress. Violence ok, sex not ok
that isn't special to the ilwu, or labor in general. labor can organize as they see fit. that's a constitutionally recognized freedom, not a special privilege (aka regulatory capture).
Facebook Kills ‘Hey Facebook’ Voice Command for Portal Amid Customer ‘Confusion’
They report segmented results for each business, along with gross margin of each business, so I am not sure how that would fool any real analyst.
My first thought when I saw this video was that I already knew that this was happening. I suppose the only real answer to this type of problem would be regulation about what information can be stored about a user, and for how long. Make everything more Blunt, as well as put limits in place for how long things like audio clips could be stored, I would vote for 24 hours. I don't reckon that they are being actively used for anything beyond that point anyway.
I agree, it's a good-faith effort on Microsoft's part. I think people have a hard time believing they can operate in a non-adversarial way (which is understandable if you lived through the 90s lol)
The Ford F-150 Lightning is about to drop. VW group is making massive investments in EVs. BMWs vision is to be the premier green automaker by 2030. Don't act like these companies are still sitting on their hands.

In < 5 years from now, the best selling EV will be the F-150 Lightning.
All the streaming services that allow you to download/save shows/movies for offline viewing, only offer that feature on their apps.
They actually accounted for a $51M impairment on Bitcoin
> Base Frequency 4.72 GHz

> Maximum Frequency 6.03 GHz

This was seriously overclocked, wouldn't be surprised if with liquid nitrogen. So probably poor comparison to laptop CPU ;)
But currently MSTR is valued less than the value of its BTC, which implies a negative value for their legacy business

Or, alternatively it could also imply that the market thinks the future value of their BTC holdings will drop. It's still difficult and costly to short BTC directly, so I do wonder if negative sentiments about it might be reflected better in things like MSTR valuation than in the actual BTC spot price.
It's probably more interesting on things like Microsoft surface. Not sure Microsoft have the stomach for it yet, but they possibly could have another crack at doing phones.
Pumpkins, markets, and one bad Apple
M1X Max fresh!
> What is the result of such spending?

Did they actually spend $1 billion? Or they did and spent on overpriced services? Without knowing what they did the amount is meaningless
au contraire, storytelling (and an easy to understand story) is all that matters in 2021 seed climate. "vibe is the new diligence"
> 2.2M+ adverse reactions in the WHO database.

That's a big stretch.

Take everything on the site with a block of salt, given that that's exactly what they tell you to do:

> The information on this website, therefore, does not reflect any confirmed link between a medicinal product and a side effect

People have been abusing the validity of VigiAccess to make specious claims about adverse effects and it's already been debunked[1].

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/15/fac...
I think this is an overly negative attitude.

Note that I've worked for multiple very successful computer scientist women. They have no tolerance for folks who sit around and complain about the unfairness. It's clear their confidence, ego, and drive, allowed them to succeed.

I slipped when I said he in the second comment. I normally prefer to not state the gender of people (to avoid the presumption of malehood) but I don't think it's as dire as you make out.
Ask HN: How did you choose your career path?
TLDR: How did you choose your career path and found something that fits you well?

I am in early twenties, studying data science at a Master's level in europe and I am really uncertain about what I wanna pursue as a career.
I love data science and the deep learning aspect of it and if I have the opportunity to pursue a pHD on a interesting subject I might consider it. But on the other hand, the market seems to be over-saturated with folks interested in machine learning.

I am also really interested in a variety of other fields like game development, backend development, cybersecurity and also have a few project ideas that could lead me to a more entrepreneurial path.

One of the problem is that I constantly switch projects and can't really stay focus on one thing, I want to do so much that I get lost trying everything out. Thus I do not have very good/interesting projects to show to future interviewer.

Did you have a similar experience and how did you deal with it?
This death number constantly trotted out is such misinformation.

The vast majority of those people died from morbidities at exactly the age they were expected to.

They admitted plenty of times that any positive test within a month of death means the death is regarded as a covid death.

Plus hospitals have monetary incentives to record these covid deaths.

The excess death rate, adjusted for population age, was almost negligible in 2020
I doubt that revenue per wallet is a uniform distribution. At the end there will only be a few wallets left. If you sign them now you will get all their business. Phantom has already announced to use MoonPay. OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace, also uses MoonPay.
I think that's because some GA planes still have engines designed 50+ years ago, like O-360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_O-360
I’ve been a Facebook user since 2008. I regularly use it today. I don’t consider myself or any of my Facebook friends “naive, dumb little users.” The interactions on Facebook in, say, 2010 were decidedly less awful than they are today. In 2010, my news feed was composed primarily of content from my Facebook friends, or pages I specifically followed. It was fun. Old connections from my childhood church, etc. would comment on a photo and we’d chat. Someone would post a status, and I’d reply. I don’t think human nature has shifted very dramatically in a decade. The platform influences what interactions happen. I’m not making an appeal to technological determinism; people are people. But Facebook is not an impartial middleman that is only “connecting” people.
Python 3 usually handles this correctly, and I'm a little bit confused what's going on in the article, exactly.

For UNIX path names (and other OS data like environment variables), Python uses the "surrogateescape" error handling method, which does exactly what you ask. Any byte sequence can be converted to a string. If it decodes as valid UTF-8, it will do that. If it hits a byte that does not decode as valid UTF-8 (necessarily a byte >= 128), it will map it to code points U+DC80 through U+DCFF. These are in a reserved ranges of code points ("surrogates", which make it possible to represent code points > 0xFFFF in UTF-16), and they can't show up in actual Unicode text (i.e., there is no UTF-8 encoding of them, strictly speaking, and if you applied the UTF-8 encoding algorithm to a code point in the U+D800 to U+DFFF range, you would get bytes that aren't valid UTF-8).

On the way out, this is reversed. So you get the results you expect if your filenames are in UTF-8, but since UNIX has no requirement that filenames are indeed UTF-8 (the only constraint is they can't contain NUL or ASCII-forward-slash), the bytes are preserved in a funky-looking format in Python and you get the exact same output on the other end.

See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/ for more on what's going on. The tl;dr for users of Python is that if you want to interact with, say, subprocess output as mostly-normal strings (instead of bytes) but you want to be robust to non-UTF-8 bytes, you should do something like

subprocess.check_output(["some", "command"], errors="surrogateescape")

You don't need to do this for APIs that directly interact with pathnames, because they do it already. You just need to do it for things like subprocess output and file contents that Python doesn't know you want to handle in this way.

...

On Windows, however, path names must be valid Unicode and are stored in UTF-16. So the idea of a "ł" that doesn't decode properly shouldn't even happen! Mikołaj's home directory ought to be a very boring (and valid) 004d 0069 006b 006f 0142 0061 006a on disk.

Windows doesn't enforce that file paths are valid UTF-16 though (specifically, the surrogate code points are only supposed to show up in a certain way, but nothing enforces that and you can have random surrogates on disk), and hence Rust, which internally represents all strings in UTF-8, has a solution ("WTF-8") that's basically the inverse of surrogateescape - it uses extrapolated-UTF-8-encoding-of-surrogates to handle unpaired surrogates. http://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ But it seems very odd to me that the directory C:\Users\Mikołaj would actually contain any of those, and if it doesn't, I would expect it to very easily turn into a Python Unicode string.

Maybe this is from a Python version before https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0529/ , which is claimed to "fail to round-trip characters outside of the user's active code page"? Maybe this is from a Python version after that change and it's wrong?
Humans have been improving their ability to read subtext and intuit background information from spoken language and facial expressions for millenia.

In my humble opinion, it seems kind of unlikely that AI will outperform people in solving this problem.
This isn't race grievances though. It's marketing grievances... on a product that we're discussing.

I understand. I've seen several cases where you've moderated unfairly in order to maintain some form of status quo, where the quo is just an opinion that we all have to share.

Familiarised myself with the rules long ago, but it doesn't really matter since anything that someone might get upset at is suddenly hovered within there.
https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/
Battery life is more about idle/low load TDP, not full load TDP. It's not like MBP has 60*20=1200 Wh battery (100Wh is FAA limit)
You're likely to be flagged and have a dead comment soon, but I want to let you know I appreciate this harsh (but honest) take. I find it endlessly fascinating how much "young buck" brow-beating the US gets from Europe (and so too their respective citizens and representatives), in both political/media rhetoric and in interpersonal fora like this. As a proud and naturalized US Citizen myself, thanks for standing up for me.
It seems like you think that red teaming and blue teaming works much like an RPG game where you can spend skill points on perks, but blue team perks (like tier 1 endpoint defense) cost more skill points than red team perks. I don't think this is an accurate mental model, and I'd rather frame it like this: exploits are secrets, and when you learn the secret, you can share it with others as well as develop the countermeasure to the exploit. If you spend a lot of money discovering a useful exploit it is by definition something nontrivial that is unlikely to be discovered by regular hackers unless it is leaked or discovered after careless usage. If you discover an exploit that an enemy will soon discover, it is to your advantage to publish the countermeasures to the exploit before your opponent discovers and weaponizes it.
'free market' is a ideologically-loaded term. in a fair market, we'd have much less distortion all around, much more competition, and a more equitable split of surplus value to constituents, to the point that labor unions wouldn't need to exist.
Not really - they had a three-pronged business model based on ranching sheep, trading and, yes, raiding. Wasn't it Erik the Red who had two brothers, and their father asked all three what they were going to be when they had grown up. Says the first he is going to be a farmer and his sheepflock is going to be so large that he will have to dig another waterhole. Says the second he will go trading and he will have to build another barn to keep his wares in. Says Erik, who was the youngest, he is going to be a Viking and he is going to raid both of them.
>they're forcing an extremist view on diversity

I don't know why they're doing it. But there is an agenda and this is how they do it.

Try reading.
Okay, I've found a reference by coincidence.

BitPay, established since 2011, processed one billion in payments and had 23 million of revenue per year. Mostly gift cards...

That's laughable for such a hype.
and a mental state, attentiveness, etc. sensor - "Your driving performance in the next hour is estimated to be 10% worst than your average, and will incur 20% insurance premium increase for that trip. Do you still wish to start the car? "
> "Lots of students (especially non-CS nerds, like the physics kids with a CS requirement) find environment setup to be one of the hardest parts."

Advice I received early that has stuck with me (and that I have found to be true): "Environment setup is the hardest part".

This was true for me in school and has remained true through multiple professional teams.
Let's hope nobody copies Apple's ridiculous MacBook notch
They have 5.2 and 10.4 TFLOPS of GPU power to feed in addition to 10 very wide cores.
People in China/Russia/Iran can use proxy services to bypass censorship. Such services are much cheaper than Starlink connections and far easier to set up and maintain.

Starlink satellites route through ground stations which are subject to local controls [0].

Communication between satellites and the earth are governed by international treaties [1]. Every country controls radio spectrum use in their borders [2]. Starlink must obtain spectrum licenses and comply with local laws. If Starlink were to route traffic to ground stations outside of the country to evade local controls, the country would simply revoke their spectrum license. If Starlink decided to operate without a license, the US government would be forced to either stop them or break numerous international treaties.

I doubt that helping people circumvent censorship will have long-term positive impact. Censorship is a symptom of bad government, not a cause. For example, both the United States and Israel both have low censorship. Yet, according to [3, 4, 5 + 6], the United States and Israel would be included in a list of "the worst offenders in terms of censorship and human rights violations". Also, UK and Singapore have strong censorship [7, 8] and perform few human rights violations nowadays.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2020/02/20/how-does-starlink-work-anywa...

[1] https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/...

[2] https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/backgrounders/Pages/itu-r...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

[5] https://www.btselem.org/

[6] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/u-s-vetoes-of-un-securi...

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore
We're also seeing slower m1max benchmarks though

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10476727
Look up Tesla’s debt compared to every other large auto company.

They also don’t waste any money on advertising. They don’t have to deal with as many third party parts providers eating away at their profits. They’re not beholden to unions or dealer networks.

All that stuff is a serious drag on profitability and market cap. Just because they make cars doesn’t mean they have to have shitty margins and high debt like the other companies.
Please, whoever wrote this go and do some more research and rewrite the Ted vs WWW, he was right, it was complicated, it still is, does not mean he was not right, also it's there, you can go and download the release and work on it, if you want, here's an introduction to get it running, YMMV https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645
It seems that if Congress et al wanted to overstep the Interstate Commerce Clause here would be a perfect place to do it.
A good start is the book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann. That book fundamentally changed my understanding of the pre-Colombian Americas.

> It wasn't just the Norse that had a hard time living in Newfoundland at the time. It wasn't very hospitable to any humans.

I don’t think it was as crowded as, say, New England (early explorers of the coast of New England, IIRC, wrote that there wasn’t enough open shoreline to even make landfall on). However much or however little of Newfoundland was habitable, though, was already inhabited by the time the Norse got there.
Basically she and husband didn't report all income and used campaign money for personal expenses.

Yes paying taxes is annoying, but these people earn solid money, why throw it away for relatively small savings. Say they saved 36% on a mil, spread over 6 years, Was it worth the extra $60K a year between the two of them when they had good jobs, political power, clean records?

Especially when you are union, thus generally pro gov't spending so are pushing everyone else to pay taxes.

"Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office alleges the pair under-reported more than $1 million in income over the past six years, including $176,000 in 2016, $416,000 in 2017, and $666,000 in 2018.

The complaint also alleges Hernandez unlawfully took political campaign money for personal use in 2014 and 2015."
ABC iview user data collected through Google Analytics stored in the US
Third party tooling could interface with something built in but not the one off scripts people use now. I'm not trying to be draconian here. I just want a built in way to share needed configuration information that we have to special case now.
> I would expect the wealthiest nation on earth to naturally have some advantages over a third world country like Kenya. More resources, education, infrastructure, etc...

Indeed. I had the pleasure of standing on the bridge [1] of a freighter in Tanga once as cement was loaded. (Tanga is a port roughly halfway between Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.) They didn't have containers or cranes. They loaded the cement by sliding bags down a ramp, covering their mouths with shirts to reduce dust inhalation.

Mombasa and Dar must be more modern than Tanga, as they are on a list of container ports. Still, I would expect them to be far behind California in terms of infrastructure.

[1] edit: actually, quarter deck, maybe? It wasn't the enclosed part. I don't know ship terms.
Pinterest is filled with ads. I wonder if it's for data on what people are interested in and perhaps have an opportunity to finance a customers purchase.
I guess it goes to show how Tesla's stock surge in 2020, which the media called irrational or a bubble, was not so irrational after all.
Starlink satellites use low orbits. Any debris they create will quickly de-orbit.
My entrance to the gifted program was not based on my ability to follow instructions, sit quietly or pass quizzes fast. I failed at all 3 of those. I excelled at a series of tests on solving puzzles and pattern matching.
According to NASA archaeologist Tom Sever, the Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica was one of the densest populations in human history. Around 800 A.D., after two millennia of steady growth, the Mayan population reached an all-time high. Population density ranged from 500 to 700 people per square mile in the rural areas, and from 1,800 to 2,600 people per square mile near the center of the Mayan Empire (in what is now northern Guatemala). In comparison, Los Angeles County averaged 2,345 people per square mile in 2000.[1]

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Maya
One of the issues is that in the USA (as opposed to Europe and other countries that prioritize science over politics) there are no exemptions for people who have recovered from covid and have natural immunity, which has shown to be more effective than the vaccine.
The solution to this is extremely simple: don't validate usernames, period.

The rationale is from an article someone linked here ("Falsehoods Programmer's Believe About Names"):

> Anything someone tells you is their name is—by definition—an appropriate identifier for them.

If you try to validate by checking for profanity, knowing full well that people can have names that contain profane substrings, I have a tongue-in-check message for you—you are a fucking asshole.
At least Microsoft had the decency to provide free-to-use VMs with different versions of Internet Explorer for testing (in more recent times anyway).
How is this Python's fault? It's not like the `docker-compose` file would have worked any better if it silently replaced one of the volumes with an inaccessible file. Instead, you'd just get a failure from the Windows filesystem API when you tried to access or create a file at "C:\\Users\\Miko�aj\\AppData\\Local\\JetBrains\\Rider2021.2\\log\\DebuggerWorker\\\", right?
Two things:

1) I recently implemented truncating long lines for CLI tool and went with a hybrid approach using both graphemes and virtual columns -- I'd only truncate a line between graphemes, but when counting how much space was used up I would use virtual columns. In the case of something like , this means things tend to error on the "safe" side of truncating a line too early if the virtual column approach counts it as 4 columns wide rather than 2.

2) I wanted to test something with the scientist emoji and managed to crash Ruby's repl, irb, simply by pasting it into the repl and then backspacing over it. (It was clearly confused about the position of the cursor, and the stacktrace pointed to an error in a line_editor.rb file.) I was on Ruby 2.7.1, but it looks like it's been fixed in 3.0.0!
It has been a long time since editing photos has required anything more than run-of-the-mill performance.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2021/10/19/s...
>real money backed by all the money, power, influence, and force of a major world government

This meme bugs me though, even if the USD is in fact more secure.

I don't think the US military or having to pay US taxes is a requirement for the dollar to be sound and useful.

It's a cliche that people use cigarettes or whatever in prison, with no army backing it up.

Noncitizens use US dollars outside the US, where they are neither subject to its jurisdiction nor owe taxes.

And I think people use or have used Swiss Francs all over the world, without any particular empire or force projection of that state.

What is necessary is that the money supply is kept under control.
Cigs pack was probably at hand and back then wrapped in thin paper it was soft enough to train with such tech; I wouldn't expect the arm would be able to proudly pick and carry the PZPR standard right away. I still wonder how this was done - it moves really smooth

Besides, pretty sure that's still a valid term for cigarettes in the UK so please hold your angry clicks folks