skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find building react native apps much faster than building native apps. You don't need to recompile if you're just changing the javascript, and only a couple weeks out of the year have I actually needed to change any native code.
*Top downloaded cask, which only includes GUI applications . Regular formulae are at [1]; the most popular is OpenSSL.

Note that these statistics are only for the last 30 days, and they only include users who have opted into Homebrew analytics (and I suspect users who don’t opt in are much less likely to download Microsoft products). That being said, I’m definitely still surprised that it’s number 1 — who uses Edge on a Mac? Maybe web developers who need to test their websites?

[1]: https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/30d/
An nRF52 dev kit is like $30. It’s probably not worth the time and aggravation to try to repurpose one of these COVID tests unless you’re really determined. Nordic is one of the better vendors - their tools and docs aren’t too bad.
US paid $230M to have this device built.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/02/01/us-231m-deal-ellume-at...
Then why aren't the other 85% not as nearly as good? They are in the same bull market. You're mixing relative and absolute performance.

She puts the money where her mouth is and outperforms the average professional by a considerable margin. Gotta respect that.
And none is close to being extinct
NFTs aren't complicated. People understand them.
They do, except many don't use them as much and is quite common to find electronics on the containers.
I recently wrote about this very topic: https://den.dev/blog/software-rentals/
That is a good point. But all these had racist reasons at their core.
Can this be better implemented today?
With extensive supervision and scrutiny.
For example, teenagers routinely join the army, and spend time learning and training at what is essentially a boarding school. It seems to work quite well.
I wonder if this kind of logging follows the law of diminishing returns. The most of the value comes from the actual process of writing down what you have been doing and having an overview of the past days and weeks, but the stats of what you did, let's say, two months ago, don't add much value. So, the actual value of logging is in the discipline of taking the time and logging. Which means that, people, who would most benefit from this, will never be able to do it -- they lack the dedication.
You are wrong. The JVM can do runtime optimisations that you won't get from ahead of time compiled code. Trivial example: removal of runtime constants. That doesn't mean that code running in the JVM is always faster - most of the time it won't be. But it is possible for particular workloads to run faster than in C
That is theorised to happen to anybody, not just autistic people, and might be the cause of the IBS epidemic and so many people diagnosing themselves as gluten intolerant even if they're not full blown coeliac.
The problem is that you usually desperately need a car when you are at the pick-up point. I can only drive an automatic and am less than 5' tall so some cars are just too big for me. I've had times where instead of the car I have booked, I'm only offered cars that I can't legally or safely drive. I just now don't arrange any travel that requires a rental car. Which is limiting but not sure what else to do!
Here's a few that haven't been mentioned yet:

- PDM: A modern Python package manager with PEP 582 support[1]

- Spleeter: Deezer source separation library including pretrained models[2]

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[0]: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm

[1]: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter
Can’t say I disagree with you. A multi-threaded, memory safe cat sounds like a worthwhile future project for the Rust community.
elixir, RoR and nodeJS, (and Python a couple of times) spring to mind. Some of those languages have found a niche. But lot of new languages made older languages nicer by adopting language/framework features
There is a 3+ year old London-based project, partnered with an established genome sequencing company, doing something highly interesting.

They sell swab kits directly, or via NFT purchase, for ~$500 for a 30x near complete sequencing (that's 30 passes for over 99.9% vs 0.2% for 23andme et al). The results are stored in an encrypted AMD SEV-E vault to be accessed by big pharma or individuals, only for specific markers, in exchange for the $GENE token paid directly to the genome owner. Figures touted are $50-80 per request. This token is burned as kits are sold, can be staked, offers rewards like DAO membership, can be gifted to charities researching specific diseases in various populations. It can act as a form of UBI in unbanked populations and puts your DNA back in your control.

To me it's the best use of web3 tech I've come across, so disclaimer, I am invested and a DAO member, but it's early in the project still. They are not quite ready for mass marketing. They are moving over to Polygon for very low transaction fees in January, will be launching the first joint NFT/kit sale (the next season might include personal genetically generated art) to fill the vaults with 10k sequenced genomes. They are over half way already through work with charities, but that is the magic number before big pharma can start making queries. Right now though they are quietly building and preparing before marketing plans kick in later in Q1.

Take a look at https://genomes.io where everything is explained in more detail, the team are presented and the tokenomics set out.

TL;dr - for $500 right now you can get your entire genome sequenced, stored in a vault to earn you passive income, if you agree to each query. But wait for the NFT vs buying directly, it will have more perks.
Java (on the JVM at least) is a compiled language, it's just that it's compiled at run time (and often recompiled as execution progresses)
Beside games and maybe working with 3D animation and CAD software, what kind of uses do you have for your VR headset, if you have one?

(I can see a number of uses for an AR headset, but it's an entirely different beast.)
I had a list from every year from 1952, which I seem to have lost.

Anyways: First experienced memory on that list was when I realized winter was reoccurring thing in spring of 1955. I was sitting on a sleigh on water-covered skating field and imagined I was a boat. I then suddenly remembered that this has happened before, but very long time go, maybe half a life-time ago.
That sounds like a good idea. It would probably make sense to require that they specify how long you get to lease it for, rather than the current situation which is pretty much "until we decide not to run the service anymore".
Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).
Is it because it is covered by health insurance? Might as well get the expensive one if I get it reimbursed ...
No need for negativity. It takes very little effort to maintain a highly functioning self-hosted email infrastructure. I don't get these posts saying it's some impossible effort. Been doing it for a decade+, mostly not-doing since there's nothing to do, it just works perfectly.
You can just as well use digital signatures with certificates, I don't understand why anyone would want blockchain backing this. In fact I have yet to see a practical application of blockchain outside of "investment"..
I like Daniel King [0]. He was a highly rated GM in his time (2600s) and it shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QwZAGJpJI
> This article is a great example of why we need legislation around ownership of digital items.

If you show me well-written legislation that doesn't have generous handouts for cronies, I'm all for it.
Nobody gives a flying fuck whether the terms are legally accurate. This distinction is entirely already covered in the existing terms of service.

People are annoyed that they can pay for something (sometimes an essential identity service), be arbitrarily denied it, and have no recourse other than maybe getting lucky by writing a complaint post that gets traction and read by some human who can tell the abuse department they've fricked it.

Companies shouldn't be able to shift the burden of the negative aspects of running an online service (dealing with abuse) entirely onto society by offering no meaningful appeal process. Regulation isn't an appealing option, but companies have full well demonstrated that they aren't going to handle these cases unless forced to.
Spectre and Meltdown too. How much performance loss did we have to make up for because of that?
Yours is a decentralised solution though and we should point that out lest blockchain and decentralised become synonymous.
The problem has nothing to do with email being sent at night. The problem is about expectation of quick response.
Before a couple of years ago, masks were often banned at the local level in the US. There's no good reason for bans or mandates in normal circumstances, and that includes being a democracy.
> You will never block spam as effectively as Google, Microsoft, FastMail, etc.

Well I certainly do, more effectively. I don't do anything special, it's just that gmail isn't that good.

gmail gets a ton of false positives and to add insult to injury they also let spam through occasionally.

My self-hosted infrastructure lets spam through at about the same rate as gmail, but my false-positive rate is orders of magnitude superior.
No way —- Scala is a much bigger language. Kotlin usage is basically null outside of android (and even there, native may very well be bigger), while Scala is used by several companies for backend, data science, etc. I do know for a fact that eg. Morgan Stanley for example has many backends running it.
They do import data. I can see it all over Europe. But sometimes the imported data is misaligned, or lacks information.
Downloading the files to your hard-drive solves this, which we've been able to do since always, and yet here we are. It's not a tech problem.
The headset has no speakers, microphone, eye tracking, or face tracking. These are must haves for the next headset I get.
That got me thinking. The usual seat arrangement is fine, you just have to turn it upside down. The chairs have to be on a raised floor, to store all the luggage under the sitting area!
But also, just to be clear: This doesn't prevent "forgeries" from circulating. Those aren't home-made, but you can just copy a QR code from someone else. And next-to-noone is checking the ID (which in theory would be required to close that point). And even if the ID were to be checked, all you need to find is one doctor or pharmacist, that is willing to misread your yellow book (WHO vaccination booklet).

I'd still say: There isn't much use in the proofing system. Just do vaccinations Israel-style. I.e. have the option to get vaccinated literally everywhere and without our "but you need an appointment" and "but your last dose needs to be 6 month ago" (the latter is getting better).
This statement is not accurate. There are games that ship as licenses rather than binary blobs on discs.
I'm thinking of this and i can't see it working. All previous attempts were usually executed on racist grounds, and i don't think we can do the same on non-racist grounds because poverty itself is a result of either intrinsic differences between races, or racism itself, so racial layout of kids in those boarding schools will be similar to the racial layout in prisons... It's hard to expect anything but radicalisation happening there.
I think the act of paying attention to your behaviour is the value. That can come from writing it down yourself. But if someone else writes it down and then you review it say Sunday night, then I think the value is there.
I didn't say that. I didn't say anything close to that. I don't know how someone could have interpreted what I said as what you wrote in good faith. I believe you are arguing in bad faith; so I will stop engaging.
some journals like Elife or Frontiers do publish the commentary. I think for COVID related papers it should be a requirement in all journals
> I generally hate getting the government involved in things, but

Why do you hate your elected representatives safeguarding fairness against large corporations like this?
Good point.

Though that criminal statue wouldn't apply to the actions described here, it is indeed an example of how copyright violations of some kinds can be crimes, even felonies.
NFTs wouldn't help here. I can have NFTs for the games on my steam account but if steam bans me who is honoring my NFT to provide me access to the game? No one. It's about as good as a paper receipt for a company you didn't purchase the item from.
And If you cut taxes workers will get paid more.

At least that's what the books say.
> This is what people who download the app will do, so they’re trying out real scenarios that will happen. They don’t want to have there be a segment on the nightly news saying, “App Store Full of Porn!” Which is what will happen in these scenarios.

Lets ban web browsers.
More like "frequency of bugs" developers put out for their games. Best to buy only once the "GOTY/Definitive/Special edition" is released and all DLC's are available and when it's a couple of years and 50 patches old - including patches fixing the patches. And when the game is on holiday discount sale. The game is then smooth and playable with no blood-pressure inducing defects and doesn't need too much Googling/forum-posting on asking what went wrong.
What's wrong about it? I can only praise a person who has generational wealth and doesn't need to work, yet chose the socially beneficial occupation of a social worker (which is neither well-paid nor, let's be honest, well-respected, but necessary job), to do their part?
> It's fascinating to me because my experience has always been opposite. I want a small car because I don't like to have a monster in unfamiliar territory. I'm always "upgraded" to something larger and when I indicate no thanK you, turns out they don't have a small car at all.

This exact thing happens to me all the time. One time the company tried to give me a car I have no license to drive (truck category instead of a van).

Other time I actually got upgraded by Enterprise to a nicer car but automatic instead of manual. I struggled to get out of the parking.
In the case of photopea - as soon as I land on the homepage and before i consent to ANYTHING:

github
google analytics
facebook
stackpath
wikimedia
google adwords
google fonts
amazon ads
(a few others I dont recognise)
and, of course, the companies that you use to collect "consent"...

Even if i disable ALL the options on the "consent" module and reload the page, it STILL loads ALL of these. In fact, it seems to load even more! For example, I create a document, then it loads (in ADDITION to the above):

criteo
33across
openx
adxpremium
setupad
4dex
adnxs
casalemedia
pubmatic
emxdgt
rubiconproject
districtm
lijit

They are at the very least tracking that i visited your site. They are tracking the URLs that are active. As I click around and use the app, it is triggering more interaction with those services - so clearly they are monitoring actions/events too. This is just on YOUR site.

These networks are able to identify me by a cookie (and other techniques), so they can compile my activity on YOUR site into a log of my activities across multiple sites which they "provide their ads" on. They can absolutely identify you as an individual - google, facebook, etc, are ones that people have INTENTIONALLY given their names too, and many of these other networks sell/lease the data to others to allow them to provide their own identity link.

Furthermore, these 3rd party "scripts" have access to the entire page content too. They can read my email address should I register. They can even capture my password if they were so configured (or were in themselves hacked to do so).

Bear in mind i did NOT consent to any of this when I landed on your site, and even when i specifically removed "consent" via the form on your landing page, i was STILL being tracked by ALL those I mention above.

THIS is why people have blockers, etc. I dont mind if you have an image with a link to some advertisers product/service/whatever. What I care about it that my every action on your site is providing additional data for these companies to mine and build a secret profile of my browsing habits.

EDIT: I browsed without an ad blocker to compile this behaviour. I feel dirty.
I've been doing a "3-positives about your life" every night for almost 4 years. I get up to 5 emails a night if I don't respond in time, then my response gets stored. I thought I could correlate them with major events in my life but the values were between -1, 0 and 1. I don't know if it even makes sense and sometimes I didn't take it seriously. Still it's cool it has been running for so long.

Anyway I didn't get really any insight from it so... idk if it's a waste of time or what. I still use writing a lot for personal thoughts/state management.

I was using Mailgun for the emailing/API and Raspi/Python/Apache/MariaDB for my stack.

I am aware using third party my stuff is passing through them, it's not super detailed just positive/negative sentiment with abstract context.
And it was easy to fix vulnerability. Easy to workaround (turn off) with command line switch.

It was expensive, simply because that library is extremely popular.
> And why don't they do that? Good 'ol competition. Everyone is afraid to start enforcing reservations because if Hertz does but Enterprise doesn't, people are going to book with Enterprise ("Book w/ us and never pay a penalty when your plans change!").

Competition brings out the best solution. The current system is the best overall solution. Most people don't really care what car they rent, and probably sometimes get an upgrade to a better car if they complain about not getting the car they reserved. By having this system, rental car companies can substantially reduce the cost of renting a car. It would be very expensive to intentionally have cars waiting on the lot for upcoming customers.
> Mostly because the flu was somehow eradicated at the outset of mass covid testing (...)

Perhaps all those basic public health measures implemented to contain and eliminate the spread of air borne diseases such as COVID or the flu is a factor?

I mean,the lockdowns alone have a clear and critical and measurable (and measured) impact in lowering the spread of COVID. Wouldn't it be possible that staying away from people with the flu was also a factor in not catching the flu?
What exactly is switching to Rust?
Nothing here is about Google or censorship.
Not warming up hotspot seems to be a constant in benchmarks for people comparing languages with Java. I mean, it's probably valid if your use case is a CLI tool (although, in that case an AOT compiler is clearly a better option)
> Most of them will get collected the next GC run as a young generation going out of function / block scope.

Depends on the use case. Not if you're storing them in a long living collection.
Also heap allocation is costly, even in languages with fast heap allocation. It is still an order of magnitude slower than stack allocation.

> But I agree: for anything that you want to deallocate deterministically, or at least soon enough, you need to track ownership, and care about the lifetimes

It is not only that.
You need ownership not only to determine lifetimes.

You need to know it in order to be able to tell if, having a reference to an object, you're allowed to update it and in what way. Is it the only reference? If it is shared, who also has it and what can it do with it? If I call "foo" on it, will I cause a "problem at a distance" for another shareholder? Being able to answer such questions directly by looking at the code makes it way easier to navigate in a big project written by other people.

In C++ if I can see a simple value or a value wrapped in a unique_ptr, I know that I can update it safely and nothing else holds a reference. If I see a shared_ptr, I can expect it is shared, so I have been warned. The intent is clear. In Rust it is even safer, because the compiler enforces that what I see is really what I get (it is not just relying on conventions).

On the flip side, GC-based languages tend to invite a style of coding where reference aliasing is everywhere and there are no clear ownerships. I can see a reference to something and I have no idea what kind of reference it is and what I can safely do with it. It is just like a C pointer. I need to rely on code comments which could be wrong (or read a million lines of code).
IMHO a better way forward is to de-categorize downloads of “purchased” items from “downloading” in legal context, such that removing access is considered theft rather than enabling downloads to be considered willful distribution.

That’s technologically backwards, but it’s not like justice system behavior and software industry logic always converged nicely.
So the general agreement is that people should not be allowed to consume porn in the united states?
Except the plenoxel representation is also 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than an MLP-based NeRF. It’s not very surprising that a sparse voxel representation can capture a plenoptic function. Representation of volumetric video further presses the size disadvantages of voxel based techniques.

The reasons for using deep learning function approximators are manifold, for instance in RL, state and state-action spaces quickly become too large for tabular methods. Using grids or tables also basically closes off the opportunities for exploiting meta-learning and analysis-by-synthesis.

Plenoxels also rely on explicit specification of a known grid structure, where the HyperNeRF method can learn latent parametric manifolds and handle dynamic objects with changing topologies.
While search funds most of Google, most employees at Google don't work on search. A small proportion of Google's revenue would be plenty for good quality search.
I don't think it was in the same place 50 years ago. Dominican governments have been trying to keep immigrants from Haiti out for well over a century by now.
Can you? Reddit makes you change a setting, save it, reload the page, uncheck a couple more settings, save, before you can see adult content these days. per-account

quick test logged out:

search "butts" -> no nsfw results on first page
search "tits" -> a couple unlabeled nsfw posts (against reddit rules.)
1. If the first byte is 0, insert the text of Wikipedia,
2. If it isn't, ignore it, and all further bytes are interpreted literally.

To avoid these sort of "joke" decompressors, they evaluate compressors on (size of compressed data) + (size of decompressor) in the compression competitions last time I checked. That means we won't get a winner based on GPT3 anytime soon. 350+ GB of weights is a lot to overcome :)

Though of course, given enough data to compress, it might well be that full-on neural language models are still worth it.
I believe the commenter was using sarcasm.
I've spent all my adulthood thinking I'm lazy and something is wrong with me and I need to work harder at it. I can't be bothered to tell all my life story right now, but look into ADHD. It's been a revelation the moment I've learned my condition has a name and there is a chance for a normal life for me. Good luck
Honestly, even the preferred Experience at Avis leaves a lot to be desired. I’m switching back over to Hertz after being a National (Emerald for almost 10 years) and Avis (President’s Club for the last 8 years or so) and having horrible experience after horrible experience this year.

I’ve literally had Avis come and get a vehicle that I still had a week left on its rental from a hotel parking lot…and still can’t get an explanation from Avis as to why (or, even better yet, why they charged me for that extra week!)
Non-competes are holding back NYC tech