skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially related - do any shops still use LXC containers instead of Docker/K8s?
Per elsethread, supposedly any site could have triggered the crash, not just ”side functionality”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30175916
I try to avoid them wherever possible. There are quite a few decent alternatives for many of their core services.
It's done in Java, Integer.lowestOneBit(int), citing HD 2-1. Java defines ints to be 2-complimentary. I can't recall if it's compiled tzcnt[0], though

[0]: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/tzcnt
this is just a mean strategy to obfuscate your real intent (enabling your service) from the ignorant user.
If it's good enough for K&R it's good enough for me. And yes, I do sleep with my copy of "The C Programming Language" (Second Edition) under my pillow. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...

100% of commenters to your comment at the time of writing this comment linked to wikipedia, STATISTICALLY PROVING that they are shills of Big Wiki.
Same. This is the last straw that has led us to unanimously decide to transition all our clients paid accounts from G. Some stakeholders were already on the fence but this is what tipped the scales for everyone. Doing the same for my family (we have also been using a Workspace for our emails, photos, and calendars).

It's not OK.
Maps was amazing at first and then it got ruined bit by bit. But somewhere along the way it got awesome again. I think it's really good right now.
> Hold on, so you buy an ad slot, serve your code in that ad slot, AND serve another ad inside that slot to resell?

Exactly.

> Is that actually allowed by ads provider?

On some ad networks it's prohibited by ToS and (in some cases) a review process, but it is extremely difficult to prevent in practice, especially if you have any understanding of how this works. I estimate perhaps as much as 50-90% of Google's adsense revenue comes from this, so they aren't (directly) incentivized to stop it.

> The idea of running vm inside an ad to harvest compute from unsuspecting visitors... I think this might accelerate widespread use of adblockers even more if you successfully deploy this in the wild because people will notice ads are getting heavier.

Perhaps, but people also have a lot of idle cores, so if you don't block networking and you monitor system performance carefully to ensure you don't affect things, for the most part people simply won't notice.

Quite a few people have been caught out doing wasteful things like trying to generate "coin", which definitely doesn't help, but there's also some interesting applications that have been run on volunteer-cpu-time (folding, seti, etc), so it seems plausible with some charitable examples and some care to avoid impact, this might be a doer?
Neat but really needs keyboard input (assuming it's not just Safari being weird.)
This is not the same concept but it reminded me of the Collective Cognitive Imperative as introduced by Julian Jaynes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_cognitive_imperativ...

I may be misremembering (which, in a way, I suppose would be fit for the topic) but I don’t recall the emphasis on “joining a cult” that I get from the Wikipedia entry. My recollection is more along the lines of what enough people believe and understand influences what is perceived as real (a god speaking through an oracle) and what isn’t.
It was just an example of a task. Also, "compile to LLVM" is very much "LLVM is part of the compiler, and thus worries about registers". Compile to C is (depending on source language and exactly which definitions you use) potentially also a transpiler.
I’d go so far as to say it is one of the most successful open-source projects of all time, and a poster child for how OSS should be run. From the beginning, it has cultivated a welcoming community that produced a range of tutorials and learning materials for all skill levels. It’s evolution has been steady, and it has seemingly found a way to be successful and impactful in a space where closed-sourced competitors are vastly more well-funded.

I distinctly remember how incredible it was when Big Buck Bunny was released with all assets and project files freely available. I learnt so much from that, and wouldn’t be surprised if it was a catalyst that led to many, many people gaining the skills and drive to produce new creative works. I hope Blender continues to inspire and enable many future generations of creators.
Do you have paid subs for all of them? If yes, where do you manage so many payments?
> Their vision stack now produces depth information that is dramatically superior to that from a forward-facing radar.

RADAR is more low fidelity though, blocky, slow and doesn't do changes in direction or dimension very well. RADAR isn't as good as humans at depth. Only benefit of RADAR is it works well in weather/night and near range as it is slower to bounce back than lasers. I assume the manholes and bridges that confuse RADAR are due to the low fidelty / blocky feedback.

LiDAR is very high fidelity and probably more precise than the pixels. LiDAR is better than humans at depth and at distance. LiDAR isn't as good at weather, neither is computer vision. Great for 30m-200m. Precise depth, dimension, direction and size of object in motion or stationary.

See the image at the top of this page and overview on it. [1]

> High-end LiDAR sensors can identify the details of a few centimeters at more than 100 meters. For example, Waymo's LiDAR system not only detects pedestrians but it can also tell which direction they’re facing. Thus, the autonomous vehicle can accurately predict where the pedestrian will walk. The high-level of accuracy also allows it to see details such as a cyclist waving to let you pass, two football fields away while driving at full speed with incredible accuracy.

[1] https://qtxasset.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=850,h=478,f=auto,fit=cr...

[2] https://www.fierceelectronics.com/components/lidar-vs-radar
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I would say it's a good thing when the size of ambitions matches the size of ones mouth.

He certainly inherited the size of the mouth of his father, and tried to imitate his tirades heavily 12 years ago when I lived there, but so far nothing really came out of it.

Sing in last 12 years: losing vestiges of its industry, and getting more, and more reliant on mainland money.
the "FBI crime statistics" meme is a common one.
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Recommendations aren't really chosen by "experiments". And certainly, they aren't A/B testing budgeting and development of shows.

Recommendation engines can be improved with experiments. And they - along with budgeting and show development (at least at Netflix) - are "driven by big data".

Further, it doesn't matter if you - personally - like a feature. If that feature is moving the numbers and passes the A/B test, it will make itself into the app.

They run thousands of experiments. Of course there are going to be several that you - personally - do not like.
Ask HN: Gradle or Maven for Java Projects?
Or is there a third option? Please elaborate.
I have established a way of dealing with and taking from 'facts' by following these steps:

1. What is said? Do I understand it? Where does it come from?

2. How is it to be understood? How to interpret it?

3. What does it signify? Can it be classified and/or compared with other known things?

4. What can be taken from it? What implications does it have?

Looking at news in this way, it is clearly visible, how most things that are communicated answer 3. and 4., omitting its foundations 1. and 2. Sometimes the bias is created by changing 2.

(The fine-definition of the steps is still in the works. So far, I am very happy with this method. It helps me a lot to understand things and what things are really about. Suggestions?)
Why Is Matt Damon Shilling for Crypto?
Google has pioneered "forcing users to try out new features" ever since they invented forced software updates. That's not new.
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I run Craft CMS for Tedium (https://tedium.co). I could push it further but one way I use it is by creating a custom view that “spits” out a completed email template with all of my desired layout considerations and quirks already considered. I could push it further and run the newsletter through Craft itself, though I’ve chosen to pay someone to manage the sending of the email.

(And while not particularly “Crafty,” I use a paid plugin, Doxter, to manage my CMS code in Markdown, with the use of shortcodes.)

The performance issues mentioned by others are realistic, but if you put it behind CloudFlare, they’re totally reasonable. While Ghost is a much more popular use case for newsletter publishers like myself, I prefer the customization capabilities of Craft to forge a CMS experience I’m comfortable with.
I don't mean to judge your argument, but Google is well-known to be part of the USA military industrial complex by now, and to be very friendly with the Chinese government. If you're a journalist investigating anything else than sports competitions results, you may want to consider (for your personal safety) never to use services by such companies. When i say such, i do mean other companies close to the US gov (Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft), but i do mean also other companies close to other governments (Qwant/Orange/etc in France).

If you work at Google, and think you're doing something good for humanity, please take a step back, look yourself in the mirror, and consider doing any other job instead. Arguably, even becoming a mercenary would have less negative impact overall than working for Google, because Google is not responsible for killing a few people but rather for bringing technological armaments (surveillance/AI/hosting) to governments and corporations killing millions.

For the survival of humankind and millions of other species, we need to dismantle all corporations and governments before they're done destroying earth and its ecosystems.
Good faith is part of the problem; you trust that a headline, an article, a summary etc acts in good faith, that you can trust journalists and the like. But they often have an Agenda, pushing a certain narrative or a certain political goal.

I mean, even when an article ticks all the boxes for being well researched, factually correct, neutral in language, even then it can be misleading for not having a counter-point (for example), or its hosting platform to de-emphasize the article.

What has more impact, a headline saying "tinfoil hats cause headaches" prominently posted on the front page of a newspaper in big impact font, or a byline four pages in?
Off topic: Since when did Twitter force logging in to view the site?
Protobufs are too high level and too opinionated about the structure of the data. It may or may not be "the right tool for the job" depending on the problem being solved.

The goal is to have a schema language that is as universal as byte streams are.

This necessarily means that the language should be open to being extended with new custom types. (Implementations that don't understand a type can always fall back to treating a type as an unsized byte stream.)
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I guess it follows what I was thinking to do if I ever made my social app, it's also a way of socializing that is especially useful for people who often socialize via 'projects', so work or other things that they are doing, and the people they are doing stuff with are their friends, separated on a project basis generally.
For what it's worth you can set the language and region in Duckduckgo and it stores it with a cookie.

I mostly use it when I do second language searches and it is like using search in that country.
I'll stick with the "strictly inferior" solution that doesn't swing in value or require wasting electricity and silicon. There is no such thing as a 100% private, 100% anonymous, 100% uncensorable system, either.
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Ask HN: Why is GCP not as used as AWS/Azure?
Is it because it is not developer friendly or doesn't have good devops support or they are just not aggresive in marketing?
>>> The web platform is well on its way to becoming the dominant platform for application distribution.

Errrr…. yes, “on its way”.
These are everyday simple people, not HN people. They're not thinking about spinning up a matrix server with tailscale while a bulldozer is ploughing through their home.

If the people go to twitter then twitter needs to consider their circumstances and accommodate.
> And when it comes to demands from publishers of PWAs, there is not much about access to hardware or clever new web APIs. The biggest demand was about notifications and making sure people stay in the app or keep coming back to it.

I think this is an interesting observation in the context of Apple adding PWA notification support to iOS. It's also the reason I won't be enabling any notifications from Safari once that feature goes live.
I have not responded without listening to what he said, I followed him for quite some time to see what exactly he had to say.

I do not like censoring by big tech as well, but when they take down outright lies which actually get viral and change people's opinions, I am no longer sure. Nuanced facts, data does not go viral. Tweets with controversial information do.

Serious side-effects, risk-benefit calculations, are very nuanced and take much more effort to bring up and share [1]. He presents a very one-sides story, every single day. That is not helpful.

He took very selective parts of news which aligns with his opinions and tweeted just that. Thanks to twitter's censoring, I can't even share those :facepalm: but you can look up archived data [2]. It is not even a single person, they have a pretty good group doing it every single day (Peter McCullough, I am sure you heard of him) [3] [4].

Also look at how viral this stuff gets [5].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749381

2. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mrna-technology-...

3. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pilot-vaccinefalse...

4. https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD/status/148679283709416244...

5. https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1486792837094162442
From an interesting post by Rabbi Shaul Valadez (actually responding to a question on patrilinearity in Judaism):

Judaism is not race based. Anyone can become a Jew if they choose to. Even in Abraham’s time The first and greatest student of Abraham was Eliezer of Damascus. He was a Cannanite and he was actually a Phonecian from Africa by ancestry. He is said to be so righteous that he, like Elijah The Prophet never died.

https://www.quora.com/Would-patrilineal-Jews-such-as-myself-...
Me neither, and that was not what I meant to say, but nevermind. I didn't communicate that very well.
Nope consumer ISPs typically block sending stuff on port 25 whatsoever, and even if you get past your ISP Gmail/Outlook will block you even if your setup is perfect (reverse DNS, DKIM, etc): that's due to monopolistic behavior that's completely disconnected from reasonable expectations of spam protection.
>He is a very boring PM

We could do with boring in the UK right now.
> I definitely wouldn’t say you can avoid needing maintenance pages just because you don’t have planned downtime to do migrations

For sure. I'm just making the point that to do continuous delivery you wouldn't necessarily need maintenance mode pages, which predate continuous delivery.
> why are the recommendations so bad

Without knowing anything about how it works internally I'd guess that the recommendations are not simply about what's best for the user but also what's best for Netflix (pushing Netflix originals).
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Async Rust vs. RTOS
Putting in place an infrastructure to test this kind on changes on the 5-10 most popular browser would be, I think, very cheap for a company like Google. I can't help thinking these may be deliberate moves to eat the little market shares of Chrome concurrents.
I remember reading here on HN an article written by an ex-Mozilla insider relating the dissonance between the "friendly" Mozilla-Google employees exchanges and the year-long track record of very oddly recurrent "unfortunate mistakes" from Google degrading the Firefox compatibility.
I agree that in general most want to integrate new languages with their existing code bases (rust-bindgen automatically generates C bindings, ABI tests, etc. using libclang to access C and C++ from Rust, and for each language there are tools to generate bindings and ABI tests for Rust code, e.g., the cpp crate generates C++ wrappers around Rust libraries).

The consultancy company developing c2rust specifically helps clients translate their apps to Rust. IIUC these clients want to move from C to a memory and thread safe language without loosing performance.

c2rust is the first step in that process. It mechanically translates C into "C-looking unsafe Rust".

The engineers then go and start migrating from unsafe Rust to safe Rust incrementally.

This is a long process, c2rust speeds up a small fraction of it, but most of the engineers time is spent into translating unsafe Rust into safe Rust, and then refactoring safe Rust into idiomatic Rust.
For years I haven't been excited by anything in the VR space. I tried them, even with the running apparatus and the slippery shoes, and it was fun. But that's it.

Nor the Leap, the Quest or the Hololens interest me very much. It doesn't bring much into my life, but promise to take a lot from it. Besides, the fact it's backed by companies with a not so good track record at respecting their users, and some of them, at making closed proprietary platforms, doesn't make me want to dive in.

But recently, 2 projects started to get me excited:

- the Tilt 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzr-IeyWj40

- the Simula: https://simulavr.com/

They are both trying to be very good at a very specific use case, which I think is a better way to approach the problem right now since we don't have VR solved. The vibes their creators give is also much more human, in an "internet from the 90" kind of way.

The Tilt 5 already works well, and people using it all report that it's the best VR experience they had to date. They also make it easy to port games from existing platforms, and actually talk to communities such as war-hammer 40k players and board game lovers, instead of staying in their ivory tower wrapped in secret to finally come down as our lord and savior. Plus I love board games.

The Simula is only a concept, and it may very well end up being vaporware like many kickstarter projects. But I want it to succeed so badly. First, it's just linux. No proprietary platform BS. It tells me it wants me to use my current apps, and works with FOSS and standards instead of trying to spoon feed me some expensive locked down metaverse crap. And I can really see the value of unlimited screen space and a full immersion work experience, especially since the device is optimized for text readability.
Prescient...!

Today:

"Dear Dgraph stakeholders:

As you may have read, the person who originally coded Dgraph is no longer with the company. Over the last few months it had become clear that this was inevitable. Only the final form it would take was unknown.

After resigning, he improperly used company confidential credentials to make an illegitimate post in the Announcements section of this site in which he made many statements, some accurate, some not. We are considering deleting that post to avoid misleading customers, but for transparency we will not do so for at least 7 more days to give you a chance to read or save it.

...
"

https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dgraphs-future/16751

archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220202112429/https://discuss.d...
I think the visual style of the language rubs off. There is for example

C-like: Curly brackets, small keyword count, etc ... This is a language for people who want to write fast code that gets things done, not a gram of weight too much. Hacker spirit.

Python-like: Indentation. A bit more keywords. This is a language that wants to be clear, beautiful, abstract, communicating to other readers. Academic spirit.

Cobol-like: A huge wall of text. Lots of Divisions and Organization. Bureaucratic, smells of meetings, punch cards and months of delay. Enterprise spirit.

Ada, unfortunately, looks cobol-like, so someone who knows nothing automatically assumes a ton of bureaucracy. Run away if you want work done.

Note this is purely cosmetic and has nothing to do with actual language quality.
That's the usual state of affairs.

Tax is keyed to your invoice date, not to when the customer pays. If you send a customer an invoice in December, it will often have a due date in January, but that money is taxable as income in the old year. It generally works smoothly because by the time you've filed your tax returns and the taxman wants you to pay for taxes for that December income, the customer has already paid you.

If the customer doesn't pay before the end of the year, you have an outstanding debt in your accounts. If the customer doesn't pay at all, you write it off and make a tax-deductible loss. In that case, you may have to pay income on that December invoice in April (even though you haven't received it) and the taxman pays it back in July or next April.

Note that if someone owes you money and that money is income for tax purposes, then it's also a debt that you can collect. The paperwork that makes it income is the same paperwork as what the courts require to force the debtor to pay.
Did that with the TV in my bedroom. Even the red stand-by led was impossibly bright. It turned out that the remote sensor was located behind the same glass :/
If you already simulate linux on linux why not transfer TCP over HTTPS over TCP using a tunnel server?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14080845/tunnel-any-kind...
Almost exactly 40km/h
Stuff like `dbConnectionString: process.env.DB_CONNECTION || 'localhost:27017'` is a good way to boot your app with the wrong environment variables and potentially cause security issues. I'd advise to make sure your app doesn't start or deploy if expected env vars aren't set.
Is Ferrocene going to be open source?
sounds like word salad to me, but hey, that's just me...
Twitter doesn't need to do anything.

It's a for profit private company, not an NGO.

It's not a water company, it doesn't have legally a duty to its clients.

It will do what is good for twitter.

I guess the lesson will be learned by paying a heavy price again and again until it sticks.
Because Google has a bad track record of supporting its ventures and a worse one in supporting developers.
There wasn't "ruling party". You had Trump as president, you had Democrats in firm control of the house, and Uniparty RINOs in charge of the Senate.

All three "worked together" to get their goals done, which for Congress, means ensuring kickbacks get paid.
YaCy [1] already exists, but I've never tried it. I've been wanting to set it up (locally at first, not participating in the decentralized network, unless I really like it) to crawl only sites I choose to add to the list – I was thinking perhaps just blogs and documentation that I like, along with anything I bookmark.

That being said, I think YaCy looks dated, the website has several typos, and I get the impression that not many people are still active in the network. I feel that a new project with similar technology in a "hotter" language (just for popularity's sake) could get a lot more traction.

[1] https://yacy.net/