skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Do you have any example of an optimization of generic/cross-platform vector code, such that it would run better on SSE2 or SSSE3?

One example might be reducing the number of live registers to avoid spilling, but you can already do that in your portable code, without necessarily requiring a separate codepath for the low-spec machines.
By "thinks", do you mean "knows"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
I vaccinated and got boosted once.

Been in giant festivals, meetups etc. Still haven't caught it. I can't tell if my luck just hasn't run out, or if I had an asymptomatic case.

Lot's of friends who hadn't had it yet have gotten it recently, so I am very confused.
Well, the compiler attempts to evaluate bar(), and if it cannot, you get a compile error
Right. It was a response to a previous protest.

But it gets far more clicks today than weeks ago.
> I assume this is about Foxconn. Does that mean you'll be boycotting other companies that also work with them, like Amazon, Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Vizio, Acer, Lenovo, Nintendo, and Sony?

It would be easier to just ban them with legislation, similar to what's been done with Huawei
You've always been able to change AirDrop to contacts only. This "feature" just makes it harder to send AirDrops to people who want to receive them.
In my experience, this is patently not true. I remember having a work dinner at a conference and I pulled out my phone to show someone something in our app. I opened it and ... a button simply didn't exist. I remember getting angry that I couldn't figure out how to use our app. The lead designer, watching this entire reaction said, "Huh, 40% of our user testing showed that removing that button gets exactly that reaction." We got a good laugh about it then (and he was serious, 40% of users got rage-level angry). But in retrospect, 40% of millions of people is a shit ton of people. I wonder how many heart attacks were caused by removing that button...

I digress. Listening to users is usually a fool's errand, however, listening to the right users is a gold mine. If you've done the whole "who is my customer" profile thingy, you know what they look like. So, actually seek out the real versions in your user database. Get to know them, take them out to dinner. Get to know their problems and how you can solve them. Those people will take you places.
This seems like so obvious an observation that I don’t get why advertisers haven’t made it. If I’m in work-mode, and you show me an ad related to a hobby of mine, I have a 0% chance of clicking it. If you show me an ad related to my work, it is probably more like .01%. Which is still an infinite-times improvement.
> I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics.

It is easy to criticize an organizations' behavior.

It is easy to criticize someone else's ethics.

What are your ethics? What would you do if you were in Tim Cook's position?

Why? I'd like to see how you perceive the options available.

As for me, the following is an open question: can organizations have something analogous to a conscience? How does it work?
User and business priorities are aligned during the growth phase, when user acquisition is the most important thing for the business. Once there is a self-sustaining level of user activity and new signups, revenue per engagement becomes an increasingly important metric. At that point the user's priorities and those of the business are no longer aligned, and the company starts asking more of its users.

A third phase occurs when phase two is successful enough that competitors lose traction. If you can achieve a monopolistic position in your market, then you can stop asking for attention and money, and start demanding it. Pay up or else you don't get to stream music. Sit through more and longer ads with increasingly insipid UX and privacy issues, or else you don't get to stream videos.

My view is that the Internet is in a consolidation phase where a smaller number of companies are getting a larger share of traffic, resulting in monopolistic dynamics.
As experience has shown, bounds checking is needed in the release builds, because those array overflows are only discovered by hackers in the released software.

D compilers allow that to be turned off, but it's only appropriate when:

1. evaluating how much the checking costs in runtime performance

2. doing competitive benchmarking

Otherwise, it should always be on.
The difference is purely cosmetic: version could have been stuffed into URL as /api/2022-11-28 and nothing would change.
Thanks for understanding.

And fwiw I agree that no one should try and suppress using the symbol in the old ways.

Context is important (putting it on a billboard in queens would obviously have a much higher chance of being misinterpreted) but cooler heads will prevail.

But in this context [not accusing you, just giving context for why I’m commenting at all] it’s just alarming when encountering a world view where people auto jump to jews are centrally organizing to try to control ~thing~. I understand it's very hard to quell this habit once it starts.
no.

vaxed with all boosters, work from home, don't go out much, regular testing and all negative and no symptoms. When I did go out, I'd mask and distance. Now, easing up on that but still avoiding crowded areas and places. I have asthma so I've been as reasonably cautious as possible.
We could also just eat grassfed beef instead of feeding animals soy.
What it feels like and the story the data tell are two different things. The data is unambiguous, the richer the country, the higher the per-capita meat consumption. Meat consumption in the world is rising rapidly.
True, some Founders just won't succeed at that, for lack of profile or mindset or experience.
But ultimately, especially in VC-backed startups, everything starts and stops with the Founders at least until Series B. Handling well hardships is part of the role, and contributes to the making of the most successful Founders.
Now, Founders don't have to do this on their own and can get help. Especially for bigger companies. Knowing how to acknowledge your own limitations, reach for help and delegate is a core CEO attribute. I have seen over and over again Founders doing that very successfullY.
If this is true the post should probably be deleted or the title corrected to reflect the truth
3 years ago some team was probing reopening search in China and when more employees found out about it they leaked and protested the project, shutting it down. Hardly seems like a point against Google.

> China represents a huge potential market for Google that their investors won't let leadership forget about.

China represents a huge potential market that Google investors have already given up on because no one is expecting that market to reopen to Google any time soon
Microsoft? Is this satire?
Origin of the hydrogen doesn't matter to the plane, so it's rather a stretch to call it first.
Autonomous Trucking Startup Embark Has Gone from $5B+ to Basically Worthless
Mozilla stopped developing FFOS, yes, but https://capyloon.org/ is still here.
Oh you can pay them if you like - thats one option. I was thinking more like AltStore which doesn't cost anything.
Not that I'm aware of for neither my wife nor I. I've been working from home and I always mask up when I leave the house, my wife worked in the patient facing part of the medical field (including long duration close contact with paatients), but she always masked up and neither of us have had symptoms matching COVID. Outside of the usual allergies I've been remarkably healthy.
Never, as far as I know. All the vaccines and lots of masking, even still. But I can only attribute it to luck, since I've traveled quite a bit and even had some known exposures at different times, like at the gym. But I also work mainly remote and avoided public areas almost entirely, pre-vaccine and during the peaks of some waves. I worked out in a mask for months- awful.
the argument in the NYT piece[0] is that the US is not doing enough to protect pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists[1] compared to other rich nations. (obviously because they have less cars than the US, so the article just points out that "cars first" costs a lot of lives)

> If we are going after dangerous evils there are better areas to attack.

Absolutely, but ... I'm not saying "it's all connected" and all of it is due to suburban sprawl, but ... it's a common factor.

If people were not driving, drinking, vaping, fentanyling in their little isolation cubes (ah, I mean cars, or houses with perfectly useless backyards, or tents), they might die less. Low population density does nasty things to communities. NIMBYs keep density low, commute times high, etc.

[0] https://archive.ph/sEmh5

[1] usually "bigger car wins"
I am not a large BTC holder (haha), but I would be happy that it collapses (if it is really not backed) and Bitcoin can move forward. I am really happy that Celsius, FTX, Luna etc are cleaned up and hope people will take a lesson and stick with basics.
The perception of "Free Software" is that it's a lot of extra work, which most people don't want to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

I don't know many engineers who actually like how Apple locks down their platform—it's just to them the perceived trade-off of "Apple's polish" vs "configuring free OSS software" isn't worth it.

If we're being realistic, most people I encounter want Apple to loosen their grip a bit so they can run software without Apple's permission or paying their 30% App Store tax.
Ask HN: WebRTC self-hosted file sharing
I am looking for the Software that could run as a daemon on a Raspberry Pi-like single board computer to share files to everyone I want using WebRTC.

The idea is to generate a secret link on Raspberry Pi, then everyone could download a file or directory over Web App and WebRTC using this link.

Is there something already in the Open-Source Software world? Does it make sense to work on project like this?
Autovectorization basically doesn't work. The effort to test it properly (that it got vectorized the way you expect or at all) is more maintenance than writing it yourself.

If you insist on abstractions, autoscalarization (the opposite approach) would be better, which is kind of how Fortran works… but I unironically recommend just writing assembly like ffmpeg does.
75% of my non-techie relatives who have retired from office jobs in the past 15 years - from workplaces where using MS Windows, Office, etc., etc. was required every working hour - have downsized to having only a iPad and iPhone. And they're completely happy that they did so.

They mostly just want a web browser and e-mail. They buy ~zero non-free apps. And they want the "freedom" you're selling about as much as they want the "authenticity" of living off the land in rural Alaska.
Vaccinated, no booster, caught it and gave it to my friends who were vaccinated + boosted. All 4 of us were sick for a week and a half and tested positive.
My point was that this article is misleading. It criticizes US road design as unsafe and backs this up with misleading per-capita data. If you compared US road fatalities to Somalia on a per-capita basis, I bet they'd kick our asses, too! Not because they have safer roads, but because per-capita data introduces all sorts of extraneous variables (car ownership, miles driven, etc) that make it useless as a measure of road safety.

The fact of the matter is that American roads twice as safe as European roads on a per-mile basis--which is the only meaningful way to measure road safety.

So... why write an article about how unsafe American roads are relative to European roads when they are twice as safe?
Facebook did more than just hoard user data; They performed research to actively change user behaviour.

It is said that if you don't pay, you aren't the customer, but the product. Perhaps YOU never were the product either, but your mind and actions are?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/facebook-ma...
I only had it once. Have been out and about since the beginning of the year.
My understanding is that Cinemas often have what essentially are individual teleprompter reflection screens that you can use, and have CC projected onto them. It's an old feature, thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act, and I don't know how well the feature or a replacement survived the digital transition, but legally speaking there is probably an equivalent.
Interesting take on Decentralizing Moderation and Curation by Nader Al-Naji. Founder of decentralized social media (DeSo) & Basis.
> I've had Apple Watches since the original one and reliability has always been excellent.

I've had numerous activity tracking apps crash on me randomly, I think because they have been running out of memory on my Apple Watch 3. Strava was one of them. I stopped using it for this purpose after I lost a few tracks.
Switch:

- Has a nearly unusable store front where discovery is basically impossible

- Requires you to pay for online matchmaking, while having a worse online user experience than the Xbox360

- Has remarkably fragile joysticks prone to drifting after any decent amount of play

- Has no capability of streaming from my pc

- Doesn't support modding

I would love to live in a world where Nintendo had a modern digital presence, but we just aren't there.

That said, your points aren't wrong. The switch is definitely more ergonomic so if I know a game is on there and I don't care to mod it then that's where I go.
Text is still a big challenge, I don't think I've seen any that have properly rendered the text you want. I wonder if handwritten text would be easier or harder since there's more variation.
That seems to not be true. I just made the mistake of not noticing a Hacker News post was to Twitter a few minutes ago, clicked on it, and couldn't even read the Tweet because it was covered by a modal telling me to turn on notifications, which I'd never seen before. What can Twitter even notify me of if I don't have an account? Everything that is ever Tweeted globally? That would probably be billions of notifications a day.
I don’t know. I got Pfizer four times but never been tested. But I also haven’t been sick.
This is false info, that account was suspended for doxing people, contacting employers of people on Twitter and getting them fired by mass calling the businesses.
This is one of those 'can't win' situations because no matter how I respond you will find something to pick apart and keep decrying your victory. Good day.
A friendly introduction to the Friendship Paradox (2021)
I can still see the Iran flag in all of its unaltered glory here in the US. I guess they missed the memo?
When the CCP says “take that option off phones in China”, you do. Because if you don’t those hundreds of millions of devices they produce for you every year may stop being produced. Or find a new $500/each tariff on them. Or some other company killing thing.

Apple should have hedged years ago, now they’re stuck.
What do you think that Apple says that is BS that Google doesn't also say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmADoGiWZo
You're totally right. We originally built a backend service with a catalog to curate widget.json as part of a paid service. We couldn't work out the economics (and it felt a little weird charging when we didn't make the content itself), so we released it as a more open, DIY-friendly thing. On https://wd.gt, we've got a few examples of static widgets, but they wouldn't be very useful to subscribe to. I'd like to build a few that are worthwhile (e.g. NASA image of the day).

Great idea on the editor too. We were pursuing a web-based widget.json editor that had a live preview and didn't require you to necessarily type in json, instead it would have a little wizard or even drag and drop elements to lay them out.
Similar for me (except I had vaccines for covid and flu). Even have been in prolonged contact (in one household) with people that had covid.

I used to be sick with flu almost every year before (but I did not had vaccine against flu before).
I have, to my knowledge, never had it. Nor has anyone in my family. I reached out to the team studying superdodgers [1], but never heard back.

It'd be useful if getting the kind of blood test that tells you if you EVER had COVID19 was not pay-out-of-pocket.

Fully vaccinated. If I had to self-rate my own mask habits, I'd give myself a B-.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/07/1121599...
As much as I love serenity, I think the parent is talking about a mobile OS.
It would require Apple engineer for the use case, and opens them to legal risk in our society.

So the freedom angle to them is they don’t have to schedule the meetings and be compelled to speak the questions and answers to output what you want, or open themselves to repercussions of a hack in a stack that would never be there if they’d not built it.

Because computers are also real resources they’re making devices for a broader audience than computer hackers. The hobbyist hardware scene has a questionable set of ethics given the long term impact of meeting hobbyist demands to consume whatever number of widgets they want, but that’s another thread.

If you’re arguing for an open boot loader, I’m here for it, but you’re going to need to change law to force it; they can freely stick to their choices. Posting grievances such as yours; we’re not oblivious as you seem to believe but HN is not a forum of real influence, preaching to the choir is not influencing anyone that needs to be influenced.

But iOS is a result of workers speaking free of coercion. If the output is not up to your expectations… I dunno what to say except other people don’t have to put you first, you know? Freedom equals tribalism. It’s a demand of freedom to allow tribalism not one size fits all literalism. deal with it gif
Is there any way to tell, after having had a vaccination?

I got unusually sick in February of 2020; felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Went to the hospital, and there were so many people there with the same symptoms we were a line past the ER and down the hallway. No one was thinking covid at the time. I remember the nurse checking me in asking if I'd had the flu shot (I had), then shrugging and guessing it must not be that effective that year. Was sent home after receiving fluids.

That being said, I never lost my sense of smell, nor did I have the brain fog, covid toes, any of the other supposed tells. Did take a solid month to feel fully human again in terms of energy levels, though.

Haven't been sick since, that I am aware of.
Epson ditches lasers and goes all in on inkjet
> The cases where you do deserialization -> very little processing -> serialization are pretty rare.

Actually I've seen a lot of systems that do that - query a datastore, do some minimal processing of the results, feed them back to the caller. Although that tends to get addressed at a higher level, e.g. MongoDB drivers shifting towards using BSON.
And one of the problems in California is how much water almonds use.
We've only made the iOS widget viewer since that's what we both have, but from what I know about Android widgets, it seems possible to build one there too. The widget.json schema is intended to be platform-agnostic.
My family and I have been supremely careful Mar 2020. I read a lot of the research and preprints and am concerned about long term system impacts of repeat infections. Despite huge numbers of precautions, we all finally caught it about ten days ago. Still positive, still coughing, still tired.

We can lower risk, but it seems that no level of caution is truly enough, given that others don't care. I'm really not sure what to do – we don't want to keep getting it, but we really want some sense of social life back. My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously. I suspect it will come down to small communities, rather than states or countries.
How would the IRS do anything? I'm sure these businesses are paying their taxes on the ill-gotten proceeds.
> mega companies don't actually profit from selling your data

Does anyone on HN actually believe big tech companies are selling data as opposed to using it to target ads? I thought we were over that long ago.
I’m in!

> Scaling Knowledge

> about epistemology, AI, start-ups, and progress.

IMO the first step before any clear discourse about knowledge, is to clarify our knowledge about what this [discourse about knowledge] is about.

The twisted phraseology is just to show it "meta" nature. I could as easily use "clarify".

So, could you please clarify what "Scaling Knowledge” is? (Maybe using the above 4 words)
Have school-aged children, so have had COVID. It was, however, after my third vaccine dose (two + first booster). So symptoms were less bad than flu, but slightly worse than the common cold.

I know people who haven't had it, but they also don't have children.
I know airdrop was pretty big in U.S. protests in summer 2020, and reportedly in Hong Kong as well.

Obviously not very helpful for pre-planning an event, but good to change plans in the moment.
> to think of it as a skill "you are doing" instead of a mutual process that advances only at the shared pace you are getting into manipulation.

A mutual process needs some coordinated actions from both sides. If I'm unable to play my part, then there will be no mutual process. I believe I understand what you are trying to say, but it is the next stage of education on "how to make friends". When you have skill to make friends, then you can think of how to apply it mutually. If you have no such skill, then all your argument about manipulation just doesn't apply.

> If you want something else, you gotta let others know somehow!

There is a question of how to do it. I do not know, for example. Have no idea. Several times different people tried to make friends with me, I tried to be open for it, and it didn't work out.
Some TVs now come with modes that attempt to do this.
The fact that Apple has threatened to withhold it at all is answer enough. But feel free to live life with your head in the sand
> Old-world food was a hell of a lot more boring before the Columbian exchange.

Turnips. It was mostly wheat, barley, and rice with a side of turnips. Not the modern turnip that’s been through 20th century breeding for some semblance of flavor, mind, but an “heirloom” variety that is even more boring than turnips are now. The only flavor worth mentioning was in the leafy parts.
On day 6 of my first time.
So you DO search for answers to mainframe questions on s**overflow?
... for 10 minutes
To your knowledge, you have just used a fallacy called "Argument from authority", a popular demagogue technique.

Just because someone wrote in length that white is black, white does not become black. Likewise, intolerance does not become tolerance.

You do not tolerate something => you are not tolerant.

You oppose free speech only for really horrible people => you oppose free speech.

It's really binary, and wherever Popper wrote, it does not change this simple truth. But, of course, you can hypocritically pretend that it does.
"The IBM Z Xplore Learning Platform (formerly called Master the Mainframe) is a fun way to get hands-on experience across a variety of technologies, to develop valuable skills, and to earn digital badges – with no prior knowledge required!"

I've had this bookmarked for years, never gotten around to starting it, though. Web development continues to entertain, challenge, and sustain me.
Thanks for sharing this! I hadn't heard of it before.
I was pretty sure BlockFi was a scam after seeing their ads on YouTube offering 8% interest accounts. How could they possibly offer that much higher of an interest rate than everyone else? Turns out, they could not.
Unprofitable companies suddenly realizing at the last possible moment that they need to be profitable or they’re done.
How about a mainly analog Toyota EV with no bells and whistles? I absolutely do not want a giant touchscreen interface.
Plenty of people who got the covid were taking similar precautions. It's pretty infectious!