skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see this paired with potrace.
California Ballot Prop. 12: Daylight Saving Time (1949 Special Election)
How I have avoided “JavaScript fatigue” (2016)
I just made it up just now. Based on years and years of being human, fwiw.
The fact that the laws of physics can be written as simple mathematical equations.
Ah. HN is special: they punish political discussions. It's unfortunate, even tragic in my opinion. They allow it sometimes if there's specifically a tech or science-related topic very very closely attached.

I avoid poking the moderator lions (I used to post political articles maybe a year or more ago), but I do wish HN would have another view of that particular topic. It's rather unavoidable that adults (and we are adults), highly-educated ones at that, would sometimes slip into politics when science or tech news (or legal news about tech or science) is discussed.

But yes, you're generally right about that.

I think emotive political discussion is useless, but rational policy discussions aren't useless.
Compiling Deep Learning Models to WebGL with TVM
> Not even Google

Social networking is just one entry in the long list of Google's failures, many of which were successfully executed by smaller companies:

* Chat. Google has tried like 4 or 5 different times to do chat and ultimately lost out to the likes of WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and others.

* Location/business Reviews. Despite having Maps, google still has yet to really come close to unseating Yelp in this arena.

* Wearables. Google Glass completely failed. Android Wear is well on its way to the grave. Fitbit, Apple and Samsung have all succeeded in wearables over Google.

* Augmented Reality. Remember Google Glass?

The list goes on. My point isn't that Google can't do anything right — that's obviously not true. What I'm saying is that Google trying something and failing isn't really a good argument against it being a viable idea.

Facebook's brand is ailing right now and I think there's growing concern about the way Facebook has been optimized to dominate the user's attention. There might be room for a social network that tries to be something much more minimal than what Facebook has become.
I'm a bit late here, but I am wondering if you've considered the possibility that your sinus headaches are actually migraines? The two are often confused because they present similarly, and it is believed amongst headache and migraine experts that most so-called sinus headaches are actually migraines. It would explain the MSG trigger, too.
Don’t be facetious—it’s clear that the other commenter is addressing your question of how the US could “outsource production” if not to China.

And of all the subjects on which we could argue about US exceptionalism, heavy pollution during industrialization is one of the hardest to defend; we need only open a history book.

EDIT; Also, it’s surprising that you are implying that all industry is equally pollution-causing. A quick search reveals many articles about how especially polluting industries were outsourced to other countries.
Fedora IoT Edition is go
Safe to say that "their" identity is still a secret in light of that careless opsec blunder.
> I wish that hour-long podcasts weren't an hour long.

Or at least that more podcasts were better edited. For example, John Gruber writes a blog, which he edits. Whether I agree with it or not, it's readable and terse. But he also does a podcast, which is him and some other person going on random tangents, pausing to cough or let out the cat, etc. I can't stand it.

I guess it's like the difference between talk radio and the nightly news: one is trying to fill airtime, the other is trying to squeeze into 22 minutes; one is meant to be background sound, the other is meant to be watched. I happen to prefer other kinds of background sound, but that's just me.
You can instruct the Secure Enclave to forget your passcode by rapidly pressing the power button 5 times. This inherently disables Face ID and Touch ID.

Just make sure you have Auto Call off in Settings > Emergency SOS, or it'll automatically dial 911.

Also, you can have a digit pin code longer than 6 digits by using a passphrase with only digits.
Well, no one really knows. But it's almost certainly more than a few hundred bits, which is the KC of GR and the Dirac equation.
This sounded interesting, do you have a link to this study? I was going to try to do this analysis for where I live, and after looking up median income for the area, I realized I wasn't sure what you meant by 'down payment and interest consume 100% of income.' Did you mean a 20% downpayment and interest on a loan would consume one year's worth of income... because that actually seems pretty cheap if a median income in my area was enough more than the 20% down payment for a median home in my area that it could also cover the interest for year...

Had you meant 3% + 1% PMI + 4% interest for an FHA consume 100% on median, because that definitely implies either high prices on houses or low median incomes.
This is a very fun library. Following the tip in these comments from @bcjordan to repeatedly re-render, I've forked a little physics notebook by Jim Bumgardner apply Rough.js to the circle rendering:

https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/tumble-wheel-with-r...

Wheee.

Edit: Too much fun. Here's another: https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/scratchy-eyes
I only suggested that because I seem to get an unusually bad caffeine crash with sodas despite having moderate content, compared to coffee. Maybe it's just me.
For what it's worth, rust's often introspective approach to documentation and community is one of its defining virtues in my opinion.

Growing up, I was constantly taught new things, without often being taught why. They "why" of things is just as important to me as the "how".

So thanks for all you've done and continue to do!
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Need an accountant to sort out a Delaware startup mess.
I think you misunderstood my comment: I was living in Beijing at the time (from 2007-2016) and was suffering from the pollution. So those promises and failures were more than just a pissing contest for me personally, it was a direct problem with my quality of life (to the point that my wife and I had arguments about staying/leaving). The baby finally forced us to leave, even 260 is way too high for a newborn's lungs, I hope that is obvious!

Many of my friends left similarly or were effected by the pollution in seriously adverse ways (one of my Chinese coworker's wife as particularly serverely negatively effected). Let's not debase their suffering just to play up China's achievements here. There were costs, and there will be continued costs until they can breathe fresh air reliably. Progress is great, but it came way too late for most of us!
That Code of Conduct feels more like it is about burying someone else's head in the sand:

> Have you considered, that they are either having a bad day, are a bad listener, or possibly, you are wrong?

Uh, yeah, great advice to have in the FAQ for what is supposedly your anti-harassment policy. -_-
Thats what you think I did? I said I was using some unnamed peer-to-peer software. I never told anyone else to mimic me. I did not even answer others who asked me to name the software. Interestingly, I never said I personally was using encryption nor did I explain how encryption might be implemented, yet you went right ahead and assumed you knew how this software worked and how I was using it, including something about "slapping some encryption on a tun/tap device".

I do not offer security advice nor do I tell people what to do or what not to do in web forums. That is what you do.

Do you hold any professional licenses? Ones that permit you to give advice? I am guessing you do not. How would someone hold you to account for receiving bad advice?

If you honestly think I am "offering security advice", then why not ask me, "You mentioned that you use some software that can (optionally) perform encryption. Are you offering security advice?"

The answer will always be "No." (I am not obsessed with security. The primary "threat model" for me is advertising and certain web developers who want to waste my time.)

I am not a "conventional" user. I do not choose software based on popularity or the opinions of others. Other HN readers are not going to follow me like some sort of pied piper, if that is what you are worried about. Especially since with a few exceptions (where I am using well-known software that is popular on HN) I am not even disclosing the "brand names" for what software I am using. Even if I did disclose, the majority of HN readers would not want to use what I am using. I make sacrafices they would not be willing to make.

It would be nice to be able to discuss software choices with other nonconventional users reading HN, but it is precisely because of commenters like yourself that unconventional users like me are better off keeping such things to themselves.

Keep up the good work.
"Initiative Provides for daylight saving time during portion of each year. Establishes Standard Pacific Time as standard time within State, but advances time one hour during period from last Sunday in April until last Sunday in September. Provides that time so specified shall apply to performance of legal rights and duties and in public schools and other public institutions. Repeals conflicting laws."

Note the difference in effective dates between then and now.

It passed with 56.4% voting "Yes". Photostat of original ballot booklet:

https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
How is the situation now different than it has been in the past?
Or, he isn't operating on a random chaotic approach.
> summer of 1990

some thread corrupted this date
The laws of thermodynamics only hold for closed (finite) systems. The observable universe is finite, but may not be closed (expansion from dark energy). The total universe may be infinite. In either case the laws of thermodynamics don't necessarily apply.
I'm not seeing it in this case, but the American exclusiveness is hardly a secret.

The government does not source critical tech to third-parties with international ties. Our soldiers only carry weapons made by American suppliers. Our police only drive American vehicles. Even government software needs to run on domestically-produced platforms (Xbox, generic PC).

It's not because we live in a Tom Clancy novel; we don't want to put ourselves in a position where services we depend on for safety or national security experience shortage or unavailability because of beefs with our suppliers. And we don't want Huawei or Lenovo backdooring things like routers and laptops that might be used in sensitive deployments.
That's a strange criticism. Once everything is online, there are verifiably fair ways to pick a winner at random.
One thing I could not find anywhere in the net - maybe someone here knows.

Does the Chinese government offer incentives for hybrids, EVs, and cleaner public transit? While it may not have a significant short-term effect, it should work in the long term.
I’ve never seen Codes of Conduct as attempting to prevent (no more than any other lists of prohibited activity actually prevent such activities), but more to be an automatic defense for the organizers when they have to kick someone out for misbehaving.
I find it telling that she felt it necessary to include the disclaimer "I am a queer woman". When discussing issues around Codes of Conduct I see all too often people leaning on personal attributes that give them social permission to critique them.
From the article

> The commission already allows winners to sign their tickets with the name of a trust instead of the individual’s name, the judge noted, in essence allowing winners to be anonymous. As a result, he said, the commission’s argument that there is a “strong public interest in disclosing the identity” of the winners “is simply not persuasive.”
> I believe that this person honestly cares about feminism and CoC, but that they are unable to be aware of how their own actions are going to far and come over as threatening. They do respect every aspect of a CoC, but refuse to be qualified with those "vague terms" as it is possible to interpret them in so many ways and are, of course, impossible to prove.

> How is a CoC helping me here, when CoC offer so many gray zones to play with, when the line between insecurity and harassment is so thin that it is almost impossible to distinguish one from another?

This is exactly the sort of thing a CoC should help with. Without explicit policy, you have no explicitly stated means of defense. With a CoC, you should be able to simply tell the people in charge of upholding it that this person's actions come across as threatening and harrassing.

I am not saying this will work everywhere. A CoC also only enables you to know what defenses you have, it does not create them. But I feel at least the spirit is in the right place, and I know of at least one community where IMO it works very well.
No, the parent was simply saying that “trolling” (or, having a bad opinion) doesn’t imply a character flaw, and that we shouldn’t use language that makes that implication, lest we start to think of people who have bad opinions as irredeemable. People can do wrong without being fundamentally bad, broken people.

If we treated, say, driving a car the way people treat Internet discourse, you would be dragged out of your car and stoned to death the first time you cut someone off.

Yes, sure, ignore posts that seem like trolling. Filter or block them, even. But perhaps you could give the people behind those posts a second chance, before writing them off for life for one post.
Exactly. I can learn syntax if it's going to pay me back for the effort - if it's going to enable me to avoid bugs, or to solve problems I couldn't, or to be more productive, or to get or keep a job.

Learning syntax that isn't going to pay me back? I don't have time for that.
My main interest is just that it seems like an interesting system—and it's cool that it can be put into correspondence with sounds.
> As a rule of thumb, 90% of the startups they bet on will fail outright, and simply burn through the investment.

I recently heard a VC say that this was true back in the 90s but not so much today — that they're looking for singles, doubles, and triples as much as they are for grand-slam home runs.
Not true. Moving your legal address to the US doesn't make it a US company. The headquarters is currently in Singapore.
"Now"?

Patriot act, et. al.
Virtue signaling has become a perjorative term: "In recent years, the term has become more commonly used as a pejorative characterization by commentators to criticize what they regard as empty, or superficial support of certain political views, and also used within groups to criticize their own members for valuing outward appearance over substantive action. ... Examples of behavior described as virtue signalling include changing Facebook profile pictures to support a cause, participation in the Ice Bucket Challenge, offering thoughts and prayers after a tragedy, celebrity speeches during award shows, politicians pandering to constituents on ideological issues."
You read this whole article and that's the thing you came away with?
UK seems to do both pretty competently.
It looks like you have to purchase a license to use it. The only price quoted on the page is $2999 -- a bit steep for some illustrations on a blog. Please explain.
Structure is an editing problem, but there are lots of people who listen to podcasts sped up, or with silences removed. Apps like Overcast will do this for you.

Some podcasts, like Hardcore History, are worth the 5 hour runtime and they're so rarely published it doesn't really matter.
Many Chinese cities offer a tax rebate for EVs, but only Chinese-made ones; the Tesla S doesn't qualify.

More importantly, they get a separate allocation in the "right to car" lottery in some cities (Beijing), or a reduced plate tax rate, or can even drive everyday instead of 2 out of 3 days.

Electric (battery, not overhead trolly-style) and natural gas buses are increasingly common, though I'm not aware what the current status is here. There was one that passed in front of our apartment building in Beijing.
Names which spring to mind (though bear in mind popularity is quite a relative term when it comes to jazz). And that I’m not super-up on the current jazz scene:

Wadada Leo Smith,
Vijay Iyer,
Branford Marsalis,
Dave Douglas,
Kamasi Washington

They all have varying degrees of popularity and avant-gardness. Also, it’s not really fair to compare any of them (or any other contemporary players) to Coltrane - that was a special time for jazz. Plus music has moved on — new genres, instruments, it’s new times.

Candidates for the new John Coltrane, Id argue, would be hip hop producers:

J Dilla, Madlib, Flying Lotus (who is actually related to Alice Coltrane), DJ Premier, Pete Rock, RZA, Q-Tip, are some of the most influential producers who have strong connections to jazz. By which I mean knowledge of, musical influence from, and also using samples of jazz (though arguably that’s the least relevant part) in their work.

You could make an argument for rappers, too (Rakim, Nas, etc), as hip hop is the inheritor of the jazz tradition, but it is trickier comparing rapping - oral poetry at heart - to instrumental music.

One reason, imho, jazz had that golden age was that it was during a time in NYC when there was a critical concentration of talent and opportunities for jazz musicians to make a living playing gigs there.
I found it helped me to slow down a bit, and to think about (focus on) the movement of the head of the pen/pencil.

If you're left-handed, you might try a left-handed pen. (No, really. There are such things. They are geometrically identical to normal pens, but they contain faster-drying ink.)
The need to digitize and preserve media is a problem libraries are well aware of. In addition to a real need to migrate floppies and CDs to newer media, there's also an urgent need to move substantially older and one-of-a-kind media (i.e., 8mm film reels, LPs; think rare interviews with celebrities and luminaries from the 30s and 40s).

For digital media in particular, the Internet Archive is pretty zealously ripping older media [1].

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/785zmx/jason-scot...

[edit] A few interesting examples of the sorts of problems that preservationists encounter in dealing with pre-digital formats can be seen here: https://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/program/05fall/physic...
Internet Inventor Warns "Regulate Tech Firms Now Or Risk A Weaponized Web"
Many problems with this post.

First, you're assuming that Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but it is very difficult to differentiate between 'please go away with your bullshit because it is distracting' agreement, and a 'here is some money so you don't talk' agreement. If you have special insight into this matter that has not been reported on, please do share it.

Second, you're saying he is 'completely devoid of ethics and morals' because he allegedly cheated on his wife when she was pregnant. Has no one with morals or ethics ever cheated on their wife? Do you lose your ethics and morals by cheating on your wife, or are they just never there?

Finally, let's assume this did happen. Do you know the relationship status of Donald and Melania? What if they both agreed to have a sexually open marriage before they got married? It wouldn't be too out of left field - Trump was a known playboy.
Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Yes. If you are wealthy (i.e. don’t depend on income) you can take big risks. 99% of the US couldn’t afford to spend $250k for a learning experience and a cute blog post.
I'm not a Reddit user but there are plenty of stories out there about how the corporate managers have permanently closed some offensive forums. To be clear, I'm not claiming that Reddit management did anything wrong; they're under no obligation to spend money spreading toxic content. But obviously they don't value non-censorship as a corporate value.
Same thing happens in Java - Integer objects are the same between -128 and 127.
Building a Serverless CMS Using AWS and Hugo
>I'm not sure what those two places have to do with China.

Who said they had? The comment is about how the US didn't just magically end pollution by better laws, filters and factories, but also by dropping factories.
Do you understand the difference between knowledge and critical thinking?
Every restaurant I have ever been to seems to have a sign saying "We reserve the right to refuse service." They also sometimes say "No shirt, no shoes, no service." That's about it.

Somehow, they don't seem to typically have big problems with people behaving badly while having lunch or whatever.
This is what blockchain technology would actually be perfect for.
Blockchain technology, period.
Uhhh, it seems like you are making a baseless extrapolation, would you like to try again?

Please explain how the observation "it doesn't go into the positives of a CoC", is equivalent to "forcing an event to adopt a CoC".
I have a hard time seeing how government would do a better job. When I didn't like my 4G coverage by T-Mobile I switched to AT&T, higher price but far better coverage. What recourse do you have against a government gone rogue except to wait 4 years? It sounds to me like you're describing a step backwards
> The downside to this body type is that the brain is always very active; it always has lots of calories to draw from. Makes for great programmers and problem solvers, but also leads to poor attention span and insomnia.

Interesting - that part about overactive brain, short attention span and insomnia matches ADHD very nicely.

In my case, since I began using stimulants to treat ADHD, my sugar cravings disappeared and weight stabilised. In the past I used to overeat, because it calmed me down.
Thank you for your response and I apologize for the delay in responding.

I think you're using an ineffective metric to argue against something you're against ethically.

Here's what I mean: saying it's benefit is immeasurable is arguing for better metrics. If it could be demonstrated that it did effectively end more terrorists lives and saved civilians, would you be celebrating it?
I think you'd still want us as a society to invest in a more humane way of handling it.

> What we can measure, however, is the civilian cost. Except of course it's nearly zero because those in charge of the drone strikes also get to define who can be considered a civilian.

Which, in my opinion makes it immeasurable, currently. It still sounds like your arguing for more data, not a better approach.

I think obviously drone strikes have a benefit to those who use them, otherwise they wouldnt keep using them out of some philosophical attachment to unmanned aircraft.

I do agree we need more and better metrics and data on both their efficacy and civilian cost, but for me, even better would be a solution that doesn't even need the killing.

But if you're asking for the military to abandon something in favor of a more ethical response, you should use a better argument and show how it will lead to less death overall. Otherwise, they'll dance around the semantics of what's being argued.
I haven't found any "enormous advantage money gives" when it comes to podcasts, and other such works.

Starting some regular business, yes, but writers, podcasters, and artists in general, have always come from all kinds of backgrounds, especially troubles ones.
OTOH the article says explicitly "Text clues in the code suggest it is English-speaking.", so I'm gonna go with non-Russian as a first guess. They also note "accurate attribution is always hard, if not impossible to determine, and increasingly prone to manipulation and error".