skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If disaster comes, you will find that all the myths you once cherished are of no use to you.

This spring I visited Notre Dame in Paris. I saw four soldiers patroling the street, spread out a few meters apart from each other, one finger close to the triger, barrel pointing to the ground. Reminded me of a patrol in a vietnam movie.

A similar scene I saw last year in Italy altough the soldiers were much more relaxed.

In Bern, Switzerland the Christmas market was protected by huge concrete blocks wrapped in gift paper.

This may be all security theatre. Or the times are really changing.

I found "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" a good read (the lessons, not the comment). I depends on us simple citizens to carry and defend civilization and avoid disaster.
Are new “minimalist” cell phones really an alternative to smartphones?
That is correct. Another, minor problem for a library lover like me is that libraries have been falling all over themselves to get rid of books.
Show HN: Prod – Blocks addictive websites until you've finished your to-do list
> as long as you don't break the UX contracts (i.e. browser history is left unchanged and page state under modal is remembered) does it matter how you achieve the modal-like behaviour?

I feel like the hazard here is that many developers don't know, care about, or care about knowing, the full extent of the UX contract, and as a result implement something that's only halfway there.

My go-to example of this is one of the Java UI toolkit of old, which reimplemented all controls but tried to make them look as if they were native. The end result was a set of controls that kind-of looked like native ones, except they didn't support appropriate context menus and less-known keyboard shortcuts.
If you look up at all of these new luxury apartment skyscrapers they put up in downtown Seattle, they're mostly empty. They're lowering rents, offering free rent for a few months, Amazon gift cards, Amazon Echos, etc. They're noticeably having a hard time filling luxury apartments. If you want luxury and peace & quiet, one would head over to Bellevue and not Seattle. More are going up right now too.

I doubt many people want to rent a 2br downtown for $5000/mo that probably isn't going to get proper maintenance because the corporate landlord companies around here that own these truly do not give a s#%t except for money and don't care if you move out after a year so they can raise rent on the new tenant, tons of rules & regulations that make it feel like it's not really your place to live, extraordinarily expensive parking, and living among thousands of homeless people destroying the streets and doing hard drugs right outside their door. They even built one or two new skyscrapers that are right near Seattle's infamous '3rd & Pine' hellhole.

Housing that isn't luxury is unprofitable, so it's not built in or around Seattle unless federal HUD steps in for tax breaks/rent control. There is no interest in King County to build housing for lower income/lower middle class.
It does, but not really periodically - the radio is just listening and not transmitting until a packet comes. Then it wakes up the application processor to handle it.
Calva: Clojure and ClojureScript support for VS Code
How can you be so naive as to state that a dictatorship is a "strong" government?
Having one man and his clique at the helm is extreme weakness. Any strength the government may have at any time is wholly incidental, not structural or systemic like what a well-functioning democracy of the people for the people produces.
In many way the current state of governance in China is worse than what an established hereditary monarchy would provide.
Any way this all will be tested soon enough.
In my experience the frustrating part about YouTube is when the crowd wants content that you're not interested in making.

For instance, I've made a few videos about building clusters from Raspberry Pi's, which I did just for kicks and to have something to play around with. They get more attention than my (imo more interesting) videos about programming or various other electronics topics, to the point that it dwarfs my other views.

So I have to choose between disappointing the majority of my subscribers or making content that I don't actually enjoy or stand by just for the views.

PS: I also learned very quickly that the YouTube comments section is chaotic and is not a recommended place for someone looking for thoughtful critique on their material.
I grew up in rural England and now live in Canada. While there are relatively remote areas of the UK, Canada really takes it to another level. British Columbia for example is 4 times the size of the UK but has about 1/14th the population, more than half of which is in the Greater Vancouver area which represents a tiny fraction of a percent of the total land area of the province. Even the highlands of Scotland are dense hubs of human activity compared to much of BC.
Of course this "harvesting" needs to be explicitly approved by the user.
I worked with a major news network on a UI prototype/hack which effectively destroyed and remounted the entire DOM after load.... and they put it into production as-is.
I work in adtech and know all the top publishers. There are 2 reasons:

1) Business. Nobody pays for news so they need to generate income from ads.

2) Bad tech (talent, infrastructure, resources, etc) on both publisher and ad vendors which creates horrible bloated pages.

That's it. Anything else is so secondary as to be insignificant. Take a look at private subscriber only sites and you'll notice how fast and pleasant they are to use, because they don't have the poorly implemented heavy cruft added to the page.
Spreading hatred for groups of people via labels and encouraging their treatment as sub-human is popular rhetoric among nationalist extremists and political conspiracy theorists, but to satisfy the final condition (to be subjected in practice to a significant amount of suppression based on deceitful rhetoric), I think an easy argument could be made to put immigrants in that category, and maybe also homosexuals/trans people. You have to be mindful of that last condition though, since if you dropped it, nearly any group of people, sadly, would qualify as being subjected to such behavior.
I'm the author and I am completely serious. The part you mention is to foreshadow my arguing that Trump should pull the trigger.
Throwaway SIMs are unavailable and foreign throwaway ones do not work in Turkey.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen: BiOS update adds S3 suspend support for Linux
That's one weird operator. It treats polynomials as vectors, but includes the powers of x? I could understand treating polynomials as vectors of coefficients, but to treat them as vectors of mononomials is just plain weird.

Ignoring the question of why on earth you'd want to do something like this it would be far more natural to point out a matrix can be considered a vector of linear operators by writing it as a tensor product of basis vectors and co-vectors (so a column-vector of row-vectors basically), where for a matrix M with rows r_i we have:

(M x)_i = r_i * x = r_i(x)

and then take the smallest logical step to make it nonlinear which would be:

(M x)_i = f_i(x)

for general functions f_i. Of course this is just the definition of a multivariate function, so perhaps it would be more interesting to look at some intermediate version where f_i is some linear combination of functions f_ij such that:

(M x)_i = Sum_j f_ij(x_j)

again analogous to how matrices work.
Women have vastly more scholarship opportunities than men. The number of programs pushing women into STEM vastly outnumbers those doing the same for men. Every department openly pushes for equality. Women outnumber men in University, in high school graduation, and in college graduation.
If the factor keeping the stem disparity in place is implicit bias, it is one of the strongest social forces ever to exist
Most text rendering systems can do this quite well automatically.
Do you know about Gopher ?

It is quite refreshing, if a little unintuitive.

See here: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html
Last library I went into was shortly after a local school had released the students for the day. It was full of kids excitedly looking around and checking out books and just generally seeming to enjoy themselves. It was awesome.
I saw this headline earlier. My immediate thought was that this doesn’t necessarily mean that companies understand the importance of developers. It’s just that developers are currently more scarce than capital. Which isn’t saying much, because companies have been able to get loans with low interest for many years now, thanks to our central banks.
> ad free

So are you suggesting all news agencies switch to subscription models with paywalls?
I remembered seeing something along these lines a while ago, didn't realise it was as far back as 2012 though: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/sv6kw/which_is_...

I guess it's something that many people rediscover on a semi-regular basis.
Finally Lenovo gave in and we don't need the community hack (https://github.com/fiji-flo/x1carbon2018s3) anymore!

Thanks for all the support and contributions to this project.
How to parent more predictably
Improving URL Security with Identicons
Get Rich or Die Vlogging: The Sad Economics of Internet Fame (2015)
Pausing work on Mentat
Forgetting is a double edged sword, but one needed for us to live in the present. Living in the future or the past is what really opens up for hatred and fear. Unless something acts as a reminder how bad it really was, it will become fairy tales eventually.. "it couldn't have been that bad right?". But it shouldn't hinder us for trying to make it better in the future.

Edit: It's up to us all to prove the author wrong, it makes me sad when I talk to people that try really hard to wrap everything in lies to make themselves feel better. Maybe the starting point that dooms is when parents/states tries to smooth over horrible events.
Ask HN: What your scrum/agile style looks like? How would you improve it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16560406
It’s nit picking, but I think a more correct statement would be “lots of small performance mistakes add up over time”. It’s very rare that I see a project needing a new language for performance reasons, but I see projects that need refactoring for performance all the time.
this informative and well-researched article seems badly damaged by the opening two paragraphs ! Thoughtful rebuttal not needed -- just really ill-advised in the opening there.. still enjoying the rest of the post.
Commons Clause Stops Open Source Abuse
The pendulums have been done. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/pendu...
https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-secrets-most-psycho...
> People are losing their jobs, their careers, their ability to express their views, and their ability to practice their religious beliefs - all for the "greater good".

> ... to achieve some utopian state. This is the biggest lie.

This is happening on a daily basis on youtube's platform

Edit: LOL, your comment just got exposed as insincere argument, hurts doesn't it?
^ This.

I worked at one of the large TV/news companies in Canada, and the analytics and ad code was literally 80% of the code of our sites.

Turning them off took a 10 second load time down to 1 second. Not even kidding. These websites are mostly adtech code from 30 different sources.
Url changed from http://thesoundingline.com/hong-kongs-ultra-rich-population-..., which points to this.
Wait wouldn't that mean expecting them to profile and essentially engage in redlining /from the upper supply chain/ instead of the patients and subscribers?

Assuming that it is 'easy' to tell who is abusing drugs in itself sounds like a way to do a lot of harm.
If I'm interested in a candidate, I decide whether or not to interview based on LinkedIn or AngelList. When I got resumes, my next step was to Google the candidates and read profiles.

In fact, I haven't looked at a PDF/Word resume in many years.
There is an open standard - it's called Web Push (https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/). It's already used by Firefox and Chrome to implement push notifications for web pages (via service workers). The notifications are proxied via Mozilla/Google server respectively, but there is no reason you could not run your own server.
Del Maguey makes a lot more than Vida, and if you get a chance (GP), look for a bar that has a flight of Del Maguey, you'll be surprised at the diversity.
Everything you said might be right, I don't know. I think though that your facts are just as political as the facts the western countries use to justify market-based deregulation.

I've spent some time near Washington politics. It gave me the opionion that our system is purposefully designed to create gridlock in order to tie up political energies. Political energies that would have otherwise been used to create rapid change. I think the entire point is to create a relatively stable climate for business investment.

So that's the exact opposite philosophy as how you described the Chinese system. Central planning and proactive decisions made by a few vs. market driven and reactive desisions made by many.

I'm not even sure if it's possible to determine which system is better or what the exact best middle ground would be. It may have complexity beyond our scientific tools' ability to study.
Yep, that's how we architected Graphistry, and then some. GPUs frontend for rendering, GPUs backend for layout, analytics, etc.

Also agreed on subsets. About 1-10M nodes can still work in the frontend (and we're pushing upper end of that). But around 100K-1M nodes, more about seamless & interactive abstractions... and reinforces why integration w/ smart backend matters.
Your body is part of a global network of human beings, where social status and hormones are like, actual things that feed off each other. Here’s some research along those lines:

joeytcheng.com
Sci-fi meets fashion with the 'A. Human' body mod exhibit at Fashion Week
Saliva could influence taste preferences
Similar concept but with Gherkin syntax: https://github.com/hidroh/cucumber-api
He's letting the GOP, which controls congress, mostly get what they want, so it wouldn't make any sense to cut him off. In addition his popularity among their base is still quite high, so again, why cut him off.

(Nothing in the above statement above should be taken to imply that I oppose or support any member of the legislative or executive branches.)
I dedicated a blog post to this idea: https://vorba.ch/2018/url-security-identicons.html

Here is the discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947467
Software Citation Today and Tomorrow
As a general rule, when you pay the danegeld (in this case, accept that the state is allowed to give some people monopoly over knowledge), you can't get rid of the Danes.
The State of Window System Integration (WSI) in Vulkan for Retro Emulators
Where can I find Viaweb interface screenshots?
After reading most of Paul Graham's essay, I'm really curious on how ViaWeb looked. what was the interface like?
It seems super-advanced for the pre-2000 internet. And I'm dead curious to see the UX/UI.
I mean, all those companies buying back stock could just re-issue it if they need more capital. Creating developers is a significantly slower process.
Sure, here's the website: https://www.wccls.org/

I'm not sure what backend they use for data storage, etc.
> If the factor keeping the stem disparity in place is implicit bias, it is one of the strongest social forces ever to exist

Gender? Yea. Gender may very well be the most powerful, persistent, and ancient of social forces.
same issue, of course, for star gazing, where you need dark areas away from artificial light.
I have my Pi-hole set up to filter chumboxes. My feelings towards those companies verge on unadulterated hatred and anger. If I ever meet an employee of one of those companies in real life, I'm honestly afraid of what I might do.
Developers are a limited resource, at least for short enough time scales, while capital isn’t. Especially with interest and taxes so low.
I use dagre and dagre-d3 already, which do the job very well.

https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre-d3
When the IRA was still conducting bombing attacks in London in the 1990's, there were armed soldiers near every government building and landmark. This doesn't seem materially different from then, just omnipresent due to having to defend against the last successful attacks in Europe. Having bollards or the equivalent just seems like good preventative measures after the last few attacks on pedestrians with vehicles - it would be negligent not to do that.
I do use it on a consistent basis, after my MacBook had keyboard issues in May. I forced myself to create an entire web app on it over the course of 1 month to see how it felt.

Surprisingly, it was quite a pleasure to work with. There are certainly small little quirks that takes some getting used to and some keyboard short cuts that aren’t present from my Mac setup. Nonetheless, WSL is good enough that I would happily recommend it to colleagues.
Chrome 69 Removing WWW and M Subdomains from the Browser's Address Bar
Yes, of course, it's all back of the envelope. Assume the future numbers are in net present value. Or assign some non-zero value to the 45% probability that they "fail" in the sense of losing value, since it presumably wouldn't be a 100% write off even then.
This is true; I was recently asked for advise on how feasible it was to use this system for preventing certain problematic content from being made public; specific examples named were CP and terrorist propaganda. The goal here was obviously not to prevent these things from being on the internet, but just that we could proclaim our country was not spreading any bad content.

The focus was very much on preventing things to go public in the first place, taking things down after they went online was not good enough.
Why though? Micro is a much better editor if you have to use a terminal and VSCode is much much better if you don't.

Seems odd to teach old needlessly difficult software just because you had to learn it.
> I think, people must be vaccinated against radicalism, again and again, by experiencing the outcomes for themselves.

but then they'll have autism.

seriously though - our grandfathers' tragedies are just political fodder at this point and that's extremely sad. the proud nationalists think that their nations somehow won the war, when in truth they just lost a bit less than nazi germany. in case of Poland, turns out that being on the victorious side didn't really matter much, except perhaps that the goverment can now say that we won the war and thus now we, the grandchildren, deserve more than them, their grandchildren.
Most of the time when business executives talk about “lack of available talent”, they usually mean “lack of talent at the price I’m willing to pay”.

Everyone’s a free market enthusiast until the market says they have to pay more, it turns out.
"I also learned very quickly that the YouTube comments section is chaotic and is not a recommended place for someone looking for thoughtful critique on their material."

YouTube's comments are some of the absolute worst I've seen on the web. It's interesting that YouTube has made no effective efforts to improve their quality.

You'd think the site as a whole could benefit tremendously from quality comments, but apparently that is not a priority.
Break another CTF by taking over its machine
Show HN: ActiveMQ/Openwire appender for Logback. Log with reliability guarantees
> Some of the labeling heard today
What do you have in mind, in particular?

They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

From the man who is now the president of the country with the world’s largest economy and military. I’m sorry if this bothers people because it’s political, but it’s a fair answer to the weak question asked.
I'm doing dynamic web apps on a different stack but dabbled with doing web apps in Lisp and found the tradeoffs to be quite similar.

Pro: rapid prototyping and development, excellent debugging capabilities (both for your web app and network requests... can be extended to browser-side with effort), your app can have capabilities that are difficult to implement with static languages/frameworks

Con: small user community which results in limited selection of frameworks all having their own quirks/limitations, when things break you're often on your own, in dynamic languages performance often won't scale as easily or as far vertically (the recommended approach is often to be sure your design can scale horizontally)
I've been happily using vis-menu which is a fork of slmenu which is a terminal version of dmenu:
http://martanne.github.io/vis/man/vis-menu.1.html

vis-menu is distributed with vis:
https://github.com/martanne/vis

This project seems fine as well; though the examples seemed a bit complicated to me. I guess I'll need to rtfm.
There are many ways of watching TV; a lot of people I know want to have something, not necessarily a particular thing, running "in the background", as they do their chores. TV would be absolutely fine for this use if not for the ads.

Also, free on-line services "show" a lot of ads, but everyone I know deals with it using ad blockers.
> or a photo alleging that Donald Trump wore a Ku Klux Klan uniform in the 1990s (leave it up but reduce distribution of it, and inform users it’s a fake).

If they’re so concerned about misinformation, why would they leave a fake photo up, even with a disclaimer? Nah, I must be reading too much into this, surely this is a policy they apply evenly, and they’d do the same with a similarly fake photo of Obama.
To be fair I wouldn't want that either - especially depending on the state. The state positions are far too subject to demagoguery for the sake of career advancement. An appointed and tenured agency like the FDA is at least better in that respect that they are more likely to act based upon actual problems with some degree of caution and attention to evidence instead of stirring up panics for the sake of advancement. Unlike literally every 'tough on crime' politician and the abhorrent historical trends. Precisely the reason why they are appointed instead of elected officials.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
Most of the big players maintain their own datacenters. That said, if you're looking for what the "big boys" do (outside of the top few tech companies), most of them use Amazon S3: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ (NOTE: I'm not in any way affiliated with Amazon).

S3 is one of the oldest and most popular storage services because:

- It's very fast and can be fronted by Cloudfront, a very large/popular/inexpensive CDN (this is what Netflix uses)
- It's inexpensive and gets cheaper with volume
- You can choose to use the default redundancy (which is very cost effective) or reduced redundancy which makes it far less expensive
- You can archive infrequently used data from S3 to Glacier for a fraction of the cost
- It has a ton of features and can be embedded into just about every language/framework in minutes
- It's been around forever and has incredible support
Because if not, you end up in a situation where only wealthy people can have kids -> ergo, population control.
If the goal of a society if not to provide security, then what exactly is it?
Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?
Flowa Service Level Control Flow for Node.js (Async, Sync, Promise, or Callback)