skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this a well-known cultural difference between British and... just about any other culture?

At least in French, litotes are meant to amplify the negative.

The classical example being in Le Cid, "Go, I don't hate you" from Chimène to Rodrigue (who just killed her father), meaning "I love you".

Other example can be found, "Not OK" meaning totally unacceptable, "Not bad" meaning excellent, or "Not stupid" meaning very clever. Of course, all litotes can be interpreted literally, and you often need context or tone to convey the meaning
ISBN vendor hacked and credit card numbers stolen
Oh, Kessel run!

I know they retconned it. Now they need to retcon the name so that it is really Kessl run, short for Kessler.
Soo, it's just poaching content from reddit?
The ISS Has a Supercomputer Never Mind the Fried Disks
I suppose it depends on the application. I wanted to be able to revoke a user's permissions and not have to wait until token expiration for them to be locked out.
British intelligence hacked Belgacom then sabotaged investigation
Of course it should not hinder the UX of copy pasting in the process. I probably hate that just as much as you.

> I almost never want to use a number as a phone number.

This is the 'what you want and what you need'. You don't want to copy and paste a number into a phone to dial them. You need to have a voice call with the person/company who's page you are visiting or email you are reading.

Google search solves this nicely in their mobile search. They don't show phone numbers or addresses primarely, but buttons to like Call, Navigate, Share and Website. That is what I need when I search a company on Google and essentially what I want.
Yeah outside of politics and journalism, Twitter is incredible. I think @jack focuses far too much on a crowd that will always be dramatic, negative, and and rife with trolls/attacks/disinformation/pandering, because its part of their job description to be so. This is further awkward because journalistic outfits see themselves as a shining beacon of everything good to a degree that is somewhat comical.

Economics twitter, finance twitter, bio twitter, art twitter, intellectual subgroup(s) and unaffiliated smartypants twitter are all amazing. I have met many people through twitter, been invited to private slacks, made real friends, and learned so much. I love the platform. Way more intellectual than any other social network.

I just 99% stay away from the political machine on there, and the "toxic rage" that everyone is clamouring about seems to pass me by.
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We’ve been here before with Japan in the 80s, and it led to an extended 2nd AI winter.

China’s efforts are much larger than Japan’s were, and they have a bigger housing bubble to go along with that to boot. It is interesting to see how history repeats itself.
Why Earth’s water could be older than Earth itself
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Another recent game 'Brigador', also has earned much praise for its lighting work, and as a game in general.
Except when they dont (image shamelessly stolen from et-al): https://imgur.com/a/hCo3V2X

Maybe they would appear if you zoomed in even further, but at that point the map would be pretty useless.
The fines are applied by the regulatory agency of the member state, so that depends on national jurisdiction, but it probably goes to the budget of that member state.
Buku v4.0 released – manage bookmarks like a text based mini-web
Code is just instructions, so ... yeah humans can totally be replaced with something more efficient & better... but what does 'better' really mean? is the output lower latency? higher concurrency? did it do something amazing with little resources?

I've only been in the industry 20yr, but I've met a wide range of people with different goals that drive many factors of many outcomes; as long as people are in the picture stuff is going to be inefficient from 1 pov, while at the same time human diversity can be a huge pool of talent/skill/creativity that a code generator can't have by design (it's solving for efficiency).

It would be a mistake to think things are never going to change. I think it's more reasonable to plan for change and try to keep a head of it by being relevant in a field that interests you, and has demand.
Meanwhile, CGP Grey gets $19k+ every time he posts a video (though that's become pretty rare!)

https://www.patreon.com/cgpgrey

(Edit: I should note that I'm sure that Patreon has the same sort of long tail that everything else does... unless one is doing something unique and notable and gets discovered, Patreon is likely to produce little revenue, just like other revenue sources)
I know what you mean. One of my previous projects was a homeschool tracking SaaS. Even at $5/month people were complaining about the price and I never got more than a dozen subscribers.

In the end I shut it down (while keeping an instance running on a home server for my own use) because it was barely breaking even and wasn't worth the headache.
Samsung will reportedly open its Bixby assistant to developers
Oops, I somehow repeatedly read it as "unlikely" :-/
What's wrong with working in finance in London? (I'm genuinely curious)
Yep, the wives of the HN userbase and their ongoing obsession with maintaining their beauty.

:eye roll:
> I'm doubtful of a government program being able to close those gaps in the 0.25 to 5 year old range and I'm doubtful that those early developmental deficits (especially around nourishment, sleep, and security) can be fully closed during the schooling years.

I do think thibk you can cure it immediately, but I think you can narrow the gap a bit each generation; it's a long term project that's doable because the outcomes of one generation are the starting conditions for the next.

And ideally it takes improved non-schooling intervention in the before school years. But if you don't intervene to do what you can in the school years now, you've got a worse starting point than you could have for the next generation.
It's not [what I'm looking for], but it's a great step forward, for sure. It should reduce/eliminate the buffer overflows/use-after-frees that could be used to kick off ROP, but AFAIK it doesn't eliminate the gadgets themselves.
Starlink network topology simulations and predictions
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That is awesome, the trope is one of the funniest, along with the super fast computer hacking trope!
Yes, I'm very excited about it!
Is this running-a-native-app scary or running-JS-in-a-browser scary?
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Humans are fantastic at ignoring noise and concentrating on whatever we want to focus on. While you're reading this very comment do you have any idea how much noise is in your field of vision that you're ignoring? Not just on this screen at the same time (literally megabytes of other bitmaps besides my words) but the rest of your field of vision. Really look around. This message contains 575 bytes of text embedded in gigabytes of moving video you're ignoring. (Just one example.)

But if the information isn't there, no amount being human can bring it out. You're stuck.
can we do carbon first?
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Nice project, conta! I just added it to awesome-humane-tech [0] in the Health section.

[0] https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech
Were their messages still there, or was the content deleted?
I understand now. My apologies for misunderstanding. Thank you for clarifying.
Definitely is an opportunity I hope that they pursue. Looking back at my first private messages on the platform like 10+ years ago is just full of cringe.
This is an interesting tangent imo, I’ve also noticed on goodreads a correlation between the quality of the review and usage gifs/memes. Almost always, thoughtful independent reviews are devoid of them, whereas the “my reading group picked this book I couldn’t finish it” reviews are full of them. Anecdotally what I’ve noticed, ymmv etc...
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These are great; thanks for the insight!
I know QEMU works, I wrote a small kernel using RISC-V and just want to see it on bare metal.
>>Who is leading the charge against facebook and google? Journalists and news companies.

Also privacy advocates and engineers, but why let that get in the way of a good spin eh?

"Why is twitter terrible today?" is a question that can only be answered by individuals, not systemically and objectively. You hate it because journos are trying to push their political agenda. I hate it because I feel it brings out my worst behavior. A 15 year old hates it because there's not enough dank memes anymore.

Social media's problem is people socializing. I really think it's that simple.
I sometimes wonder if weaponized self-replicating micro-drones are the great filter. It seems like such an obvious step to take in tech, and one that would probably consistently precede successful interstellar space travel. One wrong use of the tech and they’d run into a variation of grey goo extinction long before reaching another star.
Can you talk a bit about your password management bits? One of the other programs within our shop said they were going to use (or were doing a pilot) of password management with your kit.
We're assuming that evolution has a higher chance of creating biotech that will solve problems than biotech we will be able to produce in the future using computational methods? I doubt it.
But using curation by someone else in an attempt to solve the problem of overwhelming malaise in one's news feed just won't "scale" (sorry for using that valley buzzword). How much can any entity curate on a day-to-day basis? How does one decide what's actually worthy? Didn't we see this before in the early web when Yahoo thought it could categorize everything? Can we trust _anybody_ (other than ourselves) to white-list what we see?

Dan does it on a daily basis right here on HN. It's his job, and he's ruthlessly effective at it.

You'd be surprised how much something can scale when you put someone smart and motivated in charge of scaling it. http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
For those that don't know, Jim Weirich was a well known software engineer in the Ruby community. He passed away in 2014.

(Hopefully this will prevent the downvotes)
It looks like you are either misguided or are doing something wrong.

This is not how React or Angular (or Express) works. Only the stuff that is required per-route (or whatever state) is "rendered" server-side. The rest is chunked away and retrieved when needed. From my experience, express rendered react apps never take longer than php / whatever rendered sites, given the data dependencies are retrieved from the same source (api, db e.g.).
I never buy "Basic Economy" anymore. The new Premium Economy classes (the ones with extra legroom) being offered by most airlines these days are pretty reasonably priced and SO worth the extra money.

Even when my employer is sending me somewhere (and they only pay for basic economy - they don't care if I arrive at my destination exhausted, sore, and angry at the world), I'll purchase the upgrade myself.
The uploader can't do anything short of paying money to keep the images up. They could move them, but that is still link rot.

I would help with archiving stuff, but I don't have the resources unfortunately. All I can do is not delete my downloads folder, so incase the a site goes down, I still have a copy of the stuff I downloaded earlier, which is better than nothing, I hope.
I believe "remove vocal" algorithms already implemented rely mostly on the pitch and tonal spectrum of the voice.

For your example, what would be done when vocals sync up with rhythm instruments (straight 1/8's or 1/4 notes played on guitar, sung as well). Happens all the time, often only a bar at a time, but sometimes longer. e.g. The Strokes - Last Nite (https://youtu.be/TOypSnKFHrE?t=62) @1:03 "they don't under-stand" (repeated) could trick the detection into thinking it's some sort of rhythm instrument.

My point is, all music is extremely rhythmic and requires everything else in the band to be rhythmic as well.
The second satellite was about to reenter and so didn’t produce orbital debris.
Actually, we have abandoned property laws.
> MySQL is not a competitor to Postgres when one cares about real SQL support.

Which almost no one does, at least not as the sole decision factor. Even while being recognized as better on that dimension, Postgres was far behind MySQL for a number of reasons and caught up because of much stronger contribution from downstream users.
Personally i'm more scared of the already existing American bombing kill-droids.

I forgot the HN golden rule, never say anything negative about the USA however true it is.
I took similar trips around that time and it was a terrific way to see the country. There are so many towns that are a few kilometers off the highway that you would never see, even in passing. Bus depots also tended to be downtown, which offered an opportunity to briefly explore the unique parts of Canadian cities during transfers or refueling stops. The passengers on the bus were also a lot more sociable, particularly in Northern Ontario.

When I planned to book a similar trip a decade later, I found that airlines were not only cheaper but Greyhound was more expensive (even after factoring in traveling to one airport and from the other). I was sad, but moved on.

A few years after that, I was planning a true cross country trip, only to discover that it was impossible since Quebec and the Atlantic provinces were served by other companies (which drives up the cost considerably). Again, sadness.

There is something else that this article neglects to mention: Greyhound also provided courier services. I wonder how this is going to impact towns where they were the only alternative to Canada Post.
I can't believe I didn't know that until now! I've personally used file: only to test local copies of static files/sites, and haven't had a need beyond that.

I wonder how the browser distinguishes between a file residing on a host addressable at 10.1.1.10, and the local path /10.1.1.10/files/example.xlsx. Maybe it tries one and then the other if the first doesn't work.
LowRISC 0.6 was just released which finally has support for RV64GC so you can run Fedora & Debian (ie. real distros!) on it. We're discussing on the mailing list how/when to get the kernel and driver changes upstreamed: https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/pipermail/lowrisc-dev-list... https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/pipermail/lowrisc-dev-list...

The upshot of this is you can run lowRISC 0.6 on something like the Nexys 4 DDR (other FPGAs are available) and have a real Linux distro running on an FPGA, rather slowly and with limited RAM. They even managed to make the ethernet port work using an entirely free stack (though you still unfortunately need Vivado for a while to compile it) and it's a step towards having an ASIC that is completely freely licensed. So it's still baby-steps but I'm glad the lowRISC project came back to life.
I use Bulma (discussed at the end) for all my projects. It's very easy and quick to get started with, but I found myself diverging from this style when I was starting to add new CSS of my own, to get the pages to look exactly how I wanted them.

And due to the lack of tooling, it's hard to refactor CSS (removing duplicate code, etc.) so I'm not sure how scalable it is to adhere to what the OP says for a long time.
That game got a very interesting review in Japanese which I was compelled to translate:

https://gamedaisukinahito.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-954.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dja-bHqU0AEYJYe.jpg:large
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Maybe the point was lost in discussion but the original post was not about absolute, hard numbers at all - it was about people being accepting of violence. About violence being so ingrained that everyday folks such as what you may bump into in the streets may casually resort to it to solve problems.

Germany's homicide rate (per 100,000 people) is approximately 1. Turkey's is 4. If you lived in a city with population 100,000, would the extra three homicides be so impactful that the remaining 99,996 people would shift their whole attitudes so that they'd be careful not to bump people in the street? What I'm arguing is: no, they wouldn't. I'm not arguing anything else, so please don't shift this away from the original point.
Humanity's always had a problem with it's trash.

Something I suppose we assume "space people" can deal with.

My suggestion: a space catapult (using a spring, not a weight).
Now I’m just imagining baybal2 running a huge dairy farm where none of the cows get milked so they won’t go dry :)
Style your site with "only" 291KiB of CSS (24KiB compressed)?
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Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354066 .
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The first thing I notice browsing the homepage is that these "not depressing news" are often feel-good stories that can be uplifting but also aren't very intellectually stimulating, e.g.:

>Thanks to ‘Super Mom’ Saving Her Husband’s Life, He Opens His Eyes in Time to See His Son’s Birth

That's super nice to hear but it barely qualifies as "news" as far as I'm concerned.

Meanwhile those that seem more interesting are not that uplifting to me, for instance:

>Donations Pour Into Northwest Iowa Library After Man Burns LGBTQ Books

So that means that somebody burned LGBTQ books in the first place? That's pretty messed up.

>A Christian woman who was sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy has won her appeal and been acquitted in a landmark ruling.

Somebody was sentenced to death for blasphemy at some point in this day and age? That's not uplifting at all.

I guess I'm a glass half-empty kind of guy.

I do sympathize with the intent here, it's true that actual news can be very depressing. My personal "not depressing news" involves reading about sciences, in particular astronomy. Questioning the way our world functions, contemplating the scale of the universe (both in space and in time) is really soothing to me.
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Grey also has other revenue streams- Ad revenue from YouTube, YouTube Red, podcast sponsorships, a merch store and some sort of office job related to media consulting. He's not all-in on Patreon.
AKA, you end up with one of the most desirable living locations in the world and people are willing to pay a fortune to live there.
I agree, not sure what all the fuss is about. The internet is filled with sites of nothing but links to other sites...

The big revolution was web 2.0, where interactivity was enabled and encouraged. That's the reason I go to specific sites, the content is what you make yourself these days, not what gets posted to you...
I wouldn't generally consider Android embedded besides a few use cases as a mobile/handheld device. In my view, tt's a wonderful platform to develop for and that's what every manufacturer should be striving for, or die.

Of course there is a difference in capacity between a 8 bit MCU and a Xilinx SoC, they may not be able to cover everything the same, but that doesn't explain why neither have a working example to use an interrupt handler with a push button.
Whereas AvE has been so successful on Patreon that he just bought a 5 axis CNC Mill[1]. He does let you watch the videos a week early if you're a Patron though.

Another YouTuber in the same kind of section, This Old Tony, announced he'd start a Patreon a week or so ago, and is already over 1000 Patrons[2]. He is offering no benefit other than supporting the videos he was already making.

These are just the 2 more recent ones that come to mind, but there are a lot of YouTubers making a living from Patreon without sacrificing what the 'non-paying' viewers get.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4c4BqhhJW4

[2] https://www.patreon.com/thisoldtony
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It puzzles me why these Atomic CSS based systems use various mnemonic systems instead of plain English which is much more understandable. I'm not a fan of human-powered text compression.