skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am mediocre with emacs (thought I never understood vim at all), but maybe I’ll give it a try.

Never heard of pandocs but it looks like a useful tool for this. Thanks.
Show HN: Meteorite – Smarter GitHub notifications
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It was an example to show how a country with a chance of landing even 1 nuclear missle successfully is on equal military footing with a country that can land hundreds assuming the stronger country does not see losing any of their cities as an acceptable risk.
A little about this project - I always wished GitHub notifications were treated like first class citizens. I wanted to know why I'm getting a notification and how important it is to me. Each day at work, I get a lot of notifications and sometimes its hard to figure out which ones I should focus on first.

For example, imagine I had two notifications: one was for somebody commenting on an issue I opened, and the other was from somebody @mention'ing me on a PR that my review is requested on which has 50 comments and is also a week old. It'd be great to know the difference so I can address the more important things first.

So basically I made a simple web-app that does all this — shows you all the notifications that are relevant to you, tells you why you're getting them, and scores them based on importance so the more urgent notifications can float to the top. It's all open sourced so anyone can pick it apart, make suggestions, or help improve it — I hope other people find this as useful as I do.
I’ve always loved how Google’s own performance profiler marks you down for Analytics/Doubleclick caching.
A quick edit might be something shallow like changing a config setting, editing a template, or maybe fixing a bug where you have the stack trace and it's a one-line change. You can find the file to edit based on a search, make a quick patch, run tests, and send it for review by someone who understands the project better. Deep understanding is not required.
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Thanks for the (second) Pandoc recommendation. This is a sign.
Two observations I find interesting:

1. Order matters. In the the-slice solution, it is much better to be Charlie. This is because there is a chance you will get more than your expected share if value of the cake, because you start out with a guaranteed 1/3 value (from your perspective) plus a chance of extra if Bob trims.

This seems to break the "no envy" clause in a very human way: it is true that no player is envious of the other person's choice (that is, no one wants to swap), but Alice and Bob may be envious of Charlie's increased happiness, feeling it unfair.

(It sounds like this may have changed in the new algorithm, with the sending away of dominant players. But I believe it then may be better to be A or B.)

2. Along similar lines, none of the algorithms concern themselves with maximizing total happiness.

Point 2 can be seen even in the two-player version: Say a cake is half chocolate and half vanilla. Suppose A adores vanilla and assigns zero value to chocolate, while B can't even tell the difference between them. If A cuts first, she will need to divide it in half across the two flavors to make two "equal" slices of chocolate-and-vanilla ("equal" in her eyes). B choose at random and gets half a cake's worth of happiness, while A gets a quarter of a cake's worth, leading to an inefficiency of a quarter cake.

If B cut first (presumably in half at random, since he doesn't distinguish between the flavors), there is a good chance A's happiness will increase, although there's very little chance it will come out perfect.
The defaults should be the best contrast/readbility.
Polygraph testing has nothing to do with the scientific legitimacy of the actual instrument used. It's just an interrogation technique. Using it effectively is all about the skill of the person administering the test, and their ability to judge the person being tested. It is just one part of building a profile of whether you think someone is lying or not.

The purpose of the test is to put someone through a highly stressful situation and see how they react to questioning. It's about determining whether they've been coached, and how familiar they are with details of the case, not determining a definitive "yes/no" response to specific questions. Polygraph questions can be passed with 100% accuracy by someone with extensive training, so it's entirely about building a gut feeling in the person administering the test as to whether you are lying or not.
It it were aliens, they are probably making contact with the cephalopod population under the sea to see if they have developed technology yet, and in this planets case they've found another monkey hominid infestation in one of those rare millennia before its civilizations manage to collectively off themselves.
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I agree, it’s painful, but the new AdWords UI is still far ahead of the old one.
where I can't tell whether pressing return inserts a newline or sends the message.

Do you have any examples of messaging apps where return/enter inserts a newline? I can't think of a single one where it doesn't send the message, probably because inserting a newline is an uncommon case but sending is not. It's been that way since the days of IRC, from what I remember.
The point is more about even countries with a minimal nuclear arsenal being in relatively equal military footing as the countries with large arsenals because no country seems willing to risk losing one of their major cities to nuclear attack. So, threatening 100 cities is about the same as threatening 1 - no one will attack you.
Thanks for this comment. I recently self-published for the first time and went the Gumroad route. No regrets so far. But I got advice from all over the map, from "you need an ISBN and more" to "don't ever publish on Amazon, they drive the more ethical businesses out of the market." It's a maze for first-timers.
As opposed to the US,
Glyphosate is an herbicide.

But food for consumption isn’t certified alone, the whole farm production system is.

And farms that have recently used glyphosate on a given plot of land generally cannot be certified organic in the USA.

Are you claiming to be a certified organic farmer in the US who has used glyphosate on cropland before planting, been honest with your certifier, and then had your crop successfully certified?
Actually, the US only thought that there wasn't MAD. As mentioned in the documentary "The Fog of War", only decades later did the US discover that there were already nuclear missiles with warheads in Cuba when they began the blockade. And Castro was willing to use them!

That made the situation even more dangerous than they realized at the time. The US would not have come out intact. It's very lucky for everyone that the Soviets decided not to escalate the situation.

Of course, I suppose MAD isn't MAD if there isn't also mutual knowledge of mutually assured destruction. It's something even worse when both sides think they have the advantage.
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Same on multiple domains, I think their site is broken
Had that same feeling years ago. Went out to a dark place to see the stars. Ended up seeing a light jumping around on the horizon. Then there was a bright white flash that lit up the whole field and forest, but not like lightning. No shadows, no source of light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no thunder. It wasn't lightning.

Pretty scared, I kept watching the jumping light on the horizon. A few minutes later the white flash again. I ran back to my car.

I had the same ridiculous thoughts as you. "what if they know I saw?"

It freaked me out for a long time. The way the light was moving.... Too fast to see the movement even, it was here, then there. I watched it bounce around for at least a full half hour, it wasn't a satellite or a meteor.
> doesn’t matter what nation you call your own, because emigration is easier than ever

Are there any fiscal consequences to that, at all? For example, I often read about the advantage of socialized medicare in Canada versus the US, is this difference a figment of people's imagination? Is that a tribalist belief, or acknowledgement of physical & fiscal reality?

> Yes, by disillusioning yourself that any of those things matter. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what god you pray to, because prayer is personal; doesn’t matter what nation you call your own, because emigration is easier than ever; and doesn’t matter what colour your skin is, because it doesn’t define you.

Are you saying it doesn't, or it shouldn't? Because from what I see on the news and read in psychological studies, it seems like there are significant numbers of people, some of whom are scientists, who don't share this interpretation of reality.

> Obviously all that is easier said than done, but really if you stop letting any kind of tribal attachment define you as a person, life becomes a lot simpler.

Is this a fact or a theory? And I don't mean that flippantly or offensively, I think it's a perfectly valid question considering the current political climate.
As someone who's been paid in the past to write shellcode, stuff like that paid my bills.
That bug is stuck on not breaking exactly this kind of behavior. They cite Dropbox in that thread (though I haven't read the followups yet), who has www.dropboxlocalhost.com resolving to 127.0.0.1. It sounds like Spotify does something similar.
Isn't the most likely explanation for these sightings secret military aircraft testing/missions?

There's been a number of credible UFO sightings lately, some even by military pilots and captured on video.

If you consider how long it's been since there's been a major breakthrough publicized in the air superiority department, and how advanced technology in general has become since the days of the SR-71, we're long overdue for some next-level aircraft likely to be kept under wraps until required to win a conflict.
China hasn't invaded a country in 50 years and hasn't put an offensive military anywhere in decades. They very much keep to themselves as far as large economies go.

Find the amount of yellow peril in this thread amusing. I guess no one really worries about the numerous invasions by US/UK/Allies
I'm on AWS. Same issue.
> Strange that Apple would be shipping such an ancient grep.

Maybe they ceded this part of the OS to Homebrew? I know I never try to update anything stock in the OS. It's so much easier/faster to `brew install xxxxxx` than mess with the OS which might get overwritten with an official update anyway.
Misjudging distance seems to be a very frequent suspect in tales of the unexplained. "The light moved at an extraordinary speed" - it moved at an ordinary speed, close to you. Likewise "through the distant moors it stalked - a panther!" - a pet cat.
Why all these sightings are never accompanied with sonic booms? If something is moving that fast through the atmosphere, there must be a sonic boom. Or is there any way to suppress this? At least theoretically?
Ask HN: How do you find a freelancer to produce a landing page video?
This could also be: What's the latest in freelancer platforms that people like? However, anything specific to video creation and editing would be better, I suppose.
The 3 years/10^18 figures I used were taken from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2821.pdf :

"Using the largest allowed value for the photon mass from
other experiments, we find a lower limit of about 3 yr on
the photon rest-frame lifetime. For photons in the visible
spectrum, this corresponds to a lifetime around 10^18 yrs."

Which does work under the assumption that photons have a non-zero rest mass, and as such, could decay. I probably should have phrased my post better - this is hardly settled science, and the majority of physicists would almost certainly say that photons, with our current accepted theories, do not have rest mass. SR is pretty explicit on this :). But we can't say for sure that photons have zero rest mass - experiments have allowed us to set an upper bound on the rest mass, but not allow us to deterministically say they have zero rest mass. In such a case that photons do have rest mass, we would need to stop saying "The speed of light", and instead say "The speed of a (rest) massless particle", though this might be worth doing in general - gluons (and gravitons, if they exist) should be similarly massless.
would be interesting to know the relative trajectory – would help determine if it was a known satellite reentry or on a typical orbit of debris (lots of periodic comets have well known debris trails, they form most of the "meteor showers" that happen yearly.)
But portability has nothing to do with whether the library is standardized. One could port any API, whether from the standard or a simpleton like me, and port it in pure C and OS calls to any environment. One could even port a better API to wrap the stdlib calls, to add support for at least what the standard offers.
Thanks! Do you know who "Bean Spirit" is? I was going to guess 豆神 but not sure since spirit can be a lot of words.
The Trident weapons system is in need of renewal.
The parent comment was edited and a bunch of numbers changed, but actually not enough to invalidate my comment; the numbers would still only apply to very particular subgroups.

Edit: Also no need to be a jerk about “reading comprehension” even if the comment hadn’t been edited to mismatch my reply. That’s the first rule in the HN guidelines.
Thank you for posting that, it sounds like an element of my own long held thesis that I've been mulling over for a few years (I'm a communist of sorts working mentally on the issue of transition from capitalist structures). Any other authors/works along this line that you know of - namely moving away from capitalist structure by reacquisition of ownership for workers and/or the demos?
It was a different era, one in which computers were a lot slower, source control was a lot more primitive, a lot of basic stuff was still being invented, but … yeah, I feel a lot better about my own productivity now!
Looks like that was added later.
Sounds like socialism to me.
at least two common things fall into this bucket

1. Reflections and other visual phenomenon
2. Space debris burning up on reentry (natural or unnatural)
> China's privileges to do things like this get revoked

By revoking China's privileges, you reinventing the Great Firewall. Or at least part of how it works, by "revoking routing privilege of selected IP ranges."

You know what, that's the narrative of China's wall building proposal in the place. To end USA's "Internet supremacy" and to advocate "Internet sovereignty".
Uh, so... I don't have precise enough times to do this, but my first question is, "Is this an Iridium Flare event?" If you have never seen "Iridium Flares", grab your phone and download an Iridium Flare app. They're confusing, spectacular, and they actually happen pretty often.

Because this sounds an awful lot like an iridium flare. And they're a kind of persistent source of "inexplicable aircraft" reports because they're SO bright you assume they have to be close by.
Gitlab.com as well, earlier.

17 195.219.156.146 (195.219.156.146) 152.490 ms 152.423 ms *

18 * * mskn17ra-lo1.transtelecom.net (217.150.55.21) 198.658 ms

19 * * Google-gw.transtelecom.net (217.150.44.9) 192.230 ms

20 * * 108.170.250.111 (108.170.250.111) 172.086 ms
As you say we both provide no evidence, but I suppose my claim aligns better with HN user's anecdotal evidence

It's true I could be wrong, it might be something really unintuitive and for some reason people want hardware switches and I've just literally never heard it until now.

But in my experience 99% don't even know about, let alone care about advanced features. Even simple features you and I take for granted. They want to launch Instagram. That's about it.
Nice post! I am an Indie Publisher as well and you hit on quite a few things I ran into as well. I went Gumroad right from the get-go and was very happy with my experience. I later added KDP into the mix as well with a Kindle/Printed version of the book, it hasn't done great but it is added credentials in a job interview :)
> A sort of Ludditism could do.

Is it necessary? Is primary Nationalism, but with a willingness to trade and cooperate internationally in a mutually beneficial manner, inherently worse than enthusiastic globalism with no regard for the well-being of one's own individual country? I hear most everyone talking this talk on the world stage, but I don't see a lot of people walking the walk (for example, everyone seems to bargain quite strongly in a self-beneficial way in trade talks, even though that is apparently considered immoral).
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The same thing could be said for many costly (in terms of either time or money) journeys: hiking the AT, biking across the world, to name two. In these cases, others have made these voyages thousands of times before, but that doesn't stop people from making these trips.

By the way, I think you're misreading the piece---I don't get the impression that these men are making these trips for vanity.
NASA-engineer Paul R. Hill has written about "UFO-illumination":

http://orbwatch.com/paulrhill.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Hill
The large failure of your argument is that those competitors are not more actually more efficient. This is why large companies are harmful even before they reach the distinction of monopoly; although as an aside I see people here making arguments that monopolies cannot exist.

Uber for example is not more efficient than RideAustin, the local non-profit ridesharing alternative. What they do have however, is a large amount of funding behind them which allows them to artificially lower the true cost and choke out competitors. Once they've bled the competition dry, they can raise the prices again and benefit from full control over various parts of a market.

This is the same tactic that Walmart has used in order to destroy many local towns by severely undercutting local businesses into oblivion. We should consider this to be an objectively bad thing, considering if said sole company ends up leaving the area due to profitability reasons they leave the residents with nothing [1].

This is how the 'free market' works in practice. The largest companies with the most money don't actually compete on the same level as local companies and it would be naive to think that small bookstores vanishing is solely due to inefficiency.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/09/what-happene...
In case anyone is wondering, GCC and other compilers catch non-volatile locals clobbering when you compile with -Wextra.
> “Loading..." (in yellow at the top, after clicking a search result. Indefinitely.)

I dig google and its products but oh wow is this bug frustrating. Hope it’s fixed soon.
US Air Traffic Controller here. We have what we call "phraseology". The FAA Order 7110.65 prescribes how to say what we say.

It makes for safe and efficient transmissions. If there's a set way of saying something, then pilots don't have to guess what we mean if every controller says it in a different way.
$125 for ISBN seems like a ripoff to me - the ISBN are given for free where I come from: the Czech Republic; and the system is administered by the National Library
Sorry, replying very late, but I do read Japanese and you can go very small and still read it. There’s enough context and humans are incredibly good at seeing patterns and filling in details.

Early computer fonts, for example, couldn’t fit nearly all the strokes and could be read just fine.
I mean, maybe. I freely admit I have no evidence other than the anecdotal.

It's just generally been my experience that the vast majority of users don't care about privacy issues or "freedom" the way techies do.
Hamas is bombing Israel, not the Syrian Army.

Hamas chose Saudi Arabia's and Qatar's side on the Syrian conflict and that lead to Assad breaking relations with them.

Syria took it as a betrayal so I doubt they would do anything to help Hamas.

Israel is not bombing Syria to defend itself. Syria never had and nor will have the capability to do anything to Israel.

The reason Israel have been bombing Syria is the same reason Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, USA, UK, France, Australia and the rest of the coalition are doing it too: regime change.

They want to replace Assad with a puppet, like Hariri in Lebanon, so they can all push their own agendas in the region.

And on the other side Russia, Iran and Hezbollah jumped in Assad's rescue to counter that move.

They are ALL pushing their own interests at the expense of Syrian lives so please drop this outrageous "defending itself" narrative and admit all actors of both sides are war criminals with blood on their hands.
Wouldn't that just be anti-globalist?
Popular ideas in UFO circles are that there was a crash, the govs have the tech, and the craft we usually see are replication vehicles attempting to test out what we gathered from the real one that crashed years ago.
Building C# 8.0
Tried to run it on my site and got "Error: 403 from Lighthouse API: Forbidden"
Flint crisis is over.
>>>but everything works until such time as it doesn’t.

Including these fabled "cloud services" that everyone believes have no down time..... yet I get alerts monthly from these various services about unplanned outages of this service or that service for the various "cloud" products my company uses...

Services from major companies like Microsoft who has all kinds of issues with their Office 365 Product, and in addition to the endless Windows 10 and office Activation server issues...

While it looks good on the marketing brochure to have "good quality third party provider who has a team that is paid to actively maintain and secure the product," reality is often very very different.

I prefer the control, and responsibility. Others prefer to loose control and have the ability to "blame the vendor".
Paymo looks amazing, and the price point is crazy low. I can't believe I haven't heard of this before.

You don't use the time-tracking capabilities for software development though, do you? While I could see myself loving to use the tool on my own, being on a team that's required to account for every minute of time (assisted by friendly tracking software no less!) sounds horrible.
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Saw a similar light when I was a child, my brothers saw it too. But this one was right above our heads in the sky, and there was no flash when it disappeared.
Bounced from one place to another, and it was really far away, so we are talking hundreds of kilometers in a second. Never forgot about it.
Or cloudfront
That's not true. Pop open your console and watch the network tab for yourself. Slow websites are almost always due to frontend issues. Besides, Google has the ability to index the entire internet and return results in milliseconds. I'm guessing it's not my 10GB of email that's tripping them up.
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Iridium flares are extremely brief — they last just a couple of seconds. The pilot said "the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft". No pilot is going to describe an Iridium flare like that.