skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently discovered that 7digital (https://www.7digital.com or https://us.7digital.com in the US) sells FLAC downloads for many popular artists. I first check Bandcamp but if a band is not there I can usually find it on 7digital.
https://guidebookgallery.org/
Handwriting recognition on the last iteration of Newton was pretty fantastic. Is there anything comparable for phones today?
The official name for "it" in Perl 6 is "the topic variable":

https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables#index-entry-topic_...
> We couldn't have done solar or nuclear instead of oil 100 years ago

Well, as of the 70s we were doing both. Hell, Jimmy Carter even put solar panels up at the White House. (Reagan took them down.)
What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System
> electron eats so much cpu & memory simply because it's
> still a web browser, it has to support all those 20 years
> of HTML/CSS history and it was designed to do so for 10s
> of tabs, so it has a lot of caches and other things.

XULRunner does the same thing, includes, in addition, a full XML GUI language and assorted technologies and the full runtime distribution, on my Windows10 system, including debugging, crash-reporter aids, VC libraries, D3D libraries, consumes 72MB.
JavaScript isn’t that slow and bloated, the browser rendering engine is a memory hog and cause of most pain. Electron is the big offender because it’s a copy of a new browser everytime.

We have TypedArrays, WebAssembly, very smart JITs. With Typescript, JavaScript is a very productive and sane language to work with.

I 100% agree with you that the current state of desktop apps are extremely bloated.
Windows Live Mail
I work with many foreign women who have no idea the safe and dangerous areas of our city. You might consider from their point of view the value of such a service, rather than worrying about more meta-tribal political battles.
Some areas of my city have higher harassment and crime rates, as a man this is less concerning for me, but it's something many women need to take much more seriously.
Does anyone know if you can disable email on GSuite (i.e. change MX on my domain to Fastmail), but keep the rest? I use my GSuite account login on a lot of sites, I've got shared photo albums etc.
I often hear that China is a victim of a US trade war, in fact its often framed as Trumps trade war. China is a very aggressive protagonist and we should be wary of the politically correct narrative that is being used to mollify the west. So of course the US is political and it needs to stand up for its own society
> The snopes page has them admitting in an official statement to making a fake video but,

That's false. The Syrian Civil Defense never said/admitted such thing.

>>>> These images have been online since 2016, and show members of the White Helmets filming a “mannequin challenge” video.

So have you seen that video? I haven't. I guess you haven't either. Let's watch it then, shall we? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgl271A6LgQ Now, why are you calling it "fake"?

> NGOs, funding, etc.

How does that make them a FP tool?

I wanted to look into the BBC Panorama Saving Syria's Children thing, and haven't found anything conclusive and short.

The BBC's reponse is the most relevant probably: https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/2014/0...

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/50507/i... [BBC's case against RT UK, which of course run with the whole "scandal"]

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/02/assad-supporters-plan...

It's still possible that the BBC and its crew is full of lies. But at least their lies are well in line with what Assad is doing nowadays - and what probably did in 2013 too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2X84JZINcI
I'm in full agreement that bezier curves are hard to learn to use well! I created an app called Bezie (http://bezie.io/) about a year ago in which you could create quadratic and cubic bezier MIDI automation. I ended up not including it in the release, but I had a smoothness feature where it'd basically update the amount of steps that it'd pass to the interpolate function (using De Casteljau's algorithm). The more steps the higher the curve resolution. I found 64 steps to be somewhat of a magic number as it always looked and sounded smooth. There's also the balance of how many times you want the interpolate function to run while dragging points. With too high a resolution it gets CPU intensive and lags and with too low it starts getting boxy and no longer represents a curve. It's been on my plate to open source the app. It includes some helpful math for deriving control points while dragging points on the curve. Anyhow, nice post and thanks for sharing!
Why is JavaScript the worst choice of you care about performance ?
Ask HN: How do you deploy your applications?
Be it web apps, workers, stateful applications, how do you deploy them?

* Fabric/Capistrano
* kubernetes deployments with kubectl
* Jenkins jobs
* other
"The problem I have with a lot of investigative journalism, is that they always say: “There should be more investigative journalism” and I think, “When you tell me that a lot of rich people aren't paying tax, I’m shocked but I’m not surprised because I know that. I don’t want to read another article that tells me that”. What I want is an article that tells me why, when I’m told that, nothing happens and nothing changes. And no one has ever explained that to me."

I think he is making a big mistake here. There are a lot of things we "already know" that aren't actually true or we don't know the extent. We should appreciate people who deliver data that we can then try to explain. there is already way too much opinion going around that has no data to back it up.
Same here with my Pebble Time Steel. It still gets 7 days battery life, works with the latest Android, and the weather & speech services all still work after subscribing to Rebble.

I keep looking at the Fitbit Versa, which is clearly Pebble's spiritual successor, but it doesn't have an always-on screen or the Time Steel's 7 - 10 day battery life. I just hope Fitbit keeps the Versa around by the time I need to replace my Pebble.
Three of them, Agenda, Data, and Notes, are currently being ported to Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Planet+Compu...

They're designed for use with the Planet Gemini and/or Cosmo, the spiritual successors to the Psion, but I think they work with any Android device.
Discontinued Casio watches, 1601 results
This is a revelation. It would be nice to see the dates when these watches were introduced and then discontinued. Still, an interesting stroll through timepieces worn by many. (Still haven't found the models I wore, though.)
It’s not unusual to find homes now that have been on the market for over a month and are well below their original list price. That used to not be the case until August.

A friend of mine has been a bankruptcy lawyer in the city since the early 90s and expects rents / property values to significantly shift 6-8 months from now. Who knows maybe it’s all ‘baloney’.

I’m not in the market, we already own a home in the city. It’s just interesting to observe the trend.
Nato nation Albania publicly posting sensitive intelligence data online
Ambrosia Software just vanished. Escape Velocity was one of the finest game concepts ever made IMO. Could have become an epic MMO game.
I don’t think this is sign we are doing something wrong as opposed to a reminder that big changes in technology usage take a long time to develop and process. The first self propelled passenger vehicle demoed in 1808- more than 100 years before the model T. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Steam_Carriage). The concept was proved early, but it took the development of the internal combustion engine and a century of manufacturing improvements and economic development before society was ready for mass adoption (and even then it was not overnight adoption.)

Innovation is typically more lucrative than invention. Creating whole new ideas and experiences drives the our body of knowledge further, but the rewards only start to accrue to society when those ideas are combined together with an advanced ecosystem that allows mass adoption.

I remember watching Russian TV from the US broadcast over the dial up in 1998, probably on realplayer. This was an amazing experience, magical even. I then and went back to my (CRT) TV because, well, an audio and video stream transmitted over 56k sucked.

It took another 8 years and billions of broadband infrastructure investment before YouTube launched.

I actually wonder more where are the amazing demos of today that aren’t yet economically feasible, but might get mass adoption in 40 years of infrastructure build out.
I think I still have my box with floppies sitting around. It made making charts from data easy.
> There is no reference to an actual paper in the article

Hover over the underlined "proposed a solution" in the first paragraph and see https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11563 -- although the article certainly doesn't go so far as to point to e.g. §23 and the Conclusion, so I at least partly agree with you.

I don't have much time for AdS arguments, so haven't done more than quickly skim for relevance to the Quanta article (which I also just skimmed for much the same reason).

> these pop science sensationalist websites

I can't really agree with characterizing Quanta as either "pop science" or "sensationalist", and presumably the Simons Foundation, it's backer, would disagree even more strongly.

FWIW, Preskill liked the article. https://twitter.com/preskill/status/1070865055732916225

Even though I just skimmed, I certainly agree with the first sentence of Susskind's lecture's Conclusion, even without reading much of the rest of it. :-) (I also agree with the Conclusion's final sentence on p. 83. In fact, the whole last two paragraphs!) For my part, the Quanta article doesn't seem to have done Susskind or the lecture any great disservice. For that alone, I think the OP author should be commended.
You can go on Trulia right now and find homes that have been on the market for over a month and are below their listing price in San Francisco. Things cooled off around August.
OmniOutliner is one of my favorite applications. I use it every day as a planner/outliner. OmniFocus grew out of OmniOutliner, and I used to be an OmniFocus user. But since I started using OmniOutliner I've completed the circle and use it for just about everything, including todolists.

Only big limitation is that it's Mac and iOS only. No web or Windows version (also, the Pro version is a bit expensive)
At $work we use shipit-engine by Shopify to deploy to kubernetes.
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MacOS classic, preferably system 7.6. I would love to see it resurrected with modern features (protected memory, preemptive multitasking, a decent network stack) but without all the complexity that comes with OS X.

I really miss the spatial desktop, the icons designed by Susan Kare, the way the whole system felt intuitive and understandable for a single person.

I don't think I would pay for it. I'd rather take a shot at developing it myself.
Not very discoverable, this is the first I read about it.
I still don't get it. Is that true or not?
> Candidates can be perfectly capable and qualified, but have work style, or even values, that don't align with the company.

That is the candidate's decision to make, not the company's.
I’m so sorry for you and so happy for your cat! Good on you
Greatest CD player ever?
Some ad blockers, like uBlock Origin, are open source, so you can examine the code and see what they're doing:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

The basic algorithm is to match URLs of loadable resources (images, JavaScript files, iframes, etc.) against huge lists of ad/malware/tracking sites. If the URL matches, the resource isn't loaded. The lists that uBlock Origin uses are enumerated here:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md
I made a Vue CLI plugin that generate a Vue project for Chrome Extensions
I guess I'm uniquely poised to answer this. I worked in the region for an extended time as a foreigner and never had to learn Danish or Swedish. Everyone speaks English. I tried to learn a little Danish and Swedish but by the time I left I was definitely not even at a conversational level (only from lack of effort, I think Swedish specifically is rather easy to learn if you know English, I could read Swedish pretty well by the time I left because there's so many cognates between the two languages).

It does depend on your line of work to some extent. If you want to work for an agency of either of the two governments, for example, you often have to know the local language since you're dealing with older folk from outside the major metropolitan areas that don't necessarily know English.

Basically if your job isn't customer facing you can easily get by both living and working on only English. Culturally it is a little harder to break in and make friends if you only know English, however if you work in an international office, especially one where both Danes and Swedes work and people are forced to speak English it does make it a lot easier to build up a friend circle. Copenhagen also has a pretty decent expat community.

Feel free to reply and I can answer more questions if you are interested.
Study links Paleo diet to heart disease
There's SailfishOS, which is an alternative to Android and iPhone. It's a mobile Linux OS with an optional support for Android apps.

It's not the world's most advanced mobile OS, but a good way to escape the Apple and Google ecosystems.

It is possible to purchase the OS and install it to Sony Xperia phones. https://shop.jolla.com
His advice to ignore dogmas reminds me of the best advice I received as a writer: learn the rules, then break them. There is a strange kind of dogma that says, “question everything, break all the rules, convention is always bad.” But this isn’t what Paul is saying. He says to shut out the voices. Avoid rejecting or accepting. Avoid being reactionary, whether in agreeing or disagreeing.

This is good advice in any realm. Take in all data. Remove all bias. Generate meaningful truth. Follow that truth with an eye to fueling passion. And take every obstacle as merely an additional data point — an opportunity to fine-tune truth and enhance our passion for it.
> "Type safety" is not the only kind of safety

Never said it was.

"Type safety is the property that no primitive operation ever applies to values of the wrong type."

I did say "BCPL is not type safe" (so on that we agree).

Are you saying that, in Scheme, primitive operations can be applied to values of the wrong type?

A string can be multiplied by 2?
If love to have PalmOS (pre-WebOS), still superior to Android or iOS in many ways.
Macromedia/Adobe FireWorks. Still miss that despite how rad Sketch has become.
Isn't cacao tree originally a rain forest tree, in which case it's probably naturally adapted to growing surrounded by taller trees in a semi-shaded conditions?
Old-school visual basic, but maybe powered by python or another modern scripting language.
I'd be interested to see the TV program if it happens to be uploaded anywhere
Neither in Firefox...
Yeah I seriously dont understand the point being made.

Op likes the culture because it's so open and transparent, but doesn't like that the transparency is shattered by having the nyt report on things internally?

Does op just want to be kept blinded by ignorance? I'm seriously confused by the point, and think I'm missing something really basic and fundamental.
> There is x amount of energy in sunlight and if it is going through leaves it is not available to your crop to grow.

Crops are not necessarily sun-bound, other factors/resources tend to set the growth limits.

And the cacao tree specifically is a small (under 8m) tropical tree, at such a low height it's can't have evolved as a sun-loving plant given it's only ever well below the forest's canopy.
> Some might say Vue.js is technical complexity but after investing time to learn the basics I would say that I'm reaping productivity gains.

After thirty years coding, I probably shouldn't admit this, but it's still a significant challenge to make these sorts of priority calls. This is even more true for side projects, where they're resource constrained by definition. It's easier to take risks and pay upfront costs when you have 40 hours a week to invest in a codebase than when it's only one or two hours a week.

Mainly because I find it efficient for me to use, I tend to do most of my side project work these days in Clojure. I think a bit part of why it makes sense for me to do that is that I'm carrying in a bunch of previous experience in Lisp style languages, and Clojure aligns fairly well with the way I think about building systems. It also aligns well because most of my professional experience is in the JVM, so there's a fair amount of carry over.

The reason I mention this is that I think it illustrates how subjective the notion of complexity can be. For me, in my context, it's simpler, but it's not hard to imagine it being absolutely the wrong choice for someone else.

There's also the problem of when it makes sense to pay certain costs. I have a little todo list application I've used to run my life for the last few years. My initial design idea was to keep it simple with exclusively server side rendering of the HTML. This focus on a simple approach has generally been a positive thing, but there are increasingly often features I'd like to add where the existing architecture doesn't work. The path forward is easy to describe - port to an SPA - but the effort involved is more than I have time for. My short term unwillingness to pay the cost of building an SPA four years ago is coming back to haunt me, just a little bit.

My solace there is that I probably wouldn't have actually had time to build the thing in the first place had I taken the time to make it an SPA. (And at least now I know that if I ever do make the port, it's likely to be something I actually use.)

So not an easy set of decisions to make, by any means.

> A driving factor for creating these has been to share my Vue.js knowledge with others.

This is another aspect of side projects worth considering. Sometimes they're built to solve a 'business problem' and sometimes they're built for pedagogical reasons (either self or others). That can have a dramatic impact on architectural choices, etc.
First the goat link, now this. Is HN shifting away from its technology focus? CRISPR is great, but I don't think we're ready to talk about reimplementing lisp on top of a mammalian genome. :)
i never would've remember this. thank you.
vim + cscope + ctags
I often wonder why/how xulrunner has descended into obscurity while electron has blossomed. Anyone have input on that?
The natural habitat of Cocoa tree as usually bellow other trees, like many other species, Coffee too, it likes to be a little shaded by others, and the main thing about this method shown in the videos is very regular pruning and by organizing the organic matter in the ground the nutrients gets available for other species as well as more sunlight, so making very good use of the ecological succession - soil gets better and better naturally with nature processes - which is something very well known and studied in Botany but very little applied to agriculture, this is the gap this farmer is filling. As shown a little in the video, when he's going to grow something very sun hungry like lettuce or corn he does that by opening a big area in the forest and together with the lettuce he introduces seeds of other trees for the next natural succession.

I don't have an actual verified study to show you :/ But I believe there are a bunch of studies, as I have seeing a few universities making them, but I don't know how to find them. All I have now is my own experience on this topic.
In San Francisco and the Bay Area yes. Things cooled off around August. Not sure where you got Las Vegas from.
The director states:

>"With the rise of that hyper-individualism in society, politics got screwed. That sense of being part of a movement that could challenge power and change the world began to die away and was replaced by a technocratic management system."

I understand that in the US, election campaigns are data-driven but beyond that are either of the two major political parties platforms managed and/or guided by a "technocratic management system"?
Depression Far Too Common Among Tech Pros: Survey
In terms of policy, and beliefs, Trump wasn't that far outside the Republican mainstream -- because of course his views are informed by the mainstream. He certainly wasn't the most capable or qualified among the Republican field to actually address anyone's grievances. He wasn't even the most extremist in his ideology. The only things he had going for him were his personal wealth and entertainment value.

So what "response" does society owe a group of people who seem to care more about having a voice for the contempt they feel towards modernity than actually having their issues addressed? Trump supporters can't have their cake and eat it too. They could have had a President who was strong on immigration and protectionism but who wasn't also a raving narcissistic blowhard. If you're going to argue that Trump supporters are correct to feel betrayed and angry, fair enough -- but the response of "society" to Trump and his supporters and their exclusionary response to that anger is not entirely unjustified, either.

It simply isn't true that "society" is composed of feckless elites incapable of self-awareness on one side (inevitably the side with all of the liberals, feminists, most immigrants, "city dwellers" and Democrats in it), and Trump supporters with their righteous indignation on the other. It isn't true that there has been literally no response to Trump other than "society turning up its nose even more", and it isn't true that the situation with Bernie has been swept under any rug, "without skipping a beat."

Unfortunately, it seems that your comment, while rightly denouncing blind partisanship, also falls prey to populist propaganda that encourages a blindly partisan view of society and its issues.
It's still 50x-100x more infectious than HIV, because of the very high concentrations of it in bodily fluids. This combined with its very long lived potency out of the body makes for much easier infection.

In theory, you could drink from a glass and leave the virus in saliva on the rim. If nobody cleans the glass, and five days later someone with bleeding gums drinks out of it, it's still infectious.
While that may be true about misinformation/underinformation, it still seems ultimately pointless if nothing is being done about it...
Between coyotes and racoons it's hard to imagine anywhere that is really safe, at least in Canada/US. Maybe Europe is safer on that front, but there are still diseases and cars to worry about as well as other mishaps.