skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The four differences between .org and CommonMark I could spot right now is that the latter lacks metadata[0], macros[1], syntax for specifying language for inline code blocks[2], and for tables[3].

It's hard to separate .org the markup language from org-mode the application, because quite a lot of its syntax is driven by application features. TODO markers, time stamps, schedule/deadline markers, property drawers, log books, tags - all of these are part of Org Mode functionality, but have little use if you're just trying to write a document for export.

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[0] - There's ton of stuff you could optionally add with #+SOMETHING: lines - local configuration of how to work with the file, metadata, exporter settings for any format individually and all of them together, and more. A lot of those can also be specified per-headline.

[1] - https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-replacement.html; crazy, but when it's needed, it works wonders.

[2] - You can make Markdown-style code spans in Org Mode ~like this~, but there's actually a syntax for proper inline source code blocks that's much less known: src_lang{code}, or src_lang[header-args]{code}. For example, src_lisp{(+ 2 2)} or src_lisp[:results output]{(format t "Foobar")}. The reason for the header-args variant is that Org Mode inline code blocks can be executed interactively or on export, just like regular code blocks. See: https://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-of-code-blocks.html for details on both.

[3] - In CommonMark you could technically abuse HTML for that, but Org Mode provides the most readable format for tables... that's also the most convenient to write if you're using Org Mode, and an absolute PITA if you're not. See: https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html.
The null diet can be sustained indefinitely, which is longer than the competing metabolic diets.
Why not close their Facebook page then? https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/
Or at least don't show the "Share on Facebook" button on articles like that.
They have a list of over 300 current awardees on the site - if nobody on HN has any direct experience, you could certainly take that list and start making some calls to ask about the experience.
Probably a technically better solution but it would not make as good of a PR piece as an epic migration.
Wikipedia says¹:

“[Master file format] has been widely adopted by other DNS server software – though some of them (e.g. NSD, PowerDNS) are using the zone files only as a starting point […]”

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zone_file&oldid=8...
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On its face, this is shocking to me. I would have never, ever expected positive content to be more profitable than negative content! In hindsight, however, after thinking about it a bit, it kind of makes sense. I'm now wondering, could advertising perhaps become (gasp) a force for good, at least in certain settings?*

News are good when they are neither positive nor negative by design.

They are good when they are relevant, useful, and informative (including them not being cherry-picked examples of stories with no impact to their readership, e.g. about some sensational murder case 10.000 miles away, and so on).
Well written and informative. Thanks for posting/writing this!
It could replace an extremely weak, low capability first stage. In comparison the F9 first stage throws the second stage up to an altitude of 65km at 2km/s, or 26% of orbital velocity. So this air launch approach only achieves about one fifth as much as an F9 first stage.
I wonder how much they’re hacking the “Popular” section in the app to increase ad revenue. I notice that absolutely 0 of their top stories are ever at the top popular article list - usually travel, opinion and health, which presumably has more high traffic ads.

They’re also messing with the scroller - it will stop scrolling on an ad to make sure it loads.
5-star phonies: Inside the fake Amazon review complex
You may want to take a look at this issue https://github.com/ngortheone/org-rs/issues/1 and perhaps join in - it seems that there are in fact a number of projects at a similar stage of development (or lack thereof, perhaps) so it makes sense to try and coalesce efforts.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams.

An extremely concise life advice book. Doesn't wander around ideas. Well-written.

Of all 'self-help' books I have read, this is the only I truely recommend.
That’s quite a few assumptions, at least one of which likely isn’t correct; at Microsoft, the .git directory doesn’t contain ”all the git files, including file versions […] and branche”

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/optimizing-git-beyond-...:

”GVFS allows our developers to simply not download most of those 3.5 million files during a clone, and instead simply page in the (comparatively) small portion of the source tree that a developer is working with.”

Having said that, the linked https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/gvfs... claims Windows gives a size about half that 500GB for the Windows source code:

”the Windows repo, which has over 3 million files in the working directory, totalling 270GB of source files. That’s 270GB in the working directory, at the tip of master. To clone this repo, you would have to download a packfile that is about 100GB in size, which would take hours. And once you’ve succeeded in cloning it, local git operations like checkout (3 hours), status (8 minutes), and commit (30 minutes) would still take way too long to run”.
MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
As an ex-professor myself, do you understand how the world works? NSF is run by high ranking(in the pyramid scheme) professors. Your tenure depends on raising an army of researchers so you lie about job prospects, lie about research potential outcomes and importance, over-drsmatize the importance of your work, and some even lie in their publications! This is the path to success.

The career path at MIT is work 20 years at MIT then go to a US government funding agency (DARPA, NSF, ONR, etc.) to raise even more money for MIT. These places are staffed 100% by ex-professors (and a few token PhDs who succeeded in industry, to provide political legitimacy "cover".)
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It's probably the DDK compiler, although I'm not sure of the difference these days.

In C89 you can declare variables in the middle of the function, as long as they're at the beginning of a { block }. The beginning of a function is somewhat of a special-case of this.
AGNI: a multi-threaded middleware for distributed scripting (2000)

"We present the design of a AGNI a Tcl 8.1 based Middleware for building reactive, extensible, reconfigurable distributed systems"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/AGNI%3A-a-multi-thread...
FYI it says “build-in” instead of “built-in” in one spot on the landing page. :)
Looks like Uber is better on every metric, total volume, growth, revenue, the only area they are behind is margin where they are taking less from their drivers than Lyft is.

We lose money on every sale but make it up in volume is supposed to be a joke, not a business strategy!
Can it? I'm working on embedded systems, in C++, with C++11-or-earlier compilers. Sometimes I need control of the exact order things happen in. Sometimes I need an action to occur either zero or one times, on the first available entry. Always I need to write code that my coworkers can read.

How much of that can a C++11 compiler do for me?
Coffee drinking adds up too. 3 coffees per day, 20g per coffee. Once you add in the extra coffee at weekends and visitors, it’s 30+ kgs of grounds per year. The garden seem to like them though.
The kernel is a pretty small part of the operating system. Development of Windows NT started in 1989[1], when RAM sizes of PCs were measured in MB, not GB, so there wasn't room for a lot of bloat. (NT 3.1 could run on a machine with 12 MB of RAM.[2]) Also, it wasn't the first kernel Cutler wrote. While Cutler is undoubtedly a brilliant programmer, I doubt he could keep the details of all the other parts of the system (graphics, etc.) in his head at once.

Other well known kernels were also written by very small teams. The first Unix kernel was written by two people and the first Linux kernel was written by one person.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Hardware_requiremen...
The US, by being where it is, it keeps other big players (like China) out. It's too naive in my opinion to think that if the US just gets out of everywhere, China or whomever wouldn't try to replace them. And that's why I was asking if you've actually thought of a plausible alternative. I think you haven't.
On one hand, I like this because it might skew "news" production toward positive news stories. On the other hand, I dislike it because the news should just be the news and the business of the news should not skew the content of the news. But, that's probably too much to ask these days.
What's the reason to use Pandoc to convert .org files to LaTeX instead of the built-in Org Mode LaTeX exporter? Serious question - I do plenty of .org -> LaTeX like this, and never tried the Pandoc route before.
It sounds like you inadvertently changed the index structure or deleted it. There have always been default indexes, and Microsoft's tuning advice is always to add special case indexes to the wildcard index they provision. If you know your data model well and want to improve write performance (RUs), you can delete the wildcard index. That's how the indexing policy has worked since the product launched.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-mana...
I know people have talked about this for a long time. There must be a logistical reason for it.
Yup, last week my kids and I, who are always on the lookout for wildlife of all kinds, were wondering how to tell crows from ravens. So, yeah, very, very nice timing for us, too.
Has anyone sat down and figured out what a reasonable valuation would be for AWS as a stand alone business? Surely not $900B, but half? A quarter?
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NYTimes is the main reason I've been on the search for some kind of feature for HN (addon? greasemonkey script? ANYTHING) to auto-hide articles based on domain or title matches. Does anyone have a solution?
> As the Mercatus Center noted last year, by implementing a Medicare for All system, the US could insure 30 million more people, provide dental, vision, and hearing coverage to everyone, and virtually eliminate out-of-pocket expenses, all while saving $2 trillion over the first decade of implementation.

This is assuming Medicare would have the same cost structure if it insured everyone that it does right now, which is incorrect because Medicare is currently being subsidized by private insurance.

In order to make healthcare in the US cost less, something that is currently being paid for has got to go away. That isn't primarily "insurance company profits" or anything like that. The profits are a single digit percentage of the premiums.

The costs come from things like the extraordinarily high cost of getting FDA approvals reducing competition between pharma companies, doctors choosing unnecessary tests for liability reasons and patients preferring them when someone else is paying for them and things of that nature. It is not clear how Medicare would change any of that, given that it currently doesn't solve them even for existing Medicare patients, it just pays below its share of the fixed costs and lets private insurance pick up the difference.

You have to actually get the costs down. In theory you could just declare by fiat that you aren't going to pay as much, which would cause something to be cut, but not the inefficiencies that the law continues to require. A "solution" that causes good things to be cut so that existing wasteful things will still fit into the budget is not very good.
Everyone knows this but those that benefit from the status quo also have enough influence to keep it.
I do actually think code archaeology may one day be a sub discipline of the field, perhaps in another hundred years.
I've used it briefly internally at Microsoft 2009, I had almost the same experience. Super slow, takes a while to even start the query, non-standard query language. For internal users there were even more hurdles: you had to get approval and quota before you were able to use it at all, and the default answer to both requests was "no", you really had to justify it. As an aside, at MS "no" was the answer to any request you make of Legal. Lots of bicycles were reinvented from scratch, with lots bugs, just because Legal would not approve the use of BSD or MIT licensed code.

Imagine my shock when I started at Google a year later and discovered Dremel (now BigQuery) where I could just run a query and get the results back in seconds over tens of terabytes of data, with no quotas or approvals.

I think having a system like Dremel is a huge competitive advantage, because you don't have to guess blindly about things, you can just query them and get results immediately. If Cosmos is still the best MS has internally, they need to roll their own Dremel asap. Lots of great people from SQL Server team work at Google now, but MS still has plenty of people who could do a competent petascale columnar DB with one hand tied behind their back.
This is also the general usage for chemists... As a chemistry and math major during my college days it was confusing to say the least.
Sorry, I think we (my kids and myself) got it as we were literally wondering just last week how to tell crows and ravens apart. (We are always scanning for wildlife of all kinds.)
A bigger challenge is to differentiate a Northwestern Crow from an American Crow.

> It is smaller than the American Crow and has a more nasal call, but it is so similar that the two may in fact be the same species.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northwestern_Crow/overvi...

I didn't even realize that my area had an apparently different crow than everywhere until I bought a birding book.
This video of a crow repeatedly "skiing" down a roof changed my view of how animals play - I thought it was all "practice-fighting" but this crow seems to be playing "just for the fun of it".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WupH8oyrAo
Is it just me or are you implying WPA3 revisions should be coupled to Ubuntu release schedule?
For JavaScript, I highly recommend the ajv and tv4 npm packages.
I heard/read something similar (possibly in an Enid Blyton novel), but it was contrasting rooks and crows, rather than ravens and crows. Unlike ravens, rooks are much the same size as carrion crows (the typical crow in England), and thus harder to distinguish.
Honestly I’d rather live in a world where those who expose government conspiracies and corruption are protected than one where they are held to the letter of a law.
That's not actually a very big effect compared to mid latitudes. The main reason to launch near the equator is because a lot of payloads go into equatorial orbits and plane changes are expensive.

From the equator you can go into any orbit equally easily (because you just wait for the earth to rotate until you’re on the desired orbital plane), but the only way to go into an equatorial orbit without a plane change is from the equator.
“It approves of rereading.”

— Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 1992

Excerpt of the relevant section available here:

https://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/
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In Semver the second part communicates features, not 'major'. So magnitude of the features should not matter. Unless version is more for marketing than communicating the precise nature of the changes.
Health insurance takings don't have to be 'profits' to be waste.

How much unnecessary work happens around crazy billing systems and arguing over who pays what? Those people all draw salaries.
They apparently kill less than a person per year, so that's unlikely to happen luckily.
Not "the N word!"

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Quoth
it limits the supply of apartments to the market, which drives up prices.
Or the world will wake up and trial those people ?
Well and it needs to be prohibited with absurd large amounts of fines when doing it any way.

When you can‘t make goals and check their success as a manager without surveillance you need to stop managing people.
well in some countries they don't allow prices that high for services and drugs. no idea what problems that caused but ATM prices charged for various services and drugs in the USA are 3x to 10x some other countries
Fargate's purpose was never to magically make container orchestration go away, though - it's just a managed compute layer you plug into via the other orchestration frameworks (ECS or EKS). Really the apples-to-apples comparison should be DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes with EKS (and there are a lot of valid points to raise there, to be sure).

The real value-add of Fargate is pay-for-what-you-use, when your task queue is idle and your bill drops to zero with no extra orchestration (something that the article seemingly completely missed).
They don't lose money on every sale.

30% margins for Lyft, 20% margins for Uber (and 10% for uber eats.
First I ever heard of Kuhn was in the margin notes that came back from my teacher on a sociology essay about something or other. I was 17 and was very pleased to find out that my random musings were backed up by this chap with proper credentials.

Wish I still had that essay. I'd love to know if I had magically discovered Kuhn's thesis independently at the age of 17 - or as is more likely - spouted some vagueness that resembled his ideas if you squinted enough...
>So we're backing away from legal argument to conventional wisdom?

I meant understood by legal professionals according to judicial rulings. As far as we can determine the law, foreigners abroad are not afforded the same rights as American citizens. And I don't think the law has so much nuance as to allow the US government to legally kill people but not abridge their freedom of speech.

>... targeted in war...

Anwar al-Awlaki was a non-combatant killed in Yemen, which was not a war zone at the time (same with his son). Those words have a lot of legal implications against the actions of the United States.
Good luck with GCP support...
this is ReCAPTCHA v3 which does not include any of the image recognition tasks. It's just a matter of clicking the checkbox
I agree, people shouldn't be afraid of v3.27.0
Including amortizatized customer acquisition costs?
The CDC specifically say that you don’t get cysticerosis from eating pork, though the correlation with pigs eating human faeces is mentioned.
As always, it seems that washing your hands is important.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/index.html
>The plastic waste issue is quite effectively solved by just burning it - plastic waste is a perfectly good hydrocarbon fuel.

How about the pollution caused by burning plastic waste? Take dioxins, for just one example. I've read that they are released when you burn plastic (don't have a link handy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxins_and_dioxin-like_compou...
>Doesn't mean they won't have advertising on them, just that it will be slightly cheaper.

That's an incentive to put out less of them, if I ever show one...

Especially if "everyone wants to advertise in the NYT", which means they have all the headroom to push more expensive-ads-yielding ones...

What started as a counter-argument to the grandparent, actually made their point for them...
> well in some countries they don't allow prices that high for services and drugs. no idea what problems that caused but ATM prices charged for various services and drugs in the USA are 3x to 10x some other countries

The problem it caused is that there is correspondingly less drug R&D and more people die world-wide because they're not paying their share of the research costs.
The journalists I know describe something they call a "firewall". Supposedly the business staff and the journalists simply do not communicate except for very formalized channels. At some places they are not permitted to walk in on each other's floors/buildings. From personal observations, it seems they usually adhere to the firewall.
Could you go more into this? How did you go about the evaluation and what metrics were you using? How did you capture the 'developers just hated it' in a way that leadership understood?

I'm not disputing the outcome, just feel like it would be useful for others in a similar situation.
Typically if you "fail" the checkbox (which somehow happens to me a lot) you get the bus and street lights and such that the other posters are referring to. What are those if not ReCAPTCHA v3?
Just because you don't understand its reasons doesn't make it a random occurance. I'm guessing you were near a nest or a fledgling, but that's just my non-educated guess.

Another possibility is that you looked like a former 'enemy' of crows. Crows can remember people who mess with them for up to two years and seem to be able to communicate that information among their peers. There is an excellent documentary about that behavior and it may have even been about scientists in the BC area.

They wore masks to test whether the information could be passed down from generation to generation. They found one crow offspring that still recognized the mask its parents had been trained on.

I believe it was called "The Intelligent World of Crows". It was excellent.
Back in the late '80s, my company had a program that included getting the Windows 3.0 source code. Looking through the code I had found the line "goto wearefucked;" and accompanying label further down. When we got the source for Windows 3.1 the first thing I did was check that file, but to my disappointment the label had been changed.
Show HN: Japanese language helper (WASM, PWA, no back-end)
My web application makes it easier to read Japanese sentences.

Where does a word begin and end? (there's no spaces)
How do I pronounce the word? (phonetics are missing)
How do I look up the word in the dictionary? (it's necessary to know how to type it, and how to deconjugate verbs)

We can overcome these gaps with good software.

MeCab (compiled to WebAssembly) provides morphological analysis (guesses where words start and end, and what kind of word it is)
Dictionaries are embedded, for client-side searching. As a result: there is no backend.
The application is a Progressive Web Application, so it can be saved for offline use (141MB).

https://birchlabs.co.uk/mecab-web/ (Warning: 37MB webpage)

Technical notes:

There's a serious amount of dictionary included. I culled Kanjidic from 15.5MB to 0.7MB. Remaining dictionaries gzip pretty well (138MB -> 36MB).

Apache is configured for streaming compilation and pre-computes gzips.

I wanted to explore whether we actually _need_ a bundler in 2019. I used @pika/web to grab libraries as ES modules.

HTTP/2 + gzip used instad of bundler. Source _is_ distribution; old school. No backend, so application can be served statically from a CDN.

Preact/htm/unistore are used instead of React/JSX/Redux. Libraries weigh <100KB.

Workbox is used to generate a service-worker. Saves source code and assets so that the webpage can be saved as a PWA and used offline.
Offline dictionaries have been done before (e.g. apps), but this is a particularly small one, and perhaps the first to provide sentence tokenization via MeCab.

I'd love to hear your feedback, be it on language concerns, technology, or user experience.
" it just pays below its share of the fixed costs and lets private insurance pick up the difference."

Is that actually true? I always hear that line but nobody every backs it up with data. If Medicare is losing money for hospitals why do they still take it?