skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My blog: https://marcolabarile.me/

I'm using GitHub Pages, so Jekyll is the static site generator.
As Jekyll theme, I've picked minimal-mistakes: https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes

Then I've customized templates to meet my needs. It was quite easy, considering I've never wrote a line of Ruby.
Germany’s health minister proposes a $2,790 anti-vaxxer charge
I wonder whether this is the norm for other cities?
Because handling gems compatibility issues and monkey patching is so much better experience.
Taps name of Uncle Steve: Siri pops up: "Are you sure? Most people are asleep in the location of Uncle Steve, the sun will be up in 2 hours."

When I plan meetings with colleagues around the globe, Outlook corrects my time but it also (in light gray) indicates the typical workday in the meeting planner. Very handy.
No, it doesn't work like that. The military is of course tight-lipped about exactly how powerful SHiELD is, but at least one site claims that the goal is 50kw [1]. That's a lot of power. A few years ago, a 30kw laser test made the rounds in news outlets for destroying a few targets during testing. [2]

Mirrors don't perfectly reflect light in all frequencies. Mirrors are designed to reflect mostly visible light, lasers at this power level are infrared. Any imperfections in the reflective surface would immediately heat up, damaging the reflective surface, which would then heat up even more. And even if it were perfect, and were designed to reflect whatever frequency of radiation the laser's putting out, it's still not going to reflect 100% of the laser's output, and you've probably got yourself a material that's pretty impractical for a rocket.

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-air-fighter-mounted-laser-summ...

[2]: https://newatlas.com/lockheed-martin-laser-truck/36377/
It hadn't crossed my mind when I wrote the post because I was in a thread about Windows (so in my mind it was desktop Windows vs a "linux distro" like Ubuntu, Cent, Debian, etc).

But I suppose ChromeOS should count too since it runs on laptops and desktop computers.

Of course Linux (the kernel) is much more dominant on mobile because of Android. But then again Android is indirectly supported by Google ad revenue and so would contradict the original claim in the thread I'm responding to:

> Linux seems to be doing just fine keeping software maintained without ads or harvesting data.
SAME! I have a product that I'm trying to launch and everything works except that it needs OAuth consent approval. There is currently a bug in my Google console preventing me from completing the step that the most recent email said to do, and I've responded with that several times and it just feels like I'm shouting into the void.
Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T Class Action Lawsuit for Selling Location Data
The overall point is that if 4 isn't quite enough, then 3 is definitely way too few.
Right I understood that. I was replying to the other guy who suggested putting the scene in a JSON Three.js thing. So the idea was that the thing I suggested was just a possibly easy way to get a collaborative JSON editor into your program.
We (at sanity.io) get the work done with https://www.portabletext.org.
oh wait, you mean from client side javascript? I didn't know you could do that. FWIK, only WebSockets are supported within browsers - let me know if you know of a way otherwise.
The nature and danger of the legendary Kobold
We left Gaza. There are no Israelis left in Gaza. It's not occupied.
Now that we can see what happens when we give the Palestinians territory, we won't be doing that again.
How does this compare with planting trees and harvesting the wood as fuel?
Yeah, that's not true at all. Manga on a 8-10 inch-tablet can be far superiour to the poor paper manga are usually sold at. Though it's true that it also depends on the reading-app/service.
The last part of my comment? :O surely wasn't intentional if do :)
This was one of the project idea I made myself work on during this April. The motivation being, "how hard is it to make a real-time code editor". Long story short, it is far more complicated than I had imagine and to complete in less than a week. Implementing the CRDT itself, the logic itself is challenging and than putting it down to code is another story.

From my understanding, an implementation of logoot[1] is built to create the skeleton of a collaborative environment. From there on, you have the building block to make other things work with it, such as collaborative canvas.

I built one using Socket.io on Angular and used Ace Editor own implementation of CRDT

> https://github.com/abdusamed91/realtime-codeeditor

I used the following references to build it

1) https://alligator.io/angular/socket-io/

2) https://medium.com/@ofir3322/create-an-online-ide-with-angul...

To get started with the theory CRDT low level algorithm, these two post go into great details

1) https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site/

2) http://digitalfreepen.com/2017/10/06/simple-real-time-
collaborative-text-editor.html

[1]https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00432368/document

I'd love to take it to another level if anyone here has mutual interest in this field of work.
I don't get your reasoning? Lasers need line of sight and hit a very small area, missiles can travel long distances and hit a massive area.
That's just a meme from that Lisp Curse article and wherevernot; it's not spread by people who have actually worked in a Lisp code base.
My favorite 2 interview questions are

1. "What is the hardest thing you've ever done?"

The answer can be personal or professional. What the candidate accomplished isn't as important as how -- and why. What were the hurdles? What were the roadblocks? Did the candidate seek help? Does the candidate credit the people who helped?

The answer also can provide insight into how the candidate defines "hard," and how their perspective align with the challenges your business faces.

2. "When have you experienced stellar customer service, and how did that change how you deal with customers?"

This question is a great way to see how candidates define "stellar customer service" -- not just as they experience it, but also in the service they expect themselves to provide.
Technically, everyone has that ability.
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Seasons and differences in latitude make that really impractical though. It's simply impossible to have a sane consistent system of time that can set a constant sunrise time handling either seasons or latitude differences just in isolation, let alone both. For starters, you'd need a 2D system of time zones (taking into account both latitude and longitude), and time would be floating and would change each day; days would be less than 24 hours between two solstices and then greater than 24 hours leading up to the next solstice. And of course this pattern would reverse across the equator, too. Days would be different lengths depending on your latitude, and time would only sync up across different 2D time zones twice a year!

It would be madness.
Ask HN: How does your software development team share knowledge?
Hey. Looking forward to hearing examples of how teams share knowledge, what they consider knowledge. Will implement the outcome into https://beta.archbee.io
Ask HN: How to learn UX as a backend engineer?
What are some good resources (books, books, videos etc) to learn UX design for developers who rarely do any frontend work? The idea is not to be an expert in UX but to start understanding fundamentals. To be able to think like a UX designer.
A New Console for Windows – It's the Open Source Windows Terminal
Strong Why Your Mobile App Needs Voice Integration
Man, this place is way too fucking full of trolls.
Spectre/Meltdown Mitigations Can Now Be Toggled with “Mitigations=” Option
Ask HN: Would you like to get paid in crypto for freelancing/Gigs?
Ask HN: How would you use the stories format in other context than Instagram?
Currently working on an experimental project, I believe stories could be used in a work environment to replace presentation (powerpoint) that are not being presented.
I think stories is a great way to engage your audience or to transmit a specific message.
Check out the prototype I made and let me know how you would use it.
https://tldr.one
which is better for web development php/python?
which is better for web development php/python?
https://floobits.com/ at least claims to support Emacs and Atom (and neovim and sublime and intellij); though https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-vscode says "Not ready. Don't get your hopes up."
This is a great book that covers a lot of programming by demonstration systems
That's really interesting! Roomba for the garden
This recent interview [1] with Jamie Wheal, co-author of Stealing Fire [2] is worth watching if you're interested in this topic.

He's observed the psychedelic "revolution" in recent years, and has both positive and negative things to say about it, but on the whole he's deeply pessimistic about where it seems to be going.

His observations about fashion-driven, Instagram-performative "enlightenment", and the propensity for a little bit of enlightenment to lead one down dangerous paths (including charging big money to lead others down the same dangerous path), are resonant for me, having been through the journey myself and seen it from both sides.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPB33bD3hQ

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-Maverick-Scientists-Rev...
How can I get skilled on graphics design?
> In fact, Microsoft is promising developers “twice as much speed for file-system heavy operations, such as Node Package Manager install."

From here: https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-windows-termina...
"comes across as a mean comment" is different from sucky behaviour. Your feelings are not that important.
Code is easy. Ego is a challenge
I have high hopes for desalination with graphene or nanotubes, so I hope when Prometheus is up and running, you look into it again. I'd love to know what happens in your nanotube filters. I read somewhere that water can be ballistic in certain nanotubes, with zero resistance, so I wonder if you stumbled upon something amazing. You must be thinking about other uses. Too many comments here belabor the obvious, which you must get all the time, so kudos for sticking with it and overcoming resistance. It's cool that we don't ever have to run out of gasoline.
The Blockchain Disaster
For one thing, I specifically contemplated that, as you can see in my phrasing.

For another, that point isn't relevant here. The Chinese diaspora in the US is also largely Hokkien or Cantonese speaking, but note that we got "chow mein" 炒面.
Mk II eyeball. Sadly.

If only people could learn to properly quote. Sigh.... ️
Do you guys rely on a central authority approach like Prosemirror does? I'm desperately looking for something that's somewhat stateless or at least replicable (even better if shardable) on a document basis.
Trains and planes can use their own internal timing system, then convert to the client's on demand.
Even taking out a small area in today's modern combat fighters would do serious damage, and travelling at the speed of light there isn't much that maneuverability or current defensive countermeasure can do to deter a laser.
Which world is this that has straight lines running down the globe? Time zones are messed up all over the place. If all of these laws pan out, you will still end up with rough bands. I think if a state doesn't change, but all of its neighbors do, they will end up changing as well
Makes sense. Thanks. I quite look forward to checking it out.
Not just the OS, legacy applications tend to rely on DB2, CICS, IMS, and what not. All of those have expensive licenses and cannot readily run on emulation. Switching to Hercules does not solve the issue, unless your cobol apps are barebone batches.
This is how it’s been on iOS for years but I was pleased to find out yesterday that I can now remove those “built-in” apps from my home screen. Not sure whether or not they’re actually deleted or just hidden though.

Perhaps you’ll be able to remove them eventually...
Ye on reflection and reading more comments from the founder I'm tentatively positive on this. Localised air pollution from burning of fuels and globally elevated co2 levels are two distinct problems. Solving one is already a big step in the right direction.
Deloitte Predicts: Technology’s Impact on Finance Is Coming
Other than learning graphic designing software, I would also recommend following and daily browsing sites like dribbble and behance, looking at the examples there and trying to pick out why they decided to make those design choices.
Which is better for a sandwich, ham or salami?
Secure Processor Architectures in the Era of Spectre and Meltdown – HOST 2019
If anything, the problem is overpopulation. And the falling number of children is really a sign of the solution. (I do take offense at framing that the declining number of children is something to solve. What benefit exactly solving it would bring?)

People realize that living in an overpopulated country is a miserable way to live, and it's self-correcting.
I read this bit below 2 - 3 years ago online.

>> Annual profit/revenue (not quite sure) of Samsung Electronics (not Samsung overall, just Electronics) was greater than or equal to top 9 Japanese electronic firms combined, including Sony.

I think the comparison does not include Sony Films though? Not quite sure.

A lot of people look at the economic miracle of West Germany and Japan post WW2 with admiration. Amazing accomplishments for sure. But both nations already had well established education, technology, institutions, and etc that were already present at end of WW2. Sure, a lot of it had been destroyed/disrupted because of the war. But they were there.

South Korea on the other hand had none of that. S. Korea never had the core ingredients needed for economic recovery. In 1945, literacy rate in Korea was 22%. Korea as a whole was just barely joining the modern world around 1900, a lot of it due to the colonization by Japan.

It is an amazing achievement.

I think S. Korea also feels more threatened than others because it shares land/sea border with China, Russia, and Japan. China/Russia, 2 most powerful nations with non-democratically elected government...

EDIT: Before someone yells at me for putting down Japan and/or putting Korea on a pedestal, I am just stating a fact I read. For sure, Japan has had amazing achievement in the past.
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>I think psychedelics should be unbanned first, because it's the right thing to do.

It's good that you think, but it's not enough to call it the right thing
>Imo PC-based solutions are overkill, but yes, you may end up with a more open solution that way.

Yes exactly! If you look at it from the point of view of functionality to price ratio a pc might just be the best router there is.

- Its modular

- Its easily repairable

- Its portable (in the form of mini pc or a laptop)

- You can buy a second hand PC

Finally if you're taking the trouble of installing openwrt on a router it is a reasonable assumption that you want to do more with it. And in that case you're severely limited by the hardware that you choose.

To get the best of both worlds we can have a dedicated PC as a main router. And other cheap routers as your network extenders.
How can I look that up?

You're the one who made the factual statement. I'm not the one that's obliged to back that up.

Wikipedia lists the customers, and the number of aircraft delivered to US airlines is a good match for the 20% of aircraft that are said to have that feature. However, that assumption implies that 0% of leasing companies ordered it, that 0% of Canadian customers did, that the American airlines bought all their aircraft and didn't lease any, etc. Might all be true but you can see why I asked for a citation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_...
So its just like the iron dome?
Re-post to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847258 as suggested by a moderator due to problem with account and post visibility.
I wonder if there's any chance this could spur development of effective anti-ICBM laser systems. Considering that nuclear ICBMs are the only real existential threat to the United States, I'm often surprised they don't spend a huge chunk of their defense budget neutralizing that threat.
Not like this was ever any different. And yet, they used to support it then. They have just turned a corner as a company. With all the exclusivity deals, anti-competitive tactics, anti-consumer sentiment and nonsense that the Sweeney clown spews, they are really competing with EA for worst gaming-related company. (Their tech is still good, but so is EA’s; that’s not the problem.)
I don't know what gray means, undecided maybe. It certainly doesn't mean stay on dst. Texas is saying no more dst, but unsure of which time to stay on. Same with GA.
On a side note, I find it extremely interesting that that same law you mention explicitly sidesteps an even older form of "child gambling" in the form of trading and collectible card games.
These python tools are slowly approaching the quality of gnuplot. In a few years they will be almost there.
I have thought for a while about "brain surgery" for deep neural nets, much like a permanent kind of dropout.

The idea is that you black out a set of neurons/filters and then train for a short while to overcome the performance penalty. To find the "set" of blacked out cells you could use a genetic algorithm or something, gradually increasing the number of masks.

The last step would be rearranging the network such that the not-blacked-out cells are contiguous, but form smaller layers.

And I remember Hinton hinted at replacing multiple layers by one layer (or no layer), or big layers by smaller layers through retraining.
From my experience, everything mentioned in the article can be "treated" with meditation. I say treated in quotes because all this is self-caused and treatment is only to realize that it's actually me is the one who is causing stress and anxiety to myself. Once this is realized these things disappear in a matter of days.

Meditation is long-established, safe, legal, available to everyone regardless of any status or condition (excluding only severe damage in brain/spine areas) and does not require billion dollar research.
That's actually a very good point. Standard dielectric mirror coatings can easily handle tens of kW hitting a ~1cm spot.
Nice looking. That's what the windows terminal should have been like. I've always thought that they made the windows terminal ugly and hard to use because they wanted to discourage using the command line in favor of the gui.
I upvoted you, its a simple question, dont understand the downvoting. Its not everyone's field of expertise.
When I was a Mac user, everyone was using iTerm.
Does anybody have real world experience (and maybe data) for websockets when used in a mobile environment (with a lot of dropped connections)?
Thanks for pointing this out. As for the temperature, the rise is already really bad right now, it didn't change the mind of the minority flying...
Lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite
EGS itself is an Electron garbage. The whole reason to use Electron garbage is to build cross-platform crapware on the cheap.
I have kidney dialysis daily and there is quite a bit of stuff for which plastic is most suitable.
To those who are thinking of using a chat
a) Get enough resources so they can respond in timely manner. If you grow bigger,you probably want to cover 24/7.
b) Have a strategy in place on how you shift the chat convo into a call(if it's sales enquiry) or how you finish it in timely manner so you don't turn it into a friendly,yet meaningless chat.
c) Don't take someone's use case as an answer to your problems.There are many businesses,where chat isn't a good idea, don't adopt it blindly.
Show HN: Philadelphia Toolkit – integrated aspnet core and Bridge.NET
Well, back in the day, once I spent my whole ink-printer cartridge printing a 900 pages of C++ book... priceless experience! I was taking 50 sheets a day to read while commuting to school, during some boring classes, even in the bathroom. But most of the times back then were w/o internet anyway.
Since UT04, what good titles have they done anyway? They have a good engine, but their games have been terrible for a very long time.
If only there were infrastructure and standards for asserting ownership over domain names.
Ask HN: Will Windows ever be free?
Recent discussions on HN have included comments saying that Microsoft makes its money from cloud and subscriptions, and that Windows is not so important any more.

Is this just garbage? And if not, might Windows be free one day?

What would Microsoft gain from Windows being free?
I'm curious about the choice of PubSweet for the collaboration components. Can you summarise what functions PubSweet is performing in your example app, and are there alternatives to PubSweet that you looked at for this functionality?
It's a coming of age story whether you understand cycling or not. A young man makes a mistake and harms another young man and it haunts them for many years. Growing up they reflect on the moment many times with different mindsets and ultimately meet up and make good as best as they can. It's a timeless story. And it has wheels.
We migrated the core banking from a small private bank, and that was 12 million COBOL lines. It actually seems like a "small" system.
We used the same approach (java translation). Running the cobol is actually the easy part. The hard part is when you start throwing in managing files the mainframe way, the database (needs to quack like DB2), the transaction monitor (CICS), presentation layer (3270 like), scheduler, etc.
And there is plenty of other technologies usually deployed in such shops (IMS, MQ, etc). And you need to support it all...
Norton Rose and 5 Canadian Firms Pilot OpenLaw Smart Contracts
Speaking an ex- and now current MTG player, it most definitely has a strong gambling aspect to it. If you've hung around box openings and such, you'll see the same highs and lows, especially right now when an IN PRINT card can and will retail for > 1000 USD.
You Don’t Need Authority, You Just Have to Care
Hi, I'm d-p-y, one of the authors. Hope you find it interesting. If you have any questions please ask.
Well the 10% is I assume an equity tranche. Ie any loss on any loan in the portfolio goes to that tranche first up until the total losses exceed 10%. So the bank still has significant skin in the game, unless their short term profit exceeds 10%, which seems kind of high to me (but I don’t know the terms of the transaction you refer to).
> Can you really not conceive of anything that could be done to decrease inequality less than literally swapping houses?

I can think of lots of ways to decrease inequality.

> Money is an abstract store of value so that we don't have to trade goats and houses.

Yes.

> I suggest we tax the rich to fund a better social safety net, education, and free medical care for all Americans.

That is cool and all, but talking hypothetically what if we doubled everyone's real wealth & income? That'd more than double the tax take and the poor would have more to start with to boot.

So that would be a big improvement for everyone even though inequality would have risen some ungodly amount.

Why would the rise in inequality in such a scenario be bad? The list of things you have here is of phenomenon of absolute amounts of resources. Inequality is a phenomenon of relative amounts.
> A directed energy weapon also has an effectively bottomless magazine.

Is this true for a laser mounted on an airplane? How is the energy stored?
Everyone thought a huge laser taking up a dedicated 747 (Boeing YAL-1) was a stupid idea but looks like it was a good starting point.