skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think aggregators like SkimFeed miss an important point, often made on HN: for a lot of people, including me, a lot of the value of HN is in the comments. In fact, going to the extreme, some posts have little learnable content other than TIL. First example that comes to mind is a post I recently upvoted: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19946989) which had a small number of information-rich comments. Or there are pots where the content is obvious from the title, where I go directly to comments to see people's assessment, e.g. Federated Learning (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944510). On average I would say value of comments to post is 80 to 20 percent for me.

So, rather than tools for submission-based skimming/alerts, I'd like to see advanced tools based on comments: Some ideas:

* Number of comments divided by submission points is a rough measure of contentious topics in the HN community, esp. if this is > 1. Recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970544. Sort front page by this score. Another obvious measure would be the number of grayed out and flagged comments.

* Identify comments leading to discussions and highlight them. Since comment scores are hidden this has to be done trough analysis of replies (maybe keywords "good reply" or number of replies).

* Identify comments that are informational, simple measure would be to count the number of links; harder to do would be to analyze the "factfullness".

Just some random thoughts.

P.S. I offer myself as a cautionary example of getting too much into HN: This is the first site I skim on my phone when I get up (to get awake, you know) and I easily spend more than an hour every day (who am I kidding, more like two hours). This is idiotic! Don't let your idea debt (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027684) accumulate.
It takes about 3 months for me to adapt to my paleo regiment. My hybrid of Dr Terry Wahls' Minding Your Mitochontria, Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Body, and calorie restriction. Works great for as long as I do it.

Reverting takes about 1 week.

My TLDR: It's super hard to avoid comfort food while in pain. Now that I've experienced this cause & effect a few times, I'm hoping to learn better strategies.
It was weird though there was a big announcement video on YouTube about the lunar mission and no one even bothered to comment.
$1.6M Worth of Downloads That Never Happened
> For instance the TGV has to slow down when entering cities (because of the noise) and at some point in the development of the high speed rail network, it might become more interesting to dig long tunnels under cities for these trains rather than increasing the train's maximum speed.

It has to slow down anyway if it wants to stop.
Google Is Making Android as Difficult to Hack as iPhone–and Cops Are Suffering
The effect of IQ on task performance: Smart people don't do as well under press
The purpose of regulation is to change the environment to allow for a more level playing field. Where would Spotify have been if the EC didn't force MS to unbundle Windows Media Player from installs of Win XP in 2004? For those who don't remember, WMP 9 already had streaming radio via the MSN entertainment arm.

Competition doesn't happen overnight. The changes need to be in place for some period of time before entrepreneurs consider a new product/software in that sector to be viable.
Had blackberry made messenger multi-platform 15 years ago, and released an email app for iOS and Android they would still own the business market.

Even in 2019 email sucks on a modern smartphone compared to blackberry in 2004.

I'm still hoping Apple wakes up and releases messenger for Windows and Android before that ship sails. They claim to be a services company but they still can't seem to let go of tying it to devices.
Quite interesting!
What about vegetable sources?
This is true, and I’m all for metric, but this isn’t a question of imperial vs metric. It’s about taking this intentionally obscured data and making it accessible and understandable for people. The food industry lobbied to have it presented in this technical way for a reason.
What about 5 g is weird or random?
I think you can kind of approach it like "Would I eat these ingredients on their own if they weren't smashed up together?"

The first recipe I find is 1 banana, 2 cups of strawberries and 1/2 cup of yogurt and a 1/2 cup of milk, resulting in two servings.

I would definitely eat that unsmashed so I imagine the smoothie version is fine, and it's only 200 calories. Still definitely a dessert type snack though.
Why do you think Google is working on Fuschia? The second a major competitor forks android in any meaningful way, I guarantee they switch to Fushia and stop all further contributions to Android.
Why? Is bulk/restaurant produced food inherently more bland than home cooked?
Zuckerberg going full Thanos
How dementia affects conversation: Building an accessible conversational agent
> I'm not even sure what I'd do with gig internet.

We're going to find out and that's the most interesting part.
Not to be pessimistic but all signs are pointing towards the world economy expanding emissions and fossil fuel usage.
It’s in their TOS. The answer is more or less forever:

“Standard Commercial License: A BioRender Standard Commercial License is provided to all paid industry accounts allows you to use our Asset(s) anywhere in the world, and the license never expires.

You may use the Asset(s) in websites, print, presentations, publications, social media sites, marketing and advertising material, broadcasts, and for internal communication. However, you may not share or distribute the Asset(s) in any way that would let others use the Asset(s) without licensing it themselves.”
Is the Sun a superconductor?
The Sun consist of a high percentage of hydrogen ~73% and there must be really high pressure at the center.

The suns central pressure is
2.5*10^11 bar according to nasa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html
Depends on your ISP it seems - here's a mirror: https://imgur.com/kW2GnJH
Well, 'Euclidean points' (can) have precise coordinates, whereas elementary patricles don't. (Besides, thinking of particles as points is at odds with their being excitations in the respective field.)
I'd like to see a protein / calorie ratio as well - flour has the most protein / dollar, but I wouldn't recommend it as a protein source.
Awesome! Will try without a doubt.
Please tell me you're stripping EXIF tags from all images; otherwise this is just a "rob these people now" list.
Sony also used this technique in their credit-card sized compact camera's.
is it just me or is the page down?
As much as I believe that sugar is poison and that obesity and diabetes are some of our biggest health problems in this country, a failed education system has contributed largely to the situation.

The "health advice" I received in school was clearly geared towards the promotion of high carbohydrate foods and sugars while villainizing macronutrients like dietary fat and cholesterol. Every school I attended sold processed snack foods and sugary drinks. My elementary school sold cinnamon rolls floating in a bath of glaze, and they were cheap. Periods of outdoor activity were no more than half an hour, and we were discouraged from running because it was "dangerous". We were never taught how to interpret the Nutrition Facts on food labels, or about net carbs, the insulin response, etc. As I mentioned in a recent thread about skipping breakfast, we actually had industry shills come in and promote breakfast as the "most important meal of the day" while encouraging us to eat plenty of fruits and "slow carbs". Nobody ever told me that, once you gain fat, the fat swells and shrinks but doesn't go away and results in saggy skin if you lose a lot of weight. In fact, consequences to anything were rarely taught, except when it came to passing tests. This was Californian education in a wealthy town.

Education isn't a panacea, but in it's current form, it's a joke. Labels will cause some people to take sugar more seriously, yet we could be doing so much more by admitting that we've failed children for generations. Year after year, it's excuses from politicians, school boards, and parents. Health warnings on food is just duct tape.

I've been out of the public education system for 12 years, so maybe things have vastly improved since then? Someone please tell me so.
When I bring this up either on HN or offline, my argument is ridiculed for being reductive, and yet nobody denies that the education system badly needs improvement or that education plays a role in the development of young minds.

I want people to be warned about the dangers of sugar intake, but if we're not going to give people the tools to help themselves in the first place, then these warnings serve to infantilize the public for the sake of cost savings.
I've been hanging out in the Science (Programming) community on Twitch almost every day for a couple of years and I can tell you that it's definitely influenced by the social aspects of streaming.

I've even streamed myself programming once in a while and I plan on doing that a lot more here in 2019. It's fun.

Streaming while programming is definitely slower, and sometimes unproductive. You repeat yourself a lot, since people come and go constantly, but the pros can sometimes make up for that; Sharing and receiving help/knowledge from your viewers is amazing. We all get stuck sometimes, and I've seen countless of times a viewer (myself included) have the answer or solution to the problem. Very polite!

The social part is definitely a big factor and you meet a huge audience of programmers of all levels worldwide.

Also I love to help, and StackOverflow can sometimes be boring and dry to look at. Watching and helping someone programming on stream is a lot more interactive.
Nothing, because you used a spring to launch the other satellite on the other side of the payload at the same time.

Or, you just use thrusters, like the ones that launched from the Shuttle did.
Yes, these are phased array antennas on the ground so they can point right to the satellite as it passes overhead and ignore almost entirely everything nearby. By happenstance, this design also helps with reducing sidelobes on transmit and receive, the easiest ways that a third party could jam and detect this terminals. Unfortunately, this first generation of Starlink birds do not have intersatellite links meaning they still need a ground station somewhat nearby to provide the other end of the comm link. Even if you did sneak a terminal into a country, there wouldn't be any terminals nearby providing the internet connection anyway. One SpaceX figures out how to get the laser intersatellite link going, this will be a very lucrative business.

I'm not exactly sure what the best use of this current generation of Starlink is, I guess it could provide backbone for rural cell towers. It sounds like it's totally useless for aircraft and ships out in the ocean (major Iridium customers) and too expensive for individual rural residential users. I'm sure it would be possible to setup small Starlink-based ISPs in rural areas that could use dark fiber lines or microwave links to provide internet for rural users.
Advances in ground computers do not translate to space computers. Most space-qualified processors are still on the order of tens to hundreds of MHz.

I currently work on a space science satellite launched in 2015 for NASA and our flight processor is 40 MHz.

https://www.geek.com/chips/nasas-orion-spacecraft-runs-on-a-...
What I'm hearing is if Mexico could land a man on the moon the US would be there tomorrow.
Invert a binary search tree (with tests)
Their point is that a lot of the underpinnings of the internet are based on not assuming safe delivery, nor assuming the sender will get things right, and generally accepting that if you want to interoperate reliably you will have a very hard time if you assume everything works perfectly.

But taking it a point further: A huge amount of large websites are built on languages with this level of dynamic features, and often take advantage of it heavily. Every site that uses Rails for example (or any Ruby framework) will likely heavily rely on runtime introspection of the database to dynamically generate parts of the ORM apis.

I'm right now working on a Ruby application where I went a step further and axed a large chunk of semi-manual API writing by writing a few small components that dynamically generates most of the API at runtime from small pieces of metadata and the actual state of the database. A large chunk of the userinterface is similarly dynamically generated from data dynamically generated by the dynamically generated backend API.

There is no way we could deliver what we deliver with the kind of size team we're using if we could not rely on introspection and dynamic features like this to generate most things.
But what is the pricing?

Is it a $8000 base station + $200 a month for a 1 GB capped connection?

Or a $500 base station + $50 a month for 1 TB of bandwidth?

I hope for the latter but fear the former.
QNX developer here. I don't think what you're saying is true. QNX has patents registered in the USA, and in other countries, but that's hardly relevant. It's a Canadian company owned by a Canadian corporation.

BB10, on the other hand, is dead and buried. It would be easier to port something like UBPort's Ubuntu Touch to QNX as an alternative to Android.
That's roughly what's done in the UK (maybe EU wide - not sure), and red, amber, green colour coded.

Then it's rendered useless for at a glance. The only thing that seems to survive as intended is the colour coding.

A bar of chocolate might have a "portion size" of 8 squares, but give daily amounts and percentage thereof based on 4 or 2 squares. Presumably so they can avoid having to state that a portion is 235% of some recommended daily amount.

Some portion sizes are ridiculous - like half a can or bottle where most would drink all. The "traffic light" sizes are equally ridiculous, but very often different. Both are often different to the amount most regular folks would eat or drink.
Let me be the lone voice of dissent fervently hoping that mankind (at least in any form I can envision us) does not leave our solar system.

Why do we need to "colonize space?" Show me mankind living peacefully and within its means on our enormous rock, and then I'll get excited about us spreading elsewhere.

Until then, I get the uneasy feeling that what we really want to do is shit our own bed, and instead of cleaning it up, simply spread out and start shitting in other beds.

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Jeebus, I'm cranky!
About 4 tablespoons of sugar.
I'm sure Pence and Trump have never had a conversation where Trump said he wanted a moon landing to happen during his time in office. /eyeroll/
I would need data to concede that javascript required makes gitlab DOA for devs. Or, that they wouldn't enable javascript to write code.
I think that's the point. By ending corn subsidies, we'd raise the price of sugar.
Good camera tech will keep getting cheaper, but not smaller.
Not explicitly but in their FAQ: "...upgrade to one of our subscription plans in order to attain publication/commercial rights for your BioRender images." Presumably that means permanent licensing of some kind is included if you pay for the right plan, but need more info.
> which means runtime errors in the object tree usually causes the entire app to crash with very abstract error messages.

This is absolutely untrue. Xaml errors can be caught like any other error, and most errors get swallowed rather than crash the application (which can cause some debugging headaches when things aren't rendering as you expect).

> I used to think XAML could be better if architected well, but the missing ecosystem and usage around it made it so, that HTML was and still is massively more productive.

I don't think html is massively more productive. I'm not even saying that WPF is so much better, but start debugging any reasonably large react application and you're just as likely to get into an unproductive quagmire.
check out this:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1070992105/orcam-myme1s...
You sound like you're confusing Snowden with Assange. Snowden was a US citizen with a security clearance who released classified information that he had improperly gotten access to. Assange is an Australian citizen who set up a website and whom Chelsea manning sent classified information which he then published.

There's no question that Snowden committed a crime under US law, and is absolutely subject to US jurisdiction, the question is whether it was justified. With Assange, however, you'd be right: he's never even set foot in the US to my knowledge, and was given the classified information by someone else (who was tried, convicted, and served time for it).

This particular thread is talking about Snowden.
This is a good point. However, labelling might be a good alternative to the sugary drink taxes that many places are currently voting in favor of.
PEP 578 – Runtime audit hooks in Python 3.8 improving security and transparency
If you had to pick between people doing heinous things to cigarettes or cigarettes doing heinous things to people, which would you choose?

Not exactly Sophie's choice, I don't think.
These are great suggestions, thank you and it's exactly what I've posted it for tbh - It feels like this project could have endless possibilities but I also want to know what others care about too.

My next steps (I posted below but happy to post here too)

- Multiple image upload support

- Like setups

- Build collections out of setups

- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)

- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)

I think after that or even during, I'll need to definitely come up with a more structured roadmap.

Again, thank you for the suggestions!
They don't even need to be using more metric measurements, just stop using volume measurement for things that are much better suited for weight measurements.
Fuel doesn't need to imply burning though.
I don't have cites. But my bro assisted research studies at uni back in the late 80s that established this connection. The notion at the time was the body produces insulin to match the perceived sweetness, vs the actual amount of carbs to metabolize. The kicker is the excess insulin then works on otherwise useful protein. So in effect, artificially sweetener is worse than just straight sweet.

I've never read anything to contradict this. I have no idea what the state of the art is today.

Also, I do know it'd be a mistake to generalize insulin response across non-diabetic, type 1, and type 2 people.
AWS Lambda – Python psycopg2 module (PostgreSQL)
This is fucking beautiful. At the same time it makes me a little sad to work at a desk, hidden from all the people my work impacts. In a city and time where neighbors keep their heads down when they pass each other and all the mailpersons wear headphones.
Not using the power of the state to humiliate anyone on the whims of a majority sentiment.
We have one in the office. It’s fun
Space Force may have a funny name, but with the new threat of predator satellites it seems that orbit may be a legit theater of battle.
Three more dead on Everest amid concerns about congestion near summit
It's pretty amazing how you started out arguing for the dictionary definition, suggesting that's how we know common usage. But here we are with you, days later, still completely unable to incorporate that fact into your worldview. Still insisting that your desire to erase the other senses of "violence" is somehow the status quo.

The one who wants to erase bits that have been in the dictionary for decades and ignore the real world use of many senses of violence just to protect your political beliefs? In this thread: it's you
Background: I am French from a small town, came to college in the US after high school and now working as a back-end dev.

As some others mentioned, France is not the best when it comes to tech salaries. That being said, if you want to make more money, you will either have to prove that you can bring more value or build something of your own. If you feel limited by the market in France, then a few US companies will be interested in hiring you as a contractor. You will then have to pay a bunch of taxes you didn't know about in France but your cash inflow will increase if you price yourself right.

In terms of technology, what everyone looks for is a general understanding of software (architecture, algorithms, data structure, etc) and then mastery in one or more languages. I'd recommend looking into a functional language (Scala, Elixir etc) to broaden your thinking as well.
HotSpot Shield VPN is using old encryption methods
"The beverage known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm and also obesity"

Great, another thing everyone will ignore. Literally nobody pays attention to these warning labels. And further, the more things get labelled, the less trust and confidence people put in existing labels.

Every single Starbucks in California has a sign somewhere warning you that their coffee causes cancer. Does this make people drink less coffee? Or does it just make people ignore experts when they say things cause cancer?
For reference, here's what each mission did:

Apollo 1: Burned on the launchpad, killing Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.

Apollo 4-6: unmanned missions

Apollo 7: Flew in Earth orbit and tested the command module (the lunar module wasn't ready yet).

Apollo 8: Orbited the moon, further testing the command module and scoping out a potential landing spot.

Apollo 9: Flew in Earth orbit, testing rendezvous between the lunar module and command module.

Apollo 10: Dress rehearsal of the moon landing, except they didn't land. Came withing 50k feet of the surface.

Apollo 11: The first moon landing. Only went outside for less than 3 hours. Landed 4 miles away from the target.

Apollo 12: Second moon landing. Two 4 hour walks outside. Landed very close to the target.

Apollo 13: Oxygen tank exploded in command module on the way to the moon. Used the lunar module as a lifeboat, slingshotting around the moon before returning to Earth.

Apollo 14: Apollo 13, but successful. Did two 8 hour walks.

Apollo 15: Upgraded lunar module that could carry the rover and additional supplies, and new suits that they could take off inside the lunar module (previous missions only took off the helmet and gloves). Three 8 hour stints outside, venturing tens of miles away from the lander, including up the side of a mountain. Focus of the mission was entirely on science and collecting samples.

Apollo 16-17: Apollo 15, but at different places and more extreme.

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I'm almost finished listening to "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin that tells the story of each mission. Highly recommended.
You could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc.

How about having to put a picture of a pregnant woman being run over on the hood of every tesla, to remind about the murderous and gruesome reality of the manslaughters of the autoindustry?

The difference is not the product, its the popular sentiment that legitimizes a terrible overreach of state power.
Can access the site itself but can't navigate to either /programming or /food.
who cares at this point
Isn’t KaiOS [nee FirefoxOS] open-source in a way where any of these companies could just... use it? (In the same way they can “just use” Android now?) Why do they need to make their own?
>Her party has been trying to get her out for a while. She’s been a lame duck. I’ll give her tenacity but it had to end. The negotiations are a disaster. Her own party is at odds with her. She should have stepped down last confidence vote.

Nobody else is dumb enough to want to be left holding the bag, though.
I don't believe they have, in any real capacity. Can emacs reap processes? Is there an elisp binding for every kernel syscall?