skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The larynx allows us to firmly shut off our airway (far better than lips alone) in both directions (unlike the epiglottis that just prevents inhalation).

By firmly shutting off our airway, we can stiffen our bodies to facilitate lifting.

The larynx is also a secondary safeguard against things getting past the epiglottis.
Wow, he’s comparing the storages SLA of the two biggest cloud services in the world. Pedantic behavior should hurt.
Millions of love doll lovers find true love in Japanese sex dolls
It can save broken relationships - yes, you hear it. It is very simple to break a relationship today, but the person who claims to be an angel in the life of a person. Sometimes the relationship you enter sometimes doesn't work and eventually breaks down, leaving you heartbroken. In this case, the rescue is a real sex doll. All the frustrations you bring about breaking previous relationships, anger, sadness and other feelings will affect the silicone doll, because it will never be hurt. Basically, it can help you break all negative things and continue after breaking up.

https://www.uloversdoll.com/sexy-lifelike-love-dolls.html
I find it odd people call Apple, and Amazon a monopoly, when it's very easy to not use Apple and Amazon is inferior to Walmart Online.

I don't have a reason to use either company outside obscure niche circumstances.
A phenomenaly good and useful app, though I agree completey as to Reddit's faults.
That is great, I wonder if they memorised the sequence, had notes out of shot, were signalling to each other on the side away from the camera, or just did a lot of takes.

This also gives me an excuse to post Lasse Gjertson's excellent short animation, 'Roshambo' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGzdzRFftBc
And all cloud providers will emphasize how you yourself should design your software and architect your infrastructure to be available in multiple regions to achieve the highest availability.
Just add to that. Humans have always lived in tribes. Tribes internally were mostly socialistic but between tribes it was free trade. You could say a man few thousand years ago was more certain of his future and less stressed about career then today. You knew your village goes to farm those lands, have neighbours who will feed you when you can't, gather for stories every evening, ... Life was physically hard but otherwise easy and simple
Google Translate's rendering of "Dream of the Rood" (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a02_05.htm), lines 10-12:

feathers need to be looked after. Neither is it true that the offcodes are algae,
but they are kept half-
gassed, but they are too muddy, and they are scarce.
Speaking of the foundations: is intuitionism still alive? How is constructive math doing nowadays? Do mathematicians embrace or reject it? Did the recent HoTT change their attitude towards constructive math?
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Berlin Became an Unlikely Home for China’s Artists
Anki. It doesn't take long.
Guard: Where'd you get the avocados?

King Arthur: We found them.

Guard: Found them? In Mercia? The avocado's tropical!

King Arthur: What do you mean?

Guard: Well this is a temperate zone!

King Arthur: The resplendent quetzal may fly south with the sun, or the house marten or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land!

Guard: Are you suggesting avocados migrate?

King Arthur: Not at all! They could be carried.

Guard: What? A resplendent quetzal carrying an avocado?

King Arthur: It could grip it by the husk!

Guard: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound avocado!
When will Bitcoin hit 100k?
Very insightful article. Thanks for putting it together. Looking forward to an update with io_uring.
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because they don't fit the
desired narrative. A small
ring of moderators are
in control...

Here on HN, it's pretty much the same. You aren't reading the opinions of authentic people. All you get is the selected filtration of a small group of paid staff, compounded by default themes already set in motion by the wider media outlets.
These straps are like ties - you get one in the colour of your school, university, club, or regiment.
> Do you prefer to manage multiple languages in your stack, or cobble together half-baked “DSL”s with method dot-notation, decorators, etc.?

Yes to both.
I used to feel like $10/month was a ridiculously good deal for Netflix. Now I feel like it’s barely worth it. I’d probably just cancel it if it wasn’t the only service that’s easily accessible outside the US.
This is really a sad truth about modern Reddit.

Seems like /r/news, /r/worldnews and many other hyper-popular subs are carefully crafted propaganda machines.

The best way around it to stay subscribed to smaller, more niche subs.
It seems like if you're going to engage in a public debate in favour of or opposing X, the bare minimum expectation should be that you do enough background research to be able to speak in an informed manner about X.
As I’ve gotten older I find that my wants are fewer, and the list of things I truly care about has gotten much shorter. I’m happy with what I have now and grateful for the basic things (family, health, work I enjoy).

Consider making as many good experiences as you can, rather than accumulating more things.
It's overly reductive. Why not take drugs and cut out the middleman - the action? Why not become a brain in a vat and be fed sensations by some stimulation device?

There's a lot of existing philosophy in this area, worth reading if one is so inclined.
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The damage is done. I think the lost of trust will have considerable impact.
Hard to take you serious when you misspell "tariff"
We're learning creatures. But the knowledge we gain can't be predicted in advance. So if I'm aiming for a mental state I'm not going to know in advance all the features of that state. If I could, it would have to be an undesirable state since I wouldn't be learning anything.

I can only go for a feeling. Yet the choices of subsequent future mental states based on the feelings I predict they will elicit will depend on details of what I learned last time.

So we're not really aiming at mental states. Nor are we accumulating them because in reality we forget most of the details of our experiences.
If I lose my visa for downsizing where I am, I can leave and go back on tourist visa, find another job and redo the work visa in 2 weeks.

It's idiotic to make it hard for immigrants to get back on their feet, it's not like working immigrants cost money..., what cost money is to lose them to a competing country...

But in essence you're right anyway: immigration is a privilege, complaining about it is really unfair to a country that was never forced to take you in in the first place. The only thing we the immigrants and the host countries can do, is compete on entry condition, to bring the most high skilled, high asset immigrants.
Great work! But it should say somewhere which version of HTTP it implements. I guess it is 1.1 and will likely stay so?
The actual contest sounds really fun, does anyone know where can I find more of this "competitive" programming?
Those aren't the numbers I see [1]. For domestic US, Endgame is in 18th place.

Why not worldwide? Even the US numbers are rickety. There are multiple ways to account for inflation, multiple ways of record counting for sales, trying to factor in re-showings, etc. Adding on multiple currencies and economies is a power of extra complexity.

> There's tons more money out there now

Yes. Money. My whole thing here has been about weighing success by monetary takings. It doesn't necessarily track. The price of a ticket has far outstripped what retail indexed inflation. Tickets, after inflation, are eighteen times more expensive than their 1950s counterparts. You only a eighteenth of the 1950s audience to gross the same.

But while we're talking about bullshit headlines, looking up Endgame renders some gems [2]. Things like "Fastest to $1bn" aren't just historically incomparable because of inflation but because distribution has changed significantly. Movies in the US used to have months of lead-time ahead of the global market. There still is for many languages. Modern studios recognise the waste and damage in this. Endgame was globally available (to over half the population) within 4 days. "Highest Opening Weekend" grossses also have the same problem.

1: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_box_office_records_set...
That's the one! ^^ And you're of course correct.
How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion
One such niche is buying books.
Massive thanks for article and more in particular this site. Ever since high school I have struggled with n-d space (for n>3), this site and previous article in the blog http://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2019/manifold/ is an amazing introduction.
Entropic - A package registry for anything, but mostly JavaScript
It’s possible they’re saving money and also possible they’re drowning in debt and have no free cash flow.
When One Protected Species Kills Another, What Are Conservationists to Do?
It should, it is a valid domain name after all. something.ai is a subdomain of the .ai domain.
We saved the whales! This is excellent. I didnt even know that whales around NYC were a thing. I'm glad they are!
I don't know the specofics.about the US, but other countries have legal means to take government dwxisions to court and - depending on the issue - a least force a delay on the order until the court decision has been reached. I would be surprised if the US had no such mechanism to defend against illegal or unjust executive orders.
I sold all the stocks in my fun money account a few weeks ago. I haven’t touched my 401k tho.
No, they don't. That's the point. The voter can lie about the salt. Only the voter knows they are lying, because they were alone in the polling booth.
Universal Biometric Identity
I'm disappointed with both Hollywood and Netflix.

First is just unending deluge of comic book movies. Second is pretty much 90% self-produced TV series.
B-threads: programming in a way that allows for easier changes
Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough? (2015)
lisp and trees, you know
Oh right. All those cute baby photos on the internet have grown up now.

This is gonna be fun. Cant wait for one if them to run for office. Oppo research will be very interesting.
> It's just a NATO strap

Which ironically aren't a NATO standard, but a UK MoD spec.
> Do I need to prove that out of mathematical curiosity or for some profit?

Knowing that a solution (or how many) exists or not is valuable because it tells you wether it’s worthwhile to search for one. The robot arm example above helped an engineer friend of mine because his boss was not happy with his non-smooth solution. I could provide him with the papers that you cannot do better. This saved him time. Is it worth the overhead to learn Morse theory as an engineer? Probably not. Is it worthwhile to know it exists and ask a mathematician? I would argue yes.
Nasa plans to send equipment to Moon from 2020
Making existing drugs and medical techniques more available and making water and food more accessible _is_ economic growth.
But we are more than that i.e. from a atomic perspective we are an ever changing interaction between atoms.

Things are not the models that describe them; things are them selfs. Applying a model and saying: "that is the only model" is incorrect. While his model is an accurate representation of something in reality it is only accurate in its own context.

I write comments to expand my and others mind not only to socialize whatever that really means. Pushing complex things trough simple language makes them seam simple, but they are not.
No I mean we need to focus on negative externalities like environmental impacts.
It would be interesting to learn about some new (unified) theory that can formalize the notion of infinity. Apparently, this can hardly be done on the basis of the classical (Cartesian) view of space which is essentially a box with points (elements).
Smartphones and everything that comes with it are more dangerous in that regard, in that a lot of activities on there are designed to give you a sense of accomplishment - finishing a level, getting an award, getting upvotes on the internets, winning at something, being moderately entertained by an endless stream of memes, dog / cat videos, etcetera. It's a continuous stream of short lived distractions.

Disclaimer: I use the phone all the time, Reddit takes up a lot of my attention. That said, I managed to sit down and read a book for a bit yesterday.
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That argument surely holds if you’ve got Google Authenticator and 1Password installed on the same device?

If someone gets your vault password and can unlock your phone, you’re toast, but SMS as a second factor is then also compromised so what usable (since this thread started as trying to sell MFA to lay people) options do you have (other than maybe a Yubikey)?
Securing Your Crypto with Security Keys and WebAuthN
Probably not too much like reddit at all. So long as reddit exists its particular niche in the ecology of the internet is filled and websites which serve a very similar purpose can't really hope to gain significant numbers of users. Attention is a finite resource and sites with more content attract more of people's attention. For sites with user generated content, this means that the more users you have the more content is generated and the more of those user's attention is captured by one that one site. If there are two sites which both rely on user generated content but are more or less identical, the smaller one will inevitably hemorrhage users to the larger one. The larger the difference in number of users, and by extension the amount of content, the faster the hemorrhage. Sites need to differentiate themselves to survive, this can be through format, focus, moderation, or community but all of these options will effect the maximum possible number of people a site can appeal to. Sites basically need to justify their existence relative to other established sties. The question is "what do you do better and how many people does that matter to?". For most reddit alternatives, the answer is not much and not many.

All of this is essentially the Competitive Exclusion Principle[1] applied to websites. It's why reddit clones will never gain significant market share so long as reddit exists in something resembling its current form.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion_principl...
Or fib. Which you are sometimes pretty much forced to do.
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Huawei to Sell Undersea Cable Business
Another one I know of is Core War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
> I guess it is 1.1

Negative ghost rider, it's hard-coded to 1.0: https://github.com/shuveb/zerohttpd/blob/master/01_iterative...

(in reality it's barely even that e.g. it only handles GET and POST methods, discards every header, …, so it's an HTTP server in the sense that it kinda sorta will respond to HTTP requests).
A ‘Bridge’ to China, and Her Family’s Business, in the Trump Cabinet
Oh, wow! Thank you so much. I was about to take my phone for repairs because of what I thought to be a flaky micro-USB port.
Neither are perfect monopolies, however to deny that they wield significant monopoly power is patently absurd.

Monopoly power is not simply an issue of consumer choice - there are considerations around prices, coercion, competitive barriers and other outcomes, not just for consumers, but for competitors, suppliers, workers, investors, citizens, etc.
That's how things used to work with Quake and GameSpy. I worked at an isp, played for one of the better Team Fortress clans. I'd haul my computer to work every day, hook it up and use it to practice for hours after work and host matches. I even built a website that was a primitive social network just for our clan.

I loved it! I had so much fun and I was playing with the best of the best and not a single person in my 10,000 student University (I was co-oping at the time) could even come close to challenging me. We had LAN parties all the time. We'd take over a computer lab, install Quake on every PC, then compete all afternoon long. I'd travel to regional lan parties (the big one hosted by members of my clan in Detroit) all the time. All my clan mates were located within a couple hours of each other. We were a Midwestern team (mostly Ohio and Michigan).

There was even a minor league. I once dropped down into the minor league because I got fed up with the politics of the majors and I was always very very good, but not Michael Jordan good. I was one of the guys on the team who supported the big star. I just couldn't quite make that super star tier. Our clan was always in the top 10 but couldn't crack the top 3.

Anyway I dropped down to the minors for a couple months. It was a mistake. I was so much better than everyone else I literally single handedly won games for the clan. Only one or two other people on the other teams challenged me, and they were likely A Leaguers moonlighting in the minors or just hadn't moved up yet. It was eye opening and felt like a real second tier league prepping people for the shot at the big league. I eventually moved back to the majors because it was unfair for the others on my team and I simply needed the challenge. I brought some of the better players with me.

I really believed that this was the beggining of true esports. Unfortunately my career as a professional gamer came to an abrupt end. I began to suffer from severe motion sickness as the games became more realistic graphically and real life became more of a priority.

We did all this via GameSpy and IRC. I look at things now and it's so different. It feels less organic, but it might just be that I'm removed from it now.

I also wonder how good I could have gotten had I been able to keep playing at this level. I would have another 20 years of experience. Also cheating (wall hacks and aim bots) were rampant at the time. To this day I believe the reason our team never broke into the top 3 wasn't for to lack of talent, it was due to the cheating. We were a good crew and we played honorably. Some of the better players in the better teams were eventually outed as cheaters.

I miss those days. Some of the best experiences of my life and I learned more than just the game. I learned politics, managing people and personalities, scheduling and discipline. I learned how to practice something rigorously and made many good friends who I have unfortunately lost touch with.

I sure hope others can still experience this today.
Any meddling by any other country would have not had the same effect.

What you are saying is that, because of the pervasiveness of US tech, all organizations having US a companies as members are at risk.

Time for the world to route around this single point of failure.
I really think we should get rid of work-related drinking culture altogether. People should not be routinely encouraged to get tipsy or intoxicated around coworkers that they barely know but will have to interact with subsequently as strangers, as we see happening in company-promoted "events", "parties" and the like. It's not something that promotes 'cooperation' as some might naïvely assume; if anything, it's the very opposite of professionalism and a recipe for severe social conflict. If we're going to pursue "harm reduction" in our alcohol-related culture, let's make the workplace a temperate environment first and foremost.
If the oil expands and contracts with temperature then the bubble would allow this without the oil blowing the seal.

I think that’s the idea. Could be wrong.
Reddit doesn't need this system there are plenty of vote farms that you can pay a miniscule amount of money to and they will do it for you.
> Some people really hate the culture and think it's wrong, so they promote stories that show it in a bad light.

I posted this story. I certainly don't hate my own home or culture. Rather I think one must have lived a very sheltered life in Japan not to have been affected by the hikikomori issue, by alcoholism, or both, which I'd argue are the two biggest problems today in Japanese society, bar none.

Japan Times criticism is valid, somewhat. It's certainly not top notch journalism, very few articles are these days. But I can't quite go and post a study of hikikomori in Japanese.

Not a single person I know in Japan has had no contact with, or not suffered themselves directly these issues. Any public conversation about them is good and necessary.
Principally the file organisation that pretty much forces you to stick all your controllers in one single directory. If you want to create a truly modular application (think microservices) RoR defaults seemed to work against you.
Example:

https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_umap_works.h...

For simple applications, you have not know too much. In order to understand, you have to acquire some mathematical knowledge from related areas (to Morse Theory).
>You just can’t break a countries laws and hope to get away with it.

Firstly, which law would they have been breaking if they had not blocked Huawei, given the subsequent guidance they have been given?

And secondly, which universe do you inhabit? Companies and organisations break the law and get away with it in this one with monotonous regularity.
To preface: I have over 650,000 reddit karma, mostly collected from 2014-2017. Roughly 150,000 of this is from posts, the rest comments.

I completely agree that mods can push their own agenda about their subreddits; they have almost completely unfettered control of their subreddits, and the admins almost never intervene. But I don't agree that there's an argument to be made for the actual posters of content; it's simply a numbers game, as well as a good amount of "gaming" the system; e.g. posting during high-volume times, crossposting content, etc. I think the calls of shilling on Reddit are significantly more pronounced than shilling itself actually is, as I myself have posted content on multiple occasions and then been called a shill, when in reality I simply found whatever product interesting or useful or otherwise. On one occasion I was offered a free product _after_ making a post about it (I declined). I've never made a post that I've received any kind of compensation for, but I have made posts advertising non-profit events that I organized as a volunteer.

I have a group of friends that I've been on Reddit, and all of them have 100,000+ karma, and a couple with over a million, and they have somewhat shared the sentiment. I don't want to sound like I'm saying there's no astroturfing at all, because there definitely is, but there's this culture of calling anything with any kind of recognizable product in it an advertisement, when it can be explained much less conspiratorially.
Choosing the right key performance indicators
Previous discussion from 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079431 (6 comments)
I've never come across a first world one as bad as the US. India is one of the few places I've been to that I think could compete.
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Digital Minimalism was probably my least favorite Cal Newport book, not for the subject matter but because of the reliance on third party stories. I like to hear peoples’ stories first hand.

Even though I ended up being a partially failed case for using this book, I still got value from it. I mostly did the thirty day digital detox but ended up going back almost to my old routine. The difference is that I have perhaps reduced wasted time on my devices by about 1/3. I am more aware of how much time I am spending, while I am spending it reading Twitter, HN, or playing Chess or Go when I have short periods of non-busy time. I am considering removing Chess and Go apps from all my devices.

If you are going to read just one Cal Newport book, I recommend choosing Deep Work.