skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of a local hacks-and-hackers (journalists and programmers) group...

How can one best support journalism, if its brokenness is systemic?

Consider a supermarket-checkout tabloid of the "UFO aliens tattooed my baby!" variety. It seems unlikely that any plausible level of resources will yield high-quality journalism. But perhaps the BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed News pair is a counterargument.

Consider the NYT, with its view of the world as a competition between ideas, rather than between economic and political interests. More resources won't fix that.

Also apropos the NYT, for decades I wished for better coverage of the role of subculture group-think in governance failures. I excused that NYT's lack of it as resource limitations, and hoped for reallocation someday. Then Trump, and there was lots of coverage of group-think among his supporters, and still a dearth of it about its role among elite. Resource limitations weren't the bottleneck.

So yes, marginally better funding might yield marginally better journalism from the the Guardian / NYT / WSJ / WaPo / FT / etc. More reporters, fact checking, foreign bureaus, conferences, etc. But...

They still won't be tracking their failures, searching for root causes, and pursuing continuous process improvement. It won't change journalism's culture of obliviousness to decades of learning in other industries about how to organize processes for consistently high quality.

Is there any journalistic platform that has a plausibly modern process story, and just needs resources to flesh it out and grow? Regardless of focus - just, is anyone doing this well, who can be funded and assisted as an exemplar? Is there any journalism foundation attempting to encourage modern processes? Is there any dinky little local paper that's made a commitment to consistently record its failures in a google spreadsheet, and to follow up on what went wrong and how their process might be improved? That I could see funding.

Marginal non-transformative improvement is nice too. With society and history being chaotic, small deltas can have large consequences. But I find the current product quality demotivating without some prospect for transformative improvement.
Don't such things always seem a bit obvious in retrospect?

/joke
Well, I don't.

Puerto Ricans seem split of statehood, but full independence seems far less popular, at least based on the 2012 referendum.

I'd like them to become a US state. I feel similarly about all territories under US control. I feel it would be ultimately better for them than independence, and better for US moral character.
Not the parent, but in my view it is basically a 1-dimensional subset of Grid, which is great for mostly-1D website design.
But when it comes to making applications (which often use the whole screen, with tabs and whatnot, instead of being scroll-oriented), it makes some things either really difficult, either still requiring custom code to get it just right, or having a handful of wrapper elements for relatively simple layouts.

Don't get me wrong, it's _miles_ better for web layout than the old systems, but since Sciter seems to be focused on application-style layouts, it makes sense to prefer a layout system that can better represent common patterns in that domain.

Also, if you plan on go responsive, the required flex wrappers kind of hold you back when you need to reorient a bunch of your layout to fit a vertical screen (or horizontal, if you're doing mobile-first), while Grid's `grid-area` is beautifully flexible in that regard.

TL;DR: If you're gonna have to have Grid, then just having Grid is perfectly fine as it can do everything Flex can and more.
I was very interested in Pony a few years ago but haven't kept up with it.

I loved the idea of a compiled, actor based language with safe concurrency primitives; somewhat like a high performance Erlang.

How has Pony faired after the company trying to monetize it failed?

Anyone using it for something serious?
It's not just a matter of strength to operate the trim wheel, which can vary a lot depending on the mistrim forces. It's also fatigue from pulling back on the yoke. And it's also altitude.

That means time is a factor that has to be taken into account. There are configurations where a mistrim flat out cannot happen at a certain altitude or it isn't recoverable in time before hitting the ground, regardless of strength.
So it's useful if distance to your object changes predictably enough, like in astronomy, satellite imaging and many other kinds of space missions.
I love cycling, but I live in a very hilly environment, which is why I don't think it will really take off here, unfortunately.

I always try and think about designs for a "ski lift" for bikes, just as a thought exercise. Is anything like that being actually made?
It’s not that hard, I watched Captain Planet as a kid and I swear one of those villains did something similar.
One thing I commonly hear in response to a question of the form “How can I effectively learn X?” Is “through experience” or “you just have to do it”. One frustrating thing about that response is that it takes skill to know what to focus on while practicing. In some domains like sports, people recognize that coaches are useful for learning what to focus on as you practice. It would be great if there were coaches for skills such as a software engineer’s prioritization, planning, and estimation of day-to-day tasks.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them when posting here?

When people's views are divided, internet readers are a million times too quick to assume that the other side is brigading, shilling, spying, astroturfing, promoting secret agendas, fifth-columning, foreign-agenting, or (this seems to be the latest favorite word) disingenuous—even when they have zero basis for thinking so. (Someone representing an opposing view is no basis for thinking so.) This is a cognitive bias. It leads people to imagine nefariousness and project it onto other users. That poisons the community—and this poison is actually the bigger problem by far. We've even seen individual users singled out for attack merely for a different point of view. In the limit case it even approaches mob behavior.

Therefore all HN users are expected to have the self-restraint to rein in this impulse, most of all on paranoia-prone topics like spies hiding things in technology, nations planting foreign agents, and all the rest of this. Yes, these are things; and internet commenters imagining them is also a thing.

Here are a few of the other explanations I've posted about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20239719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20199254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19862158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19404162

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19402447

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16632589

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16532039

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Nobody asked for a Valve card game.

We're all waiting for a '3' of any of their franchises.
Hunger Promotes Fear Extinction by Activation of an Amygdala Microcircuit
What if there was a package manager for Factorio?
If in the Bay Area, there’s a crazy little big foot museum run by a wildly eccentric chap who is great fun to talk to in Felton, just 10 minutes outside of Santa Cruz. It’s just opposite Henry Cowell Redwood Statepark which is also well worth a visit, it’s a fun afternoon to see both. Admission is free too. He also tracks supposed big foot sightings in the Santa Cruz mountains.

> https://www.bigfootdiscoveryproject.com/
I have kept an eye on this for a long time. Is there any design pattern with Rust style (no unsafe and not ugly from Rust community's perspective) that proved in prototype to be able to achieve the same scaling of performance and memory usage as native C/C++ GUI framework with more complicated interface (e.g. Office)? Could this be an inherent limit of Rust because of the memory safety principle?
I don't think that the buttons are for cost saving, rather, buttons are thought to be modern (even, if they are not, think of the starter buttons found in recent cars as well as in early ones) and levers and gears are not. (UX again, probably aiming at a fly-by-wire experience.)

P.S.: The entire central console arrangement is always a bit questionable in cars with a manual gear shift, even in the traditional layout. If a passenger wants to access some in the console, s/he inadvertently interferes with the driver's action. Certainly not a good thing… – At some point, you need to know, what you may do and what not in order to avoid dangerous situations, and there will be probably always off-limits zones by convention. But, of course, you should do everything possible in your design to avoid hazardous situations and mishandling, and to communicate usage as clearly as possible.
Nobody asked for the '1' of their franchises. It worked out well tho.
Anyone else concerned about placing these on every block? How do they affect birds? Bees? Or the local level tracking they can do on your phones now... Ain't no hiding.
Convert them to cargo. Amazon could probably scoop them up for pennies on the dollar for a new Prime Air fleet.
Only about a third of new pilots in the US now come from a military background, and it is probably less globally. Commercially trained pilots probably have less stringent physical conditioning and experience.

Female pilots and pilots from ethnic groups of smaller stature also need to be considered.

The FAA First Class Medical requirements don't seem to have any requirements regarding physical strength.
Well in astronomy you usually want your telescope to be able to observe different targets. So it depends on the details of how the correction surface has to change when the image-object distance.

If it's just a mild deformation and offset, then yeah I guess technology similar to adaptive mirrors could work well.
Somehow cutting out the middle man in this case has unexpected side effects. Article does not talk about the service and technical insurance an underwriter brings
They should be able to override the trim via thumb switch and then cut out the trim system once it’s trammed in. Mcas cuts out when the thumb switch is applied.
That actually is against the rules of many games - eg, you can't record the cards in bridge or blackjack or most any cards games. And if you want to devote energy to tracking moves in something, fine. It is even done in chess.

But chess also has its version no take back a in touch-move requirements. Part of your"best" self is making good decisions the first time under pressure. Or they I'm not playing you, but a small group of you (often with other played input).

Competition involves the stress of making decisions that you cannot take back.
I used to be a photographer and have stared at the lens group diagrams from many a lens manufacturer, so take this with a grain of salt: In a lens there are multiple lens groups, it's often that the aberration correction is its own distinct group, with fixed input and output groups flanking it. I'd imagine that the distance to the projection surface, in this case the next lens group, can be fixed and thus distinct from the distance to your ultimate subject. A fun fact is that Helmholtz reciprocity says that regardless which direction light passes through an optical system you can reverse the distortion and reconstruct the input signal.
Wait, how is K-NN harder to implement than a perception... Even in hardware? What about linear regression? What about decision trees? What about naive Bayes?
I'm not sure I really follow how this actually will result in better lenses. Is the precision of the numerical solution really the problem, or is the problem the actual precise manufacturing of the lens elements?

I have a strong suspicion that the numerical solution is as precise as needed and the limiting factor is the manufacturing, but I would be interested to hear how this results in something new.
From another comment in this thread:

"The author’s have a paper from March 2019 (in arXiv) that uses the result to build some novel telescope geometries."
I have not checked the actual paper, but according to the article itself:

> Moreover, the solution involved aspherical elements, which are harder to manufacture in a precise way and are thus more costly.

> Their findings were published in the article General Formula for Bi-Aspheric Singlet Lens Design Free of Spherical Aberration, in the journal Applied Optics.

I’m no expert in optics, but that does not sound like the kind of advancement that cheapens lenses, even if the math work is mathematically relevant
Typically it is expected that sovereign states resist attempts at undermining their sovereignty.
For reactors built here a significant part of cost is plain mismanagement, corruption and/or profiteering. This results in costly and less-safe reactors.

Don't know about others.
We are lucky that they decided to vandalize instead of hiding something. Remember, on Github you can actually submit your commit with another’s email, and github automatically puts the identity associated with the email allowing people to spoof.

Always sign your commits!
Dishonesty is the one true God. What you say can and will be used against you.
Your comment seems to just be highlighting the fact that inspecting types at runtime is non-idiomatic at best in C++ or similar languages, so it would make sense to require a specific data structure or format.

Even defining what a "native" type is seems like it would be fraught. I guess the c++ way would be to accept begin and end iterators - but of what type?
Are these not just mirrors though or do they actually use git? Woulda thought they used SVN primarily since they pull from Debian? Or do they just pull tarbals... And this all leads to me wondering how they do their process... Anybody got good docs on how Ubuntu or similar distros that base off a parent distro do their work?
It exists - https://youtu.be/zipZ5kwhFfs?t=37

Nowadays it's easier to just mount an electric motor on your bike.
Discussed 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370446
Giving him his due: Claire Lowdon on why we should still read John Updike
I think this is the key thing. The problem isn't that Valve charged too much. The problem is that people thought Valve was charging too much. Why did they think that? It is because the pricing was too "in your face" and prevented you from actually playing the game. People will spend a lot [0] so long as they feel like they aren't being forced into it.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/4by4e4/pol...
My cursory audit of encfs (not written up) revealed that, if you use it in the natural way for backup (reverse mount an unencrypted directory, and rsync the virtual, encrypted file system that exposes), then it does not use per-file salt, so each file with the same contents is encrypted to the same ciphertext.

This was years ago. It might be fixed.
That is ludicrous.

Why should a group of individuals have to disclose while individual citizens can keep it secret and hide behind privacy excuses?
【Release v2.1.0】A lightweight distributed task scheduling framework
Pick airlines that don't have any 737 Maxes in their fleet.
Your citations seem roughly in line with what I said and expected: Americans pay double overall, with a similar dollar amount of public healthcare.

Proportionately speaking, that means Americans are not taxed the same (higher incomes). Interestingly, based on what I'm seeing re: incomes, the /total/ healthcare expenditure is, as a proportion of income, the same between the US and western Europe.

Overall this seems quite unsurprising: healthcare is expensive, the US pays more and the government spreads it around less. Worth noting that health and lifestyle in the US is also "worse" (more cultural than healthcare related).
7-Eleven Japan shut down a mobile payments app with simple security flaw
The absurd language used by job adverts
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https://www.reddit.com/r/UF239C/comments/c9vosd/ufc_239_live_free_on_reddit/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/UF239C/comments/c9vot8/jones_vs_santos_live_fight_ufc_239_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UF239C/comments/c9vpzg/mma_thread_jones_vs_santos_ufc_239_live_stream_on/
> I feel like the questionnaire piss off people who really knows C.

I hated this test. I’ve spent 12 years working on C targeting various flavors of arm and x86.

Just because the behavior is undefined when compiled without warnings and run on a Soviet water integrator doesn’t mean the language is undefined for the 99.995% of the industry uses.

Behavior of c89 or later with -Wall -Werror on modern clang, gcc, icc, visual studio, is well understood on arm, x86, mips, risc, ppc, Cortex-m and just about every other hardware architecture.

But, C is a pia, and I’ve been using rust instead :)
I'm considering a Cloudberry Labs (freeware/personal) + BB B2 combination for encrypted cloud backups and would like to hear opinions specifically on the Cloudberry part. I love the command-line suggestions in this comment thread but need something that "just works" as a Windows service for my wife's pc.
> Amazon could probably scoop them up for pennies on the dollar for a new Prime Air fleet.

If Boeing can't afford to scrap 500 jets, it probably can't afford to sell 500 jets at a 95% loss.
200k - 2m years of human / protohuman development, vs ~100 years under vaguely modern conditions, is a big difference.

Your reply fails to acknowledge it.
Debian stores packaging in Git too, these days, sometimes exclusively.
Amazon is supposed to abide by the laws of any country they operate in. The law in Australia says that they need to disclose energy use and that those numbers are made public. If Amazon doesn’t want to follow Australian laws, perhaps they shouldn’t be putting bit barns in Australia.
DuckDB Is an Embeddable SQL OLAP Database Management System
Love it haha
They weren't suppose to take "move fast and break things" literally!

(It's really weird how "literally" has two literally opposite meanings.)
I’ve never felt the same community of believers exists around “Nessie”, probably because the myth is so tightly linked to one specific location.

Bigfoot’s big marketing advantage is that he could be living in any forest, anywhere, greatly increasing the total addressable market for believers.
Hard to believe this does not mention Haskell or functional programming ... but then again that was a Pycon talk from 2003.
Natural gas emits far less co2 per heat generated (don’t know how much exactly). Burning natural gas is bad, but not as bad as burning coal.
Mullvad is great! They don't require email, and they accept crypto for payment.
Which I think is only Delta in the US
GitHub scores high in content moderation report
The 737Max's design decisions seem to have been driven by their desire to maintain their 737NG type-rating.

So even though it is aerodynamically a different aircraft (with the engines further out), it mimics the 737NG with an effective emulator. For pilots certified on the 737NG, apparently minimal retraining is required to fly the 737Max.

Using this analogy, the MCAS system was seemingly put in place to behind-the-scenes manage a flight-envelope condition on the Max that would not happen on the NG.

So what happens when the 737Max hardware has a failure? How is the failure condition reported and managed by the flight crew? Are all failures on the 737Max passed through like they were 737NG failures? Does the flight crew respond as if they were flying a 737NG or a 737Max?

Correctly mimicing a 737NG during proper flight and under failure conditions seems like a tall order.
I'm not at all convinced that the model of 5G and the model of Amazon satellites providing "internet" access from above is consistent with a serious decentralized network to serve humanity's needs.

Where are we on mesh technology at this point? I haven't caught up in like 3 years, but I hear it is coming along?
Bug: clicked on "About Hoxly" in the footer menu, from that page (link https://www.hoxly.com) I was unable to open the top menu (device: Android, browser: Brave)
VR headset lens already require software chromatic abberration correction -- I'm curious what constraints if any would limit the application of this new result for VR spherical aberrations. Would love some thoughts from an optics expert on this. I also wonder if this new knowledge could contribute to a software corrector.
Anorexia heard of it. That's what happens if you choose not to eat. Yes you die but it is a choice (ish, a desease? yes, but stil a choice(of madness)).

Being a parent is time forcefully spent. Now one could argue that all free time for a parent of children below a certain age is parenting time,and thus it might make sense to have a checkbox rather than a time slider for parenting time. The point is a parents free time is non existant we simply cannot play games on a pc or code for an extended period of time on weekends or holidays because that comes at the cost of not monitoring your child's daily consumption of soap (it should be zero, but you will be amased), or you could lock them in a padded room (illegal) so that you can code/game whatever in peace.

The point is, a child makes sure that you never have a split second while they are awake to do what you want because they will literally sit on your hands and pull your hair (and you will come to love it in a bizarre way) that's just how it is (for a while)
Zen 2 is very good in number crunching and synthetics. But it has a problem - terrible memory latency. 70ns with 3600cl16. (https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18168279) It distills to a not-so-good gaming frame times. It's 64mb L3 cache (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_9/3900x) helps only partially.

Few games will suffer greatly from it, but there are several titles with RAM bottlenecks, like PUBG and FarCry.

Anyway, AMD has a much better price/performance offer than Intel. For general puprose Intel is totaly anihilated, but for the games they are still more than competitive.
In Baidu maps, China is always at the centre of the world
Perhaps there are two copies of the program pointer, one at the "top of the pipe" updated by instruction decode and branch prediction, and one at the "bottom of the pipe" updated by the ROB. Then uops only need to carry the amount by which the program counter is advanced, and certain events can cause a pipeline flush and copy the bottom of pipe version of the counter to the top of the pipe.

But that's also all speculation :)
I suspect it is because many humans derive self-worth from seeing other people who are worse off than they are. If you have that mindset, personal comfort really can be a zero-sum game, sadly...
Maybe.

Notice at the same time, not only the manufacturer, but also the authority CAAC, the China counterpart of FAA, is behaving more and more independently, as the first regulatory agency to ground 737MAX.
Sounds like everything will be visible always now. https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/
I don't think americans need the 'couple of hundred mbps' on their cellphones in metro areas as much as they need decent 3g coverage in other parts of the country, especially in seasonal touristy places where visitors don't know where things are or where to go. In my personal experience, almost all of ski resorts and beach towns on the east coast as well as small coastal towns and wineries in California have this problem.
The M&A Process Is Broken
6 parts AND 12 hours you say, on the “Astonishing Legends” podcast? Well colour me convinced.