skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no ide3a, there should be few, as it takes a special kind of intellectual failure to subscribe & promote such packs of falsehoods about both science and history, much based on a fraudulent study that caused the author to be stripped of his degree & Med license. [1][2]

Perhaps more importantly, it needs to be understood that anti-vaxxers are A) freeloading on the herd immunity created and maintained by the smarter people, and B) are directly endangering the set of people who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons -- they are literally a death threat to many.

Much of this is also people falling for weaponized Russian dezinformatsiya, a very cheap way to both sow discontent, conflict, and illness in their adversaries [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
[2] https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20190304/larges...
[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/09/in-the-united-states-ru...

There are plenty of further resources on all of these topics; this is merely a start
I have both the Puhui T-962A and DIY conversion oven. The Puhui T962A will consistently burn your board. You solder joint will come out black as the temperature goes way beyond proper lead-free temp. You will never be able to solder any film capacitor. Any film cap you put into T962A will come out melted/exploded. It actually save your time to build you own oven then by the off-the-shelf T962.
Isn’t the ability to invoke emotions without being bound to a language something that all instrumental musics have?
Kind off-topic but related: sometimes I wonder how web development would be if Lisp had somehow won as standard, since we can use to do everything the stack HTML+CSS+JS+Backend-language does, in addition to standardized syntax and standard everything.

Oh, standards. Standards.
This is what I don't really get. It seems like some people are under the impression that generating and parsing HTML is slow or takes a lot of resources. In almost all cases it's going to be faster and less resource intensive than generating JSON - especially if you are just using a templating language to interpolate some values. I agree that JSON could lead to less data being transferred over the wire, but that assumes your client already has cached the megabytes of JavaScript needed for you SPA. For something like a news site it doesn't make sense.

On the client parsing is fast, but the slow part is the browser laying out the page and fetching new resources - but that is going to be slow anyway, even if you do client side rendering. To make that fast you need do something more intelligent than just rendering a different React component, as well as prefetching resources in the background. But how many SPAs actually bother trying to do that?

I agree that SPAs have their place, and they have a lot of advantages over what we had before, but I just don't understand how it has seemingly become the default for any kind of web development - with such disregard for performance.
>> We are talking about a country funding lots of militant groups that kill lots of people

I wish it was so one sided like we wish to paint it here. But starting a thread about this will only contribute to a never ending discussion thread. There is no moral high ground here. What we can do is to step away from this madness and try to make a general sense of it. All this warmongering is unneeded.
When Redundancy Helps
In drought-stricken Chennai, water is now more expensive than petrol
2013 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397031
No, most deals have a withdrawal clause, where either party can end the deal.

They don't normally have a set end date.

A set end date basically means Iran plans to restart activities on that date without any kind of sanction. There's a reason this deal was so heavily criticized.
Thanks for the comments.
That must be humbling. Props for identifying it and adjusting course tho.
So, your vi never crashes? Your ssh session never abruptly terminates?

I understand that you don’t want to further shorten the lifespan of your raspberry pi MicroSD card life, but maybe you should just buy better cards with a longer life?

Or maybe don’t work directly on the raspberry pi all the time, and only scp or rsync the files over there when you’re done developing stuff?

Do you make /tmp unwritable by all processes, too? What about /var/tmp?

Any other standard safety measures you always turn off that you want to share with us?
They should look at migrating to other countries, even migrating to Africa seems like a good option. If some basic things are not in place, as described, imagine building anything in a place like that.
I stand corrected on internment camps, I didn't know they were compensated.

From the above source I linked:

>Neither the U.S. government nor the state of California has acknowledged that the California Indian catastrophe fits the two-part legal definition of genocide set forth by the United Nations Genocide Convention in 1948

Finally, I don't see why Japan is singled out. The rape of Berlin could have been worse. Millions of Cambodian Viets were pick axed to death in the Killing Fields. Norway kills far more whales, especially on per capita basis. We still throw people in prison for smoking plants and are quiet about our police state. The Japanese were utterly bombed like almost no other time and place in humanity, and the only leadership from that era which survived did so by the US. And I don't see any people broadcasting their views about social justice for women going to Southeast Asia where Western money pours in to sexually exploit women. I think we live in an era with its own virtue politics, not an era of actual virtue.
I think you're thinking of https://instant.page/ , which is pretty much as simple as "when link is moused over, tell browser to load the page in the background".
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Microsoft is killing all businesses except one?

Would that be Apple or Amazon?
Magazines like Shonen Jump or something else? Any examples?
If you can afford buying a thousand used iPhones to start such a business, you aren't exactly living in poverty.

Or you start small and grow.

Or you borrow money to start.

Or you find an angel investor who is rich.

Etc.

Kind of like any other start up really.
A tangent:

What if Bill Clinton never sold out to the Chinese military, and did not grant China Most favored nation trade status in 1994? Or what if Bill Clinton was never elected president?

Then China would have never received the billions in investments from US. And US companies and factories would have never moved there. Instead maybe a democratic country like India or Mexico would have been the recipient of the offshoring efforts. Then we wouldn't have IP theft from China, fentanyl destroying families, a threat to democracies like Russia but much much bigger, better products than the shoddily made ones from China, etc

What would history look like if we didn't prop up the Chinese communist party?
Yes, as a Dutch scouts leader, can confirm we do this at least once a year.
When I was a youth member, no GPS and no cell phone either as far as I remember.

At our yearly JOTA-JOTI event we up the ante by going 'hunting' for the kids by cars or bike so they try to not get spotted by the leaders until they reach the main camp site.

For Dutch scouts here: http://www.hikeandseek.nl/ is super awesome (but typically fully booked).
Picking TS for something like this was the smartest choice.
I’ll appreciate one too, elboru at hotmail.com
Previous Coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18468766
I have seen two different ideas about this in the past. One: money laundering. Anyone can say they are a book seller and sell to themselves or an accomplice, pay the fees and taxes and the rest is then legitimate income. Two: warring bots. One bot keeps raising their price slightly above the most expensive other copy for sale. And when there are two such bots there may be no upper limit. In the past I've seen books priced for $1000 U.S. or more when identical copies were for sale for a few dollars.
It's ok for there to be reposts if a story hasn't gotten attention yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Launch seven slightly different platforms, all of which have the theoretical scalability of YouTube, four of them using AI.

Then putting them on cards on their search engine, triggering a gazillion unsuccessful antitrust lawsuits, only to see they all still aren‘t used.

Then shelving half of them 5 years later and killing all the content forever.
I believe you can use the Google Goggles app to read QR codes, but I no longer have an Android phone to try it out.
For those discussing it, ORNL explicitly calls out the need to rewrite and retune in the CUDA => HIP transition on Page 3 of the spec sheet [1].

Edit: I assume getting folks to test on Summit is a big part of the de-risking plan.

> The OLCF plans to make HIP available on Summit so that users can begin using it prior to its availability on Frontier. HIP is a C++ runtime API that allows developers to write portable code to run on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. It is essentially a wrapper that uses the underlying CUDA or ROCm platform that is installed on a system. The API is very similar to CUDA so transitioning existing codes from CUDA to HIP should be fairly straightforward in most cases. In addition, HIP provides porting tools which can be used to help port CUDA codes to the HIP layer, with no loss of performance as compared to the original CUDA application. HIP is not intended to be a drop-in replacement for CUDA, and developers should expect to do some manual coding and performance tuning work to complete the port.

[1] https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/frontie...
> So, in the event of a failure in the underlying hardware, the data may have been transferred, but subsequently an error has occurred. I don't see how the sentence obliges the implementation to transfer multiple times. I'm not an expert though.

That is actually an issue with disks which have a small memory buffer before actually writing to persistent storage: not only will they acknowledge success as soon as the data's in their buffer (losing information in case of error in the underlying storage write) they may not properly handle a power loss of some sort, ack'ing the write to the buffer then losing it before it has the time to hit storage.
> This could explain the relatively less popularity of electronic music in America vs. much of the rest of the world

Interesting. I was under the impression that EDM is big in USA.
As someone working in this area, this is an interesting article.

The core issue of compliance is somewhat buried in the text, but worth pointing out. Optometrists' chief complaint is that very few offices seem to be prescribing the Hubble contacts brand specifically and yet, Hubble seem to be selling them to customers. This implies to them that either all prescriptions aren't being verified or are somehow being "passively" verified. Within the current rules set in place by the FTC, they believe it's unlikely quite so many prescriptions are passively verified.

The FTC is actually actively working on developing new rules around prescription verification to address some of these concerns. [1]

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/05/ftc-s...
Hmm, a few points...

1) This certainly doesn't imply that Roman concrete was discarded because a more cost effective formula came along. The fact is that it was lost to civilization for over a thousand years, and then Portland cement was discovered. There was no period of time in which a contractor could choose one or the other and selected Portland cement for price or performance reasons. So beyond a doubt the Roman technology was lost.

2) That article is pretty unconvincing, being basically just a blog post by a cement guy who points out the same things that anyone else should already expect, all of which were mentioned in the comments section here. And not only because the author misspelled Raman spectroscopy.

3) Survivor bias has been addressed in several other comments. It's a valid point if someone points to a 2,000 year old bridge and says "my building needed repairs after just 10 years; clearly no Roman buildings ever had that problem". Yes, I'm sure the Romans also built buildings that fell apart within 10 years and needed repairs. Those bridges don't say anything about the quality floor. But that's really missing the point.

The quality ceiling is also not an accident which is my point about the moon landings. Most rockets launched in the 20th century were backyard fireworks, so you could point to the moon landings as "survivorship bias that doesn't reflect the crude state of 20th century rocketry in which most rockets were just backyard fireworks and few even made it to space, we just only remember the ones that did".

But that statement, while true, also makes it sound like the moon landings were a statistical fluke in which a bunch of people who had no idea what they were doing got lucky and lauched some fireworks that made it to the moon. That would just be wrong. Likewise the best Roman buildings were not built by luck, but by skilled engineers with large budgets, and they are just as impressive as they seem. It's no coincidence that the structures that survive are high budget state infrastructure projects, government and religious buildings, and estates of exquisite craftsmanship, and not random commoners' houses, even though there were probably 10,000 houses for every aqueduct.

Survivorship bias also doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from those materials. Probably not every batch of Roman concrete was perfectly formulated to perform optimally, but that's no reason not to study the surviving samples and note their impressive durability.

Randomness isn't everywhere. If you dump a thousand ball bearings in the ocean and pull them up ten years later, you expect to see a thousand rusty ball bearings. If one of them is somehow still smooth and polished, you don't conclude that erosion just acts randomly and it's survivor bias. Instead, you should look closer and see if maybe that one was actually made of 316 stainless or something.
I believe you can use the Google Goggles app to read QR codes, but I no longer have an Android phone to try it out. It’s not a default app for whatever reason.
This depends on the scenario. Before the async revolution most app servers were using this model and I’m sure that a very significant portion of the current internet is served with this model.

It may not be the fastest in all cases but I still find it way easier to build something with this model than with async-everything.
Off topic, but I found it interesting that there was a parody of "My Way" by Frank Sinatra about Ebay. Weird Al made a parody of "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys titled "Ebay".
> This may get downvoted to oblivion due to the HN bias against js.

Now, come on. Very few people in here would say that js had no place in the web. A lot of people are against js when alternatives exist. Trello is an application, so js makes sense there. A blog article that doesn't even display when js does not load, that's where people have a problem.
Because the market cap itself is bonkers. For every short seller there’s three to five fanboy speculators propping the stock price up.
In my experience, good software is developed by tight teams. Small teams usually have a clearer direction and can respond to change faster, (startups are a good example).

Conversely, large distributed teams usually produce more generalised software with less direction (see [1] conway's law).

But Team size is just one (maybe the least important) of several factors that contribute to an Open-Source project's success. It's hard to distil why some project's are successful, but it generally comes down to:

- Pain points that the solution fixes, (is it way better than alternatives)

- Complexity of solution, (how hard is it to set up)

- Motives of the project, (is it for-profit? consultant-ware? etc..)

- Size of the community, (argueably the most important factor)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Of course you can write a syntax highlighter for HTML in template literals. The lit-plugin VS Code extension provides syntax highlighting plus type checking for bindings.

lit-html works by passing the template strings to the built-in HTML parser, so it doesn't need to bring its own.

The benefit isn't just avoiding JSX and build steps, but more importantly avoiding VDOM and expensive diffs. Template literals separate the static parts if a template from the dynamic and remove the need to diff the parts that never change. It's more efficient.
Firms 'blacklisting' Australia over encryption laws, government contractor says
Disappointing that the majority of the comments here are conspiracy theories about nefarious short-sellers somehow influencing coverage (including this article) and not a single person is discussing the seriously damning allegations of 1) millions of dollars of embezzlement 2) connections to organized crime and Mexican drug cartels 3) systematic firing of those who report impropriety to upper management and 4) using law enforcement to intimidate whistleblowers

Seriously this comment section of conspiratorial Tesla apologists is pathetic.
From the first day I played Diablo I realized it was basically the most polished and fantastic Angband I had ever played.

I never considered permadeath an important part of Angband or any other roguelike because I always scummed.
How the fuck am I supposed to provide an equivalent experience for someone with a severe mental disability? Or for someone with Completely Locked In Syndrome? [0] Some accommodations just aren't possible.

That's not to say that efforts shouldn't be made. Just that requiring perfection will eliminate everything if perfection is impossible.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome
Why quibble?

It’s just another mobile flash in the pan, and will be gone as quickly as it came — and as quickly as the “quick bites” it is supposed to serve.

Meanwhile, he will make a mint on his investment, when he sells out — again.
Nope, no standardization at that level.
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Mosip: An open source platform on which national foundational IDs are built
Okay. I live in Chennai. And this is so NOT TRUE. A water tanker with ~10,000 liters of water costs about ~3-5k INR which works out to INR 0.5 per litre of water. Petrol on the other hand costs INR 77 per litre. So no water is nowhere near as expensive.
In comparison to when ?
I’d be more optimistic about people’s interest in music.

I grant you the days where affluent people bought partitions and sang in their home at the piano could be seen as focused more purely on music.

But from there, the second a know name is associated with the song there is a part of imaginary that is stuck to the piece. Then album covers with art, tv performances, music clips, famous actors going into singing. It’s all the same mechanism to my eyes, just optimized to put a halo around the music wider than just a famous name.

It’s always been there in a form or another, and it doesn’t prevent people to get hooked on random songs they heard somewhere or got recommended without any exposure to the press campaign.
I'd say it's big nowadays but still small compared to other styles like rap and compared to the rest of the world. That's despite the US being the birthplace of many of the main genres like house and techno. You don't hear it on the radio and most people here are still not familiar with it but then festivals pull on crowds of tens or even hundreds of thousands. In much of Europe and the rest of the world on the other hand, it's ubiquitous.
> it’s that it always returns success, even if it failed.

It doesn't (except on the most broken of old Linux kernels, and even then it mostly lost async write errors). Rather it's that on most systems (basically all of them except FreeBSD and Illumos, possibly OpenBSD after some recent changes) fsync will only report errors once, but that call will clear the flags and subsequent fsync calls will succeed (unless new errors have occurred).

Basically, you can only rely on fsync reporting errors having happened since the last fsync, which is obviously concerning for all sort of reasons (not least being concurrent updates).

They also mention a bit about fsync not necessarily reporting errors from before the file was opened.
In google maps, gmail, and other places (where data shared between pages generally is loaded) I am very content with client site navigation.

As far as I see it really depends whether it is an app or a site that is being developed.
That is true...but this article is very slanted. And it has all the characteristics of a PR firm pitched article.

Spreading FUD about your competitors is a time-honored business practice. These upstart companies represent a threat to the profits of the industry giants.

But I recommend Daysoft in the UK. $8 for 32 lenses! And no prescription needed.

http://www.daysoft.com/usa
More used in places where the local alphabet isn't latin characters and remembering/typing latin-based URLs, usernames and email addresses is more difficult. (although even there they rely more on "do a web search on this phrase")
Very nice. This is how a cheat sheet, er, reference should be.
> What it boils down to for me is which side do you want to win? Being fair and impartial doesn't mean considering that both of the nations are the same and the outcome will be the same if either side wins, with only a different name and flag for the victor.

Your argument makes sense, but it starts with a very flawed assumption: that Iran wants to dominate the world. The reality accepted by everyone except the US and its few allies on this issue is that Iran is an extremely defensive country. The current regime, and the country in general, feels threatened in the region, being generally sorrounded by belligerent hostile countries, with the backing of the US (Saudi Arabia and Israel being the most powerful and the most belligerent).

So, if Iran wins, what will actually happen is that Iran will be left alone to function just like any other non-democratic state. Is the regime bad for its people? Yes. Is it better than being at war? Absolutely.

And regarding nuclear weapons, Iran has declared numerous times that it would gladly participate in an agreement, enforced by UN/IANA inspectors, to declare the entire region a nuclear-free area. Israel is blocking any such agreement. Iran has entered deals with the US and other western countries to renounce its nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting the embargo and other kinds of help. The US has backed up from these deals twice now. The second time, they have not even claimed to have any evidence that Iran is not respecting the deal; and the other parties to the agreement, like the entire rest of 'the West' have in fact remained in the deal, as has Iran, despite the new US sanctions (deemed illegal by the UN).
I don't think the ceramic fiber blanket is necessary. I made my own reflow oven (PID temperature controlled) and was surprised to find that my roommate was able to reflow a PCB with his completely unmodified toaster, just popping the PCB in and bringing it up to the right temperature. Obviously it didn't follow the temperature curve like mine did, but the end result wasn't really different, at least for our hobbyist uses.