skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yeah, and China does equally disgusting things to its own citizens.

Which I'm against, but that's for them to oppose.

Several Eastern and Western European countries had dictatorships, torture, executions, etc, in 20th century as well, didn't see anybody coming from outside to fix things (and don't think their population would welcome an invasion to "fix" things -- like those "democracy bringing" wars in the middle east).

And those pointing the finger at China today, were doing "disgusting things to their own citizens" (Jim Crow? Seggregation till the 70s? western world's worst prison system, 90% titled to blacks + death penalty still in use in 2019?), or were (and are) assisting regimes doing "disgusting things to their own citizens" then and now, so there's some hypocrisy involved too.

>Do you really have faith that China is going to act any differently to outsiders?

No, but there's a player with a known track record on this matters (a bad one) and one that is yet to build one. It's kinda like what Muhammad Ali allegedly said once: “No Viet Cong ever called me n....r”. Sure, they might. But thus far...
True, but they can realise those desires more easily if they’re available at the market. In fact it’s hard to imagine an area of human interest or endeavour that is not supported by the activities measured by GDP in some way. I’m not saying it’s the only metric we should attend to, or even that it’s a perfect economic metric, but rather that it’s a reasonable headline metric to use. It is only one number, so it cannot express the whole reality of life within a country; but it can convey some sense of the relative opportunities for that country. There is a meaningful and quantifiable difference between living in an economy with a GDP of $45 million (GDP per capita $3,566) and $20 trillion (GDP per capita $64,767).
From the article:

"Drawing on a huge database of climate-recording objects from all over the world—including tree rings, cave formations, and ancient pollen trapped in lake mud—the study concludes that 98 percent of Earth’s surface experienced its hottest period of the past 2,000 years within living memory. That uniform heat spike “is unprecedented over the Common Era,” it says."

In other words, we have used a variety of scientific techniques to fill in the global climate data record.
Ask HN: Blogs about reliability/infra/sysadmin?
Looking for more contents like rachelbythebay (currently on the frontpage).
Too bad there is no mobile app. That + cloud sync is Anki's killer feature IMO.
It's so annoying when platforms and product managers think they know better than their users. People want to retweet and they will even if you remove this feature (as they were before it existed). It basically comes off as Twitter doesn't like the users they have or the behavior they want.

It's really hilarious that they use Gamergate as an example of why retweets are bad. That was a massive manifestation of the above concept. Journalists and platforms thought they knew better than gamers and users and they went to war with each other. Gamergate as a grassroots, distributed movement was very interesting and it's sadly not surprising that "the powers that be" want to reign back in control of the narrative.

It's also ironic that there's a gigantic "Share" and "Tweet" button at the top of this article. As if Buzzfeed isn't entirely guilty of creating clickbait and pumping it into social media to inflame and degrade conversation. The title of this post is literally: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds”. That is not elevated conversation.
As long as investors and fans derive confidence from a frontman, this kind of entertainment will keep paying well
> It might be becasue you are just training recognition and not production.

Like trying to learn a foreign language by only reading.

There was a sheepish point in my life not too long ago where I had a bookshelf full of Spanish books that I had read, yet I couldn't follow a conversation or speak much at all.

Of course, nothing that can't be quickly fixed by dating a native-speaker that doesn't want to or can't use English. :)
Crypto Is Growing in Latam
And the trend of this current warming period has been happening since ~ 1840.
They don't even do testing with pedestrians ...
Today's RISC-V cores on a modern silicon process are (often far) less than 1mm2.
Long-Form Question Answering
Maybe other people work at twitter who could remove it? Questions was why not just remove it.
Hyperbole. Social media is not broken. The retweet is not why. And this guy didn't invent the idea of republishing content. Other microblog services had that, and I'm pretty sure Twitter users were doing it on their own.
You can do that for 'no phone no.' accounts, people can still reply to you but you'll see no notification
Because people will go back to the RT: convention and Twitter won't be able to sell the analytics as easily.

Maybe they will finally get rid of the like acting like a retweet, ah the good ole' days.
Tell HN: Amazon has removed searching for wishlists by name/email
If I visit, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/search.html or https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/search.html I no longer see a search box; instead there is just a fancy mailto: link to send a message to invite someone to send you their wishlist details.

The documentation still says you can search for a wish list: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201936720

I wonder if it is just a bug or whether they are trying to achieve something GDPR related?

Does anyone else still get the search?

(Also, whilst searching the documentation, I came across https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201503180, which has the breadcrumb trail: Test Topics › Test_it › Megan TEST › Dummy Gifts, Gift Certificates & Lists › Wish Lists› which doesn't look like it should be coming up in the search to me. I tried to report it to Amazon but their web chat bot/person just wanted a phone number and I was busy.)
Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe
It is almost shocking how data-poor these reports are.

For instance there is a "fact sheet" on cable news that aggregates together groups of three cable news networks. These could be hiding large variations between, say, Bloomberg and CNBC, so why are they doing this?

This fact sheet talks about total viewership but doesn't say anything at all about the demographics of the viewers.

Just way to thin for what is supposedly a well-funded organization.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure we have a good understanding of historical weather based on various natural indicators in the earth's crust. You can read about some of the techniques on NOAA.gov (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/how-do-scientists-study-ancie...)
> Life imprisonment is better for that since they may be later exonerated.

I think it would be great if we introduced a "No Doubt" to surpass "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" which allows the convicted to execution. The McVeighs and Roofs of the the world, for whom there is no doubt, can be executed, while sparing the "we found two of his hairs near the victim" convicts.
When you watch a stadium chanting 'Send her back ', what comes up for you?
> Camel case sucks

Why?
Correct, I am not arguing that. I implied that Wire is a lesser evil of the two, but none of them are ideal.

I am not sure what made you believe that I pretended e-mail is secure. I said Wire requires an e-mail address (to use), while Signal requires a phone number. No way I was ever trying to imply that e-mail is secure, because it is certainly not.
Just remembered that. WD had a humongous recruiting event for chip developers in 2017 in Shenzhen, but nobody was told what was that all about
People would quickly realize that if they share it under a negative category their share velocity would be hit. A better approach might just be to sentiment-detect negative emotion in Tweets and adjust share velocity accordingly.
Like what? Cthulu's hot breath?
Elixir Internals – Paul Schoenfelder on Distillery // Smart Software Podcast
The Evolution of Management: Transitioning Up the Ladder
And he probably was not even when he was working at Twitter.
>The well-known “8 x 8” rule — you should drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day — is not only daunting, it’s unfounded. In fact, nobody is sure where the idea came from, and science doesn’t support it. “It has no basis in fact,” says Michael Farrell, a professor at Monash University in Australia, who studies how the brain responds to thirst and other sensations.

> The average adult woman should consume about 11.4 cups of fluid per day (a cup equals 8 ounces) and men should consume 15.6 [...] Subtracting the 20% of water consumed through food, that means the average woman should drink about 9.1 cups of fluid daily, and a man should drink about 12.5.

8 times 8 ounces per day of fluid is 64 ounces of fluid per day, whereas ~9 cups per day of fluid times 8 ounces/cup is ~72 ounces of fluid per day. So isn't the recommendation actually _more_ than the 8x8 adage?
It somehow feels wrong to tell Apple that they can't sell Apps in their own App Store.
This article makes a number of suppositions without really critically exploring those claims. Some questions I have after reading this:

1. How does this compare to historical trends in the US? Did more kids in the 80s want to be rock stars or Hollywood actors, for example.

2. How is the author establishing a relationship between occupational earnings and the ambition of young people? Do we know that this is even a significant factor or could there be other motivations (popular culture placing more value on Internet celebrities than scientists, for example).

3. What other variance is at play in the country data? You can’t rule out differences in the US and Chinese education systems, for example. There are many sociological and technological factors you need to parse here.

4. How much does this even matter? “What do you want to be when you grow up” is a question most of us have been asked at some point but how many of us stuck to those dreams? Further, there may be an argument for having a diversity of skills and experiences that is often limited by rigid educational and career paths. Some of the best software developers I have worked with have been musicians and artists.

All that said, I think it would be great if becoming an astronaut had the same or more appeal to young people as social media fame. I’ll also say that it’s never too late (look at Richard Garriott who took a break from designing video games to become a citizen astronaut). One of my life goals is to go to space before I die and I think it’s a real possibility.
I'm writing from a cause & effect mindset. So it definitely makes sense that rehabilitation is better than punishment.

To answer what you're trying to point out that has already been answered by me in another post..
Yes, everything is fated to happen. The majority consensus is how society is structured to be and yes the outcome is by fate. Everything may change in the future if fate allows enough people being educated of cause & effect and where the current majority consensus is overcome by understanding of cause & effect. I assume this will happen as technology creates the bridge of data from & to the brain.
Thank you for sharing. I'm glad to hear that you're getting some benefit from working on your book, on top of whatever satisfaction you get and deserve from helping and enlightening readers. 2018 was a struggle for me too – but nothing on the level of what you describe – and it hurt my productivity and enthusiasm. Your book has been for me as much an inspirational kick-in-the-pants example as it has been intellectually edifying.

It's interesting to hear how you had the code pegged down for this book at the start. The book definitely feels like the result of such considered and planned design. But one of the features I most appreciate in your book are your reflective asides, such as the Design Notes [0]. I also attempt that in my writing, but almost always end up dragging myself down rabbit holes, including rewriting/renaming/restructuring entire code scripts/snippets, if not the project codebases that I've drafted and refer to. Guess I can't delude myself into thinking such bikeshedding is inevitable for this kind of writing!

[0] "Logic versus History" https://craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.html#de...

"What's in a Name" https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html#design-no...
Code parade made a pretty good music generator that is to your specifications https://youtu.be/l-ZZ8dkJVOI

And yes, it is true AI.
Holy crap I’ve been wanting to make something just like this. Awesome to see that it exists.
One wonders if it could also apply to a random Australian journalist once extradited to the US.
> There are distros where the only gnu code is the kernel.

What, like Hurd with a non-GNU userland? Where? I know there is Debian with Hurd, but that still uses GNU userland.
I quit Instagram for a couple of months or so, and came back last week, and now I'm shown one ad every 2-3 posts, no exceptions. It was so overbearing that I started counting, and I did not get a single stretch of more than three posts without an ad thrown in. So I just uninstalled it.
>Such a shame to insult Americans lack of historical context while also seeming to insinuate the world was some sort of idyllic utopia prior to American engagement.

The world doesn't have to be an "idyllic utopia" not to want another player meddling on other countries business -- much less a 10000 pound gorilla one...

>How about we don’t forget that the entire world has pretty much been a gigantic warzone ever since civilization started and how about we remember that American hegemony has been the single most peaceful period of world history.

If we forget the Cold war, its proxy hot wars, meddling and support for dictatorships (Iran, Banana republics, Chile, etc) and the associated death toll, and so on. Including a few possible close calls for hundreds of millions (Bay of Pigs for one).

And the relative peace is not because of some protective attribute of "american hegemony" (and e.g. its benevolence), but because the few other major players (basically colonial opressors like UK, France, etc) got burned in the 2 world wars and got off the main game, so no great fights between them anymore...
I can confirm that this also looks like many places in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Less so, but also in Washington and Oregon.

The photo (mainly due to use of the telephoto lens) provides a sort of dense charicature, but the overall look can be found in lots of places. Not the most beautiful aspect of the US, but a reasonable one. We're a huge, sparsely populated country where many people still get around by way of long driving trips. If you've been on the road for eight hours and you and the kids are hangry, often you want some gas and a reliable, safe, familiar meal. Gas stations and fast food chains provide that.

Criticizing these photos is a bit like criticizing a landfill or sewage treatment plant as reflecting on the beauty of an entire area. It's essentially utilitarian infrastructure. It's ugly, sure, but you can't have everything be ivy-covered brick and artisanal bakeries.
Have no girls been born in 132 villages in India? [analysis]
I would argue any dynamic programming language is a good alternative to labview. I'm a proponent on using python for labautomation (we run workshops at some major optics conferences, see http://python4photonics.org for an unfortunately somewhat out of date summary about some of what we do). In my experience labview is a mess, it's only momentum (in particular drivers provided by vendors, but that is changing) that keeps it going. I find labview code developed by amateurs is an unmaintainable mess. Grad students pass along code from on generation to the next without anyone daring to fix some of the glaring bugs. Really use anything but labview, even if it's the buggy matlab instrument toolbox.
Beyond Intermediate Python: Timing and Timeit(2019)
From a pure math perspective, sure. But clearing the mental weight of a mortgage off your list of liabilities has value in itself to a lot of people.
I wonder why anyone would be so cruel as to put so much content in a single webpage.

Did they actually had the patience to write such a long article in a single file, or did they write it in multiple files, and then compiled it down to a single webpage for others to suffer?
e2ee can be turned off client side (and is off by default until ux improves), and while I don't think it's possible with the stock home server, it seems entirely possible to patch the home server to reject encrypt requests, and only federate unencrypted rooms

for directory service, LDAP and web SSO are both supported
Nobody is talking about Hurd.

Alpine Linux for example replaces libc with musl and gnu binaries with BusyBox.
> Meaning you really shouldn't ever use a pre-made deck.

Agreed. The process of making your own deck is too important.

Not to mention, I've never found a deck that was more than 25% applicable to me. Even "advanced" Spanish decks had a bunch of chaff and beginner-content to wade through. And you start realizing you should've just invested the time making your own starting one year ago.
Matrix doesn't E2E encrypt everything, only certain rooms. It's not currently possible, but I suppose there's no technical roadblock to making a server prevent access to E2E encrypted rooms to meet FOIA requirements.

As for user management, synapse has identity servers and password providers to form a complete authentication solution. mxisd[0] is a service that uses both to offer LDAP authentication, although it seems dead with no real replacement.

[0] https://github.com/kamax-matrix/mxisd
Retweets function to spread messages, but the quote tweet (combined with the retweet) is the ultimate hate/shame tool. I rarely see it use outside of "hey universe look what this idiot once said".
Yep. We're pretty much done for.

To think that just a few years ago we were hoping to keep the rise in temperature below 2°C. Now it looks like we'll have to deal with temperature increases of up to 5°C.

I seriously doubt that our global civilsation will survive this.

Edit: Hehe, I seem to have hit a nerve here. Or why else the downvotes?
I'm not an expert here, and I'd have to go read the law in detail to know for sure, but my limited experience leads me to believe that it likely does apply to private companies in the course of business in some cases.

If the company is a federal contractor, for instance, there are a slew of federal regulations with which they must comply to remain eligible for contracts. Likewise, government grants come with strings attached as well.

Finally, if the behavior that you're investigating is illegal - such as discrimination against a "protected class" - there's always the possibility of suing them and acquiring the documents through discovery. All it takes is money.
The article specifically argues that the retweet button causes problems that manual retweeting didn't, and so he did invent the thing that's actually a problem.
It felt more like a beginner's intro. Some were new for me, but I would call myself a beginner.
I've been through Breezewood hundreds of times. The tagline on old postcards used to be: "Breezewood, The Town of Motels". Though, there seems to be fewer now than I remember.

It's effectively a supersized rest-stop consisting of a drag of fast-food chains, motels and gas stations. The article is right, and it's pretty unmistakable if you've been there before. Yeah, depending on your point of view it's a hyperreal mash-up of everything that's wrong in the American urban landscape.

There really is nothing to do there other than pee or get gas.

If you are up that way and want to stop somewhere interesting that's nearby...

Bedford PA (http://www.downtownbedford.com/) -- has a charming historic "mainstreet" with interesting shops, restaurants and festivals.

Bedford Springs Resort (not far from Bedford), is posh old hotel with superb spa with natural spring water and access to some really good hiking. Sort of like that hotel in "The Shining", except without horror. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Bedford_Springs_Resort)
It’s also worth noting that CERN has been running (not just using!) many open source projects since way back. Geant, madx, root and cling come to mind.
The issue isn't the behaviour, it's the moderation - or for a better word, parenting, that happens or doesn't happen afterward. It will come down to platforms that govern well, fairly vs. those that don't.
I feel like the condition of repeated offense is a good one for ensuring accuracy, but that the kinds of people you list, crime leaders, terrorist leaders, etc. are those who should especially be kept alive for public inquiry, because these people are often used to justify extraordinary narratives for curtailing freedom.

The idea of terrorists and crime bosses continuing their leadership from prison makes you question how such a government institution is run.
I was kind of hoping that the article was about to analyze all the various brands pictured and show that there was precisely one place in the US where their locations all overlapped.

As it is... it's just a somewhat incoherent conclusion. "It could only be Breezewood, because I say so". Ignoring the whole purpose of the meme.
I upvoted (and vouched, and starred the repo – thanks for sharing!), but I'm guessing you were downvoted because the first 2 grafs are easily misinterpreted as falling into the "I didn't read, but why is this thing necessary?" trope.

Deleting the 2nd graf would probably change the perception; it doesn't add any insight, and honestly, no one expects you or any commenter to have read the entire book before remarking on it.
On the flipside the great lakes are nearly at an all time high. Maybe the growth in those places requiring deeper wells have exceeded what they can support?
Or throw it on a big pile somewhere? Shouldn't be too hard to stop/delay the decay somehow.

Bamboo Mountain could be a tourist attraction. "The Mountain that Saved the Climate!"
The difference is that lowering friction to perform an action has caused an exponential increase in its usage... and it’s so associated with cognitive bias and impulsive thinking that it’s allowed a lot of false information to spread quickly.

I say let people go back to the manual RT
It is fairly easy to guess at a small
width that will work for most users,
and manually wrap at it.
That won’t work for all users, but
should be an improvement for most on
mobile.
Buzzfeed’s entire business was built on clickbait.
>when relativity theory and quantum mechanics not only overturned the achievements of Galileo and Newton but also challenged our deepest intuitions about space, time, and causation.

Causation stayed the same from Galilean to Lorentzian relativity. It remains as a touchstone of things working as expected.
Building a More Seamless Web Booking Flow for Uber
Yes. Yes we have. Not only for the last 2000 years. But the 5000 years as well. It might not be in a format we can easily understand. It may not even be accurate compared to today. Agricultural records go back really, really far.
>But we have due process

Only when people are not just executed by cops because they dared look too black or homeless or whatever (so many more cases of police killings that any European country when adjusted for population that it's amazing).

And even then, the due process is full of batshit-crazy aspects, from prosecutorial blackmail deals, to "three-strikes" BS.

And let's not even get into prison conditions, use of solitary confinement, rape as "joke", private prisons and prison labor, and so on...

Or the fact that it's the only (or close) western country to still have the death penalty...

And that's for official prisons. Now let's add the various "sites"...