skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am assuming (probably falsely) that if you assume the earth is flat then you assume there is an edge somewhere - not anywhere but in some particular spot. If the assumption is that it's around the south pole (as per the map in the linked page) then a flight from Chile to Australia would be among the longest flights possible, it would be hard to argue[1] against a round earth when that flight took a few hours when Bejing -> Melbourne or even London -> Melbourne is a clearly shorter according to their flat earth map.

As per my general ambivalence to disproving their ignorance though - at this point they might suspect... anything really, maybe they were secretly drugged during the flight to feel like it was really quick and their watches were adjusted or maybe the lizard people used their warp technology to teleport them part of the way. Honestly, willful ignorance gonna willfully ignorant - a conspiracy theorist that's in deep can always find a new excuse.

1. Argue logically that is... willfully ignorant people gonna willfully ignorant as mentioned in the comment above
If you pump natural gas through liquid nitrogen you get ... slightly colder natural gas. Try again. In fact, please go look at how LNG liquifaction actually works. It's not something that works on a small scale, which is why I posted you a link to the smallest scale LNG plant that actually exists in the corporeal world.

It's not like people haven't thought of these things before. Thermodynamics is well understood.
I dream about one day opening a non-profit/co-op grocery chain called "Tarable Grocery". The capital outlay would be considerable of course, but ultimately and optimally, the chain would lease containers to members who would fill them with bulk products, returning to refill them or return them as appropriate. My vision here would be to make available quantities of essentially any bulk food option that would be consumed by the local market before spoiling. The stocking system would be a hoot and there would definitely have to be some sort of central purchasing apparatus, but I think it's doable.
We're working on a list of mitigations that we already have in place. We'd try to keep that updated as we add new ones. The main change here is explaining the conceptual reasoning behind our existing mitigations, and how we will decide on future privacy protections.
Time preference is a comparison between the present and future. So the relevant factor is the time differential, rather than the value at any particular point in time. The relevant question is not "does a dollar bill represent at least $1 of utility?". The relevant question is "does a dollar bill have more utility today than tomorrow?" Eg. suppose we're in the midst of hyperinflation. Any savings I have are practically worthless today, and also are worth less tomorrow than if I'd spent it today.
NYT forgot something, let me add new information - Kashmir Valley is one the few places in post-partition India where successful ETHNIC CLEANSING of local minorities (Hindus) took place.

You reap what you sow. You kicked out real Kashmiris for the sin of being Hindus. Look at their slogan...

Azadi ka matlab kya ? La ila illila.. So, if your not muslim you have no place in Kashmir or its Nationalist movement.

No wonder, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhist are unequivocal about their support of Indian action.
Other than physical access to the camera (at which point they will more likely just install their own cameras), how precisely could attackers disable the light in any plausible ways? I’ll offer one for free:

1) “Forcing Google to do so through a government court order that leads to a firmware update to that specific camera”

What other methods besides “issue Google-signed firmware to the device” are you implying exist (“a myriad of ways”), that are obvious enough to be taken for granted without further explanation?

I can’t see them, and so unfortunately I must request that explanation.
Ask HN: What's the best alternative to Bootstrap in 2019?
Wow! I knew it wasn't as high as 90% death rate, but 50% survival rate is actually quite high!
Thanks for the link!

What do you mean by "system" level products?

I would envision this would make sense for microservice style APIs, not so much for client/product facing interfaces like an API tied to a web front end
Well tell that to whoever built the engine in my wife’s GL450. Cylinder head replacement after 40,000 miles, which involved dropping the engine.

I went to visit the shop while they were working on it. Wow, I do a bit of car work, but if I ever had my car in so many pieces I would never have gotten in back together again.

Thank god for extended warranties. I’ve never made out on a warranty so well, but one thing is for sure, I will never own that car out of warranty.
> I'm not sure simply saying "I'm not being an asshole here"

Thank you. I was clearly wrong: We absolutely should continue to delineate ourselves in terms of skin hue; Obviously that is the only, and best way to bridge the racial chasm. I must be blind to have not seen this.
Show HN: cl-avro – A Common Lisp implementation of Avro
Indeed, the Gtk+ and WPE ports, as well as Sony's Windows port, are the most active after the Apple-maintained ones.
Generally speaking, at most companies, one's credibility and therefore ability to affect outcomes is directly linked to titles and compensation (generally speaking). This is why they (or really any incumbents) cannot afford me. Besides, while I don't care about money that puts bread on the table, a privacy focused communication and/or search platform that turns into a successful and sustainable business is definitely something I am interested in.
Or dumbbell bench with those heavily rubberized weights. Dropping them is about as close to silent as you can get, and the exercises are the ultimate in form-focused weight training.
Putting tape over it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676959
Here come the apologists. How can such a step be justified when the 12 million people did not vote for the said election manifesto? It's like saying UK is justified in annexing all of Ireland because people in England voted for it.
That's interesting, we'll take a look. Thanks for the suggestion!
> Freedom and security are at odds with each other, though.

No, they are not.

> If you’re free to own guns, you’re not free from someone else owning guns and shooting you with one.

Or in other words: Different freedoms are at odds with each other.

> If you’re free to drive a car, you’re not free from someone else who drives a car not running into you and killing you.

Or in other words: Different freedoms are at odds with each other.

You might as well be saying that if you are not free to own guns, you are not secure from having your guns taken away. None of that is fundamentally about security vs. freedom, it is only about conflicts between different freedoms that have to be weighed against each other. Arbitrarily labeling one of those freedoms as "security" is a lie.

> The only protection from guns and cars is universal disallowment of guns and cars and the immediate catching and ban of all people that begin the process of creating or thinking about guns or cars.

No, it's not. The only protection from guns and cars is to have everyone agree that owning guns is bad, so noone does, or that owning cars is bad, so noone does, or whatever. The moment you suggest "catching and banning", you are talking about giving some people guns so that they can use them to force others to get rid of their guns, and that is the moment where everyone is at risk of being shot at using one of those guns, be it by mistake, due to corruption, oe whatever the reason might be, so obviously you are not "protected from guns". That is exactly the authoritarian propaganda lie that I was talking about.

There is nothing inherently secure about giving some group of people power, no matter for what purpose you do it. Giving people power is a danger. It's a danger that may be well-justified due to the other dangers that you might be able to control this way, but it is always a danger. It is always about weighing one danger against another, about weighing one freedom against another--framing it as "security vs. freedom" is an authoritarian propaganda lie that tries to convince you that one of those dangers isn't a danger by mislabeling it as "security".
Would your opinion lead you to believe that India should act quickly and remedy the unacceptable state of affairs in which the residents find themselves?
"Do you have anything light?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqjsyfbcd4
Thanks for this comment and the anthology. Indeed the whole question is a bit odd and one ought not to glorify calculi but study them.

Lambda calculus originated from research in formal logic, which is about manipulating symbols according to precise rules that would capture reasoning. It is a compelling way to combine variable binding, equality and substitution into a model of "function calls" - even if the purpose was to formalize arithmetic computation and reasoning.

At some level, reasoning is what programming is about as well! The notation and rules may change, but ultimately we want to make the machines do things and at some level, we need abstraction mechanisms. Recursive procedures are such a mechanism and it can be expressed as a lambda term that involves a fixed-point combinator, or machine code.

It is easy to model and understand many things using lambda calculus or functional programming techniques, depending on whether the interest is theoretical/formal or practical.

To quote Peter Landin (heavily influenced by McCarthy and LISP and author of 'The next 700 programming languages'):

> A possible first step in the research program is 1700 doctoral theses called "A Correspondence between x and Church's λ-notation."

Maybe people think this was different in the late 1950s?

Let's read McCarthy's paper 'Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their computation by machine Part I' where he explicitly cites Church and introduces lambda notation.

I would consider that paper part of the phenomenon that is LISP, would that not settle the question? Lambda calculus gives little guidance in terms of implementation, but I think it does not diminish LISP in any way that it should be "based" on lambda calculus.

And I do not find the linked article adds any value, but I am very glad to read the HN discussion to find gems like the above (even if I should rather have slept for the past few hours).
Wish I knew this back when I worked in bars, emptying big bins of glass into the outdoor bins. Learnt quickly to look up when I did it.
Brain molecule identified as key in anxiety model
Woo!! Give me one of those negative interest mortgages here in the US for my house - I’ll gladly pay some points for it.

What a world we live in.
I always thought it was weird when someone sent me a friend request after meeting me one time. I made it my policy to ignore these requests and just let them sit. Then if I ended up meeting the person 2 or 3 more times and it seemed like we were connecting I'd hit "accept". Sometimes this would happen months later and the person would be surprised. They'd have forgotten they even sent the request.

Eventually I realized I wasn't getting a lot of value from facebook and left entirely.
Farming is not animal cruelty.
What's the status of other forms of communication, like postal mail or shortwave radio?
>On one hand, yay, now I'll know for sure...

But we won't know for sure. As you say in the next line, it's software controlled, so it could be showing the light and recording nothing, or vice versa, or behaving as documented.
I feel like this guy thinks he's playing 5D chess, but his friendly neighborhood SEC agent keeps dropping by and ruining everything and the plan du jour fizzles out.
> I am not sure if this will work or not but what I am sure is that the previous status quo did not work. Moreover, how long would the entire state's ambition be held hostage because of an intolerant minority in four districts in the Kashmir valley?

As long as a peaceful referendum is not held that lets the people of the region decide their own future?
I think the reality is that while politicians draw borders, and governments like them not to move, people move, ideals change, cultures spread and any region eventually doesn't match its lines on a map.

Sometimes it's messy (Yugoslav Wars), sometimes it's more civil (Virginia/West Virginia). But change happens. It's how we react and manage that change that helps define us as a people.
Balkanization has been tried, you know. Thousands of times. That doesn't work so well either. It sounds glib and naive, but at the end of the day the path to peace is just for people to stop fighting, forgive past sins and learn to live with each other.

And generally that happens only after they get wealthy. Which makes shutting down core civil infrastructure deeply counterproductive.
Now, all the Lisps (Racket, Clojure) are lexically scoped.

Common LISP is lexically scoped, though it does still have opt-in dynamic scoping ("special variables").
Another significant piece of information demonstrating the builders' immense foolishness is that the safety harnesses relied on velcro connectors. Indeed, one of the women on the same raft as Schwab had her velcro harness fail at the same time Schwab's did though fortunately she was not thrown from the raft.
Why hasn’t this been flagged yet?
This post violates all guidelines of HackerNews.
If you are not aware please read the following article to get a complete picture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus
There's a subreddit for this ability: https://old.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/
> So, does scale lend _any_ benefit? Certainly the "network" of locations might help...but what % of tenants are really and truely jet-setters off to many major cities, versus those that stay close to home and just need a regular space out of the house. I don't think scale is that vital in this view.

Spot on here. They are building for a world in which everyone is location-and-asset-independent. Don't need a car because we have Uber/Lyft. Don't need a home as we have Airbnb. Don't need an office as we have WeWork. Etc.

But the market of people who live that way is still small, and I think it will always be somewhat small, or at least limited. (It becomes much harder to live that way once you have a family, for example.)

And can they really end up opening spaces in all the places where location-independent, digital nomads want to go - e.g., all those beach resort towns in Thailand and exotic villages in Central/South America?

But even if they do, independent digital nomads are not the people who will sustain the business anyway, as independent freelancers are more costly to acquire and service, and harder to retain. Their bread-and-butter is mid-sized teams (5-20) and satellite staff for interstate/international companies.

They're often described as the Starbucks of office space [1].

But Starbucks doesn't succeed in every region it enters - certainly not ours [2], as we have our own many-decades-old coffee/cafe culture in which people much prefer independent cafes over large chains.

I'm sure this mentality will apply to co-working spaces just as much as cafes, in many places.

[1] https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/wework-company-year-2017.html

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-f...
Consolidating .NET GitHub Repos
Are you sure that's current? I made an extension (just for myself) a few months back and I could restrict the domains via the permissions array in the manifest.json

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/declare_permissions (see reference to "match pattern")

This then in turn populates the list of sites in the extension settings where you can choose to deny access to the aforementioned websites listed in the manifest
What use case are they trying to solve for? It's confusing to me. Especially this:

>On Nest Cam, Dropcam, and Nest Hello, the status light will blink when the camera’s live video is streamed from the Nest app. The setting to turn this off will be removed.

So now someone trying to break into my house will know that no one is looking at them on the camera so it's all clear?

Edit for formatting, sorry, I don't post ever.
Remotely?
Pretty certain that paying for wework is a vanity project.

You get biscuits and beer and a nice location but you don’t need any of it
Your point is very valid. Closing costs and other fees related to real estate transactions are something we do not cover at the moment.

Our belief is that there shouldn't even be all these fees for home buyers and sellers, because most of the process can be automated to a degree. At a minimal the fees can be reduced. It's early now, but we really do intend on becoming the most honest and transparent ibuyer model on the market.

As such, we are looking for ways where we could build on top of our service to help people reduce their transaction fees either through partnerships or some new service that we would provide. Partnering with listing agents, where they give us a portion of the commission, and we refund it back to the customer is one way of doing this.

But the goal is always to align our interests with our clients'. The more money you make, the more money we make. If you make no money, we not only make no money, but we might lose money.
> Just like their integers will be the same as ours

"The one, the two, the three, the four,...."
> In fact, several arcade games were built on top of Amigas.

An exception that proves the rule, in the sense that they were all largely unsuccessful.

Successful video game systems like the NES, PC Engine, Master System, Megadrive and SNES were all designed around tile- and sprite based video generation, like successful arcade games. Similarity to arcade game systems (and arcade ports) probably made them more attractive to consumers and thus more attractive to publishers and developers.

Porting attractive arcade titles to the Amiga must have been an absolute pain because the Amiga doesn't particularly address their fundamental graphics model. You do everything with the blitter and copper and have to come up with clever ways to move lots of layers of tiles and characters around. What's trivial work on a system built these types of games (upload graphics and tile maps to VRAM, move sprites about and scroll tile layers by writing to a couple of position registers) becomes a puzzle on the Amiga.
Your team appears to lack diversity with regards to age, and your conclusion makes it sound like that was almost a goal. Older engineers can offer a lot of wisdom and save a lot of wasted effort
It’s by law in Japan.
Part of this is totally legitimate, we all have limited knowledge and unfortunately in America being stubborn and an ability to BS is pretty much taught in schools... but there is a range of people here. At one extreme there are people, who, when their misconceptions are challenged, can admit they were wrong and have no hesitancy to voice their ignorance on a subject - at the other extreme are people who never want to be wrong and go to lengths to dismiss anything they observe that would invalidate their beliefs. Then we have the trouble causers that delight in the ignorance of others and reinforce misconceptions either out of pure joy or to monetize those misconceptions - either way just being terrible trolls.

I feel like the earth being round is such a generally accepted fact that anyone still clinging to flat-eartherism is either a troll or quite close to the extreme of that spectrum and I don't think it's worth my time to deal with those people - and I get that, it's sort of a mean stance to take but... I don't know, there's enough stuff I have to do in life - I'd rather not devote the effort into trying to convince someone who might just be trolling for the hell of it.
Shopkeepers said that vital supplies like insulin and baby food, which they typically ordered online, were running out. Cash was scarce, as metal shutters covered the doors and windows of banks and A.T.M.s, which relied on the internet for every transaction. Doctors said they could not communicate with their patients.

While nobody expects a war in their city, it's yet another example of why none of us should rely on the internet as our sole means of doing anything.

Imagine a city where cashless transactions were the norm. Then imagine some political group (internal or external) decides to cut off the internet to that city.
You don't need a plasma cutter. If you're patient and noise-tolerant, an angle grinder, reciprocating saw, or even a circular saw (with proper blades) will do the job.

If you do want to use a plasma cutter (which I admit would be a more pleasant way of doing the job), you can rent a good one for a couple of hundred bucks a week, or buy a crap one at Lowes or Home Depot for $200-300.
Show HN: The farmer, wolf, goat and cabbage problem
> It's more for sudden loud noise, I don't think it works at all for sustained loud noises.

Yeah, it’s for when your brain thinks there might be a loud noise. I, too, was surprised when I found out that being able to deliberately tense it wasn’t ‘normal’.
‘Intolerant minority’

Bigoted thoughts do come out eventually. Minorities always need to be taught a lesson in World’s largest democracy.
Engineer.ai claims to automate app making but just uses humans
I remember when ROOT came out. I remember downloading it, going through it a bit, and wondering why anyone would leave PAW for it. To this day, I think PAW is probably a superior system and the ROOT project is best considered an expensive failure.

The one guy doing C++ (on a different experiment) skipped ROOT entirely and used Python to orchestrate C++ code.
"When the camera is on, the status light will glow blue."
Blue?? Really?! At least - one can always use black tape and "turn it off" for good.
Tumblr lost ~70% of its engagement in the 5 years prior to the adult content ban. The adult content ban was a drop in the bucket, numerically speaking. This graph is an accurate depiction: https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1161024458460712962

Also keep in mind a decent chunk of the adult content was literally automated bot spam.

Meanwhile, Statista's graph appears to be made of random numbers with no basis in reality whatsoever. They claim that even post-adult-content-ban, Tumblr has more MAUs than Twitter and Snapchat combined. Factor in Tumblr's 70% drop vs historic peak usage, and you'd end up with a number claiming Tumblr was once the most popular tech product on earth. This is quite obviously a complete fabrication.

If you want to be sad or angry about something, the loss of old peak Tumblr -- when it combined the best aspects of Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Reddit -- is a better target in my mind. Its decline was long and slow over many years.

(Disclosure: I was one of Tumblr's first engineers, and later director of platform engineering. I had no involvement whatsoever in the adult content ban, but nonetheless find it frustrating when people significantly overstate the amount of adult content on Tumblr. At its peak it contained an extremely diverse set of communities, and I fear this is being completely lost in revisionist rhetoric.)
>Once the patents expire, your country gets the free access.

Everybody gets the free access (including other American companies). Like you get free access to European drugs, once the patents expire. But all this is played into the cost of the drug while the patent holds. Nobody sells drugs at a cost, so there's that...

>All of the drug companies you mentioned, while not founded in America, do most of their R&D in America.

That's just wrong.

>You're right about many immigrants developing those drugs, but they came to America to do so. You should ask yourself "why?"

More cushioned life, compared to a place like China (at least of yore), and opportunities to make it big in business.
You started with 'no', but then wrote nothing to contradict me.
Pretty sure that's by law in Japan.