skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need something similar to Godwin's law where anyone who argues that people don't care about something automatically loses the argument.

Of course people don't care more about iPhones than their own kids. Pick just about any X and people don't care more about X than their own kids.

That doesn't mean X doesn't matter, or people wouldn't care more about it if the understood it better, or wouldn't be better off if it was different, or that we shouldn't try to do something about it.
No, there is no difference. The reason there is no difference is that there doesn't exist a rulebook accessible to anyone containing a part about removing "things considered anti-semitic" for this particular case.
Furthermore this website is dangerous. People travelling you thailand are advised by their embassies to bring 20,000 baht. It’s often not checked on arrival but people have been thrown in jail cells and deported because of this.

Visa information is no joke. You should always get it from the local embassy website.
The Custom Movement sounded really interesting for a moment. I was already having fantasies about getting a pair of sneakers with thin soles, wide toe boxes, plenty of air holes and one the left shoe one size larger than the right.

Alas. It's just about printing designs on sneakers.
I think if one takes a second to look at the amount of downvoting on both sides of this discussion, it's pretty clear that there's a distinction and polarisation between .net developers and modern full stack software engineers.

I think it's pretty clear there's a polarisation between people who say "M$ trains sheep, .Net developers are dumb and blinded by marketing" and people who downvote that as a low quality comment.

Even you throwing "modern" in here, as a quick insult.
"all" graphics software is quite the sweeping statement. One of the most common graphics languages used in every day life by everyone on a computer, is the truetype graphics language, used to define vector graphics for one of the two major flavours of openetype font. TTF only does quadratic curves, and is ubiquitous.

There are also plenty of CNC packages that don't even give you Bezier curves at all, and I would definitely consider those graphics software.

As for the book no longer being a primer: just because it's longer than a few pages, doesn't mean it's not a primer anymore =) It's currently about 100 pages, so essentially what you'd be expected to read "before the next class" in university, which is my standard for what a primer is: a primer should get you complete understanding at the fundamental level. Anything less and it's not going to prime the reader for further study. So it speaks to the subject of Bezier curves that you can have 100 pages and _still_ be just a primer on the subject. If I wanted it to be exhaustive, it'd probably be at least twice the current size (now... we might get there eventually, but not any time soon!)

As such I also wouldn't consider this description a "primer" but more of a short descriptiong: it correctly describes de Casteljau's algorithm, but the drawing algorithm is not the curve type, and doesn't really work in terms of getting people to understand Bezier curves themselves (unless they're scarily good at internalising just an algorithm description and then abstracting all the implications of that algorithm without further aid =)
Sometimes they do. A person at my mom's work need an organ transplant, but they denied them the surgery because their finances didn't show they could afford it, let alone the medicine you need to take for life after that to fight off rejection.
I wouldn't be so sure about that...
Spotify and some video sites do not work on Safari, which is mind blowing to me.
Can’t use their contact form - it’s just not working, so posting it here:

Hey there,

Tested your website - putting travel from Ukraine to Switzerland and Germany and your website says visa required, however it is not for 90 days for Ukrainian citizens holders of the biometric passport. Please update.

Also your website is really slow. Let me know, if you need hints on optimization for loading.

Alex
I think there is a lot to dislike in today’s lineup of OS, but I don’t think it is worth doing a full redesign until we have open source hardware and persistent memory. Persistent memory will cause a need to redesign the OS anyway and open source hardware will enable new dynamics in the community. Linux or whatever you have on the client side will have to do until then. Hopefully we will get an OS that takes security seriously. Actor model for robust scaling and capability based security.
But "religious or ceremonial" is archaeology's cop out.

According to article, the skeletons had compression fractures, consistent with blunt-force injury (as by hailstorm), and analysis of the skulls is planned for the next study.

I'd rule out banditry, military action, natural geological or weather events, and poisoning first.
It was easy to apply for a personal loan with WESTERN LOAN FINANCE and they were quick to respond. They made the process seamless and were very helpful. I am happy I chose them. I would highly recommend.
No one has mentioned H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index.

https://eng.uber.com/h3/
bush hid the facts
If you are a founder/CEO type, you are missing the important events, period. I don't care what your Facebook/Insta/LinkedIn says. On your deathbed, all your success wont buy you another second with your children.

I'm fine with people sacrificing for their work, but don't try to sell the "I'm doing it all" crap.
Use ESLint, Prettier and EditorConfig Together
C doesn't bring anything. If i want to implement an IDE in C for performance and portability reasons, with a binary protocol that works over sockets i'd only need to worry about that binary protocol and sockets are provided by every OS. With DAP i'd need to implement a JSON parser, a subset of HTTP and of course the DAP itself.

(yes, there are 3rd party libraries that provide some or all of the above, but they may not be applicable for a variety of reasons, including API stability, maintainability, compiler support, host/target OS support, tooling support, C language version support and a bunch of others)
Recently switched away from Anaconda to Pyls for Python editing on Spacemacs.

Documentation can be found:

http://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+lang/python/README.html

Seems to work fine. Functionally it seems the same, maybe a bit faster. Haven't used it a whole lot.

Really tempted to try out the Microsoft PLS just so that I can say that I am using Microsoft in Emacs. Which is pretty close to being technically correct.

Brave new world.

Nowadays if I was forced to give up my Linux desktop and choose between Windows and OS X for work... Windows 100% of the time. Because I can then use WSL and get Linux nicely integrated into the base OS. Especially since Macbook Pros are not that nice anymore.
Ken Iverson was also 'one guy' who formulated APL while working at Harvard University. He later wrote the APL book: A Programming Language while at IBM.

I am one who thinks all of the effort that went into, and is still going into symbolic AI with Lisp will re-emerge to tie in with the current ML techniques using neural networks like ANNs, RNNs, GANNs, etc. to really bring AI/ML to the next level.

This 1992 [1] paper concludes with an interesting line:

"In conclusion, the research summarized in this paper demonstrates that combining symbolic and connectionist methods is a promising approach to machine learning."

There are many others that are more current - search on "ML and Symbolic AI".

[1 - PDF] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00993982.pdf
Science fiction and scientists have been proposing alternate forms of life for a long time.

I love TNG (and SW) but have to point out that their ideas in many places aren't new.

Example: Silicon based lifeforms

It's in the same column as carbon so we can have similar bonding structure and properties, so why not silicon-based life instead of carbon-based?
> You also don’t have any overhead for parsing in JavaScript based editors like VSCode and Atom.

Of course you do, something has to actually read the strings and parse them into JS data structures.
Qatar Withdraws Support for China over Its Treatment of Muslims
And H.L. Gold at Galaxy, along with Boucher & McComas at Fantasy & Science Fiction, were among the first editors to provide an alternative to the Campbell-dominated model of sf.
Anyone ever tried the Eclipse OpenJ9 VM? I've never heard of it, but it might be fun to see if there's a difference with my various apps and performance in an IDE.

I've just been hearing a lot of fuss about GraalVM, though haven't had time to investigate what's so special about it nor how it might help typical 'enterprise' services and Java apps.
I'm also a full time Firefox/uBO user, but I've never noticed isues with reCAPTCHA or gmail. The only time I can think of hitting reCAPTCHA is when creating a new account somewhere and gmail seems to work as expected. Photos, maps, Keep, and YouTube all seem to work fine too.

It's possible of course that I just don't know any better since I haven't actually used Chrome with any regularity in the last 5 years or so.
UWP XAML has lasted more than a few years already and is quite actively developed, with some pretty big updates on the horizon. While there are many roads to UWP XAML (including UWP XAML Islands now), and those have shifted over time, the core has remained quite steady. (Which is to say that it hasn't been immune to tech debt churn of small little backward compatibility breaks that need migration every minor version or so, as all frameworks in the modern era seem to.)

The last GUI framework they entirely "left to rot" was Silverlight, and that was a) almost a decade ago now, and b) a fellow traveler in the XAML space where migrations were quite possible, if maybe not always easy/convenient, back to WPF or forward to UWP.

With the weeding of some of WinForms and WPF in recent .NET Core work, and the addition of XAML Islands, even what were the dead ends don't necessarily look so dead today, or at least not so rotten.
Interesting, some of use find the current generation has plenty of stories that seem dedicated to showing men as total losers and women as three million percent better. Yes it is painful, ham-fisted, sexist and vapid.
Nathan Matias is also leaving for the same reason: https://medium.com/@natematias/leaving-the-mit-media-lab-ea3...
Not sure I would use theranos as example company, from wikipedia "Shut down and liquidated; founder indicted for wire fraud and conspiracy"

The name sounded generic enough (so does 'Slack') but then near the bottom I see "Experience your last Burnout [..] But seriously, please take care " so now I think you really mean a wordplay mental burnout. One could also associate a tire burnout, then the wordplays can be related to cars, being fast, fun https://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Burnout
Please avoid ad hominem and explain your problem with the idea.
Okay, here's a personal example:

Apple does not allow dictionary apps on the App Store which actually use the word definitions built into iOS—they are required to provide their own definitions, which either take up precious storage space or are not available offline.

So, I found some old WTFPL-licensed code on Github, spent an hour or so futzing around to make it compile and look pretty on iOS 12 (because I had no clue what I was doing), and came up with this: https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Dictionary. It works super well, and I use it every day on my phone.

The only reason I can use this app is because I'm Jailbroken.
djb needs his own distro. He's written his own init, has thoughts about package management, config management, etc. He probably doesn't need his own kernel but a BSD or Linux kernel with DJB controlling userland would be interesting.
> Off the top of my head, a brick to my head and the use of my thumbprint would do it.

Maybe don't use 1FA for your passwords?
What is the reason for the display being so high? Why don't they shift it down for a more balanced look and the ability to integrate a better (Windows Hello) camera?
Cool site. However, I found that it seems to search/replace "us" with "United States" in certain places where it's not expected, e.g.:

"A bUnited Statesiness visa requires an invitation from a company..."
Developer’s Toolbox: Façade Design Pattern
Out of curiosity, what extensions do you miss?
I've never really used anything beyond the usual privacy extensions (uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS everywhere). All of which seem to be as well or better supported in FireFox.
It seems like they're selling ASICs. It would be useful in something like an embedded system where you train a model beforehand, deploy it, and then let it go. On top of speed improvements, they're generally more efficient, so something running on battery power could last longer.
Do you punish the sys admin or the creators of Mongo for making the default configuration insecure?
The biggest problem is that they start with something that's supposed to be part of application software on your PC and then try to blacklist the dangerous bits and put everything else on the web. We already knew by then that blacklisting is a terrible idea in security and won't work.

The meeting should have gone like this:

Manager: We're going to put COM on the Web!

Engineer: What about this COM function that deletes files?

Manager: We'll blacklist that.

Engineer: Or this one that reboots the PC?

Manager: Blacklist. In fact I'm assigning you the job of making the blacklist.

Engineer: I think there's an unlimited number of problematic features of COM.

Manager: Good point. OK, ActiveX is cancelled. Thanks for your time, good meeting everyone, make sure to implement PKIX correctly so we don't cause more holes there too.
The benefits of a classical education.
No, it isn't, and certainly not since 1982.

Between 1980 and 2000, California median home prices increased at a rate of less than 1% a year [1]. Over that same period many states saw price drops in real estate.

In Southern California between 2000 and today, house prices increased at an average of about 5% a year [2].

Even health care is only going up at about 5% a year on average. Tuition is going up at about the same rate.

None of this is even remotely in the same ballpark as hyperinflation.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/how-much-housing-prices-have...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-southern-california-h...

[3] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/avg-annual-growth-...
People who post a lot of selfies are perceived negatively by others
Please add an option for JRE in the browser - JRE compiled to JavaScript or WASM (like CheerpJ or TeaVM).
Yes your cases are anecdotes. There are plenty of AWS examples to refer to, including some region failures posted here or how one needs a PhD to jungle around their offerings and administration panels.

My profile bio is what I do in 2019, not what I have done since mid-80's.

In fact I have my share of delivering projects in AWS, across multiple kinds of stacks, all the way back when EC2 was started.
Does the OpenJDK project not offer open source, pre-built binaries already?
There is no multiple-pass. libpng only tries to guess the right combination of filters, without doing actual compression. It's not always a good guess, but at least it's fast.
I wouldn't ever trust information from Wikipedia on something as important as visas. That you would provide this information as even remotely authoritative on your website is a huge red flag.
Someday IATA will buy information as a service from them. HN is not for just latest biggest news, but also about when someone try something.
No paywall: https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/waymo-opens-av-sens...
I can't believe that people have communally forgotten how easy binary protocols are.

You don't need protobuf, you don't need json, you don't need any of these things that just add bloat and cost you performance.

Writing and reading binary is easy, and is FAR easier than JSON if you are using something like C.

Most languages have convenience methods for strings, yes, and those can be stacked on top of each other so that JSON libraries can be written, of course. Those libraries are FAR slower than just reading and writing bytes, and deserializing those bytes into structs or serializing those structs into a byte array, and the binary data is much smaller than a JSON document containing the same data would be.

People these days are acting like binary protocols are hard, or that they are suboptimal for one reason or another. I guarantee you that someone who was trying to find a bug in a JSON library will spend as much time or more than someone trying to find a similar bug in a method that reads or writes binary data, and at the end of it, the person who looked at the methods that handle binary data will FULLY understand what is happening in that code. The person debugging the JSON library will almost certainly not have a full understanding of the JSON library after finding and fixing a bug unless they wrote it to begin with.

It comes down to this - all computer programs do is process data. All UX problems, all usability problems, all computer problems boil down to problems transforming data. Transforming data is literally the only thing a computer can do. Any work spent writing code that does not directly solve the data transformation problem at hand is wasted time and work on the part of the developer. Any performance lost using code that does not directly solve the data transformation problem at hand is time away from the CPU for other tasks, time away from a consumer of that data, and so on. It adds up, and it adds up quickly.
I remember reading a thought experiment awhile back (it was in the context of a discussion on Multiverse theory) about what it would look like for beings in a two dimensional universe when a three dimensional sphere intersected their two dimensional reality (essentially nothing, followed by a point, followed by a circle that first expands then contracts, then a point, then nothing). I couldn't help but wonder if this same sort of construct could explain what's happening in both quantum mechanics - particles popping into and out of existence are in reality just moving along an extra dimension that is not accessible to us (our entire reality is a single point on that dimension), and general relativity - spacetime is warping "into" that other dimension (think about the analogy of gravity where a bowling ball distorts the surface of a trampoline, there has to be one additional dimension beyond the trampoline surface for it to warp into). Of course, I'm probably way off base and just thinking nonsense.
Label Smoothing as Regularization in Machine Learning Classification Problems
Judged by who?

By parents whose children were slaughtered. Alex Jones intimidated, harassed and lied about those parents. They deserve our empathy. And you know what? So does Alex Jones.

But extending empathy to someone does not mean you give that person what they want. It's possible to empathize with Alex Jones for what he is: a deeply disturbed man who has hurt many people and who regularly engages in either outright lies or unhinged self-deception.

Being empathic does not mean we leave our brains at the door, it means being thoughtful and respectful and when Joe Rogan continues to provide a platform for Alex Jones he is showing an extraordinary lack of respect for the parents and families of the children who were killed.

True empathy extended toward Mr. Jones would be to reach out as a friend and tell him what he needs to hear: He needs to get serious help.

There are a lot of interviewers who would have both Shapiro and Sanders on, so your point on that is just not relevant. Most of those interviewers would not touch Alex Jones with a six foot.
Thanks! We thought Theranos would serve as an irony. Will think about it.
> But it is nothing in comparison of safari which is pathetically behind blink and gecko feature wise. It's a shame that the most popular websites don't team up to block safari and ask to install a browser that supports web standards. YouTube did this with a version of IE and weeks after they were followed by thousands of websites not supporting this antic version.

What about iOS? There's no alternative.
It's not just Google. I've had helpdesk tickets with multiple services automatically assume I'm on mobile if I mention something doesn't work in Safari. I will even say "Safari on Mac OS 10.xx" and they will still assume mobile. The idea of desktop browsers that aren't Chrome seems to be fading away among even the marginally technically aware people.
True, this would defend against many practical attacks and is a huge security win by itself.

I'd just be careful about overly relying on this property or calling it anything like mutual authentication:

If an attacker can make an educated guess about a user's account contents, they could still convince them to provide additional personal information once they let their guard down after authenticating.
thank fuck we have a savior like you to wag your fingers at people until they endlessly profess their belief in your retarded childlike politics
The source of wealth is creativity, which requires diversity (not optimization). Present globalization does not prevent competition between different parts, with competing levels of homogenity.

For example, China has had spectacular long-term growth but now that it has caught up, it must instead create, which is a different game, requiring different approaches and institutions. I think China will either open further (which it's been doing) or stagnate.

For a dsytopian total globalization that controls everything (like The Matrix)... I think it's literally impossible long term, because (1) people are smart (including every one of the masses); and (2) reality is open and infinitely complex and textured.

While specific facts about a society can be hidden, misrepresented, drowned out, not all facts about reality can be. This is perhaps a slim hope in the short term (and has been in totalitarian states throughout human history), but will win out eventually - because reality and intelligence cannot be controlled totally, and they inevitably cause change. The more perfectly optimised the State is for one situation, the less adaptable it is to another.
The Mistrust of Opposite-Sex Friendships
great move!
Please also join forces to help protect users in China and US
I like how the social media logos just go to the website front pages. If you ever need a link to twitter.com...
Perhaps a dump of a section in memory?
I really don't see the why the negativity. While I agree that there's Timatic, there is nothing wrong in making something else that serves the same purpose. By your logic, every duplicate service in this world can be questioned.

> It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held.

Would have been nice had you commented this as a suggestion without that bashful tone, just my 2 cents.
I agree on most of your points but just because there's a hard to use sub site on some airlines dealing with that doesn't mean there can't be an alternative. This site is probably not it based on the comments about the accuracy but there might be others available or coming in the future.

On top of that if people travel by train or other means it's not that obvious to look on the website of some airline.

Also it's someone sharing their site in a Show HN, constructive feedback (missing data, wrong information) would be helpful but "Why was this even a website worth posting about?" is not.