skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People die all the time. Our government has bombed hospitals, weddings, schools. We gun down journalists, then prosecute the whistleblower who published the video. Prosecutors fight to keep innocent people in jail or even on death row. It's not about helping people. And so contrast that with coastal Florida real estate prices continuing to rise. It's also not about saving such supposedly doomed resources. The earth is also not going to end. We already have prosperous metros below sea level. It is about power and control.

But yes this religion has truths to it. We should follow a principle to first do no harm, and to artificially impact the climate would break a supposed hippocratic oath. But I find it strange and disturbing how psychopathic everyday people can become when it comes to these things. So much hand waving and holier than thou talk and yet I watch the samd kinds of people's behavior and the two do not reconcile.
Thank you.

Just curious, during your research did you face any issues due to the auto-update feature at the app/device level which would set you back. If so, how did you work around it other than disabling it ?
Capitalism doesn't mean "markets", just as socialism doesn't mean "not markets" (hence the existence of "market socialism" as a concept).

The defining feature of capitalism is ownership of the means of production aka capital, by a capitalist class. Socialism is common ("social") ownership of the capital, and thus the abolition of the capitalist class.
Nice work! I really like the UI and the concept.

I got excited by your post because I'm building a reddit-clone too.

It's called Dinomia and it's a just-for-fun concept with a transaction system.

Each time you upvote something an "upvote / credit" is transferred from you to the author of the post, like sending money.
When you create a post/comment/community you loose X "upvote/credits" etc.

I hope Ieddit has great success and congratulations again for the work you have done.
The Deepest Cave in the World - Veryovkina Cave, 2212 m
There's something I'll never understand: how come they left here a pile of work and she worked till 5 AM? Clock shows 5PM (or whatever your end of schedule is) and that's it, you're done for the day, whatever hasn't been finished couldn't clearly be, turn off the computer, clear your desk from the litter, grab your coat, bag and off you go (unless you're a heart surgeon in the middle of a surgery, that is). If they'd leave her with pile of work 2 weeks big, would she work these 2 weeks for free? What makes 'a night' OK but '2 weeks' not? By the sound of it it doesn't seem like she had no other options, being already offered way better job (I hope!). This is teaching companies to mistreat people, by accepting things like that.
Interesting. I wonder if the asymmetry in Luminet's image is due to Doppler effect (redshift on the darker right side, blueshift on the ligher left side), then why does the modern simulation not show it? Matter in the accretion disk does move at relativistic speeds after all.
Are emails visible to others users? (nice to know before u fill it out for possible password recovery)
Time for a change!
It's recommended by dentists that every 3 months it's time for a new toothbrush (or when the bristles get frayed) to keep a healthy mouth full of teeth, to keep the brushing most effective and to keep a nice and clean toothbrush that doesn't look like a toilet-brush from a busy cafe. So why not go for a better looking, sustainable toothbrush that you can be proud to use.

We offer a yearly subscription so you can swap your toothbrush every 3 months without thinking about it. Once a year we send you a nice and clean paper package with four new toothbrushes made from bamboo. When it's time to swap your toothbrush for a new one we send you a friendly email reminder so you don't have to think about it.
Fast fashion is a huge burden on the environment and should not be supported. So good riddance.
I recently had to deal with this issue, you'd think this had to be solved by now.

So as suggested on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55003985,

min-height: -webkit-fill-available;

works exactly as intended in Safari (mobile and desktop), but unfortunately breaks in desktop Chrome for me, so I ended up putting it in a media query for mobile only.
Show HN: Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support
Google only kills unsuccessful projects. Gitlab is an obvious successful project.
I think Dan Luu's website is kind of cool [0] because visually there's no frills, just content.

- [0] http://danluu.com/
A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies
Learning CoffeeScript was a total waste of time.

In what way? I too jumped on the CoffeeScript train, but considered it on the whole time well spent. First of all I wrote a couple of useful things with it so there is that. But more importantly having gotten used to the CS way of doing things made it much easier to jump to ES6 and many of concepts from CS could easily be re-used.
Using the geomagnetic field of buildings to navigate indoors
Erlang is highly optimized to build reliable network communication systems (application-level routers, message brokers, stream aggregators, perhaps MMO game engines, chat backends, etc.) The secret weapons are actor model and process separation (like microservice architecture, but within a single app), supervision (isolated processes are restarted on failure, there is no difference between known "application" errors and exceptions), and beyond state of the art protocol parsing and construction facilities, for both binary and text protocols.

For some tasks (scientific computing, UIs, offline analytics) Erlang might not be the best choice. However, within its domain of applications, it really shines.
At least one major study has found that there is currently not enough
information to decide with certainty whether self-driving cars are safer than
human-drive cars:

Kay Findings

•Autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and
sometimes hundreds of billions of miles to demonstrate their reliability in
terms of fatali-ties and injuries.

•Under even aggressive testing assumptions, existing fleets would take tens
and sometimes hundreds of years to drive these miles—an impossible proposition
if the aim is to demonstrate their performance prior to releas-ing them on the
roads for consumer use.

•Therefore, at least for fatalities and injuries, test-driving alone cannot
provide sufficient evidence for demonstrat-ing autonomous vehicle safety.

•Developers of this technology and third-party testers will need to develop
innovative methods of demonstrat-ing safety and reliability.

•Even with these methods, it may not be possible to establish with certainty
the safety of autonomous vehicles. Uncertainty will persist.

From:

RAND Corporation Driving to Safety. How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? Nidhi Kalra, Susan M. Paddock

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
That's one thing that surprised me when I got serveral offers from headhunters for Berlin located jobs. The highest paying one was 68k (at max).

Meanwhile I work in Essen with a lot of cheap housing in and around the city for 75k. And I'm just your everyday non-senior "DevOps Engineer".
Related: myopia is one of the most common health problem that occurs to prisoners.
Tell me.

I believe body hygiene is wanted in all professions.
(btw. my hair is long, too)
It's not all, but a sample, yes.

They typically use hashes of files and only check files which have been shared between users though.
Hilarious, and remarkably close to reality too, sadly.
Hey. It took around two months of digging into (sometimes undocumented) APIs to get this one working on the Pi4. The player software ("info-beamer pi") can now use DRM/dispmanx/MMAL to place videos, either decoded using the traditional H264 decoder or the new HEVC decoder, on one or two displays connected to the Pi4. The raw software is also used at the core of the custom info-beamer OS that is used in the "as a service" digital signage solution. On the linked page there's a demo package that you can install with a few clicks on your own Raspberry Pi if you want to try everything out. Happy to answer questions.
Be careful - the study clearly states that what's important to keep a good vision is exposure to (supposedly natural?) bright light. There's no real link between too much screen-time and a decline of it as the article states.
Awkward for you maybe. If women don’t want careers in IT because it is filled with socially awkward men then whose fault is it really?
My main interest in Erlang is mnesia.

A relational/object hybrid data model that is suitable for telecommunications applications.
A DBMS query language, Query List Comprehension (QLC) as an add-on library.
Persistence. Tables can be coherently kept on disc and in the main memory.
Replication. Tables can be replicated at several nodes.
Atomic transactions. A series of table manipulation operations can be grouped into a single atomic transaction.
Location transparency. Programs can be written without knowledge of the actual data location.
Extremely fast real-time data searches.
Schema manipulation routines. The DBMS can be reconfigured at runtime without stopping the system.
How Information Communication Is Making Free Learning Possible
Addressing the Gross Injustice of Acquitted Conduct Sentencing
Why do every company have to be acquired by a bigger one ?
I’ve seen a lot of people going on about fast fashion recently. I’m aware of lots of shops that are considered fast fashion, but which ones aren’t? Where should I be going to buy more durable clothes that are made of nicer materials? I’m genuinely curious. I’d like to change my buying patterns (I’m really not that fashion conscious, so long as I can have some nice button ups and trousers I’ll be happy).
Yes, it is battle-tested, and the testing result was the big failure: memory-related issues and vulnerabilities alone caused billions of dollars of damage, and on their way to cause more.

It is generally not a good idea at all to use C++ in network-facing applications.
Nice, Feynman also described this in cargo cult science:(http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm)

> We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It’s a little bit off, because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It’s interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of the electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bigger than Millikan’s, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, and the next one’s a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

> Why didn’t they discover that the new number was higher right away? It’s a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it’s apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan’s, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number closer to Millikan’s value they didn’t look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that. We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that kind of a disease.
Not sure what you mean by introspection in real time ... but if you mean runtime introspection this is not that much of a niche feature. If you mean remote debugging, again not that much of a niche feature. JVM and Javascript provides both.
Let's try that:

"China does not tolerate any competing power structures. The chances of US to fall in line with 300 million people is not that high. This trade war is never going to end until US is reduced to such a level that it can no longer fight and gives up and joins the world order as a subordinate state."

That doesn't seem to make much sense.

The current "world order" is the American authored post World War II international regime. UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO, and the Petro-Dollar are all made in USA. China was expected to join this order without ruffling American leadership feathers.

My impression has long been that the Western strategists that decided to raise China from its dysfunctional state and jump start it as an industrial and economic power were gambling that the ruling Communist Party of China would lose its grip on the Chinese once the Chinese masses got a taste of Western quality of life and exposed to Western culture. They also likely hoped that Chinese ruling elite and their children would be willing to trade their political hegemonic grip on the Chinese nation with a seat at the international 1%'s table.

That didn't work out, so now we have an administration that (at least superficially as communicated to us plebes via "twitter") is bent on dismantling the very same global structures that are the foundation of "Pax Americana" cum "American Empire".
Baby food is as expensive as finely chopped or mashed vegetables. It does not take long to mash carrots or potatoes. Even making meat paste is trivial with a blender. Diapers really are expensive but baby food should not be breaking the bank because they just don’t eat much. Unsalted mashed up vegetables and small portions of fish, egg or meat aren’t really expensive.
I feel like Apple employees shouldn't be using special iPhones for personal use (out of good engineering practice; nothing special.
Autonomous cars have not yet reached level 3! They are level 2 at best.

>> A Level 2 autonomous vehicle can control both the steering and the speed at the same time, essentially offering partial automation. The human must remain ready to take full control in an emergency and is ultimately in charge of and responsible for whatever the vehicle does. GM’s Super Cruise and Tesla’s Autopilot are examples of Level 2 systems.

>> Level 3 automation is controversial. The car not only manages steering and speed, but is responsible for monitoring the environment around it and detecting challenges that require human intervention. In normal conditions, a human driver would not need to pay any attention at all, but if something went wrong with the system, the person would have to be ready to take over right away.

All current autonomous cars require human safety drivers, or the full attention of the human driver (like in Teslas).

From:

What are these ‘levels’ of autonomous vehicles?

https://theconversation.com/what-are-these-levels-of-autonom...
He's a C++ programmer, so I assume he can also code in C. So do I.

When you go so low-level, then everything else just translates to "overhead" and it's always a trade-off (for example exchanging performance with "fast coding" or "easy of use").

At that point, you know there is nothing better, if better is understood in terms as "performance" (I develop firmware), so there is little room for improvement. Maybe rust? I don't know. It may just be another trade-off.

"Ease of use" and "coding speed" are things that should be interesting to our bosses in order to save a few bucks.

> others are doing that might be better

Of course, in my case I am always open for new techniques: I'd be rather looking and understanding how John Carmack splits and scans BSP trees instead of thinking that X language will do it for me (at the cost of "insert trade-off here").

But no. Just as the author, I'm not going to learn node.js because "new".
You don't really need gitlab/github for that, you can automate any kind of tests/build/deployment process with pure git hooks.

I personally feel gitlab/github are useful from community and collaboration aspects - there is nothing I couldn't do without github on my solo projects from purely technical point of view, it's strengths are issue tracking, pull requests, wikis, distribution of code.
Zerotier 2.0 Status Update
Really nice, I appreciate that you don't use Google's ReCaptcha. Some suggestions if you're targeting privacy, remove third party assets and remove all JavaScript and add a Tor hidden service. People who are obsessed with privacy will run NoScript a lot of time.
iOS doesn't sent your every click to Google?

https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...
I don't want to get into the whole "positive discrimination" debate and my own thoughts on the matter are complex and change frequently.

However - the arguments for, against and for many points in between have been stated many times. Either you already are aware of them in which case you should be engaging with those rather than restating a starting position - or you can just do a Google search and get up to date with what is a fairly complex and nuanced topic.
They're not obligated to write an entire book in passing response to a thread on HN.
If you haven’t already,

Watch this

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3162938/
I'll defer then, as you're the non-native speaker who learnt the hard way. :)

Just a lot I might have thought American English would take the opportunity to clean up, remain. Like all those silent h's from having printed the first English bibles in Holland. Ghost, aghast etc. There used to be a lot more - ghospel for one!
Our house fills with low frequency vibrations and a dull humming when they pass by, and even at my office a further half mile inland I can gear and feel it over the loud office environment.
Guess I should have been more explicit with some <sarcasm> tags. Still, a lot of women buy clothes that only gets worn once or twice (or not at all).
See, I wasn't sure whether that's a typo or the way an AI would refer to us.
Free State Project.
> Men get thicker fabric, but at the expense of being less stretchy

Not sure if it's the thickness or the fabric. Men's clothes are more likely to be cotton, women's have more synthetics to get stretchiness and better draping. Not sure what that does for durability, but it might explains issues in the dryer.

I'd also be curious to know the staple length of the cotton used by fast fashion brands, but I'd bet it's shorter.
One reason why this is actually big is it reduces the boilerplate needed to write shell scripts in Node.

I think seemingly tiny moves like this can reduce a certain cognitive overhead/feeling of unfamiliarity associated with learning a programming language. Essentially, I am hoping that this will help bring new talent to the desktop OS space, effectively allowing Web devs to "break free" from browsers/Electron/REST server.

Maybe it's just me, but I find that ES somehow manages to be useful over a wide spectrum of problem complexities, i.e. it seems that a JavaScript program may grow more gracefully than one written in Bash. (Though I've gained new appreciation of Bash since I first stated this on HN and got downvoted to hell for failing to speak in common idioms.)
I mean, they're European, and all.
The largest employer in the United States does not offer paid maternity leave — the U.S. Government. My wife whom is a federal employee did not receive maternity leave. Instead she was forced to use two years of forwarded sick leave.
H&M revolutionized the fashion cycle. In a not good way.

Watch this

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3162938/
I don't understand the utility of the wiki.

Markdown is already rendered in the repo and can live next to the code. Meaning that merge requests can update both the code and documentation at the same time. And GitLab / GitHub have embedded editors that allow you to edit the markdown files using from the browser, just like a wiki.

Basically the only thing that is left is that the wiki can be edited without supervision.
BBC has a 5 min video summary with some interesting footage - https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07p40y7/the-daring-journey-i...

100% humidity at 4 Celsius. The cave is almost entirely vertical, it takes 3 days to fully descend to the furthest point and apparently it may be possible to go even deeper.
> Well apparently women are supposed to only wear a piece of clothing once or twice, no?

... No. What the fuck is wrong with you?
> As someone in another thread mentioned, it's because the marketing budgets are way bigger than what people would, or even could, pay.

This makes no sense. Someone paying £43 a month for Sky TV in the UK is only worth another £5 a month in adverts. Maybe that works out fine, but I don't pay for Sky because of this. London Underground brainwashes millions of people every day. They spend £4.50 on a ticket, but TFL want an extra 15p from advert income. Passengers then spend the cost of that advertising and then some on products they see being advertised, a cost they wouldn't have born without the adverts.

Some businesses may make the bulk of their money from advertising other companies, but most don't.
Google Reader was clearly successful.
> Well apparently women are supposed to only wear a piece of clothing once or twice, no?

Unfortunately, yes. This is what tends to happen. My wife complains about how this is so much the case in women's fashion. Fashion is designed to encourage consumption. People buy new clothes, new appliances, etc just because of color and style. This drives cheaply made products, since they aren't going to last long anyway.

Really wish we could move away from this and get back to quality products that last. But, until people get past fashion, I can't expect this will happen.
Despite being seen as the stereotypical tech-worker uniform, Patagonia seems to use well-sourced, high quality material (and they have repair centers).
> We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that kind of a disease.

That’s very optimistic. If nowhere else, polling has a huge herding problem, where outliers are dropped when they are too far off the consensus.
> They invent the delusion that gender and age disqualifies you for a job (girls will just get pregnant and leave!

This is not a delusion, and it's a thing commonly talked about in my country (Poland). It's not just about that girls will get pregnant and leave - it'll be that girls will get pregnant and out of the sudden[0] go on paid maternity leave, which they can extend to a year, during which you have to keep their position open, after which you can't legally fire them even if you've already found a replacement, and there are many women[1] who plan another pregnancy just after the leave period ends, in order to extend their employment period by another two years. The incentive here is that health leave and maternity leave both count as employment, so they don't have a break in years of employment on their CV (and both are paid, too).

Overall effect of our legal landscape makes companies prefer men over women, and/or prefer employment contracts that don't offer these legal guarantees, and there's always noise being made whenever our government (which is currently pro-family) starts talking about adjustments that would extend some protections to those other work contract types.

(Now I'm not saying this to justify the bias in general, but just to point out that there are real economic pressures in play that do get considered by the employers.)

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[0] - You don't have a "notice period" on maternity live; if a doctor decides there are concerns about the health of a mother or a child, your employee can just give you the doctor's note and stop coming to work.

[1] - And I've personally heard parents encouraging their daughters to do that. It seems to be a common theme, at least among the less well-off parts of our population. The boss-employee relationship is pretty antagonistic.
I came here to write this comment. Glad somebody beat me to it! +1
There's only one admin, and he's literally never posted an alt-right opinion in my entire time on the site.

You've been terribly misinformed, and now you're misinforming others.