skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only upside is I only need to spend ~2 hours per day on work. So called work life balance. Pay is decent with regarding to the workload. I won't elaborate on downsides, there's a lot.
I don't really mind the UI itself, but the experience from how everything's jumbled around (especially the toolbar from hell) certainly does detract from it's mid-90s charm.
> Of course not, but these are not relatively modern.

About as modern as the steel-and-glass/nookless style he criticizes, that gained prominence after the World Wars [1,2].

Ignoring the guilt-by-association/ad-hominem part of your post, what do you find so lacking in his critique? I'll grant that it's a long-winded way to say "it's ugly, sterile, and unpleasant to live in", but I'd say that's a valid (if subjective) complaint. What sort of critiques did Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander make? I'm very curious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antibiotics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture
This almost feels like cheating.
If school staff is helping this deeply, are you actually learning how to research?
You can not make money selling software to people who have $0 budget to buy it. Sell software to enterprises and give it away for free for OSS side projects.
> Soon the thread on TwoPlusTwo resembled a detective’s corkboard with red string wound around pushpins, connecting the various dots that revealed the definitive answer to the mystery

What definitive answer? All I ever see in the article is speculation, circumstantial evidence and statistical analysis this indicates something is probably going on.

This article is very underwhelming and short on actual details.
I am hopeful that wide deployment of decentralization technology can help monitor and aggregate real world data relevant to human needs so that these algorithms can be tunes to serve people in general rather than the 1%.
Why not trains underground and trams on the surface in the pedestrian environment like Melbourne CBD :p

(See my other post in this thread for real benefits and design choices trams make over buses and rail)
Why aren't we living longer?
Wouldn't a light wallet be the cause of a ramen diet?

Also, the stress of poverty is known to cause cognitive issues IIRC
I don't think the idea is failed. Yes, attempts to replicate it in laboratory-scale tanks haven't succeeded yet. But that isn't evidence against the theory that it occurred sometime over millions of years in billions of cubic kilometers of water. It happens at some statistical rate, and lab experiments so far have put an upper bound on the rate.
Deserts are already pretty fragile environments, seems like removing what little moisture there is in the desert air could have some unintended consequences. Large swaths of the USA are a few ecological disasters away from becoming uninhabitable deserts.
I remember spending a lot of time in the library reading non-course work academic books and journals. Definitely loved that we had a well stocked library for a developing country.
Nahh... they'd just make the cheaper product obnoxiously time wasteful so most people upgrade. It doesn't have to stand on its own.
It sounds like the problem here is that cars just aren't feasible in semi-dense urban areas. Based on your comments you seem to feel that cars are pretty much the only solution to transportation.

I think this is a pretty poor way of thinking that leads to US style cities where there are these "dense" urban areas that have oceans of lifeless areas and greatly increased cost due to the amount of space taking by car parking/storage areas.
4 official languages.

German, Italian, French, and Romansh.
Ask HN: View news sites like nj.com without JavaScript?
Increasingly news sites like this (nj.com) that have no paywall still refuse to load content when using adblocker or even just disabling javascript, yet it seems like headlines & links to full stories are still somewhere in the page source.
If we're using stock price as a metric to judge strategy, GOOG's gains have been stomped by AMZN since 2006 by about 8x: https://yhoo.it/30KNk3A

By that chart, GOOG's only about 5x-ed since 2006.
Ask HN: Should Netflix Be Removed from FAANG?
Netflix never really seemed to belong in FAANG. Should they be removed? Seems like Salesforce and Microsoft should both be included over Netflix.
pointblank gunshot to a kids chest doesnt seem very restrained to me
China, Russia Deepen Technological Ties
>The objection I have is that Google doesn't let you delegate that authority, it's either "Let Google Manage It" or "Let everyone do whatever the hell they want".

What do you mean? After android 7 or 8, the "install unknown apps" permission was per-app rather than being a global setting[1]. That means you can allow f-droid to install apps but not your weather app. The only difference is that third party apps can't install apps "silently" (you have to manually confirm each install/update through a system dialog).

[1] random image result: https://media.kasperskydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/92...
Flash, really?
You don't have to only use Verizon branded phoneson Verizon's network. I haven't for years.
Because you agreed to pay it at a date before that? Because you don't want to be the person that's known for making things harder on others than they should be? Because not everything is about eeking every single penny you can from every single transaction?
I'm pretty sure 'easy' is not the word I'd choose to describe it.

To pick one common fungal infection among many: Let's have a look at fungal nails (https://www.medicinenet.com/fungal_nails/article.htm).

As they note, "Onychomycosis is a fungal infection usually caused by a special type of fungus known as a dermatophyte. Since most of these infections are relatively superficial, it would seem that topical treatments ought to work well. This is not the case because the nail unit is relatively impenetrable."

Where I live, typical treatments for an established fungal infection of this kind would apparently include medical nail varnish with Amorolfin (at least weekly) or Ciclopirox (daily), for 6-12 months in cases with small, highly localized infection, or, for larger infections, oral Terbinafine (daily, for 3 months) or Itraconazole.

In my understanding (Life scientist here, but not really medical professional) Terbinafine is the nicer one of those last two as far as the patient's own body is concerned - a modern, effective, prescription-free antimycotic - and it still has a respectable list of side effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terbinafine#Side_effects).

This is not like procaryotes (Bacteria, Archaea, ...) where many aspects of their biology is almost alien compared to our own cells and possible to target with minimal host damage. Save for the fungal cell wall, and some exotic aspects to DNA reproduction and cell membrane biosynthesis, fungi are much closer to animal, and the game with them tends to be "let's see if we can find something that hurts you (much) more than it hurts me".

If they are hiding inside human cells or tissues reaching them with antimycotics to a significant extent at all is tricky. Not sure about the pharmacological accessibility of the pancreas, to be honest, but many drugs don't even enter the brain without being specially designed for it, let alone get inside the nerve cells. And even if we can get in there treatments are fairly long, disagreeable and/or risky, and far from guaranteed to be successful.

Is the drug effective against the particular fungus? Does it remain effective under the course of microbial evolution? Is the body capable of eliminating the fungus entirely with aid from the drug? (Arguably maybe not, if the fungus is very good at hiding.)

So, I agree that looking at the existing outcomes after treatment with antimycotics could be a good first step, but as far as I can see, if you detect an effect you can be fairly sure there is one, but if you don't detect an effect that doesn't really tell us much because it could mean either there's no problem or, just as well, that the treatment has just been too ineffective in eliminating the deep covert infections for one reason or the other. And there's every reason to believe we may be in that latter scenario.

But, with Alzheimer's and pancreatic cancer on the list of allegations so far, is it worth testing? On a society level, yes, unequivocally.
> We are looking at time length longer than any government has been stable.

98% of radioactive waste is "safe" after 40 or so years. After 40 years the radiation is 1/1000th of its initial waste state. The 1,000 - 10,000 year period generally cited is for the radioactive products to decay back to their original ore's radioactive intensity.

> Also, what vectors could these particles enter into food when you consider their lifespan?

Russian FSB.

> Are we really suggesting that the death isn't comparable because it is a long term probabilistic?

Yes. Would you rather die now or have a 10% increased chance of developing a cancer that may or may not be treatable 10 years from now?
I used to have an opinion, but recently realised that I simply don't know the subject well enough. But I can see the tradeof: on the one hand, guns facilitate accidents and murders. On the other hand, arming the population could ensure they can effectively rise up against their government if that's really needed. Not that they will actually, do it, but the mere possibility likely changes the way things are done.

There's also personal defence, but that one has disadvantages too (there might be false positives, were a presumed mugger would get shot). Plus, from what I hear, guns have different effects in different countries.

It's a complicated subject. My opinion right now is not informed enough to be trusted.
You don't need to mess with the bootloader at all to sideload apps on Android. Maybe you're thinking of installing custom ROMs?
Seriously, even a phone without internet seems like a massive opportunity to cheat. Simply create a custom app that allows you to input all available information via accelerometer input or volume button clicks which is fed to a poker engine and the then the app communicates the result of the engine's decision via vibration pulses.

Even IF you allow phones though, it seems insane not to make players play in an RF-shielded room so that radio signals can't enter or leave.
> AWS just seems like an underdesigned mess of loosely coupled components implemented by siloed teams

That was my experience as well. It felt like they never included any UX person throughout any of the decisions. Their naming convention alone always seemed confusing to me, although it does seem to be improving.
Isn't this thread talking about sideloading APKs, not installing custom ROMs?

https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-22218...
No you don't understand. When people get prosecuted for Nazi activities it's usually much more than merely saying "The Holocaust didn't happen." Americans in general really overestimate the extent to which these kinds of laws are enforced. This generally stems from a divide between the 'spirit of the law' (it's mainly meant to prohibit political figures from being openly Nazi) and the 'letter of the law' (thinking a policeman will literally handcuff you if you say 'The Holocaust didn't happen' to their face). Americans generally feel the need to spell out every little thing for fear of the law being gamed or selective enforcement (this is why EULAs and License agreements have obnoxious 20-page unreadable legalese crap), whereas continental Europe has a more relaxed approach to the spirit of the law and favors clarity through brevity. A similar misunderstanding arose when GDPR enforcement was looming.
When I really wanted to get away from everything in a library, there were always various cubbyholes in obscure corners of the stacks that you could hide in. This worked best in the sections of libraries that were more vertical than spread out though.
This screenshot of a spreadsheet of his 2019 winnings summary also sheds light:

https://twitter.com/Joeingram1/status/1179441674683994112
Yes, it is the same Bruce Damer! Here is a clip of Bruce giving Wozniack a tour of the DigiBarn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHM3MXnrNM

He's a fascinating individual who wears many hats. He's done a ton of interviews on podcasts (his own, Duncan Trussel Family Hour, Erik Davis's Expanding Mind, Future Fossils, and Rogan come to mind).
I have written a few .NET Core web apps, some with React frontends and one with a Vue frontend.

I am using Blazor for the first time in a .NET Core 3 app and I don't think I can ever go back to a JS Framework. If you like Vue then give Blazor a try, it's similar component-wise except Razor components functions are C# instead of JavaScript.

Only downside is browser support as client-side Blazor is experimental and compiled to WebAssembly. Server-side Blazor streaming is GA though, and it is widly supported if your consumers generally have fast connections, such as Enterprise uses.
Right here on HN. In any of the dozens of pro-bicycle articles which appear every month.

For example, discussing almost hitting a bicyclist on a 70mph road at night with the cyclist wearing dark colors with no reflectors or tail light:

>This is absolutely your fault. You're driving too fast for the conditions. You're the one who can't see what's ahead; you're the one who has to drive slower.

And

> It is not their responsibility to ensure you drive at a pace such that you can stop before striking an obstacle that was hard to see. Should we require pedestrians using the road (like the one without shoulders) to dress in bright colors as well?

And from some other threads:

> >Her not wearing a helment not only derailed her life, but it caused major problems in the lives of everyone around her.

> Blame the victim? How about the driver, was it not his/her fault rather than your sisters?

Here's from someone else:

> While momentum argument is real, my personal philosophy as a daily commuting biker in France is "I'm the more exposed to risk and the more hated road user, so don't get in the way of cars and don't ever dare touch pedestrians"

> That being said, yes I do pass red light when I have good clearance and I don't "emergency brake by courtesy" for pedestrians that are not already engaged in crosswalks or clearly far from my course.

> Theses two paragraphs are perfectly compatible IMHO. It's just that in order to play with the rules you must know and accept them and be aware that you are doing something borderline. And by borderline I mean something specifically NOT dangerous to others and yourself. If it's dangerous it's just plain dumb and irresponsible.

And a justification for breaking the law:

> I was once hit by a taxi while stopped at a light. He he did a right hook turn straight into me. This is why I don't stop at lights if I don't have to, and why I always get towadd the middle lane when I'm biking past a potential right turn zone.
Of course people do better with more resources (at least in theory). My life is still far behind what it could have been had I access to technology at an earlier age or inheritance or a healthy home life. Would I have had the same drive if those things were all handed to me? Impossible to tell.

The thing is, dwelling on that is not healthy or actionable. We can't go rewrite the past. My point is that there's great social inertia in the lower classes to pressure individuals into lifestyles that are harmful to their chances of success. There's actually zero downside in trying to change the culture to be less anti-intellectual.

There's a lot of harm created by the inequality in our society but there are also self defeating properties of culture independent of that. Changing the culture seems like a prerequisite to capture any gains created via any other systemic change. After all, what good is opportunity if you don't want to take it.
> Right, and a decade of advertisements featuring those status symbols were pointless because no one cares about them.

Or... we just use them because they are there. I use Apple products, also bought a pair of AirPods just a few weeks ago, not cause I want to signal I got money, but because the things are pretty nice to use as headphones. I have 6 pairs of headphones, and while these aren't perfect they fit the overall pro/con situation well compared to even stuff like Shure headphones.

Sometimes a spade is just a spade. Sometimes people really do just buy something for its utility. Even when we may not see it personally. While I'm sure there are BMW drivers that buy them for prestige or signalling, I am also quite sure there are drivers that bought it because they like the overall BMW experience, garage visits included (I can't resist sniping on this for my one buddy).

Just accept that there are Apple users that not only prefer, but are willing to pay the "tax" of not using Android or other phones.
PayPal withdraws support for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
Users flagged it.

This topic has been discussed very often and very repetitively, which eventually makes a story off topic for HN, at least until significant new information emerges.

That is not to say that it isn't important; quite the contrary.
Progressive martial arts evolved out of traditional martial arts. A lot of it has to do with the practitioner himself. The progressive arts like MMA and Jui-Jitsu emphasize the combative aspect of the arts. Tai-Chi for the most part is nowadays mostly practiced for therapeutic benefits BUT I would argue that there are Tai Chi practitioners worth their weight in gold. The question is, what are you training for? If the Tai chi guy isnt sparring and moving around with other guys intensely, big surprise, theyre going to suck in a fight but that does not take away from the legitimacy and depth of the art. Tai chi still has blocks, kicks, strikes, ground grappling counters, standing grappling counters, etc. Do you think the masters of long ago didnt realize an opponent could take someone to the ground? All the components of MMA are inherent in the traditional arts. The question is why are you training? What are you training for? Are you testing your techniques against different kinda of opponents? Do you even care about fighting? Are you using your art to evolve beyond the fight? Does your martial art enrich you or take away from your wholeness? What is karate? What is Tai chi? What is aikido? How does it serve you?

The arts are so deep.
You're talking about rooting which is different from sideloading.

On android, you can go to foo.com/someApp.apk and after accepting a bajillion warnings, install the app with no approval from Google needed
It seems like the headline should be "Why Aren't Mountains Higher?" If I'm reading it right, once mountains hit an certain height, the erosion increases unpredictably, meaning height is reduced beyond what is expected.
I hate to be cynical, but once you get a winner you're probably going to want to keep on winning, right...?

Btw, that's what I think the CCP is: Cynical to the utmost extreme. If they sense that the wind is changing they'll adapt. There are limits to how far they'll adapt, obviously[0], but for something like this (cultural heritage vs. whatever), I don't doubt they'll do it soonish. Except for pictures of Winnie the Pooh juxtaposed on the Leader's head. (I mean... how petty can you get?)

[0] Self-preservation would be a top-priority, I imagine. Maybe for the party, but not necessarily.
Does Facebook take down the propaganda accounts linked to the US? Or we are all still supposed to believe that the "good guys" stopped using propaganda after WWII?
One is high pressure water, the other is molten salt.
If you haven't experienced it yourself it can be difficult to grasp exactly how much energy people will put towards harassment. Coupled with infinite creativity and no shame even a single person can do a lot of damage.

My original point is the equation is actually the other way around; mitigations on attacks will ultimately require more energy than the attacks themselves. For you it's exhausting, for them it's exhilarating.
Never heard anyone describe working in a coffee shop as an anti-social behavior before. I'm curious why you think that?
I can't speak for the person you are replying to, but I already decided, so I don't need to show evidence for anything. I feel so much less guilty about all the time I waste here having total confidence that tier 1 state actors are in fact using their very best operatives and technology (not the low end crap they use to fool the rubes on Facebook, Youtube, and editors of newspapers of record) to wage a highly sophisticated influence operation against us. Surely if they could only succeed in brainwashing us, the users of HN, to go along with their dastardly plans the entire free world will collapse and world domination will be theirs.

So yeah whatever, say it's not happening, based on all the evidence that having complete access to the site gives you. I don't believe you. I just know, deep down, based on my limited unprivileged access and my casual analysis of a small part of the content, that anyone who disagrees with my fundamental beliefs on here is a total shill.

And you know what? It's getting worse lately.
Yeah it's a gamble. It didn't work against the USSR in 1968 but it did work with the Baltics in 1991.

China is as strong and determined as ever, I really don't see any way the protesters would get what they ultimately want.
Well you start with grains of sand, then a month in you build your own framework, which is clearly better than anything else out there. A year goes by, new devs start, and everyone hates the monstrosity that has emerged. Such is the software circle of life.
https://www.iloveny.com/things-to-do/fall/foliage-report/

This is the definitive fall foliage map for New York.
The June Lake loop has spectacular aspens.
BASH: Lingua Non Grata
> You may not have physical evidence that they are cheating, but you also know that they're outside of what should be possible in the lifetime of the universe.

Right, it is a very good clue that something is going on so an investigation should be opened and some of the anti-cheating mechanisms changed / improved.

However, I don't think that you can say you have definitive evidence that there is cheating (as this article does) until you can say how it is being done.
I think you'll find it's not just "today". The majority have always struggled.
Live higher-stakes but non-professional players have major tells. They're good enough to play good hands and know the odds, but not good enough to bluff, make hero calls or folds.

I used to play 10/20 and 25/50 PLO, and while the game is different, the pattern described is pretty typical. Big multiway pots and speculative hands are the rule, so if a draw completes and there's 4 players in the hand, someone has it.

This doesn't sound like cheating, just a typical higher stakes game but on TV.
Nothing beats a physical library for a joyful adventure in browsing through all the disciplines. An experience I found crucial to my personal development in college, despite carrying my laptop everywhere.
They talked about external-origin iframes, which are very similar to web workers (besides that iframes get a DOM). All communication with them is asynchronous.
yes, for smaller integers it is necessarily faster... there are higher order versions, the Toom-Cook algorithsm, which fill the gap between them too...
I wish it was more unix-way-ish so I could write my own UI with just the features I need, my own back-end (I'd like a less-bloated library storage convention without directories for every book, without title transliteration, with support for multiple files of same format (e.g. .code.zip, audio.zip, .html.zip) for plain HTML files and embedded metadata) and ony use Calibre for tagging and conversion (with conversion customization, and I can also see no reason why conversion tools should not be a separate project).

Calibre is by far the best yet still could be made a way better.
makes sense. Sounds like you're more involved in management / decision making then?