skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that the Brice Damer of “DigiBarn” fame (vintage computer restoration and archiving)? An illustration shows a MITS Altair reading a paper tape, presumably to illustrate interpreting dna instructions.
I’m in Princeton NJ this instant and we are at least 6 days, and maybe more, behind this map. Beautiful concept though.
Terra’s Blockchain Payment Network Eyes Mass Adoption Through Payments DApp Chai
Vue lands in the human-centric tool bag. It feels pleasurable enough to write for you. It's probably not as solid as react but it doesn't feel like a chore.
Best tea I've ever had was a strongly brewed Darjeeling made with leaves gifted to me from someone's trip to India. I've not since recreated that taste. I like a somewhat milky assam & ceylon mix as well (effectively English Breakfast) but the quality tends to be so weak it just tastes like weed water most of the time.

I'm usually a black coffee drinker so I like a 'bold' taste.
Lots of places will use APIs between teams, but the APIs aren’t primary. An integration still starts with a document and a kickoff meeting. You might need to post config or even code changes to the platform, which the platform team will review and deploy at their own pace, before the endpoint is usable. Interfaces and schemas have use case specific fields in them. It’s not at all like using an AWS service.
You are correct. The reason this happens made sense at the time it was done, but doesn't anymore.

At the time these rules were enacted, TV stations didn't want to carry political ads, and hardly any would accept them. The enforced rate structure was devised not only to encourage TV stations to carry political ads, but to ensure that a party with deeper pockets didn't drown out less-well-funded opinions.

When I worked in TV, the sales department hated political season because their bonuses got slashed.

A couple of economic crises later, and TV stations look forward to political ads because they it turns out they are more stable, reliable, and often pay in advance. The old standby for TV ads, car dealers, turned out to be not-so-reliable after all, especially with the automaker bankruptcies and people keeping cars longer.

With a bird in the hand worth two in the bush, we now have political ads out the wazoo.
Trams have the advantage of not being blocked by traffic. You can achieve the same with dedicated bus lanes, but motorists don't always respect those and they take more space.
if your proxy metric correlates less than 0.5 with the system of interest (roughly correct for mouse models), then the indicator is less than useful- it causes systematic and random false negatives and positives at a higher rate than true positives.
"You've chosen to place your life in jeopardy by showing up at school..."

Yeah, well, there was a time that riding a bicycle or going to school wasn't nearly as dangerous. But you're going to blame the victims here?
Open Source fullfills the open source definition: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated. Source available is software where you can look at the source, but do not have the rights you have with Open Source.
Ok, thanks, I’ll be on the lookout for that one. I have some basic linear algebra and analysis under my belt, not too much probability nor measure theory, though. I hoped there might be some way to introduce the concepts in an intuitive manner (and as much rigor and detail as possible on this level) while maybe leaving some of the proofs or harder parts out.

Most of the books I’ve seen are either “monkey see, monkey do” or rigorous mathematical gibberish, but nothing in between.
On twitter[0], they claimed the main thing they were after is a very rough geolocation with the dns request. Country level, or at least continent level. So they can respond with a nearby data center.

That doesn't sound too bad, privacy-wise.

EDIT: I mean if you were to map all US IP's to a single canonical IP for instance.

[0] https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
Yes, I'm using Typescript with Vue. As long as you accept that Typescript is an addition to JS, that is, most of the things you work on will not have Typescript on their own, you can 'gate' it to your parts (i.e. enforce and assert types on your boundaries) and have no problems with it.

It's only when people think of Typescript as a new language where everything must have types things start to go wrong — Javascript won't ever be that. There'll always be a tiny but super useful library from 2004 which has its jQuery dependency removed just 6 months ago, and won't ever get Typescript support, and you have to use it — and if you're a purist that's going to spoil your lunch.

Don't be a purist — a project using Typescript at 50% of its codebase is vastly better than one that uses it at 0%, even if all its asserts are :any's.
It's not equivalent with Free Software. Free Software has stricter requirements.
>Over the millenniums

That's MILLENNIA!
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21142977.
(1) If you count HTML as a programming language, then I had about 3 hours of HTML under my belt when I first started reading this book. Which is to say I understood nothing nothing about programming when I picked this up. I have a method for learning new domains, and a part of that method includes skimming intro books to find ones that seem well put together. So, I had also blitz skimmed a number of books before finding this one. One thing I noticed right away from this book was that it felt more like a normal textbook than most of the books I was skimming.

(2) This is not an easy question to answer, because it includes a lot of speculation, but I'll try. For me, at least, it was important to understand - in some rough sense - the nature of the concepts. Obviously, there is plenty more to the nature of the following basic concepts than what I provide, but here's the way I was perceiving the concepts:

Variables - being able to name and rename data (or code) and use different things you've named

Conditionals - run code under certain conditions

Loops - run the same code multiple times under certain conditions

Functions - reuse the same code at different points in time

Lists/Arrays - save code (or data) to later be used and/or manipulated

Looking back on this textbook, as well as the other material I read where lists/arrays were presented very early, I just think it was more natural to think about code reuse before thinking about storing stuff for use and manipulation.

Just my two cents.
Are those UN estimates time bound to any period of time and if not, what assumptions do they make of the future?

Also, per the Wikipedia link they included following famine in the numbers killed. Is that accurate?
> It took a couple of decades here in the US for people to realize that TMAs are mostly nonsense.

How are they mostly nonsense? A typical case might be use in an unavoidable situation where some kind of defense is needed. Most people would probably want some kind of 'training' to be able to call on. That is if you can't walk away or avoid which would be the first choice. [1]

Most people are probably not training thinking they are going to fight a determined adversary in a real battle. Saying it is 'mostly nonsense' is the same as saying locks are of no value.

[1] That said I do think that training people for a night or a few lessons 'women learn how to defend yourself if attacked!' is for sure going to cause more harm than good very generally.
darn you chipotle!
Another nice thing here is that we are left with a fairly low complexity - perhaps even high accuracy super-computer simulable - mechanism by which we can draw out viable candidates for probable forms of life across a wide variety of initial environments.

Which seems cool to me.
Do you mean you were working for the company WeWork, or you were working in one of their for rent spaces?

Either way, that sucks. I need absolute quiet or white noise to concentrate. That would be the absolute worst work environment (Well, okay, maybe not the worst. Working as a slave on a roman war galley that was on fire and I was chained to the bench would be worse, but it would be a close second).
This is how Ginza in Tokyo is laid out, and it was wonderful to be able to just walk around and shop without listening to traffic noise all day.
I'm guessing most candidates don't have a lot of open source contributions, and "more open source" is one of the standard lines when they don't want to really explain why they passed on hiring.

Don't read too much into it. As an entry level applicant you're only getting a small fraction of anyone's attention and will need to apply Hanlon's razor to interpret most of your interactions.
It's to think of countries in the EU as more like states in the US.

At the state level in the US, a lot can be accomplished. I suggest spending a few days in Seattle, their bus system is similar to what this article describes.
AWS Snowball puts 10PB at $350k. They are already paying 200k/month for 10PB, paying 2 months worth to move it doesn't seem outrageous to me.
Here's one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/highway-417-speed-incr...
For all of these lab soups, it means basically nothing.

None of this has advanced any understanding of the Neo-Darwinian origin of life model.

There's still no working theory of how one gets from basic building blocks to a fully-functioning working cell, nevermind the rest.
Well, part of that non- cramped feeling comes from the fact that it's a city that's almost an order of magnitude smaller than London or NYC. I'm a little bit torn because honestly, Zurich was one of my least favorite places in Europe: subjectively very sterile and boring.

Fortunately I've been to Zurich, London and Melbourne. Melbourne's inner city streets have good practical examples of all modes (tram, subway/heavy rail/car/pedestrian... limited separated bike priority examples though) as a practical study available in terms of street design and with a larger population, albeit still not as large as NYC or London.

An example of tram priority is available on street views of Collins st and Nicholson st Melbourne with a higher population. But we're still in a country/city with car culture as well.

Local experience here suggests that you still get this weird psychological effect: the number of people who have proclaimed to me the "wasted space" of the street down Collins is staggering, even though i would argue by objective accounts Melbourne CBD compared to Sydney CBD is a visible success story of pedestrian priority, vitality, and design. And when you sit down and actually do the numbers (as in physically count) these 'wasted streets' are moving more people than cars or buses on equivalent roads.

You also get this weird effect of out of towners or suburbanites proclaiming the superiority of buses: which I can't disagree more strongly with, and again point out that the areas with trams are bustling with life, value, density and services (it seems pretty objective to me to say the main problems/ limits is the traffic, not the trams) relative to the areas that many of these critiques come from, and yet there's a ststrange urge for outsiders to "fix" them with suggestions of cars/buses and how there's "wasted space" in the densest and most commercially and culturally successful parts of the city (with little introspective insight that the two might be fundamentally connected in some way).

Plus there's another side benefit: emergency vehicles can actually get where they need to go at all times of the day: rush hour, dead of night, doesn't matter, fire engines and ambulances can drive down these swerving around the trams. Good luck doing that on a non dedicated tram line during peak hour...
What is bad about the UX when you log in, in your opinion?
I don't know about them really but Cloudflare Warp is using the Wireguard protocol.
Maybe it was a misunderstanding or review failure, not an evil conspiracy? You know, they are know to happen quite often...
Kinda like the difference between wiretapping laws and recording what people say verses video recordings (which when in HD can have very rough audio encoded inside of the video).
Wait...they didn't test them before?!

Maybe their income dropped because of their lower thinking !
I feel like lots of libraries are already organized like this, and the only ones that try to put everything in one room are smaller public library branches. Certainly, the academic library I work at has these activities located on separate floors, and other libraries I can think of off the top of my head, like the Seattle Public Library, also have these activities separated.
Echo chambers emerge on social media (2017)
That is kinda the point of being an open source project, though, isn't it? The lead dev says, "It's going to be way too difficult for me to convert this codebase to Python 3, I don't want to do it." A group of volunteers then decide to undertake the effort themselves because they wish to ensure the project's continued viability for the future. AFAIK, he hasn't nixed the idea completely if others are handling the legwork.
I've been using vue, nuxt and typescript without any issues so far (6 months with TS though). It's not vue that's at fault for troubles with TS.
I was hoping for the same. Still an interesting enough read to keep me until the end, though.
Warrants give the government the legal right to access private materials or information. It allows them to use measures that would normally be illegal, to gain that access.

This is equally true for doors or encryption. If the government has a warrant for some data, they can attack the computing system that holds the data--just like trying to kick down a door.

They do this successfully all the time. Encryption is math in theory, but in practice it is implemented in hardware and software, neither of which are perfect. They are usually breakable.

The FBI made a big stink about forcing Apple to help them break the encryption on an iPhone. The FBI's own inspector general said that the FBI did not try hard enough to break into the phone before they went to court. And ultimately the FBI did break into that phone and access the data!

There is no need for a special law weakening encryption.
One thing fungi are generally good at is regulating bacteria. So that might end up being the beneficial role. However, it would have to be very specific fungi to survive within the body at all yet not damage the body, and likely also respond to and be suppressed by specific regulators that the body itself is producing.
A Formal Framework for Probabilistic Unclean Databases
GCloud CLI is better in all these respects
> Undercover officer petrol bombed

That is literally the video of the off duty cop shooting a 14 year old in the leg. The mob that attacked him with sticks and petrol bombs were in response to him discharging a firearm in an area that crowded, and hitting a young teenager. What kind of misinformation are you trying to spread? Do you post Twitter instead of news because you are afraid of people hearing the whole story?

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/04/breaking-man-shot-off-...
It's disturbing that machines are the ones making investment decisions concerning human needs.
It explains why real innovation has stalled. Algorithms can only make predictions based on existing trends and data, they
don't actually have a vision for how to improve human society.
This is really great, although the colors for Peak and Past Peak are remarkably bad for my color blindness. I can't tell whether my area is going to be Peak or Past Peak and there is no mouse over to help me.
Are you willfully blind to the fact that people have consumer preference for Apple products? I spent extra money for a case that covers up the Apple logo but would gladly pay 2x the cost of this phone to avoid going back to Android hell.
Maybe I am missing the point! It certainly wouldn't be the first time in an argument about programming languages.

I do understand, though, that the purpose of Go is not necessarily to push the boundaries of language design. I also understand that it's important the language is easy to pick up, compiles quickly, etc.

I think that some of Go's design decisions are bad, even with those stated goals in mind. Again, I don't want to overstate my experience or knowledge of language design (although I do know a little about Google's attitude towards Go, since that's where I spent my internship learning it), but some features (like "multiple return values" instead of tuples) seem to me to be just bad. Tuples are more familiar to a broader range of programmers, aren't a strange special case, are extremely useful, and have a straightforward implementation. Also, I don't want a bunch of fancy features added to Go: ideally several features would be removed, in favour of simpler, more straightforward ones.
If I need to clean a mouse that I've been using for less than a few years, I am going to reevaluate my personal hygiene. After that, it's going in the trash.
Why Are Mountains So High? Mysterious Anomaly Exposes Limits of Theory
I got married to a woman I met in college, we're still married ~20 years later, and given what I hear about how terrible dating is now I'm fairly convinced it was the best decision I ever made. I made a lot of bad decisions in college, but that wasn't one of them.
This is really interesting stuff, thanks. I've assumed that without source annotation, the only things that you can verify statically are violations of the runtime model (e.g., stack overflow, heap corruption). Mostly through inferences on possible value sets of function arguments and return values.

I'm going to have a look at your links more. I guess the question I don't have answered quite yet is how to tell the tool what to look for beyond the language semantics.
Awesome that you're not just allowed to work on ideas but can also ship them. A lot of times there are deployment barriers.
The main advantage of trams over a bus is that in general, the layout is more conducive for rapid boarding and alighting, and the trams can physically be longer and have more room for people.

The main advantage of trams over an underground is that they can be much cheaper to build. Crossrail 2 in London is expected to cost 32 billion GBP; you could build quite a lot of tram for that kind of money.
AWS is probably worth more than Amazon retail. Amazon Retail is a low margin very competitive business.
Jacquard by Google
As a complement to phaus's excellent comment, I'd like to talk a bit about keycap profiles. The two main categories are cylindrical and spherical profiles. Almost all off-the-shelf keyboards have cylindrical profile keycaps on them by default -- essentially, it's as if a cylindrical chunk has been removed from the top of a flat keycap. OEM profile and Cherry profile are the two most common cylindrical profiles (the keycaps that come with most off-the-shelf keyboards are OEM profile). A spherical-profile keycap has more of a fingertip-shaped divot in the top (SA, MT3, DSA, and XDA are the most common spherical profiles). I personally find spherical profiles more comfortable than cylindrical profiles, so you may want to give them a try, but if you're happy with your current keycaps then you're probably not missing much.

The other major factors that describe profiles are height (hi-profile keycaps are taller than low-profile keycaps) and sculpting. With a sculpted profile, the keycaps on the top rows of your keyboard will be tilted towards you, the keycaps in the middle will be flatter, and the keycaps in the bottom row will be tilted away. Many people find this more comfortable than a flat profile (keycaps from any row of the keyboard are shaped the same), but others find flat profiles feel equally nice, and if you're using a layout like Dvorak or Colemak it's easier to switch your keycaps around to match (with a sculpted profile you'd have to buy an entirely separate kit with the alpha keys in the correct location). Hi-profile keycaps will be taller and, if they're sculpted, are generally sculpted more dramatically sculpted than low-profile keycaps. Sculpted keycap shapes are generally described by row number, with Row 0 or 1 used for the F-row and Row 4 or 5 used for the spacebar and modifier key row. (Numbering systems are not standardized, but R3 should always refer to the home row.)

Of the spherical profiles, SA and MT3 are hi-profile and sculpted (except for a few SA sets, which use all-row-3 keycaps and are therefore flat), and DSA and XDA are low-profile and flat. Low-profile sculpted spherical sets are rarer -- MDA profile was recently developed to help fill this niche, but you will have trouble finding an MDA set outside of group buys.

In terms of actual recommendations? Budget-priced spherical sets are unfortunately thin on the ground; they haven't really left the high-end group-buy-only enthusiast market, whereas there's a lot of cheap OEM profile sets with a variety of aesthetics. I own and like the Matt3o Nerd DSA set [1], which is currently in stock and costs $50. (Signature Plastics keeps some DSA sets in stock on pimpmykeyboard.com, but they're all $80-$100.) For a sculpted set, look at Maxkey SA sets on kbdfans.com (also priced at around $100, but it's a slightly better price than Signature Plastics' SA sets).

[1] https://drop.com/buy/matt3o-nerd-dsa-keycap-set-massdrop-exc...
I think the takeaway is not that "traditional martial arts are BS", but that the CCP cares only about appearances, and so has funded legions of false masters in an attempt to project cultural superiority, and this guy is calling them out on it.

It's a microcosm of their entire propaganda-state and the corruption that it's rife with. Even their finance reporting follows the same pattern.
Maybe a non-senior, or even senior reviewer rejected it to be safe until a higher-up could make the executive decision on whether or not it was allowed.
Amazon stuffs SEO with subpar docs, Google's are far superior. Just about every page has both CLI and web walk throughs. Many have SDK examples for multiple languages too
Realtime Ballpoint Filter – Shadertoy
Ask HN: Best Maintained Package Repository?
What do others feel are the best maintained Linux software repositories today?

Example candidates are:
* Debian
* RHEL
* Slackware
* pkgsrc
* Nixpkgs
* Guix

From a quality, quantity and security updates perspective. Packages should preferably not be substantially modified from upstream.
I'd wager most of us that dislike Electron aren't at the point that we're so desperate for software, that we would lower our standards regarding usability, resource consumption and platform integration.

For me it's definitely not a problem that I'm missing software X which is only available as an Electron app. The Electron apps I use are required to interact with some piece of hardware (syncing, etc) and have completely custom UIs, which work most of the time, but have super-weird limitations or UX bugs, because you can't reinvent decades of UX on all platforms without forgetting or messing up several things.

And then there's MS Teams, which proves either that Microsoft can't write working software, or that Electron isn't able to offer a way of building working software. Probably both.