skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> before the 80s but during which smoking was still healthy

That's perhaps US-specific but it's certainly a strange view. Europe was issuing anti-tobacco advice and government health warnings in the fifties. The rise in lung cancers was noted pretty much immediately after the war. The US was late to that party, but even so was clear on the link between smoking and health in the sixties. We had anti-smoking and lessons on the effects of tobacco in UK schools in the 1960s, perhaps earlier. I sat through them in the 1970s - they weren't especially effective, but they were there.

That's despite all the free tobacco sent under the Marshall Plan to ensure Europe was good and addicted to Virginia leaf.

> Or was it when the Church decided what was true?

So what, the middle ages? Or the Victorian resurgence?
Latitude is spelt with one T after A, only, so you get an error if you spell --latitude correctly.
You can create scarcity by marrying the software with a physical object.

William Gibsons poem Agrippa [1] is easily accessible, though it was distributed as part of a program that'd overwrite the floppy it was distributed on.

But it was sold in various ridiculously expensive collectors editions.

While the point of Agrippa is ostensibly the poem, the mechanism of delivery was very important to the appeal of it as well as the media attention (of course the fact that Gibson was well known by then was important), and you could imagine something similar for a demo. Add a hardware element, and packaging that forms part of the whole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_(A_Book_of_the_Dead)
The real title was "The effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of 7–10-year-old schoolchildren" which is unfortunately way too long for a HN submission.
> I imagine that instead of dragging cards to their destination we could open a menu and select the destination column. Maybe that would be even faster sometimes.

In Azure Devops (Or Microsoft Team Foundation Server, for the old-timers), you can do this.

And the people trying to twiddle the menus are orders of magnitudes slower at operating the board than people simply dragging things around.

It's so much slower, it's painful to watch.
You're right, I think. Non-native speakers trying to communicate over a bad audio channel is particularly difficult. Much better to stick to digits in those circumstances. (In aviation you can use letters, too, because you can rely on both parties knowing their Alfa Bravo Charlie. Unfortunately, that spelling alphabet is not taught to the general public.)
Given that Chrome ended Opera, and is effectively ending IE/Edge, people really need to take pause and appreciate and be thankful that Firefox is still around. I think the "shady shit" Mozilla has pulled lately are death rattles. I certainly don't expect it to be around in another 5-10 years.

Firefox's tiny market share is all that stands between all the W3C and WHATG publications going from "standards" to "what Chromium does".

Google is a giant corporation. One day they're going to do an IE6, and shift their focus away from the project, and the whole web will suffer.
> But what about selecting a card and being able to move it around with the keyboard?

So when someone suggests drag-n-drop works bad on touch/mobile, you suggest another operation which relies on a keyboard as a potential improvement?

Come on. This would make things even worse.
And if I feed J6 with my geolocation down to 6 or 7 decimals, I am offered 5 words only. Feeding them back into J6 tells me I don't have enough tokens.
Everybody who urges to cut funding for 'climate deniers', for example. And people who call any discussion about it 'dangerous'.

I certainly didn't talk about Greta Thunberg. From what I know, she's embracing the viewpoints of other organizations (which I think is the smartest thing she can do).
Friendly reminder - if you don't serve browsers you shouldn't be using JSON or text based formats like what's being proposed here.
36 hours a week from 8am to 6pm means that you have approximately 2 hours between lectures each day to do your assignments. Sure, it isn't suited to having part time job or much free time, but from my experience it sounds like pretty normal uni routine and no one I know complained. And I warn you, when you are older it isn't going to be any better, just instead of assignments you have to take care of kids.
I think this should have "in California" at the end of the title for clarity.
Ask HN: Know anyone who works at Facebook? Refugee aid group needs help ASAP
Hey HN! I'm in contact with a fairly major refugee aid group in Europe. Someone maliciously reported a bunch of their posts as spam, and their page was unpublished. They appealed this, didn't get a reply for 48 hours, and today it looks like the page has been deleted.

This is a HUGE problem, and significantly disrupts their ability to communicate with volunteers, other aid groups, and donors.

If you work at facebook, or know someone who does, could you please get in touch? <3

jtfairbank /at/ gmail /dot/ com
> If you're a user of a "Kanban board", you're not some aunt with a phone

No. Instead it means you are a project manager, and that often implies that your technical skills are on the same level as that aunt, maybe slightly better, but not by much.

> you are most likely in the office and you can learn to use the keyboard

Or just keep using drag'n'drop which is the established pattern, which also works really well for this, with the mouse you already have in the office.
sorry for late reply -- I don't want to over-state my confidence on this, it could be I was wrong about PPP, and even if it is PPP it's possible that the comparison is missing somtehing. But I think part of the answer to your rent question is that many people in the developing world are living 1) multiple people to a room, in 2) informal settlements/structures that would not be legal in the US. And I do think it's possible to live off ~$60 a month for food in the US if you literally eat oats, rice and lentils -- it's terrible, I hope that goes without saying, but if we're just talking about what's possible I think that can explain the numbers.
Well, considering the shitshow that is voltage on USB-C, I would never try to charge my phone with my laptop charger.

Maybe in a few years when USB-C is more mature, and manufacturer know how to place safeguards in devices so you can't fry it by plugging the wrong charger...
I can't know what research is 'made-up' and what isn't. I just know that it's not helpful as an argument to always claim that the other side it lying.
Love skateboarding. I'm not good, but I still enjoy it. Skate videos are truly works of art. After trying to skate and even just pop an ollie, you truly realize the amount of skill and work goes into these videos. It's so easy to just get lost in these, the different skate spots, the crazy antics, and just the immersion in a different person's world.

https://youtu.be/F2Ew-i8a7cg
In the "Windows only" case it is kind of reasonable: supporting another platform takes work.

When they are blocking other browsers explicitly despite the fact that the other platforms work that is a whole different level.
> Which documentary?

United Skates (I did mention it above)
What else are you meant to be using then?
Yep.
We took a B&O VHS machine in to be fixed. Guy who specialized in fixing them, had a pile of pre-shelled guts he just fitted into the pretty B&O case.
That is not what the application does though. it is not "being used to organize anti-government protests". that is not the reason it was removed. it was a map with icons. by that logic any and all communications apps ( telegram especially) would be outside the law because you can organize protests using them, way better than using icons on a map.
Anyone with a knowledge of atmospheric physics would say this is obvious. You can even detect shipping lanes because of the impact of the aerosols generated by the shipping traffic on the cloud cover compared to the surrounding area.
Show HN: CronMonit – Say Goodbye to Silently Failing Cron Jobs
that could turn out bad if any of the components is not to spec. like, idk, putting 28 V 1.3A into a phone that takes 5V 2.3A. Boom!
CronMonit is a very simple tool for monitoring cron jobs so you'll get notified via email when your cron jobs fail (e.g, it fails to run or it fails to finish running successfully because of an unexpected error). It only takes a few minutes to setup - https://twitter.com/CronMonit/status/1177786080289902592

As of this writing, CronMonit already processed 100k+ pings. It's being used by us on 1 project (w/c is in production) and it works well for us. It already helped us discover failing cron jobs. We'll let open source projects use it for free. We're also planning to let a limited number of people use CronMonit to monitor the cron jobs of their startup / small business / side project for free. In exchange, I just need to get their feedback later so I can further improve it. Please send an email to john@cronmonit.app if you're interested.
Well browsers with a different engine do work differently. By the way, I do disagree with this strategy. Just saying it is not necessarily something illegal.
Function Currying in Go
Some coordinates (e.g.: 55.555555; 14.444444) yields only 4 words (in the example given: pucker-ergonomic-rethink-shun).
Even better, I have one USB-C hub on my desk (with monitors, keyboard/mouse, printers, network, etc.) and it works for both my XPS-13 and my wife's MacBook.
That is real progress.
Thanks for your comment. I don’t see why Macau would have a stronger cultural identity than Hong Kong, but I haven’t been there, only to Hong Kong a few times.

It seems to me that there certainly is a distinct cultural identity in Hong Kong. Children are raised with less indoctrination in school, they have more access to Western media, and they have different values and manners. It’s obvious the minute you get to Hong Kong. Ask the mainlanders who complain about pretentious, condescending Hong Kongers whether there’s a distinct culture there.

I do think I see your point - there are many distinct cultures all over China and it’s certainly not a monolith. But I still have the impression that in certain ways the values of Hong Kong people are, on average, different. They certainly don’t seem to want to give ground on some of their individual freedoms.

Anyways, it seems hypocritical for Beijing to characterize this as a sovereignty issue, if your analyst is correct about their view. They agreed to one country two systems (for now), and the whole sovereignty argument seems more like a distraction to me.

It seems like they just don’t want to admit mistakes - easier to blame Western influence than admit that they’ve pushed too hard and made the people too angry.

Anyways, I really appreciate the discussion. I’m kind of starved for people to talk to about it.
They're really not. In court, it is sufficient to be able to argue that your actions are in the long-term interest of the company. In practice, CEOs are hard to replace, and it is easy for them to pack the board. Lots of companies have dual class shares so that a group of insiders can run the company however they see fit.

Anyway, even if it were true in practice, this is entirely the result of laws and court decisions. Governments could change it with the stroke of a pen.
Are you aware that text based formats are dominating in unixoide operating systems (such as Linux) for configuration? Especially, the ecosystem of an average GNU Linux distribution is famous for having a vast number of different languages, i.e. "every daemon has his own configuration language". Standards such as YAML, XML, JSON, etc. help a lot to make that easier.

Also, these file formats are useful for any kind of application interface, far away from world wide web only. Such as serialization interfaces between different programs, over network or not. This is something where JSON excels.
Which rule they violated?
I wish their shipping costs to Germany wouldn’t be that expensive. Hardware + tax + shipping costs is just way too expensive. I wanted to buy an Oryx Pro recently, but had to go for another model (non System76) because of this.
Honestly there were many people on the team much smarter than me. It was mostly just a case of a fresh set of eyes, and I think their egos prevented them from seriously considering such an obvious oversight could exist in their masterpiece.

As for the shitstorm, no doubt my being new and irreverent played a part. But the real trouble was the senior engineers had been arguing it can't be on their end for over a year. They weren't stupid, it was just some overlooked details, and like I mentioned, ego probably got in the way. It was going to make them look quite bad regardless of who fixed it, just because of how long it had been ignored while impacting paying customers.

There was a subtlety to the bug I didn't mention. After I had posted the tested fix for review, it became known that someone on the team had already investigated the socket-IO starvation theory and was unable to observe anywhere near long enough intervals between schedulers idling. But what they didn't do properly was measure the idle intervals per-CPU. All they had checked was if any scheduler went idle often enough. The problem with that is every CPU had its own list of sockets associated with coroutines belonging to that CPU's scheduler. So it required checking the interval on a per-CPU basis, and that's when my instrumentation showed the problem under load. They just missed that detail in the early investigation, and nobody ever revisited it. It was literally a mistake of using a global vs. per-CPU "last-idle-ticks" variable in their instrumentation code, oops!
> As I understand it, these mmWave operate at very high frequencies — close to microwave — which require high clock speeds in the chips.

All mobile telecommunication systems from 2G onwards operate in the microwave range (which starts at 300 MHz).

mmWave, as the name indicates, means millimeter range. For 5G this is between 24 and 53 GHz (3G and 4G don't go beyond about 2.4 GHz).

I think the high clocks in chips will come from the high data throughput, not really the RF. If the chip has to shift 20Gbps then that requires serious horsepower.
General rule of thumb of every new product announcement (not revision) is to always avoid buying the very 1st generation.

Android Wear is probably still stuck on 32 bit ARM and if this rumoured 'Google Watch' surprising becomes 32 bit, then that is an instant no deal.
Had no idea [head of NASA] Bridenstine had visited SpaceX. This is really cool. Here [1] is a video Q/A with Musk, Bridenstine, and the two astronauts who will fly on the first commercial crew shuttle that he (Bridenstine) streamed.

For those unaware of the backstory there Musk recently had a major reveal of SpaceX's StarShip program. Bridenstine made a pretty direct jab the night before saying "I am looking forward to the SpaceX announcement tomorrow. In the meantime, Commercial Crew is years behind schedule. NASA expects to see the same level of enthusiasm focused on the investments of the American taxpayer. It's time to deliver." [2]

That was generally not so well received, since SpaceX is engaged in Commercial Crew (the program to get astronauts to the ISS on commercial launches) but so is Boeing. And SpaceX is substantially far ahead of Boeing on this front. So it felt like a partisan and biased sleight since Boeing, who went unmentioned, has substantially more political influence and clout.

In the Q/A Bridenstine acknowledged he was not really correct on his assumption, which makes me like this guy even more (as he does genuinely seem heavily driven to get the American space program back on track) - even if I think he should have figured this out before racing to publicly Tweet. Looks like he genuinely wants to get Commercial Crew going ASAP and was worried that SpaceX was putting it on the backburner since StarShip is also a really big and extremely ambitious program being done at the same that as Commercial Crew.

[1] - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OyKAengZAMKb

[2] - https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/117771110630074777...
Is it? My understanding was that it supplied 5V (as per previous USB standards) until devices negotiated otherwise?
It might not impact your bonus but it can be added to a doc detailing your accomplishments for justifying a promotion (or at least as a potential topic reminder when interviewing), and can help ensure positive feedback from coworkers when management asks them about you. If there's anything generalizable from the experience ("I once saw something similar and so I did such and such to try to confirm or rule it out") you can sometimes multiply the value to yourself and the company by documenting it, automating it, hosting a lunch and learn type of thing...

It all depends of course.. But in any case you have to be the primary person looking out for your own interests since it's the rare manager who will go beyond the minimum guidance, support, and feedback. On the other hand some engineers go too far on self-interest and seemingly start the fires that they then 'heroically' fight to get high level cross-team attention and fast-tracked up the ladder...
What are the differences from the web client aside from menu items?
Presumably, if you are paying more, then part of that increased amount you are paying is to make certain that the portion of the grid needed to keep your factory going is properly maintained. Unlike the rest of the grid. Which would apparently be too expensive (i.e. everyone on the grid would need to pay the extra fees for increased uptime).
If you liked this idea, give TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/) a go - it was built on similar premises.
I do theatre as a hobby and do the same thing with learning lines. I run lines before bed and before lunchtime naps and I absorb the info far easier.
That is exciting! Open and well-documented FPGAs are definitely useful and very interesting to have in a device. Have you looked into OpenPiton [0], PULP [1], BOOM [2], or lowRISC [3]? While I'm hopeful that you find these projects personally interesting, I'm also looking forward to eventually see them in devices. Sorry for not listing any open POWER CPU/SoC projects as I'm not aware of any. Please share if you know any.

[0] https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/openpiton
[1] https://github.com/pulp-platform
[2] https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom
[3] https://www.lowrisc.org/
Discipline functions, floating point arithmetic, compound data types etc. Original KornShell is still more powerful programming langauge than bash.
No I do not mean the electronic time-tracking of postmen, or the CRM development helping with the conversations. We're a consulting company, and this idea was from our marketing strategy team.

You're right about the spying, but you're wrong about the target. The postmen provide information about the elderly to their family. I don't believe this product used to come for free. The family is paying to have info and regular updates, not the elderly.
Look I'm not saying that managing money, technical skills, investment etc should not matter. Of course it should. Of course it's true that some people work harder than others (even if we discount the upbringing, and the family's economic situation).

That said, the difference in standard of living, and the difference in the number of zeros in bank balances surely do not reflect the aforementioned differences. Surely you don't believe that someone works a thousand time better than me (current income ~ 2.5k EUR)?

I'm saying that the wealth gap is far too wide for any reasonable justification. I'm not rooting for a completely egalitarian/communist society, but the current situation needs to change.
There is around 10,000 subscribers now. The most efficient marketing channel was word of mouth, and conversion through the website. The media picked up on it quite easily, since it's both controversial and innovative, in a way.
Missing test cases? You mean like the very first test and the junit dependency? I love that feeling too :)
Some Lie a Lot: Most people are fairly honest, but there are prolific liars too
I don't think we're going to make it on this planet if we think of maintenance as a crazy idea that doesn't make sense in capitalism. We don't have to see capitalism as the be-all and end-all, much as it seems like that right now.
Programmers: Make Yourself Replaceable
There is no other side in this case in my humble opinion. What we have is overwhelming scientific evidence supporting climate change, and some made-up research paid by carbon industry lobbies, like some of the organizations funded by google mentioned in the article, which deny climate change.
>But when was this time in the past when people agreed about facts? Is it during the period of time when we lionized science after WWII and before the 80s but during which smoking was still healthy? Or was it when the Church decided what was true? Or was it when Hearst could print what he wanted and make it so? We have been in the Miasma since the dawn of civilization.

I see this fallacy quite often. Just because we had something in the past doesn't mean we e.g. don't have it 10x now.

It's like arguing that nuclear weapons are nothing special, we had spears and arrows since forever...

Scale matters, degree matters, automation matters, and technology is a multiplier. At some point amassed quantity becomes a new quality.

A government could have someone followed for example in the past, for example.

That was true even in ancient Rome. But 24/7 tracking of everybody, everywhere, made possible with mobile phones, GPS, facial recognition, plate recognition, and so on, is a totally new ballgame, not even available to the Stazi or KGB. A dictatorship with those tools at hands can do much more damage than one that just can tap into few phone calls with manual labor, or have someone followed. We can't dismiss it as "governments could always track someone if they wanted it".

Similarly, we can't dismiss the effect of the internet, because we had yellow press and smoked...
Why People Are Dying from Vaping in the US and Not the UK
Abiy Ahmed Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
CA has much higher electricity rates than most other parts of the US. For example, in Texas electricity costs about $0.11/kWh; Washington it costs about $0.09/kWh; and the average in the US is ~$0.13/kWh.

Probably the disparity is in part because of how likely it is in CA for power lines to burn down entire towns, thanks to a dry climate with many large forests adapted for fires; CA is so naturally fire-prone that some native Californian tree species, like redwoods, require large forest fires as part of their reproductive cycle. So more line maintenance is required (although PG&E has probably not done enough...).
I've charged my (Huawei) phone just fine with Apple and Lenovo USB type C chargers. In fact I could even (slowly) charge my Thinkpad with my phone's charger.

Would I do it with a no-name charger or cable or an older one? Hell no.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2019
My father used to have a gigantic collection of index cards when he worked as a professor at a high school for librarians. We're talking about 100,000 cards or more. When he had to give a seminar session about topic X, he just selected a bunch of cards from his well-ordered, beautiful wooden storage boxes, fastened them with a rubber band, and took them for work. They contained references, small summaries, newspaper articles, keywords, etc.

I tried to use the same system but never had the patience to implement it - and the digital versus analogue divide also prevented it, because this works best if you use only digital or only analogue. Index cards and a database don't work well together.

Edit: Maybe important, and I forget to mention it: All of my attempts of replicating such a system on the computer have failed, and I have never heard of anyone in Academia who successfully used a digital system throughout their career. #1 Reason of failure is that the database format or program became obsolete, #2 Database/Systems Migration problems.
This is what the HTML <abbr> tag is for.