skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's shocking is that HK with 0 deaths is getting more news than Iraq, where 100 protesters were just killed a few days agi.

Not to mention Kashmir, which isn't even in the news anymore.
It's not my field so I wouldn't know, but it's possible
Works for me ...

Added in edit ...

Since I've had some downvotes for this I'm guessing people aren't really reading the intended content of my comment. On reflection I'm not all that surprised, but let me expand on it.

The comment I was replying to was:

> Just says, "Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll." :/

My comment was intended to pick up on the work "just". The implication from this comment, to me, is that this is the only thing the page does. It's akin to someone showing you something and the reply being, "So, it just does that?"

But clearly the page does more than that, so the word "just" in this comment is very much out-of-place.

But HN is full of people with different linguistic backgrounds, and sometimes English will be their second, third, or even fourth language. Even then, there are different variants of English even when it is someone's first language, so I shouldn't have made my comment the way I did and expected the meaning to come through. /Mea Culpa/.

So let me say what I perhaps should have said in the first place:

Not sure the word "just" is justified here. It's true that it says that for you, but it's giving you information that when you have more than 200 karma there will be a form to create a poll.

Not sure anyone will read this, but I wanted to explain.

As you were ...
that's just the broken, backwards US banking system.
Critical questions have a tendency to be loaded, one way or another. Yours is (unintentionally, I assume) loaded with the assumption that projects are either hobby/toy projects or "serious" ones. The "ethos" OP alludes to is that this is a severely limiting fallacy and a criticism you should actively ignore.
That's probably the reason why i think Warren is the only likely candidate to beat trump. She takes a page from his book which imho proves she s more cunning than the other candidates. Her campaign motto is Make the middle class Great again or something (emphasis on RE-build). She has already found her scapegoats, instead of "china" and "mexicans" she has "big tech". And she s good with sticky slogans like 'i ve got a plan'.
This definitely applies to HN. HN should not grey out down voted comments. It is like there is no freedom of thought and speech on HN. If many people don't like what you're saying your idea gets censored while it might be very true. That is inherently wrong IMHO.

edit: HN, why not just showing how many up and down votes a comment gets? I am really curious why someones comment should be invisible. Sometimes I'm reading replies on a comment I cannot read because it's down voted, what's the point of it?
you have heard this a million times and know what it means but here it is again: LIFE IS SHORT and it can be shorter than you think it will be. your time is just that, your time. so go do what you want to do, and if it is wrong well you tried it. that's what really harms folks imho, it's not the paycheck but what you would do for free that matters the most. if someone is happy flipping a burger, not only is that honorable work but to the folks that like burgers, they get their food made by someone who loves flipping burgers. it could be you are 'burned out' per say and who knows, maybe working for yourself or getting into a new field or something as mundane as gardening or doing something 'outside' might be just what the doctor ordered.
Same on iOS. I would have to pay around 20 USD / month for YouTube Premium.
What show are we talking about?
They shouldn’t even be in the content creation business. But shareholders demand their 10% growth every year.

iTunes was great, but can you imagine Apple-made music?
Just guessing. His previous language is called arc, it has three letters and starts with an \a.
Perhaps you are unaware, but your comment comes across as having a sarcastic tone, which is possibly misplaced. As such, people are likely to downvote you, which will delay your acquisition of karma, and hence your ability to do all sorts of things on the site.
> Surface water sufficient to sustain microorganisms was found on Mars by Viking, Pathfinder, Phoenix and Curiosity;

Ultraviolet (UV) activation of the Martian surface material did not, as initially proposed, cause the LR reaction: a sample taken from under a UV-shielding rock was as LR-active as surface samples;

Complex organics, have been reported on Mars by Curiosity’s scientists, possibly including kerogen, which could be of biological origin;

Phoenix and Curiosity found evidence that the ancient Martian environment may have been habitable.
The excess of carbon-13 over carbon-12 in the Martian atmosphere is indicative of biological activity, which prefers ingesting the latter;

The Martian atmosphere is in disequilibrium: its CO2 should long ago have been converted to CO by the sun’s UV light; thus the CO2 is being regenerated, possibly by microorganisms as on Earth;

Terrestrial microorganisms have survived in outer space outside the ISS;

Ejecta containing viable microbes have likely been arriving on Mars from Earth;

Methane has been measured in the Martian atmosphere;

microbial methanogens could be the source;

The rapid disappearance of methane from the Martian atmosphere requires a sink, possibly supplied by methanotrophs that could co-exist with methanogens on the Martian surface;

Ghost-like moving lights, resembling will-O’-the-wisps on Earth that are formed by spontaneous ignition of methane, have been video-recorded on the Martian surface;

Formaldehyde and ammonia, each possibly indicative of biology, are claimed to be in the Martian atmosphere;

An independent complexity analysis of the positive LR signal identified it as biological;

Six-channel spectral analyses by Viking’s imaging system found terrestrial lichen and green patches on Mars rocks to have the identical color, saturation, hue and intensity;

A wormlike feature was in an image taken by Curiosity;

Large structures resembling terrestrial stromatolites (formed by microorganisms) were found by Curiosity;

a statistical analysis of their complex features showed less than a 0.04 percent probability that the similarity was caused by chance alone;

No factor inimical to life has been found on Mars.
Lots of good history/backstory to the Dune game developments here:

https://www.filfre.net/tag/dune/
My two comments in this thread is just showing information taken from other sources, but they are getting downvoted. There is almost no opinion in these comments, so why the downvotes?
It's interesting that shareholders are now blamed for demanding growth, when typically they're blamed for demanding stock buybacks.
Is this just a general position or do you have concerns with this specific study?

I tend to be reflexively skeptical of results like this as well - but I also have a lot of time for results from the Dunedin study. Long-term studies are great and we (society, science) should do more of them.
Is intense pleasure necessary for intense beauty? (no full text available)
I agree with you, just wanted to let you know that "running your entire economy" is not accurate as I don't live there. We would all be a little better by not assuming things about people :)
I would get one in a heartbeat if they had usb-c but I can't bring more cable confusion into my already chaotic life.
For the curious the song is "To Tame a Land (1983)", and was going to be called Dune, but permission was not granted.

When I think of unexpected Maiden I recall The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, but this was a good crossover too.
If PepsiCo paid CNN to not air negative news about them, I'd take offence.
Bank bailouts anyone?
Seems a bit closer to the lambda calculus than most lisps. Building stuff up from such primitive types.
They can port Xcode to iPad, offload compilation to the cloud and you don't need Mac anymore.
I have more jobs. I am yet to update the gigs listing. Right now, I am focused on finding freelancers for clients. I think that's more important than any other thing
You probably confused irrational numbers with complex numbers?
Show HN: A J Cheat Sheet
The Japanese train system is privatized. In fact it's often held up as one of the most successful examples of taking a service from government run to privately run and having it wildly succeed.
I've recently finished a book on the J programming language (Learning J) and summarised what I read in what turned out to be a rather useful (at least to me) cheat sheet.

Other similar content I found was not very "ctrl+f"-able, this one is.

Perhaps someone else will find it useful as well.
And the odds that it’s us are astronomically even longer than the odds that I’m going to win the next Powerball, and I’m probably not even buying a ticket.
I have 184 karma, so it's probably conditionally checking if you meet the requirements before showing the instructions
>One of the worst problems for adoption of perl6 has been always overthinking. "Hey, look at my cool name" has never convinced anybody to use a computer language. Too many names.

You're overthinking it. I don't think those who came up with the names did so to, or cared to, convince people to use the language with them...
A platform that deliberately limits the length of what can be posted to only the most trivial thoughts turns out to be a poor place for debate? Shocking, that.
Yeah, good point. I am quite happy with Catalina so far so I have battled through a few issues. I think people basically have no idea what it takes to deliver perfectly functioning software. Basically, you need to combine user testing, design and theorem proving. It would be just too costly even for Apple.
My point, albeit made sarcastically, is maybe some people just like to walk slowly. I was taught as a young man that walking slowly is a sign of wisdom and confidence. It means you know where you are going, you left on time, and you're not in a hurry.
So rewriting in a different framework has higher priority then userability? What will the new framework improve?
Which institutions, centers of power, and influential individuals determined that the de-industrialization of United States was such a hot idea and pushed that to its extremes in the 90s?

It’s worth remembering that in the 90s, Francis Fukuyama was the hottest philosopher around and there was a general belief that economic liberalisation would inevitably lead a country towards Western style democracy and all that entailed. No one, certainly no one as prominent as Fukuyama ever predicted the opposite would in fact occur.

Not that this excuses Apple or anyone else. Once it became apparent they should have acted urgently. Because it meant that all their basic assumptions about how the world works need to be re-evaluated.
According to React Native for Windows team it is hardly noticeable.

On their benchmarks comparing XAML/C++, XAML/C#, RN and Electron, it is hardly a few percentile more than C++.

It is Electron that goes sky high in performance loss.
It relies on the implementation of its runtime, JVM, .net, JavaScript, BeamVM etc but uses it's own language for those operations, slurp/barf etc

So as a developer it's all the same until you start leveraging the features of your particular runtime but this does make code sharing viable
I have never seen a comment that I couldn’t read because it was greyed out. I always saw it more or less as sign that I should either take the greyed out comment with a grain of salt (which makes it less likely for me to post a snarky reply underneath) or it shows me that the thing said there (or how it was said) is at least viewed as controversial.

Marking opinions is not censorship. Even if you’d mark posts with a bold red “lie” watermark, it wouldn’t be censorship.

The thing to keep in mind is: when the communicative tool of greying out is taken away, more people will write pointless responses.
Did Apple change their stance on compilers? It used to be forbidden for the longest time, then they allowed it strictly for educational purposes. It'd be strange if Apple would release Xcode for iPad that doesn't allow creating iPhone / iPad apps.
I can instantly toggle or schedule my card availability per global region (and on/offline) through an app, with login protected by hw or app-based 2fa.

Your problems are already solved, in Europe at least. Thanks to banks and governments, ironically!
its not as clear cut in WoW's case. you got blizzard selling game time tokens which players can sell on the auction house for atm ~230k gold.

and this isnt just an option, but something done extremely frequently. tokens are usually sold within one day.

(and blizzard takes ~40% more € for that token than a subscription would take, so blizzard actually has a massive profit margin there)
they’ve lifted hundreds or millions out of poverty

This is the same argument that “they made the trains run on time”.
Another somewhat related thing is "Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs":

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/M3TJ2fTCzoQq66NBJ/p/ZQG9cwKbct2L...

When more moderate, reasonable, or relatively skeptical people leave the group, people who remain are, on average, more fanatical and extreme. Which leads to even more extreme viewpoints, which pushes out more and more people who previously might have been acting as a voice of moderation.

> After the [moderate members] escape, the remaining discussions will be between the extreme fanatics on one end and the slightly less extreme fanatics on the other end, with the group consensus somewhere in the “middle.”

So

> This is one reason why it’s important to be prejudiced in favor of tolerating dissent. Wait until substantially after it seems to you justified in ejecting a member from the group, before actually ejecting. If you get rid of the old outliers, the group position will shift, and someone else will become the oddball.
>Naming matters

Not that much.

>Nim changing from "Nimrod" matters

Hardly.

>Cockroachdb's name is offputting.

Not enough to matter. They still raised over $60 million in funding...

Many people have internalized Marketing/SEO/enterprise-pointy-hair-boss thinking about "what matters", but in the grand scheme of things, naming is not really that relevant...
Interesting image showing the reversed-V formation of the pace maker runners, tested in a wind tunnel. (inverse of what birds do).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGqIhcSXUAca387?format=jpg&name=...

From https://twitter.com/BertBlocken/status/1182907965306748929
Unix is an IDE itself.
CRDT: Conflict-free Replicated Data Type
OT: Operational Transform
>Agree. To name another example, I personally can't take seriously anything named 'webinar'

Seeing that webinars have caught on like wildfire, become a multi-billion dollar business, and forced all kinds of eLearning and online platforms to say they offer the ability to produce/share "webinars", I'd say this is rather a counter-example.

I.e. more like "A few might find X or Y name off-putting, some outliers might even come with contrived meanings in unrelated not-exactly homonyms in different languages that supposedly would make a name unsuitable, but in most cases nobody really cares".
Whatever bacteria might live on Mars had millennia of evolutionary pressure to adapt to an environment with no lifeforms larger than an inch. It seems very unlikely that they will interact with human physiology in a meaningful way.

That doesn't mean they can't be harmful though. Bacteria that quickly eats through concrete for example would be just as bad to bring back.
From the article:

“The lion-headed figurine is the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest-known uncontested example of figurative art. It has been determined by carbon dating of the layer in which it was found to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old, and therefore is associated with the archaeological Aurignacian culture of the Upper Paleolithic. It was carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife.”
The fastest for these sort of things are usually C++, Rust, C projects[1]. The fastest Java projects are Rapidoid, wizzardo-http, and proteus. The link you provided does not have a comprehensive comparison of different HTTP JSON frameworks.

1. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...
For the non-initiated among us, what does it mean to "use a team of pacemakers"?

Why are those pacemakers that important?
If the Chinese govt were to be destabilized then maybe those in the internment camps will have a better chance at survival and life in general. What are your thoughts on that?

Are the lives of the Han more valuable than other ethnicities?
Blizzard says “China had no influence”
Nice, but why is this on HN?
So what happens if we do discover life on Mars?

Popular sentiment would quickly swing (or be swung) towards leaving Mars alone. "We've f*d up one planet, let's not destroy two!", "leave Mars to the Martians", etc.

Vested interests opposed to the space program would get legislation passed that declared Mars indigenous life to be a protected species, and interference with a planetary ecosystem a criminal act.

That would be the end of any exploration or settlement.

But if they don't include life detectors, and declare that "no life has been detected there", then discovering that they were wrong will happen once the colony is already in place. Too late, the ecosystem is already altered, might as well keep going and study it.

Better to ask forgiveness than permission.
I don’t think those results are actually particularly meaningful or that they scale up very well, but I’m going to skip that and address other relevant matters.

I mentioned resource usage, and that includes memory usage. The JVM can be surprisingly fast for some types of code, but it’s never a memory lightweight.

I suppose I might as well mention another feature I value: ease of deployment. In Rust, I can produce a single statically-linked binary which I can drop on a server, or on users’ machines, or whatever as appropriate, and run it. For anything on the JVM… yeah, without extremely good cause I will consider dependency on the JVM to be a blocker, especially for a consumer product.
Influence your neighbors and local govt to vote against any relationship with China whenever possible.
Trying different things and settled on running with 2% chance.

At bet 600 I was at $191.25. Not too bad of a gain, but the I went 200 bets without a win, putting me at -$8.75 and I stopped playing.

I always find things like this, chance and probability a very satisfying and interesting thing to see how it works out.
Almost as if specific images containing Winnie the Pooh were blocked, not every single possible mention of the character.
This is a crowded space with A-list players like Psychology Today.

How do you differentiate yourselves?
If someone claimed to have done detailed fundamentals analysis on which stocks to buy, and the recommended portfolio they came up with was exactly the S&P 500, you'd be dubious that they'd actually done the analysis, right? If someone was doing a book report and came up with exactly the same analysis as a well-known essay, you'd be sceptical that they'd read the book themselves. Of course there's an underlying reality and you'd expect everyone to come up with the same broad themes. But there's enough noise that you also expect individuals to come up with some idiosyncratic differences.
If everyone has to benefit, this seems to define philanthropy to be an impossible feat.

I suspect you're thinking of some celebrities or causes you agree with and assuming their motives must be pure because they agree with your interests. This isn't saying you have some devious intent, I'm just pointing out a potential unquestioned assumption you may hold.

Maybe the compromise is this: Wanting people to like you (or wanting good PR) may be an impure motive, but it's also the least concerning impure motive. After all, if a very powerful person wants to be liked by others, that motivation forces them to then listen to others and consider their interests.
Really great watch, thanks for the link.
Well, "our democracies", self-censor all the time at many scales (from government to news to entertainment) in matters that suit us, eg. Saudi Arabia, so there's that.

Hollywood for example doesn't cosy-up to China because they're bullied, but to sell more movie seats there. I'd say the same thing is true for Apple's case.
When I first read Dune and sequels in my teens, I too thought that the later books were kind of boring.

I have re-read it in my late 30s and now I actually favor the later novels. I consider all 6 novels as one work.

The deconstruction of a hero (Paul) was in my opinon necessary and logical progression of the story arc. I think Herbert wanted to say that heroes inevitably end up being harmful to the society.

My opinion is that if the sequels were written in the same manner as the first book, we'd end up with an excellent but still run-of-the mill epic saga like Star Wars, LoTR etc. In my view, Herbert's Dune stands above all precisely because it's not just another (great) SF novel.

Herbert said he set out to write a book on philosophy and religion, but didn't want to approach the subject academically since it would probably be only read by scholars. He wanted to reach a broader audience and so he wrapped his ideas into science fiction so it's more easy to swallow for the average bookworm.
This is patent nonsense. The same political process that created the landmark designation can remove or alter it.
Fine. The author might have a financial interest in the outcome. But is he wrong? His data strongly suggests that the easy availability of DV certificates and the deprecation of EV certificates makes the creation of phishing sites far too easy.
Elizabeth Warren Trolls Facebook with 'False' Zuckerberg Ad
Thanks for that, nice to know that its still relevant and productive!
Lol people like baudrilllard, gilles, and guattari had better 21st century predictions then fukuyama. Fukuyama is like the starwars of 90s philosophy, mainstream tripe.
>As long as we have a Monarch, our PM can never become President. Even though the power of the Monarch is theoretical, this still makes for an important distinction because appearances shape the way people think about things.

I don't know, we have a PM here and not a President, and it's not really that great either.

(We threw our kings out a while ago).
the keyword here is expectation. that expectation may be misguided.
I wouldn't have put it like you, but I too was unimpressed by Dune. All the religious/mystical stuff didn't appeal to me at all. I wonder if it's partly an age thing: I only read Dune in my 30s. The more "typical" nerd journey would have been to read it in my teens. I don't know if I would have liked it back then, but I'm sure I would have viewed it differently, both then and now.
Somewhat off topic, but I would welcome having a very small section of 2-3 randomly selected posts from “new” show up on top of the regular home page.

That way “doing my part” in scanning over the enormous volume of new posts becomes frictionless.
Are there too many FLOSS conferences?
I would switch from chrome. For sure.

The internet intrudes too much on my user experience with tracking, ads, etc. I just want to see the content I WANT to browse for.
I want to read this article, which could be 30% of the pixel length with ads removed. Etc.
TFA was written by a NASA team member, and is literally saying "we did discover life on Mars". If that's not "leaking" then I don't know what is.

Yet here we are, discussing it as if this is fake news. I don't think we need to call this a "conspiracy", just the lack of official confirmation makes anyone saying that there's life on Mars sound like a crackpot.