skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moderating it and encouraging the community to run around policing each other seems like it is a bit too much.

No matter how gently you moderate a person many take it harshly and I suspect the response will be to push back at the moderator, moderation, and ultimately the rule.... and it ends up being more counterproductive than anything else.

Very very generally I would compare the response to say police detaining someone as far as a someone's response goes. It is hard to do so no matter how lightly it is presented and not get a strong response.

Another issue is that moderators can't know if two people know the correct pronoun unless clearly stated in that conversation, so they are going to be guessing the vast majority of the time...
I suggest looking into the BEAKL layout.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231493 - this one just links to the comments section
I live on the west side of Suruga bay and the typhoon pretty much threaded itself up the bay, making land fall on the Izu peninsula. In 12 years here, it definitely ranks up as one of the biggest typhoons I've experienced. However, the biggest thing is the rain. It rained pretty hard for about 24 hours before it hit. Looking at the pictures of the rivers around here from TV, I've never seen them so high. Historically the Oigawa river was impassable by an army. After they dammed it you can practically jump over it if you have a good run. But it and the Abekawa river were absolutely full. I never thought I'd see the day. Up in the mountains it is worse and they have had to release water from some of the dams, which often causes deaths from people who didn't heed the evacuation order. There have been a few deaths and people missing from landslides, etc.

Where I live, it's basically over now. We may get some trouble when the tide comes in, but the evacuation order has been lifted and probably things will go back to normal tomorrow. I'm worried about Kanagawa prefecture, though, as they seem to have got the majority of the water. Time will tell.
Hong Kong Has Weaponized the City’s Subway Against Protesters
Did you actually just label a decently researched article quoting The Guardian and PBS as Nazi propaganda?

Wow, that's a new low for HN.
Transmit is a little too "full featured" for me. We use it at work, but at home I prefer Fetch, which is much more minimalistic.

I'm sure this largely depends on what you're doing, though. I really just need a pleasant UI for uploading and downloading files.
A problematic keyboard, sure. The reliability is well beyond what someone might consider acceptable (which is probably why they're rumored to be changing it). That doesn't mean that it's not geared towards power users. It means that there is a flaw in their keyboard's design. What exactly does this have to do with catering towards 'power users?' The aforementioned Mac Pro doesn't come with said flawed keyboard, nor do any of their desktop computers.

The other part of his argument is that the operating system is increasingly poor, without really saying why he thinks that is the case.
You will see it here and there. It is not common, usually in steak houses or French restaurants. The smaller (dedicated) butcher shops will give you a cut that you can work with. The larger grocery stores usually only have bones for stock or at best oxtail soup.
I used to work for pagestrip.com and I feel we did a good job!
They do this, but it shows up on the bottom of the front page and it isn’t random.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
In the Marines you may not have been 5' 6" and 126 pounds with a BMI of 20.3. Kipchoge and his pacers have a similar physique.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...
Well, at this point the GOP is fully deserving of shame. Are they coming up with a grand plan to solve climate change with a new nuclear industry? If so, I'd love to hear it! But sadly, no: they're denying there's a problem in the first place.
Likely ThinkPads.
The point of academic research is somewhere between attracting attention and trying something new. This did both.

So good point, and well done.
The authors suggest testing for chiraliry in an LR test. Life creates certain “handed” organic molecules while purely chemical reactions do not. They said there’s already designs for flight ready tests. NASA just needs to include it in a mars mission. But they have no plans to do so.

This significantly increased my frustration with NASA.
Nope I'm not. But Shopify is large enough to have a first-class engineering team that would (presumably) be writing efficient code, which is nothing special. So if this first-class engineering team is still writing about _fast code in Ruby_, doesn't that imply Ruby isn't fast?
Monodraw - ascii/text drawing app.

It’s useful and delightful

https://monodraw.helftone.com/
I'm not content with that, but people seems to have the wrong expectations about what a for-profit is all about. Of course, there are ways to get profit that are illegal, but agreeing to self-censor (or be censored) by states is up to the companies. If it gives them more money, you can't be shocked when they chose that way.

I would only put trust in organizations who are not for-profit companies if it's for important things. I couldn't care less about food-delivery services for middle-class and above, but for hospitals, prisons, water, electricity and so on, you can't have (well, you can [look at the US], but usually doesn't turn out great for the people, only the stakeholders) for-profit companies running them as the incentives are all misaligned.
Paw is a good api debugger.
> a community containing world-class software engineers

Sadly they don't seem to have world-class managers
Chinese Communist Party Issues Reward for Kidnapping Creators of Southpark
Not the complete story.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/climate-change-reporting-websi...
There was nothing nice about the WTC twin towers. They were impressive for their height but the architecture wasn't so much brutalist, but stark utiltarian with about as much warmth as a multi-level carpark.

Buildings like the Gherkin or 1 Bligh St are airy and spacious on the inside due to their innovative architecture. Bligh St being completely hollow similar to the Lloyds Building in London and the Gherkin's 5deg plate rotation creating vertical breezeways within the building.

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/VikramBengani/the-gherkin-...
The paywall thing is making my HN experience worse over time. The "web" link doesn't work to get past it anymore.
Also Fork and GitX are both git UI apps and they look and feel native. Simple and to the point.
I dont understand why you are downvoted.
They are going to, of course. But they're also looking forward to make sure they don't have to go bankrupt.
I don't recall the GOP advocating for nuclear power. They are less opposed to it but I have never heard that they actively pursued it.
Sports are a game of our own invention, correct. However, they sat down and made specific rules for this single spectacle, aka a game of their invetion. That is categorically different, and that it is categorically different from marathon is my entire point.

On long distance running, you are correct I know a lot more about cycling and it seems every time I see anything about running discussions is, when people say that they don't want to become cycling with team captains and domestiques who get them water.
> two political correctness peaks: one in the early/mid 90s, and the other starting from about 2013 to now.

Could this be related to economic circumstances, and a spread of a sense of defeat among adherents of economic progressivism? Postmodernism came around the time, when knowledge about communist atrocities became more established. The political correctness peak of the nineties maybe reflected changes in the dominance of the Neoliberal End of History way of thinking. 2013 occurred four years after an event that threatened the Neoliberal economic narrative. I mean, the US is special in the way the Neoliberal ideology almost takes a new shape, by itself making political correctness into a useful mask. In the third world, religions such as postmodernism do take a steady hold. I see it as reflection of the hopelessness around the (geo)political and economic systems.
Is it easy to share flowcharts with non-Omni users? How does it compare to Visio?
Anecdotal, but you’re mostly correct.

Where I live currently, there’s exactly one restaurant that has it on the menu for quite literally a 2 hour driving radius.
Paw is hands-down the best REST app one I’ve ever used, and it’s a glorious, native macOS app. If you have any use for such a thing, give it a look.
Their personal experience is that it just gives a message and not means to create a poll. HN is better when people delete or forego throw away comments. Explaining the comment as overt criticism of the way a particular person speaks was not an improvement.
Not just say things, it seems there's a disturbing trend where any and all behaviour is 'justified' as long as it's someone on 'our side' who's doing it. Especially if the target of said behaviour is the 'other tribe'.

For instance, violence/threats against those with different political viewpoints. Or attempts at justifying actual abusive/manipulative behaviour.

It makes me worry that the goal of civility has been lost, that a depressing number of people actively seem to think they're at war with their opponents and that their goal is not to come to any sort of compromise or get along, but to destroy the other team by any means necessary.
Spoken Language Identification Using ConvNets
If you call someone "mentally ill" you are implying they do not make decisions rationally. Do you believe this about people with Aspbergers? If you do not, why is it relevant that she was so diagnosed?

There are many incidental characteristics of Greta Thunberg that Fox News might have chosen to emphasize: she likes horizontal stripes, perhaps, or she wears her hair in a braid. Why didn't these become what they focused on? Do you suppose they think aspies are irrational? Immoral? Amoral? Or do you suppose they think people will hear "mentally ill" and think these things. If it's the latter, it's dishonest and libel.
I do think that humans have walked in space, but even slowed down and in color (https://youtu.be/uAPBRvd8OTY) this "first space walk" looks like a stop motion mock-up to me. It's widely accepted that the Soviets edited people (like this astronaut: http://cdn8.openculture.com/2017/08/20195036/11-three-fake-f...) out of photographs, but questioning the authenticity of space videos is still weirdly taboo... even with those jerky, inconsistent arm movements.

(Edited for formatting, not content or tact.)
I do. Mostly when I am posting, I will scroll down and read a few of the posts.

Otherwise I will check it maybe once a day.
I regularly need onedrive, s3, gdrive, etc. support. If i didn’t i’d probably just stick to cli tools.
Not sure about other editors, but there's syntax highlighting for Vim in the repo, and mtags (ctags for Mercury).
I personally pretty much ditched QWERTY for now (I use it only on my phone).

But I think it's possible to maintain 2 layouts in your muscle memory
Looking at the map from NHK's application, it's moved quite a bit past Tokyo now. The JMA map is often an hour or two behind, unfortunately.
But you know who doesn't live in the Bay Area? Most of HN. The site has a global audience now.
Glad you've been enjoying the content! Porting DOOM was pleasantly straightforward yeah, here's the video if someone is curious what that looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0P_bB6wjhY
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Because someone at some point started thinking that social outcasts who are wholly unable to maintain even the most tenuous of social connections/support networks shouldn’t starve in the streets with their children, and instead of charity the government can be seen as “the good guy” by just giving out stolen money instead of money freely given. It weakens the power of churches, makes the politicians more powerful since they’re controlling the bread and circuses. It’s a win win for those in power.
For-profit companies are under no obligation to seek profit before all other goals. In the broad sense, they can seek to optimize for any value their shareholders collectively agree to, and in a narrow sense, their leaders are still bound by ethics and laws, and it's reasonable for society to hold them accountable to such.
The fact that it doesn’t start with some unreadable mathematical notation that is just the author trying to show how smart they are give me hope.

Looks like a really good introductory source just skimming the first few chapters.
There has been a lot of criticism on Limits to Growth, but there has also been a lot of positive review in recent years e.g.:

> "In 2008, Graham Turner of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) found that the observed historical data from 1970 to 2000 closely match the simulated results of the "standard run" limits of growth model for almost all the outputs reported. "The comparison is well within uncertainty bounds of nearly all the data in terms of both magnitude and the trends over time."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth#Positiv...
Thanks mysterydip! The networking stack supports UDP but not multicast (yet.) I'd like to think it's pretty hackable though, if you're interested in that sort of thing :)
No, that's the problem. The individual items in the specification were written in a human lifetime. Full testing of the specification requires consideration of the power set of those items.

(I mistated earlier when I said unit tests. Determining if the right order of events is fired is probably a functional or integration test. And full coverage on those is the problem of covering the power set of features of a system.)
Take the Dora DevOps Quick Check
I've gone from just sort of blankly accepting that, of course, global warming is true + catastrophic, to now wondering if it's over-hyped or uncertain. The kinds of arguments around it make it seem more like a moral or even religious hysteria than a well-supported belief. Science should invite skepticism and questioning, not try to shut it down w/ shouts of someone being a "denier".

A little bit of warming seems certain; the catastrophic scenarios, not so certain.

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/06/epistemic-caution-and-...

Reducing fossil fuel use is still the prudent thing to do, of course.
Yes. I wouldn’t want to call quantum mechanics or evolution more than a theory either. QM has the advantage that it makes a lot of very precise predictions that can be tested. Evolution has the (weaker) advantage that pure chance is not an alternative explanation for the data.

Anthropogenic climate change unfortunately lacks those two advantages.
The way I see it is fighting with the same weapons, deception if it may since this is what climate change deniers do. It is not hard to see some sort of deception on both sides of this issue
I do find myself using wget to download things because I don't have to remember the curl option to follow redirects, and wget saves the file using the same name as the last bit of the uri.
> The IPCC’s own estimates of the business as usual scenario show modest economic impacts even under a business as usual scenario out to 2100.

Is that the impact that occurs up to 2100, or the total future impact that will be unavoidable if we do business as usual until 2100? This sounds a lot like you are saying "if we continue business as usual, the world won't be destroyed before 2100", which might well mean "but it's completely impossible to escape complete destruction until 2150 then".
Scaling horizontally a Rails application where the bottleneck is the Ruby code is always very easy - just add more instances working on the same DB. It is usually more difficult because the bottleneck is in the DB, not the Ruby code.

You're right about price though; if the cost of compute is relevant in your business model - which, again, usually isn't the case - then doing that computation with Ruby on AWS isn't the best choice.
In Mojave, I didn't. I don't recall it even asking for an administrator's password, though it was seven months ago when I created the directories.
I definitely saw pictures of Tamagawa overflowing on NHK just before it got dark. I haven't heard any news since then, unfortunately. Not sure if the other poster knows more than that.
"Response to 'Fibers under the magnifying glass'" from the authors of boost.fiber, at

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p086....

And Response to response to "Fibers under the magnifying glass", at

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p152...
CppCon 2019: Non-conforming C++: What the Committee Is Hiding From You [video]
Authentication Bypass Found in Zabbix
My father, who is about to turn 80, is still knee deep in code every day -- having retired (many years ago) after 45 years in the industry. The guy remembers paper tape, and is still going strong.

And often, he's way into whatever the latest language is. He builds games, software for organizing pills and bills, and has designed and rebuilt his own editor several times.

Honestly, the guy's my hero.
The Tower of Hanoi!
If you follow John in Twitter you'll occasionally see him mention c++ quirks he ran into.
How do you view intersex people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
One should take a look at Ulysses too.
I'd like to disagree. The first time I read the guide was after my first programming internship during college and didn't really have a background in distributed computing or message queues. I only knew how to read and write code good enough for a CRUD based web app. I understood sockets though.

I found this book a great introduction to MQ and distributed computing in general. I didn't read cover to cover but I remember reading around 2/3rds of the book and didn't find it super hard to follow even though I did have to reread some sections. Also I must mention I was implementing a toy ZeroMQ project while I was reading the book.
The charts can be rendered to PDF. I believe you can export to other formats, but those are always lossy.

Visio feels like it hasn’t been updated since the 90s compared to OmniGraffle. Also, Visio has had an enterprise focus for a very long time while omnigraffle has very much focused on diagramming.
Will it still work in Edge chromium?
That's interesting. It could be neat to include key position as a field in the system keyboard events, along with the character, shift states, etc.

In fact, the keyboard scan code is basically position information :)
> The facts are that nobody knows how climate works

No the facts appear to be that you don't know how climate works.

Why are you so passionate about this issue, what's in it for you anyway?

Do you stand to make millions off of oil and gas? If not, why are you arguing for the side that wants to let the world burn?
More "The end of Chromium for not being able to run uBlock Origin". Running a browser without a functional ad blocker is like running around without vaccinations - you're bound to catch something nasty.

I used to use Chromium and Firefox side by side but stopped doing so when they started acting up in this way. When I need to test with Blink I use Vivaldi (which still supports uBlock Origin), Firefox otherwise.
Absolutely love bone marrow. Pretty rare I get to eat it though.
This red flag law will exponentially increase the amount of employees ratting out other employees whom they don't like their political persuasion, or have disagreements with, for even ridiculous reasons - - - without any involvement of guns.
I can easily see the left making up stories about their right leaning fellow employees just so they can watch the goon squad beat down the private home doors of their right leaning fellow employees, confiscate their law abiding gun collection and drag them out in cuffs.
Desaster ?
The rest of the electric utility industry sees California as a troubled place ever since the days of rolling blackouts from Enron's market manipulation. I'm not sure if it's the regulatory environment or the market or utility management or what, but they've had a lot of problems.

It will also be interesting to see how California deals with blackouts as they pursue their renewable energy targets. The average day with renewables is not a problem, but once we get to a majority renewable grid and there's a multi-day stretch of low solar and wind output, it will be interesting to see whether they can deploy enough gas, storage and conservation to cover the demand. ERCOT (Texas) almost had blackouts this summer when low wind and high demand led to a $90/kWh energy price.

Blackouts aren't the end of the world, but more of them will force us to deploy backup power much more aggressively than we do now.
Link for the lazy: https://www.thecannachronicles.com/the-dirtbags-of-dope-lake...

This is discussed in the Valley Uprising documentary as well (the whole doc is amazing and definitely worth your time).
I'm not using the electron app. I want to use it directly in the browser, which does not work on Firefox (at least on Linux)
There's a question mark in the title of the article, which is kind of very relevant here.

The last sentence of the article starts with words "While it is certainly possible that the stable extension update would be allowed by Google".
Till this point we were choosing based on our interests. What we like to read naturally. But now we have many suggestions from people!
You need to distinguish between the scientific base, and activism through a particular political lens. The latter can be hysterical, that doesn’t have any relevance to the former.
HN? Let Oracle and SQL Server databases start using that without one forcing them to. There's a long list of stuff to be bothered with before even looking at HN.
free alternative for Windows: https://www.documentalist.io/
The active record queries like User.all are lazily loaded, so it’s totally possible to pass them around like keys without them being executed.

That said, I wouldn’t use a query as a cache key since there may be more than one thing I want to cache about that query (GP’s example is their as_json representation, but what if I wanted something different to be computed? Like maybe html snippets? I would expect the cache key to mention everything about the thing it’s caching.)
The alternative to cars isn't walking in a car based city, it's a combination of any of the following modes:

subways, light rail, bus rapid transit, bikeshare bikes, personally owned bikes, electric assist personal vehicles (bikes, scooters, wheelchairs), pedestrianized walkways shaded by trees, humane public space, higher density life leading to lower transit time

People have non-car based cities where it's really hot. I was just in Taipei where it's 90F+ and 80%+ most of the year which has most of the things I described. And also where it's really cold. I haven't been to Copenhagen, but it's snowy for a solid three to four months of the year and people use their public transit infrastructure (cycling included) year round.
Cool, but I think spawning VMs on server is overkill for that.
It should be possible to build cURL with Emscripten with fake socket interface to verify requests.
Doesn't matter how good you are at doing the thing right if you're not doing the right thing.