skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""Prefer one page over several" is diametrically opposed to the hypertext model. Please don't do this."

I think I agree with you here, in that much of the power of hypertext lies in the hierarchical "tree" model.

And yet, I think it has not been used properly up to this point ...

I hesitate to post this as this is not quite finished[1], but here goes - this is something called an "Iceberg Article":

http://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html

... wherein the main article content is, as the article suggests, a single, self-contained page.

And yet ... that is just the "tip" - underneath is:

" ... at least one, but possibly many, supporting documents, resources and services. The minimum requirement is simply an expanded form of the tip (the "bummock"), complete with references, notes and links. Other resources and services that might lie under the surface are a wiki, a changelog, a software repository, additional supporting articles and reference pages and even a discussion forum."

[1] Neither wiki nor forum exist yet, but the bummock does...
> Next is BugJail for Android, with beta starting late 2018, hopefully.

Why does the website showcase outdated content? Personally, I will drop off at this point. You might have put this message pre 2018, but you should keep the landing page up-to-date.

Also, as one of the other commenters pointed out, you should spend some extra bucks and proof read the landing page. Sentences like "And cheap perpetual license after that" does not go well for most customers who are willing to shell money for a product. If your product is worth it, people will pay for it.

Tech is just a part of the equation. If you don't take care of other stuffs like messaging you are sending wrong signals to your potential users.
Perhaps the title of the article doesn't capture its underlying value. PubSubOnSQL Layers rarely make sense compared to dedicated Pub/Sub systems but the trade-off is acceptable in the three use cases described: 1. When your dedicated Pub/Sub is ephemeral and you need message durability, 2. When you need distributed transactions across SQL and your Pub/Sub system, and 3. When you need a poor man's heterogeneous SQL replication system.

The academic/enterprise database space has been discussing and tackling the types of questions you raise for decades. I don't think that is a useful lens to evaluate this article which is effectively a "tips on when to use our GoLang SQL Pub/Sub layer".
If you want to try another recipe with buckwheat, you can cook it like rice.
You rinse the buckwheat, and then you boil it. At the end drain it, and add a sauce (usually butter) and it's ready to eat.

I used to eat it in that way (outside Italy), and it's normally a side of a main dish, for example roasted chicken and buckwheat (instead of potatoes).
Vaguely? That's polite.
> nor should it be allowed to break the law

What if the law mandates that some services can only be provided in a certain way? If a simple label swap could give a free pass then why stop at taxis? "I did not steal that money, I was just providing a free surprise disposal service. Would it help if I sent a bill?"
Not at all. It's correct that this problem is formally recognized as a false paradox. It is a thought experiment infamous for its illustrative misuse in relation to other areas. "What are the 'boxes' in this case?" - The unfortunate choice of fiat is one such area, and it is correct for practical purposes to discard the subject right here because answers will modify the service, or fail a test. So fail a test, it's not a problem. Ignore the unstated false equivalences between test criteria and aim to break the criterion that matters least. Different situations call for different choices, but standard consensus is to admit to 2-boxing. Different hybrid strategies are improved by personal values. By 1-boxing I don't value my time, I value the information. While I'm coming up to speed I might get a chance to use it. That could take a while though, I have a decent memory but I'm not a fast proofreader.
Because we're drilling down into finer and finer descriptions. If there was a black hole in earth orbit where it could be closely observed I'm sure we'd find small details of its behavior and the behavior of dust crossing its event horizon that require difficult math to explain.
Why the downvotes? Some of Marx's least "problematic" writings is his early stuff on alienation.
Will new claims of censorship threaten TikTok’s presence in Europe?
You are safer in a car, when you're around other cars, than on a bike. I don't I need to explain the physics of why this is obviously true.

The problem here is that there are cars around you when you're biking. If you didn't have to ride alongside cars, then cycling would be far safer, and your main worry would be things like gravel, snow, rain (anything that makes the road surface slippery), and probably pedestrians.

There's a reason that places that put bike lanes next to car traffic, with no barrier, don't get much increase in cycling, and why places with physically divided biking lanes have far lower cyclist deaths and injuries. Cars are just too dangerous to be allowed around bikes.

The fundamental problem here is the existence of cars, and the sheer dominance of cars as a transport method. It makes it almost impossible for anything else to be a viable alternative, for many different reasons including safety and sprawl (cycling isn't all that feasible if you have to ride 30 miles each way because the "city" is so sprawling).
The primary purpose of the fingerprint scanner is to
prevent password sharing. Bloomberg terminal access costs about 20,000 per seat per year. Bloomberg cares deeply that every individual who uses the system is paying for an account; shops that use Bloomberg would obviously rather share an account if they can get away with it. The fingerprint scanner makes it really hard to share an account.
Maybe I wasn't using tesseract to its fullest potential, but I had a really hard time getting it to do accurate OCR on warped paged - straight pages worked perfect.
Occams Razor doesnt have to be right.

I dont mean to talk about your speculations, but its not bulletproof method of reasoning
My build worked ok. It was the integration with Github Packages that failed.
I'm curious what the book was and the context for why you were reading it.
Ask HN: How to distribute/sync a postgresdb geographically?
So I'm wondering, if I create a Django application that uses a Postgres DB, and I want to be able to deploy it in multiple locations to reduce latency.

How would I ensure that an update in user data against one dB is synced with the other DBs.

Assuming there are DBs in America, Asia and Europe?

Are there any solutions to do syncing on the database level?

Does Django provide any of this functionality?

Should the problem be approached from the database level or the application level?
Well, I think it's probably that we live in an economy that has been exponentially expanding for centuries. Workers are producing more, information is flowing faster, and everything is just moving more quickly.

I think what we have is the result of trying to optimize for sales and profits. You must always sell more this quarter than last quarter. It's just picked up, year by year over the decades.

Besides, I've always heard that society took a hard turn after WWII. All those factories had to keep producing something, so they reconfigured to producing consumer goods.
Because I can see the future? ;)

Foresight is 20/20. See my comment that is a child of (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703179)

It was obvious that this was going to happen. NASA was giving a pass to Boeing on a lot of things,there was lots of organizational pressure to not screw it up, and it failed its previous test due to careless error.

Sadly the put order I placed did not execute because I don't know how to effectively trade in illiquid markets yet.
Shedding light on fraudulent takedown notices
What's the Difference Between Stack Exchange Users and Customers?
Or the people lonely enough to jump at any possibility of human contact. It’s unclear.
Or just create a Queue(), give it as a parameter to the long calculation so it can store the result in it, and in the main thread just do q.get(). There are probably a dozen other synchronization primitives you can use, but this one is very versatile and you only need to keep one API in your head. Also, this approach somewhat mimics the concept of channels in Go.
Show HN: TVFN
TVFN (The View From Nowhere) started as an experiment to attempt to find objective truths to given statements. I realized that this would involve a lot of manual moderating and would probably invite a lot of abuse. It's also - I think - an overly ambitious goal.

In its current form, I'm using it as a planning/documenting tool. It has helped me break down problems/tasks because it forces you to start with the desired goal.

I'm not really sure where to go with it at the moment so I wanted to show it off and look for feedback and/or ideas. The main use case I keep coming back to is for onboarding developers at new jobs; in my experience it's always been an adventure getting the project(s) up and running when joining a new company.

All graphs: https://tvfn.io/app/browse
An exampe: https://tvfn.io/app/graph/4
I have occasionally taken Route 301 south from the Washington DC area (I live just a few miles from it in Maryland). It's a nice change of pace from I-95. The intersection of I-95 South and the Washington Beltway is huge, complex thing, and often backed up.
Marmite sell this pre-made.

https://www.marmite.co.uk/products/marmite-crunchy-peanut-bu...
A book about growth – in every sense
As previously mentioned, the question was originally posted on a legal website that we've been running for a few weeks now:

http://www.helplicit.com/askQuestion/:Company-dissolving
Just to add to my previous point we would be using stripe marketplace payment gateway: direct payment method as it supports 135 currencies and 35 countries
One practical application is DRM
My favorite combos:

- Peanut butter + Nutella (add banana for bonus points)

- Peanut butter + chocolate sprinkles

- Strawberry jam + Gouda cheese

Put this on brioche bread... heaven!
> the reason nasa projects fail is because they refuse to allow for iteration

Could this be a relic of the era when we needed people in the spacecraft? As far as I'm aware, SpaceX has never had manned flights - a catastrophic explosion is momentary bad press, but they can continue on. Every time someone died in NASA it was a real tragedy. Plus every NASA launchpad explosion is more obviously "wasted" tax payer money.
Google has little to lose from Chinese sanctions and probably gains from competitors being hurt.
My mother was active in my school, reading exercises, schooltrips and fairs and the like.

A lot of the mothers were. Actually we only had 6 teachers, for 6 classes/grades. No other personel ( one of the teachers was the 'head' ).
Is it sticky? I'm trying to create a good veggie-burger, and need something that can form a patty when I mix in the beans etc.
Google translate to the rescue!

I think that sums it up too.
From the perspective of trying to get to the actual physical behavior of such systems, the exercise is purely theoretical since we know there are other mechanisms at work to prevent the “ blow up” ...
If anyone is using Elixir, Oban[0] is a job processor that uses PostgreSQL for its back-end and state management.

It's incredibly well written and I am using it in a project.

[0]: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
I highly doubt this...
"Keep your data anonymous"

Even though I personally understand why you are going with Linkedin, you cannot claim that data is anonymous if you require Linkedin account to authenticate. Privacy has nothing to do the with the technical implementation. You are just explaining oAuth but the point is that you already who I am since you require Linkedin. So it is not anonymous. Not for YOU at least.
It may make perfect sense psychologically to do that, but it accomplishes nothing for you. Some people may do things like this, but those things tend to cancel out. They aren't general tendencies, they are just individual quirks.

Also, why would it come down to 72 or 76? It's not going to bounce around like that, it will converge on a center value. Regardless, it would make no sense for you to pick anything other than your preferred value. Any value you pick is going to move it the same amount (if it moves it at all). And if you pick 72 when you prefer 70, you are taking a risk of your moving the result in the opposite direction of where you want it to go (as would be the case if the median was around 71)

"But there would be benefit in converging the votes on popular numbers to make them the median."

"Popular numbers" don't matter with a numerical vote like this. We aren't voting for discrete "candidate values". Again, the best strategy is to vote for you preferred value, full stop. Trying to guess how others are voting would accomplish exactly nothing.

It is very different from presidential votes where it may well be wasting your vote to vote for who you actually want. All of the things you say apply there. This is not that.
TFA says:

> The switch to Signal will also allow the Conservative party to stem the flow of leaks emerging from its inner circle.

How will it do that?

> Like WhatsApp, Signal has end-to-end encryption baked in, preventing a foreign power or individual from accessing sensitive conversations. In addition, it also includes settings, which, when enabled, self-destructs messages after a period of time.

> Unfortunately, Signal doesn't allow group moderators to block individuals from taking screenshots, which would frustrate the process of leaking a conversation to the press.

But if you look at the Buzzfeed stories referred to, they are based on insider leaks of Whatsapp traffic, often in the form of screenshotted group messages.

So while it's good for the Reg to poke fun at the implied encryption hypocrisy, they do their readers a disservice by not highlighting the discrepancy between the claimed cure and the actual disease.

In fact framing the Buzzfeed "whatsapp leak" stories as a security exploit issue is downright misleading.

If you look a little closer, they are all authored by ex-Breitbart journalist Alex Wickham and seem to have dried up around the time the previous PM Theresa May resigned. I think there's an obvious inference, which I will leave to the reader ;)
I know someone would come up with this argument. But Apple and the community will be looking at those apps closely. Even if they managed to slip an exploit into them, it wouldn't last long.
Thanks, that 2018 is a very unfortunate typo, should have been 2019.

And agreed, video would be great, but it takes fair bit of time away from development, so I'm undecided.
Alright, I've gone ahead and replaced the css background-image with a <picture> element, with fallbacks:

<div class="imgbox center-fit">

<picture>

<source srcset="files/webp/file.webp" type="image/webp">

<source srcset="files/file.jpg" type="image/jpg">

<img src="files/file.jpg" alt="Bunny!">

</picture>

</div>

Let me know if that works.
Newsletter giving sponsorship fee to side-project
Note that finite-time singularities for the good old Newtonian n-body problem have been known to exist for quite a while. (See for example [1].)

It's curious to think that a mathematical phenomenon like this can hint at new physics.

[1] Saari, D. and Xia, Z., "Off to Infinity in Finite Time", https://www.ams.org/notices/199505/saari-2.pdf
I run a member-funded newsletter; the focus is remote work. I'm testing out using the funds from a sponsorship to back small side-projects. The link is to the last newsletter with details. The fee from the current sponsorship is still very small, but using it to test this out. I want to do this as transparently as possible. Welcome feedback.
Clicky: https://tvfn.io/app/browse
Potentially helpful notes:

The character whitelist/blacklist functionality doesn't work for the default LSTM-based engine.

Regarding preprocessing, upscaling the image size can have a dramatic impact on performance.

IIRC tessdata_fast (which the article mentions) is the default that ships with most prebuilt versions of Tesseract, so you probably don't need to mess with that. In my use case, I found that tessdata_best actually performed slightly worse in terms of accuracy.
I'm definitely not suggesting this is the norm (especially for new investigators or those going up for tenure) but my time in academic research has been kind of the opposite. Almost everyone in my lab would take at minimum the week from christmas to new years off. There's a pretty big annual conference in my field every late October/early November, so really every year, not much gets done at all from November to mid-January unless you're a student close to defending your dissertation. In fact a lot of people I knew at the time outside my own lab cited non-strict hours as being one of the main perks of the job along with being relatively easy to take time off for holidays. Again, I get that it's not like that everywhere, but just thought I'd share the "24/7/365 crunch time" isn't completely universal either.
If there is anything more to UFOs than just mass hysteria and wishful thinking, then I've always thought it much more likely that they are from a previous industrial civilization here on earth than being extraterrestrial - the PETM from 56 million years ago would be a good candidate for their home time.
AssemblyScript already has tiny hybrid garbage collector (PureRC) which use deferred ARC and GC only for cyclic references: https://github.com/dcodeIO/purerc/blob/master/papers/Bacon03...
Google translate says "FSB backdoor app"
Sell them on the black market to other people for dirt cheap like Netflix accounts used to (may still be?) done with.
I can only hope that this is some poor attempt at satire? This is some of the most obscenely technocratic nonsense I have ever seen in my life.

There are so many things wrong here I don't even know where to start.

> Math is the most valuable tool we have as humans for understanding the world around us and for improving life for all of us. It was math that brought us out of the Dark Ages

This is ahistoric rubbish; the dark ages didn't exist, and even if they did, I have never seen anyone try to claim that mathematics was the beacon of enlightenment that dragged humanity out of the darkness.

> We want to strongly incentivize mothers to train their children in math. No one – not schools, not other relatives, nor the government – is better placed to start training a child in math than their own mother who understands them best and can do it from the youngest possible age.

Being a mother in no way qualifies you as a teacher ready to "train their children in math"; what does this even mean anyway? Teach them arithmetic? We're reasonably good at that as a society already. Bring them up on a diet of ZFC and category theory? This is unlikely to work out well, ask the French.

These are of course minor points compared to the huge, glaring issue that the author clearly has no knowledge of child development whatsoever; "lack of mathematical talent" at the age of 5 in no way determines ability, at all.

The notion of giving some kind of "performance bonus" to mothers for the mathematical talent of their children is absurd, since they have no impact on any innate talent whatsoever; I dread to think what kind of an impact this would have when the proposed bonus is high enough to put them in the 99th centile of income.
Well, that's true, but my argument is that cultural norms spring from necessity. In places where a lot of people must live adjacent, that kind of living becomes the cultural norm and even if you're in a position to do your own thing, you are still influenced by it.

That is, cultural norms affect people, but basic necessity also affect cultural norms. Just like your values inform what you do, but what you do also changes your values.

You're right in that we must make greater efforts to swim against the current, but so many of us must in adulthood develop tools to foster community and connection. That's hard to do, especially when you're vulnerable, there's trial-and-error involved and you don't really have a good model for what you "should" be doing.
>Meanwhile the alienation or isolation... as a European, what freaks me out every time I'm in the US is the dependence on cars for everything. That in many places it's not possible to walk to the grocery and get fresh air... That you're in a permanent state of semi-isolation, breathing air-conditioned oxygen with the only human contact being with people that are paid to smile. Contrast that with visiting a city like Kiev where, in the evening after work, the city parks are filled with families enjoying the sunset (when the weather is warm).

You realize that it's possible to drive or take a bus to a park, right?

I live in a bit more of the country where yeah everyone is dependent on cars.. and in the summer people are out enjoying the beaches, hiking, swimming, boating.

However this is indeed the internet, where it's a requirement to bash the US at every opportunity, so carry on.
> ...when I first looked at the link it said 'state-backed' which immediately put the NSA and the likes in my mind. Then it went into Saudi propaganda.

> ...I wonder why this article focuses on the Saudis and not state backed information operations as a general world wide problem.

This is an announcement of a specific disclosure of information related to a state-backed influence network from Saudi Arabia. Not all statements and articles about state-backed information operations need to be general, and it's actually very helpful to have ones that focus on specific instances.
Same thing happened to me... I just noticed one day that my recent music was a bit odd, completely different to what I usually listen to. I changed my password, but 2FA should be a given at this stage.
This is why we test things.
Purchasing power and inflation adjustment are usually accounted for properly. When people say “the poor get richer” they’re talking about the global poor, like folks who live on $2 per day. That number had drastically decreased. But in the western world the “poor” working for minimum wage and middle classes have seen almost no gains while the rich have seen massive increases in both income and wealth.
Mashed it might stick together. The whole grains are way less sticky on the outside than rice.
Be a Boat Lifter: A Rising Tide that Lifts Everyone Around You
with buttons "да" and "ёб твою мать"
Yea, I'm not picking on you about the car culture thing (sorry if it seemed so). I'm just getting irked by it because I've been seeing that comment so often the past year as "America bad because America likes cars, car culture bad". There's just way many to these issues than just cars.

And, I agree, maybe too much reliance of cars in this country. I can totally agree we should focus on increasing the walk-ability of many communities. But, you can't deny having the ability to say at any moment, "I feel like going 30 miles somewhere, at my choosing and route" is a bad thing. I've been through 3 different public transit systems, (Portland, Seattle and Denver). Portland was the best out of the three. But knowing you are wasting 15 minutes waiting for public transit, then another 10-15 minutes of time to get there due to stops and general traffic (25-30 min) for essentially a 10 minute car ride... yea... It's great in plenty of situations, but is annoying as hell in just as many. The fact that my mobility is not dictated by someone else, yes, to me, is worth the extra monthly cost in comparison of daily use public transit tickets.
China's homegrown Android environment gets update
I got a P30 PRO recently. The battery life is so good -- I get almost 2 days even with constantlye being on Twitter and Whatsapp.