skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting about PDFs. I think they still have some uses though, like scanned documents (like court records), downloadable books... I know some software with invoicing for say hosting might offer a downloadable version created with some script, but just spiting out a web page is probably easier in that case, and still printable.

However I know some PDFs don't even let you select text, they just scan in something it seems. I noticed that even for some government sites, like some city had their ordinances in PDFs that looked like they were typed up on a computer or type writer, signed by someone, scanned in and re-uploaded. Selectable text not only useful for blind people, but searching the page or copying/pasting parts of it for research, a bit of a SEO boost too probably as not sure if robots try to parse text in images even though it's probably very possible with machine learning. I know though there's been lawsuits that government websites have to be accessible but it seems like many cities and even some higher levels sites aren't taking this seriously. Not sure if they are just unaware, under budget or maybe just older sites but if they rebuilt a more modern one it'd be better. I remember reading somewhere on HN once that some city but I forget which one but they just deleted their website and replaced it with a plain text web page since people complained, so now if you need anything you got to go city hall. So basically negates having a website in the first place.
> Nuclear energy is already very safe

Wat
Overkill. Use https://timewarrior.net instead.
It's totally acceptable to write to libc in something other than C, or in fact to write libc itself in something other than C.
Funny that three are so many typos on a treatise about short precise names.
I know. Django is quite different, maybe Flask is sinatraish but not async afaik. Tornado is async but plain different as well and from what I've read more suited for web APIs. I'd rather use just about any modern Node.js framework than older non async frameworks for Python.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.m...

Note that Knuth does not believe that the constant factor on the P algorithm be will be less than the size of the entire Universe.
> One thing I can tell you is that the “x guests booked” absolutely isn’t true, as it would frequently say so about my apartment when I hadn’t had a booking in months.

Did it specifically say "X guests booked at this specific apartment/hotel"?

Not explicitly specifying the place would seem like an easy way to have a technically correct statement, while being extremely misleading. E.g. maybe it just meant bookings in the same city, despite showing that text beside your apartment.
>The fact that the system also falsely negatively identified people doesn't somehow 'balance out' false positives, it's not like the point of these systems is to randomly catch 100 African-Americans.

If they're disproportionatly committing crimes, skin color becomes a strong prior. It would be rational, iff the goal is to lower crime rates. But I don't know that it is morally OK.

Also I'm not sure if over representation is the source of bias in this particular case, haven't read the article yet.

Edit: yeah, this article is just a smear, wapo is salivating over anything they think confirms that police are racially biased. It doesn't mention anything technical about the training data or typical nets being used. I'm not advocating for facial recognition tech, I'm personally against it, but racial bias coming from objective data is the least of your potential worries.
Ruby's syntax is a huge draw for many people.
Alcohol can make people highly unpredictable and violent.
The thing I hate most in nuclear advocacy is the trope of "the new, exciting, safe and economical nuclear reactor based on new, exciting miracle tech!".

We have amazing, safe, economical, etc. nuclear reactors. They're called nuclear reactors, and don't need any miracle tech conjured up in some magazine columnist's imagination.
The difference between a failed businessperson and a successful one is the successful one tried again.
It’s strange to me to hear speed described as a nootropic, although I note that Wikipedia does list it as one. If amphetamine are a nootropic, does cocaine count?
I arrived at the hotel. They overbooked the rooms. It was late at night. I called the booking.com call center. They didn't have a Turkish speaking staff.
> Windows support

WSL support maybe?
I agree with most of the stuff the author is mentioning. But i think most of his points only apply to large devices (iPads, and Macs). Small devices such as iPhones and Apple Watches are so limited in their screen real-estate that helpful UI decisions - e.g. putting labels next to cryptic icons - will only clutter up the UI, making the user even more distracted.
It couldn’t survive under IBMs care as they declined, which was a shame.

I worked in places that did everything from comprehensive correspondence management to configurators for factory systems. It’s a pretty powerful set of tools.

The Microsoft world was much more primitive until the mid 2000s. GroupWise and Notes shops didn’t have the ridiculous mailbox size limitations that Exchange had up until about a decade ago. Even today, the dumpster fire that is SharePoint is arguably inferior to what Notes was shipping in 1996 in some ways.
It's an interesting article, but I've got to say it's a little jarring when a company labels my data as 'their' data.
> Sorry, but you're talking about something you have no idea of.

This kind of personal attack seems unnecessary, and by the way, I probably know a lot more than you assume about this particular topic.

Regardless, if you had an API, you could charge for it. It wouldn't cover 100% of the scrapers, but it would cover some.
These days devops workers often have no choice but to write scads of YAML for tools like GoCD, Concourse, K8s etc etc.
To be efficient we turn to tools like Helm. But I recommend everyone write their own TC YAML tool - it does not take long and it's fun. If you don't have time, you can use mine.

I wrote two 'macro processor's for YAML. Yamp (in Python, https://github.com/birchb1024/yamp) and GoYamp (GoLang, https://github.com/birchb1024/goyamp). GoYamp is fast. Some of my users have generated thousands of YAML files with them.

IMO ytt is not as good because it seems to embed its syntax in comments. You can use tools like m4 and Jinja2 but you'll be counting indentations all day. Yamp and GoYamp are 100% YAML so indentation just works. Start here: https://github.com/birchb1024/goyamp !
Because of the rational math. For what it's worth it could replace Cobol, although I don't know if that's such a great thing. And maybe because it's a well designed language and a joy to program in, but we already have Ruby for that.
I want plants made to Chernobyl specification in leftist areas. Two birds with one stone.
Difference between cone crusher and gyratory crusher
One podcast I've found to be interesting from the perspective of studying creativity is WTF with Marc Maron.

Especially among great comedians, the process described in the article is essentially the process many people interviewed by Marc have followed.
Consider instead / also the Guerrilla Grafters of San Francisco: http://www.guerrillagrafters.org

News articles:

* https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/04/07/150142001/gu...

* https://hoodline.com/2015/12/guerrilla-grafters-quietly-grow...

* http://www.guerrillagrafters.org/in-the-news/
Amazing article.

btw, can the title be changed? The real title says "disabled" but the one here says "readonly" -- I can only imagine what kind of automatic substitution caused this.
In Hong Kong, a vast citizens' network keeps watch on the police
It was (relatively) uncommon until Intel released the 80486, then it became very popular and was found on basically every chip. Not that there weren't devices before and after that used JTAG but none nearly as influential in it's growth.
I find "state" to be quite an overloaded term, especially in React land, so I use "stage" instead for the various state machines in our applications. It's caught on in our org and I've heard no complaints.

State machines are great but they get quite complicated when you have two machines interacting at some point. I find this happens quite a bit for complicated UIs, like a data grid with filter and search controls, in-row controls, a preview pane on the side, etc. Things that can be reasonably simple become overly complicated as you try to cram everything into a state machines model.

It's hard to give concrete examples... but it happens often. I even find myself doing it.

Rust enums (sum types) are really good for doing FSMs, as they:

- Allow you to add fields to each state, which makes it easier to understand what each state is for at a glance.

- Prevent you from accessing fields for a different state at the wrong time.

- Make it easy to do nested states, without that nestedness existing for states that don't need it.

- Provide exhaustiveness warnings for if you're not handling a case.

I do wish more languages had sum types.
The 1619 Project is a representation what's wrong with our society today: It claims to be facts, but speculates on the intentions of our founding fathers and many other people in history, with no real way to know the actual truth...because we weren't actually there.
This translates well to backend code too. Really any programming.
Telescreen == Alexa?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or as we're often known, Mormons.

There's a mens group and a womens group, and the leaders of each of these groups make the assignments and then hear reports on how everyone's doing. All of this happens within a single congregation, or "ward" as we call them. And wards are dictated by location. So there's no concept of "church shopping" within this religion, which helps with organizational efforts like this.
You can also see if there's some permaculture association / food forest in your city. (for example, Seattle has the beacon hill food forest which accepts donations)

You can also ask if it has to be done in your city, per se. Would you be happy donating if it were done somewhere else and served other needs (e.g. reforestation)?
> couple of decades ago I worked at a company that had about 200 Mac's and a similar number of PC's. One of our favorite practical jokes was to disable the mouse on Mac's. The victim quite literally could not do a thing with the computer until the mouse was re-enabled.

This doesn’t sound right. I once installed a corrupted version of OS 10 Jaguar on my laptop that resulted in a non-functioning mouse and touchpad. I managed to reinstall the old OS using only the keyboard. Prior to the post-Snow Leopard era when they started stripping down the file system and muddying the navigation, OSX’s interface was really easily navigable.
I'm curious about your heartburn with the "cone of uncertainty" from Code Complete. I think it's a very reasonable model for understanding software estimation uncertainty. What don't you like about it?
That's like saying you took the pedals out of a car and people couldn't drive, it's to be expected unless they are driving a Flintstone's car.
Sure most people with a few drinks are fairly predictable (although their reaction times drop quickly). But many people get blackout drunk all the time, and that leads to incredibly erratic behavior.
Great question! We’re both ICs so can’t offer much insights here. Shared this with one of our favorite EMs though as an idea :)
I like that he mentions geo-engineering. To me, the most promising is stratospheric aerosol injection. I don't understand why there's not more talk about it given the cost / value ratio.

If it turns out that there are no serious side effects or risk and governments agree to do it, we have solved climate change.
Sometimes I feel it's only the crappy people who need families. The people not enjoyable enough for others to willingly choose to put up with them, they need a form of forced social duty and enact it through guilt and pitty.

That said, especially for elderly people, it could just be circumstances of life that has played into them being lonely.

The issue is, if I'm to open up and invite a stranger in, how do I know which category they belong in? I feel probability wise, chances are they're of the former, and are probably boring, judgmental, uptight, have issues, etc. Which is why they're lonely in the first place.

So while I'd be okay opening up to lovely people, the risk of doing so is too high right now, without it happening organically.
Nice project!
Initial thought: apart from ease of development, is there any reason to do it in user space?
I looked into uinput before to get a Bluetooth mfi controller working, but couldn't figure out which modules of the kernel did what.
Thoughts on a Bad Pain Day and How Teamwork Accumulates
Broader metaphor aside, the size of Zheng He's ships is heavily debated. There's very little historical evidence for their size, and the larger estimates are considered unrealistic by most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He#Size_of_the_ships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_treasure_ship
Your app makes me fat
> self reinforcing patterns of synaptic connectivity

Any sources for this? I’d be very interested to read the literature on this.
Have you ever used alcohol or seen the affects it causes on others? I'm not advocating for or against either drug but this is a most unusual opinion, it sounds like you are describing alcohol to a tee in some gaslighting way.
I tried to download the game from appstore but it's not available in NZ, maybe you can provide actual package to download without app store.
The guide [0] shows like 20 defined fields and then free text notes.

It would be cool, but seems kind of impossible to tell a significant outlier (vape lung) from an insignificant outlier (misspelling).

The way the article describes it, epidemiologists define a new condition (vape lung) and then look for that.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nssp/documents/guides/syndrsurvmessaggui...
Perhaps so, but Apple _is_ the one consistently touting their design, UI, UX strengths. “It just works”, “we made it better”, etc.
Today's Thorium "hype" was started by a NASA tech named Kirk Sorensen. He outwardly said nuclear needed a rebrand as early as 2008 and has kind of doubled down on it. Like: "Hey all those problems with nuclear are solved if you split this nucleus instead of that one". I agree with you and don't think this is necessary.

We should just try to help people see context in the things they don't like about nuclear. The reactor accidents we all have heard about are hard for anyone to compare with 8 million air pollution deaths per year from combustion. But few people know about the Banqiao dam failure that killed 100,000.

I read recently that 60% of American's think nuclear reactors contribute to climate change, when in fact they're among the lowest carbon forms of energy known.

It's really mostly a PR issue. Nuclear PR money is tied up in utilities which also all run large fossil assets, so it's rare for them to talk about how low carbon nuclear is.
Tigers Extinct in Laos
Disappointing to see some of the comments. I'm thinking a number of posters here haven't tried hallucinogens...
It's interesting to see relatively objective data come out about startups lately and challenge the startup exceptionalism arguments. Such as: founders must be young and unattached, companies must take VC to be big, you can tell at the seed stage which bets will pan out and working all the time correlates well with output. What impact would it have on startups, if those things were in fact untrue?
Several here have mentioned Charles Schwab. I personally use them for brokerage + IRA + checking + savings. It gives me a single view into my finances.

Why Schwab? They have outstanding customer service. One time I was traveling on Christmas Eve and forgot to place a travel notice on my cards. I called and got a human on the line immediately. This is the norm with their customer service whom I rarely call because 99% of what I want to do can be done via their web site from download tax docs to ordering new checks. Also, when traveling abroad they (1) still fulfill their promise of reimbursing all ATM fees and (2) give an excellent exchange rate. I could not be happier with them as my bank.
After reviewing the footage with someone familiar with IR imaging, they pointed out that it looks like a FLIR sensor that was pointed at the sun for a prolonged period. There is only one piece of evidence and it doesn’t seem sufficient.
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> Raising is not success.

People think raising is a signal for success, when it's more like kissing the dice at a casino
Something people dislike being pointed out. As far as reprocessing is concerned the best first step in reprocessing spent fuel rods is not fuck with them for a hundred years.
I think that fulfills the definition of both statistical and legal bias.
And llvm-libc may be one such implementation: https://llvm.org/docs/Proposals/LLVMLibC.html
There are many >100 core POWER8 or POWER9 systems running SAP HANA, Epic or Oracle with SMT4 or SMT8 today.
China to lower import tariffs on some products from January 1
> I predict that telling people to be optimistic will not be effective.

I think that it's amusing how the scientific response (which I shared) to this finding in favour of optimism is pessimism.
This is a really good point and really reinforces the take that Amazon isn’t as big as many of us believe.
"[O]riginally an email server" gets it rather backwards. It was more like a BBS/forum hosting platform that had messaging between boards (databases), with user email as a special case.
There are lots of performance-critical environments out there in the embedded world... why else would VxWorks be so popular?
> I have one of the few Android phones with a physical keyboard

What phone? Do you recommend it?
What study makes you think it is significant for human faces? I'm noting absence of evidence; if you're making the point that it doesn't imply evidence of absence, I agree, but I've also never heard anyone seriously claim "black people's faces are just harder to recognize." The anecdotal claim isn't even present.

The linked study on cars is analogous at best, but doesn't prove anything for human facial recognition. Cars on highways and human beings in various settings are extremely different circumstances.
Fyi, it may be too late now but for an hour or so after you make a post there's an "edit" link above it you can use to edit it.
I want to like BPF, but so few of my problems are in the kernel. Performance problems are usually at the application layer, either in my code or my dependencies. Even in the rare case that it something outside of my control (like the compiler, or the nature of the data), it's almost never the kernel. Lastly, when it is the kernel's fault, there's usually a sysctl or other knob to turn to fix it. Real kernel problems, such as some missing functionality, are usually better resolved by committing changes to the kernel itself, not so much on demand filters. BPF is a solution in search of problems.
I mean to say that making clean U-233 (with very little U-232 and daughters) is easy. Certainly assembling a bomb given pristene weapons material is particularly easy.

I'm a reactor designer and study this kind of thing. It's really just a question of how fast you move your Th-232 through a neutron cloud. If you move it relatively quickly and then do your Pa separation you can get very nice U-233 from Thorium.

The nice thing here about low-pressure fluid fuel reactors is that you can move material in and out fairly readily.
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> it doesn't seem relevant.

The reason it's relevant is that false positives are always a trade off against false negatives, so the "easiest" way to reduce false positives is to increase false negatives. But false negatives are also very bad, so we can't really do that or we're just trading one problem for another instead of actually solving anything.

The only real solution is to improve the overall accuracy of the system, but that's easier said than done. Some of the main sources of the inaccuracy are intrinsic. The population in question is a smaller proportion of the general population so there is less training data available. People with darker skin absorb rather than reflect light, which makes it harder for the system to identify them.

So the problem isn't some racist schmuck who just needs to be fired and the system will get more accurate, it's a consequence of demographics and physics. There may be a solution somebody can find, but there isn't guaranteed to be, and in the meantime there's not a whole lot you can do other than trying to find one.

Or maybe discontinuing the system entirely.
Constraints make things easier sometimes, and it isn't a bad thing.

A lot of times, it's easier to write something like a narrative when you're working within certain rules. Or to design a powerpoint when you're given a corporate style guide.

Starting from scratch is difficult because it doesn't give any ideas to bounce off of. And with something like a smartphone - which users need constantly, but never seem to have the time to configure - any half-hearted configuration by the average user is going to benefit dramatically by having basic rules in place.

For power users - like all of us on Hacker News - sometimes the blank-slate approach is preferable, but there's nothing wrong for liking Apple because of the lack of choice.
I agree it's false advertising, however often in these cases it becomes the users problem because if it's not sustainable then the company might be forced to go out of business which is likely worse than paying more for a product you like and use.
It's about as safe as it gets when you run the numbers. Behold: https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
That might very well be true, but if it is, then it re-enforces the point: the technology may not be where it needs to be yet, and if it isn't, the tool probably shouldn't be deployed in public use cases where the end-result could be inherently discriminatory by race.
On MacOs, the behavior of Home/End/PageUp/PageDown (or Cmd/Fn + Left/Right/Up/Down), and further on, combined with Ctrl/Shift, varies dramatically across different apps. I can never predict what will happen when I press these keys on the first acquaintance of any random app. It's never been a problem on Windows.
I thought nootropics were supposed to have positive long-term physiological benefits. Amphetamine is a performance enhancer and maybe even a cognitive enhancer (evidence says otherwise) but it's definitely not nootropic.
Don't think of it as a risk.

Think of it as an opportunity to show somebody how to live their lives in a meaningful way that does not harm or annoy other people.
For sure. I'm really glad this is bringing nuclear discussions to the left.

At least the US DOE is already highly knowledgeable about thorium and molten salt reactors. Advanced reactor people at the national labs and elsewhere have been studying this stuff for decades. There are still plenty of us who know the details.
That's not how HTTP works. HTTP is a transfer protocol, and is not so opinionated on the semantic meaning of the Data it moves. HTTP, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 were designed to be backwards compatible. It would break that compatibility if there were a semantic change in the absence of the UA string. Specifically, H/3 requests couldn't be downgraded to HTTP/1.1 requests by proxies. There are a lot of proxies.
Hacker's Delight contains recipes for common problems.
Tesla Cybertruck: PR or Product?
It's a bit like Julia, or Java 1.3, only without the marketing behind it. It's quite capable, definitely not a hobbyst project. Too slow and missing a lot of libraries though. And yes, Perl is still a better choice.
"Couple of decades ago" could mean Classic MacOS, which is indeed mostly unusable without a mouse