skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised that being in the US Pacific time zone was only shared by 2.25% of their data set. Assuming users are evenly distributed across time zones, it'd be 4.2%; but of course they aren't evenly distributed, and I'd expect the west coast of the US to have a disproportionately large number of internet users as well as people who would visit a website like this.

(Though, to be fair, they go by UTC offset, so it's only UTC-8 for a few months of the year due to DST. That probably affects the number; maybe the percentage is higher for UTC-7.)
That flag was hilarious and pointless from day 1.

So we're going to ask the profit-motivated bad-actors across the web to pretty-please exempt us from your tracking because we asked nicely?

And we need to hide this away in settings and have it default-off because otherwise how will they know we really meant it?

It's like it was designed by someone with an early 90s understanding of the web, and no comprehension whatsoever of just how awful marketing can be.

Tracking should never be opt-out in the first place, and it needs to be fought with technological and legal measures, not silly http request flags.
The platform investment it's getting makes macOS more like iOS. Almost all of those changes simultaneously have an effect of making it difficult to develop powerful, platform-defining software for it.

As I'm fond of pointing out, Sketch is the last major triumph of the Mac as a platform and it was released the year before the sandboxing requirement came to the Mac App Store. I'd argue there would be more Sketch like success on the Mac if Apple were trying to cultivate it as a platform for powerful software instead of actively hurting it. But that's what they’re doing by trying to make it like iOS, which is an OS that has produced no new industry-defining software like the desktop produced Adobe CS, MS Office, Ableton Live, and Sketch. If you don't think that's caused by Apple's policies than what do you think it's caused by?

For the arguments that it is caused by Apple's policies, there's the two Thompson pieces I linked to above, and I cover more details myself in this piece https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/07/apples-app-stores-ha...
They may have only been able to submit the single file to the system. (In which case I would have generated the Rscript to a tmpfile, but maybe that wasn't allowed either.)
Its not bullshit in the UK at least. Here is a mainstream article which cites government testing [1] Quote : "A Maximum Residue Level (MRL) for pesticides in foods is set by law and is below the safety level. In the most recent study, 3 percent of conventionally farmed food samples contained over the MRL for an individual pesticide compared with 0.4 percent of organic, while 44 percent contained residues at or below the MRL compared with 3 percent of organic."

Do you have any decent sources for your declamations ?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/organic_food_health
i'm curious what natural means in the context of animal species that are relative newcomers and have always been domesticated
I thought all feed lots were exclusively grain only? When driving past one in Colorado I didn't see any grass anywhere the animals could access, just a ton of muddy ground.
Using a "not enabled until clicked" approach is better - The popup won't be showed unless the user clicks the otherwise missing video - but if the Flash object is a tracker, most users won't even notice it, and the tracker is blocked.

It's not perfect, but works reasonably well and has successfully protected a large number of users from Adobe Flash trackers.
I got it as soon as it started shipping. It just replaced every other computer, smartphone and tablet I was using.

Best device I ever got, period. I've the business version with 256 NVMe SSD, Win10 Pro, 8Gb of RAM, and the dock hooked to a large screen.

I've lost quite a few pen. I now purchase the cheaper ones on Amazon. I wish the pen went into a hole like on the thinkpads
Ampere QuickSilver, but don't expect an 80-core server to be cheap.
I saw that and assumed that the $50k wasn't actually wasted ... they just ended up with a cohort of customers that wasn't as profitable (unless of course the cost of maintaining those customers exceeds the other 2/3rds of their LTV).
> if your boss asks you to do something completely stupid, you can either say no, lose that job... Or you roll with it

You can, and should, unionize. And then you can say no and keep your job.

The fact that you see the employment-at-will mentality as legitimate is a failing of professional journalistic ethos IMHO.
Extremely long alarmist article with very few hard facts.
I fired up Chrome (I'm a Firefox user too), and for content-language it showed "en-US,en;q=0.9" (FF is q=0.5), so I guess each language is broken down into a few buckets.
You're very knowledgeable! I've been curious about this for a while. The site and equipment does seem well maintained, so I don't think it has been retired yet.
1997, pwd for the charter school dialup account was stored WarGames style. i used to connect after midnight until about 4am a few days a week. lasted until they switched providers.
I'm a bit annoyed that I can't find anywhere to download the language, I would like to try it out.

I'm a q programmer who loves it, but would love to see a language that is:
1. free and open source
2. less symbol heavy than k/q
3. fast enough/safe enough to be used in production

So I'm always on the look out for something new like this that could replace it.
the librem isn't more open than the PinePhone at all. The only difference is that they put the modem on a separate card… but that doesn't make it any more open at all. What matters, given the fact that there just isn't any open modem out there, is the fact that the modem is kept isolated from the SoC in a way that doesn't allow the modem to access anything the SoC doesn't explicitly give it.
I work for one of the companies that partnered with Stripe and have been using Sorbet for ~1 year in prod now (before it was made public).

1. You can migrate class by class or even method by method.
2. You add type support to a method by prefixing it with a special lambda (Sig) that is read at class evaluation.
3. It provides its benefits right away. But really, most value comes from network effects. You won't get type warnings if the method you're calling isnt typed, because the return type cannot then be inferred.
4. No gems are typed right now. We type out type definitions for external dependencies in *.rbi files.

It's funny that you mention typescript because in that sense the two are quite similar. Types are defined either inline or in separate files .rbi/types.d

Opinions in the company are split probably roughly ~60/40 if Sorbet is worth the effort or not with support having a smallish majority.
A great developer will write great code in any language/framework. A bad developer will write bad code in any language/framework. I have seen this so many times in my 25+ years of developing software and don’t expect this to change anytime soon.
Eating bats is not an inherently Chinese thing to do. This is a case of some people in China who happen to eat bats.

It’s actually more offensive to suggest it is than to defend the practice as “cultural”.
Agreed, that was the only thing which stood out to me as a surprise. Why would any website need to know my battery level, without an explicit permission? Seems like a gross oversight.
I am unique! It looks like the main culprit is that I'm running Firefox Developer Edition so my reported version is a tiny percent of all users and combined with Linux, Firefox, UTC-5 and en, that makes me one in 1561147.
The process marketed as 5nm has roughly twice the density as the process marketed as 7nm and so on up and down the line; that's how they justify it.
In Clojure 'def' creates a 'var' and those are global in the namespace.

> The only real reason to not use Def would be if the bound symbol escapes the scope, but that would be ridiculous for a modern language.

Its not 'ridiculous' to have a consistent definition of what something does.
My understanding is that these feedlots are where cattle are housed for the last few months to gain weight before slaughter.
1 gbit non-fiber is all but marketing. For starters they have a small bandwidth caps, which keeps you from doing anything interesting. Another thing like the article mentions is that it’s a meager upload ability.

I have symmetrical gigabit fiber at my house. When a new Ubuntu torrent drops I’m able to seed a TB relatively quickly. Bandwidth caps would make it so much less useful and interesting.
>But he must have been too small potatoes, so he got an appropriate sentence.

The "appropriate sentence" is coming for the bigger guys too, but it may not be paid by them, but definitely their ancestors… and definitely not by some court diktat…
Occams razor would posit that the presence of illegal food markets may be a higher predictor of illnesses than a BSL4 lab
soon, masks won't be enough... they will have x-ray-like methods to see you naked at all times (like they already have at airports). Who is going to wear a mask 24/7 anyways?
this is why I am happy I got to do some bush craft holidays. The family had shelter and by the looks of it, lots of trees to start a fire for warmth.
How would this be different than Google Forms?
Blink is also not embeddable.
That isn't news to me, and it does not undermine my point. Again: A snooping ISP should not be able to tell whether a customer has been looking up an embarrassing medical condition.

Someone going on Wikipedia tells you relatively little. Knowing which specific pages they've been reading, tells you a great deal more.

HTTPS goes a long way to preventing a snooping ISP from telling which page you visited. A truly committed ISP might still be able to infer it from the traffic patterns, but they'll have a much harder time than with plaintext HTTP.
The numbers are a factor of the square root of 2 since that reduces area by 2.
There is a lot of buzz now in the no-code space and this might be a product for that target.

In order to succeed, you must have a delightful user experience. Probably the best way to accomplish that would bw finding a niche market for it.

BTW - take a look at postgres foreign data wrappers. Maybe with little changes you can insert into other places like BigQuery with minimal effort ;-)
My list of fonts includes OpenDyslexic and OpenDyslexicMono and puts me at < 0.01% as well.
It really bothers me that all this information is available through JS (no, please don't suggest I disable it). Why does a website need to know the list of installed fonts? Why can they enumerate the list of "videoinput" and "audioinput" devices before they've asked for video/microphone permission? Why is information about how I've set various permissions (prompt vs. allow vs. deny) available? Exposing the visibility of menu/tool/personal/status bar is just weird (though for me all of them say "Visible", which isn't the case, so I guess Firefox is lying).
Curious, I must have missed the part where GP said that eating bats is an "inherently Chinese" thing to do.
The claim is the virus originated from a wet market where animals like bats sold for food, so it’s not inaccurate to suggest it was transmitted by bats meant for human consumption.
Programmer analyzed Twitter accounts and their pattern to uncover IT cell
> Yes, actually. Can you demonstrate how this actually resulted in the pandemic rather than subtly shaming a cultural practice you don't agree with?
Well that, and it makes you appear more unique than probably desired (to the site).
Speaking of dairy farms with muddy lots and no grass in sight, they feed TMR (total mixed ration). It's a mixture of ground hay (dried grass!), corn silage (chopped fermented grass!), grain, and trace minerals and vitamins, adjusted on a regular basis by a nutritionist.
I'm also against government supervision, but there's a different between supervision/regulation (checking that legal activies are indeed being conducted in a legal way), and between make some activities illegal, such as theft, killing - and yes - also spying.
So what you are saying the mortality rate is comparable to the flu at those infection rates. Why the panic
Thanks for sharing. In addition to the summary, I really liked page 8 with comments from the students.

In particular, this one stood out: "“You could see a shift happening at HBS. Money used to be number one in the job search. When you make a ton of money, you want more of it. Ironic thing. You start to forget what the drivers of happiness are and what things are really important. A lot of people on campus see money differently now. They think, ‘What’s the minimum I need to have, and what else drives my life?’ instead of ‘What’s the place where I can get the
maximum of both?’”

It takes courage to buck the trend of what's normal or expected in society, and we owe great thanks to those (like Clayton) who inspire and encourage us to be courageous in this regard.

I also really liked this: "if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited.
It's a variation of the common phrase "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."[1] It's a common debate, at what point, if ever, can we say something doesn't exist when there's no evidence for it. There might actually be some evidence that organic food is healthier, this study[2] found an association between organic food and reduction in non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc2014148
What makes Google teams so good?
A programmer analyzed twitter accounts and their tweeting patterns, and uncovered IT Cell of two biggest political parties of India. Here is the Reddit thread...https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/etryfy/nexusurbannaz...
“Racebending” and the Cultural Evolution of Pop-Culture Icons
Right, but C++ is evil, remember? It's better to make your own language from the ground up than using something that thousands of people have worked on over decades.
Target stopped this, per the article.
Indeed. In addition, the best thing you can do beyond hand washing is don’t touch your face.

Hard to do, I know, but it eliminates a major source of transmission.
Well, Firefox passed the ACID2 test almost 2 years later than Opera (only in 2008), and was rather slow at the time.
I keep seeing HN users working themselves into a lather praising DDG, but I just went there and see almost identical obfuscation of ads (a tiny "Ad" in the same color as the link) and in the using of favicons for each of their organic results.
Average bulk plate motion is about one inch a year. Fastest plate boundaries move about four times that. So on the the surface this would be well within the error of mobile device GPS.

A major exception would be major geomorphic events like magnitude 7+ earthquake (10s of feet), landslide, river jumping its banks (like before the Mississippi was channelized). Then maps and property titles may need to account for this.

In practice, plates are not rigid masses. There are internal differential lateral motions of millimeters a year, or in most cases an order of magnitude slower than plate tectonics. There is a branch of geophysics called dynamic geodesy which teases such precise measurements from more coarse GNSS (GPS is one of six national GNSS). Such motions study pre-earthquake fault strain, pre-eruption swelling of volcanoes, man-made or natural injection/extraction of various subsurface fluids.
> Eating bats is not an inherently Chinese thing to do. This is a case of some people in China who happen to eat bats.

> It’s actually more offensive to suggest it is than to defend the practice as “cultural”.

It's worse to read into a statement and reveal your own biases. I never said it was "inherently Chinese." Different cultures eat different foods. Shaming the choice to eat a food is a dark pattern.

Reading into that and inferring I'm assigning it to a specific culture, that's pretty revealing.
DSL, at least ADSL commonly found in homes, is designed that way as a good way to split the frequency available on the line to match what people need. It also shares a good portion of the frequency with POTS telephone service. There are SDSL (symmetric DSL) standards which provide fully symmetric bandwidth on the circuit. Not sure how popular it is these days but when I supported it at an ISP about 10 years ago, it was a cheap alternative to T1-class circuits.
Organic, chemical free, natural, non-gm... are all marketing jargon that has no connection at all to what those words mean in the English language. Pretty much anything with carbon in it is organic, nothing is chemical free, natural is entirely a matter of opinion (is any agriculture “natural”?), and selective breeding is selective genetic modification (and very unnatural to boot). People claim that the new definitions for these words align with a supposedly simply guiding philosophy, but that’s not true either, the ones that are regulated simply align with lengthy, arbitrarily defined, and often inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another, regulations.
Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist (2013)
"(<0.01 %) have exactly the same fingerprint as yours."

If Apple cares about privacy, they need to get on this in mobile Safari ASAP.
Getting downvoted, but honestly not a bad piece of advice. There have been a couple occasions where a winch would have been a lot more convenient for getting me out of the snow than digging with a shovel was.

Don't think I'll go out and buy one. But if I was planning to go somewhere actually remote, I would seriously consider it.
I am curious - there are ways to shelter money, including sending it abroad. Can they claw it all back?
They divide by sqrt(2) and round to an integer.
You don't need to learn much about SVG. I found some SVG output from GraphViz and simply put some <a> links around groups in the SVG.

https://codepen.io/phillipseamore/pen/OJPqorm
Here is the official channel: http://www.hubei.gov.cn/zhuanti/2020/gzxxgzbd/zxtb/202001/t2...

There are other calls for help directly from hospitals. Some private hospitals may be in particularly bad shape. However shipping could be an issue if one doesn't want to use official channels. The government page does say that you could designate donees 定向捐赠.
Personally, I think a bigger journalistic sin is:

> Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.

A journalist should check whether there is another side that they missed. However, there sometimes isn't. Sometimes the other side is simply flat-out wrong. More often, the "other side" is maliciously wrong.

This journalistic assumption that there are always multiple sides that are on equal footing needs to DIE.
> Fast scrolling text in a terminal freaks out a lot of people.

Try compiling GCC during your lecture
Fair point, and a highly useful one to keep in mind when looking at long-tail vs. normally-distributed statistics.

The article ... contains numerous misspellings and other flaws (I can note though not really complain as I do similarly...), but yes, really should note which of the various available "average" values it's considering.
Why now that you don't work for that guy/company you still don't publicly expose them?
Of course it will backfire. If that decision was left to individuals some would do it and some wouldn't so while it would backfire for some, it wouldn't for all.

There is no way to make optimal calculation in a non-free country.
There’s a lot more Asians/TZ than Americans/TZ
There's very little evidence N95 masks work better than surgical masks, which are cheaper and easier to use.
People only recently began to talk about the virus on social media - at least in my circles. I imagine your relatives also just recently began to stay and eat at home as much as possible, and probably didn't pay too much attention to wearing proper disposable masks, using hand sanitizers whenever possible, keeping distance from people coughing or showing fever symptoms, etc.

It's also just a few days ago the government began sending doctors and nurses to Wuhan en masse, despite the fact that the medical workers in Wuhan have been completely overwhelmed, and that we've known about the virus for over a month. It's also very few people who realize the severity; many still go to crowded places and don't wear proper protection. Several friends have reached out to me for videos (some of which are shadowbanned on WeChat) and news since the amount of information shared is heavily censored in China. Even had a Tsinghua friend refer to some of the videos I posted as 'fake news'.

You also have Tsai Ing-wen asking China to share truthful information about the virus and for WHO not to exclude Taiwan from collaboration on the outbreak for political reasons. It's just now that people are beginning to realize the severity of the situation. In Bangkok the hospitals (at least one of those a nurse I know is working at) are checking everyone before they're allowed to enter the hospital.
Not sure about beef but I can guarantee you that there's a ton of difference between the eggs produced by my parents' chicken (they raise them "organically", so to speak, i.e. they do subsistence agriculture) and the eggs that I can purchase from the supermarket closest to me. And the difference is in favour of my parents' chicken. The same discussion is valid for the chicken meat.
I'm curious; I had an idea (in fact, it's part of my Master's degree project) to create a language that brings over concepts from functional programming to systems programming. What would be beneficial for that, and what wouldn't be?
Did my other comment here legitimately get flagged? I am supremely confused by that. I guess you could read that first sentence as rude, but that hardly seems flagging worthy. I also have no idea if that is even the reason it was flagged because flagging requires no justification on HN.

Dang, do you see how that flagged comment reinforces my point?
India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
And I'm the only person using the materialistic app (HN reader) on Android 5.1 on a 1st gen Moto X. That I can believe...
Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s?
Okay...a few notes on R0.

1) Neil Ferguson knows his business, but part of that is knowing that, like economists predicting recessions, there's little penalty for being wrong.

I'm sure you can find a quote that's similar from him for any recent outbreak. Why? Because of course we need to plan for that possibility. It's a low risk statement to make.

2) R0 is not a biological constant. It's a combination of contact rates and probabilities of transmission. Neither one of those is actually fixed.
1) Get a professional opinion my friend. Look for a cognitive psychologist.

2) Remember the ADD is not a one-way street. It's a cycle. You will return to what your were doing. Concentrate of efforts that record your progress up to the point you were distracted and that make it easy to refresh your focus when you return. Word processors and graphic arts are wonderful for this. Visually structured programming is too. You want to complete a method at a higher level before working at a deeper level. That is, you want to define all the logical units of a method with comments before coding each unit itself. Make the effort to create logically complete camel case variable names. These programming practices will make it much easier to resume work.

3) You are susceptible to distractions, but the distractions themselves are not the problem. You are distracted because:
a) you are bored.
b) you are exhausted.
c) you are emotionally disturbed by something.
d) you are interrupted.
e) you are inspired.
You must recognize what is causing you to be distracted and deal with it, or you will struggle.

Good luck.