skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal laptop has 4Gb of RAM and terrible CPU (HP Stream 14). I only need more when I run an IDE or HD video.

For lots of cases, 1Gb-2Gb of RAM and some computing power is more than enough.
Implementation of a Probabilistic Context Free Grammar Parser in JavaScript
It's got England and Scotland but no Wales :(
People love jupyter notebooks for the same reason people love Excel.

This is intended to be a Zen-like Koan, so take it as you will.
I use a vim plugin called vimwiki and I export my todos and notes into HTML. Works fine for me.
Thanks for that. Now can anyone tell us where the Fortran behaviour came from?

(Haskell has both kinds of integer division, called div and quot, which is nice.)
> ... not so good code: if it was, we wouldn’t need a comment...

How much longer will this rumor persist that "good code" doesn't need commenting? Good comments explain things that aren't immediately obvious from the code.
It is probably not snake. See "Why snakes probably aren't spreading the new China virus" from Nature News.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00180-8
That's not the impression I get from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/byzantine-philosophy/

Quote:

There was never in Byzantium anything resembling the autonomous universities of the Latin West. Higher education was designed to train officials of the state and church, not masters of the arts and sciences.

edit: I guess that's a reference to later developments, though...
Progressive Enhancement in the Age of Fugu APIs
Why games are so addictive and how we can gamify our lives
A couple of years ago a poll showed that 30% of Americans should bomb Agrabah, the fictional city from Aladdin. Not knowing what it's about has never stopped people from having an opinion about it.
Co-opted transposons (“jumping genes”) help stabilize DNA folding patterns
Since US invasion in Afghanistan, opium production had grown multiple times in Afghanistan. Of course, there will be never an investigation or any evidence dug up (just like there're no investigation of US war crimes), but I sense that these two events are tightly related and the root of all this is very very deep. So deep that noone ever will be ever dig up the truth.
Rocket League Drops Linux and Mac Support but Won't Refund Microtransactions
Mostly unwanted functionality.
The FTP server at info.cern.ch mentioned in the first link is offline :(
yes I agree. How about an app that allows businesses to become ATMs where you not only withdraw cash but also reload an E-wallet which in turn would allow you to buy things online without a bank account?
Yes "Maps without NZ" is a thing, and why I originally posted
Virological.org – Analysis and Interpretation of Viral Epidemiology
> Bullshit

It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. It was why europeans wanted to get to china in the first place and not the other way around. Even decades after the opium wars, europeans were still in awe even while burning and pillaging.

"... I have done well. The [local] people are very civil, but I think the grandees hate us, as they must after what we did the Palace. You can scarcely imagine the beauty and magnificence of the places we burnt. It made one's heart sore to burn them; in fact, these places were so large, and we were so pressed for time, that we could not plunder them carefully. Quantities of gold ornaments were burnt, considered as brass. It was wretchedly demoralising work for an army. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace

Now that the roles are reversed, it's the chinese that are in awe of us. It's why they send so many students, merchants, etc to the US. For a few hundreds years, it was europeans who were as eager to go to china as chinese are now eager to get to the West.

> Chinese Propaganda with their "5000 years old culture".

Yeah, the continuous 5000 years is really a stretch. If they have 5000 years, then might as well say europe has 5000 years or more.

> If you can really talk about a "continuous civilization" for 5000, 3500 or even 2000 years is doubtful.

Even 1000 is doubtful as the mongols conquered china for a while there.

> I am skeptical about the "Chinese Century"

We are 2 decades in and nowhere close to a "Chinese Century". This century will most likely become a multipolar century.
In the US there is no priority with 3+ lanes

There is no monolithic Nationwide vehicle code. Laws can vary state to state.

You can legally plod along in the left lane without passing anyone.

Generally false. Definitely false in CA: Slower traffic keep right, notwithstanding speed limits.
At 1:02 the second minute has ended. The notation shows time elapsed, not the current time.
Could be good to get exposure since the general public is quite focused on that topic. But yes, working conditions is the reason why I would never want to work for Amazon, even if developers fare much better than people in production or logistics.

Bad enough that I use their services and like the tech they develop. Would be nice to have a larger handle to penalize them for their exploitation.
The 110CT model is relatively fast with a 233MHz processor so the overhead isn't an issue from what I tested so far (BBS over SSH).
"What's wrong with ..." for me literally means "What should be done about ..." or "How to make ... better".

I found your defense, which basically just says "It wasn't better before - so, no critique allowed?", considerably less valuable than the article.
It sure can be motivating. But unfortunately we do not benefit from any growing or our "hardware" anymore (or not as much at least). Where your son get some extra ram and CPUs plugged in every month,we have to make do with what we have.
Of course. What I meant is I'd like to see an option to weigh in smaller (to be exact: closer to a particular point of available capacity distribution) drive size as a positive feature for the resulting chart.

So, in a sense, the same idea, but an opposite of a GP comment.
Yes - "bourgeois" manners were rejected as affectation.
Superb talk! It's worth noting that a lot of the issues he brings up, ultimately stem from the format in which Jupyter notebooks are stored. R notebooks, with their plain-text stored format as well as code-chunk parameters, solve some, but not all, of these problems.
Why are you even using notebooks at all then?
The iPad arguably succeeded because it wasn’t a convertible. However, now, especially given big phones, it feels as if some sort of tablet/laptop convergence will eventually be the future.
I think there is little doubt that Rome was en pare with China. I don't see me shifting definitions of the West. You could argue that I switch between Egypt and Rome. While not the same culture, they are interconnected and influenced each other (visit the Vatican if you have any doubts).

I looked up "ancient history":
"Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD"

China was far inferier compared to Egypt of that time. For now, lets consider Egypt be part of my "western" argument.

So when between the Highs of Egypt and the rise of Rome was China superior in technology? I admit, out of my head, that Asia may have had the far greater GDP product based on the number ob people. But I don't see any Asian or Chinese superiority.

"with the West exploding out of nowhere."
Ignoring the Cultures and Empires of Egypt and Rome is a bit of a stretch.

"But that is probably just a blip, and in the grand scheme we will probably end up with China and the Near East rising again."

Doubt it. The Chinese culture has tremendous strength. But, as often, it comes with tremendous weaknesses.

Since we talk about empires. I know what Rome, what the Soviet Union, what Islam, what "America" had or has to offer. What does China has to offer?
How Super Bowls and halftime shows affect open source contribution?
I think a big part of the mediocre sales is related to the use-cases that most iPad users have which seems to mostly be watching videos, browsing the internet, reading etc. Any 2 or 3 generation old iPad will do this fine with very little reason to upgrade. It doesn't have anything near comparable to the upgrade path that a lot of phone users who seem very eager to upgrade to a better camera/battery/etc.
Hard disks (multi-platter/multi head) can be refurbished in many cases by deactivating a head or a couple (a platter) of course re-labeling it to a lower capacity, I think it was a thing in non first-world markets.

There was a recent thread post about a counterfeit external USB hard disk, though, JFYI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019079

https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/198-chinese-magical-hard-dri...
But not 17 lbs per person.
I know a guy who works at Amazon. The person who spammed the internal email list soliciting participants for this is no longer at the company.

Survey sent in the email: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZSJH2G3
Random (but plausible) values seem like a much better solution than just default values - you don't just hide as much identifying information as possible but you also poinsin the information that may still be there.
Germany has a patient near munich that didn't travel to China.
In addition to inventory issues, my guess is that lenovo/dell/hp don't move enough product on their own website to care. Their sales channels are either enterprise or other retailers. All their websites are a disaster in general.
The main exception is drawing. It essentially replaces touch sensitive Wacoms.
After the amount of leaks and revelations in the last decade you're only embarrassing yourself if you claim that any people concerned about privacy are hysterical. Whoever is not worried is simply clueless about the power of data.

The fact that there is some extra effort required to get to the tapes does make it a bit inconvenient, but that won't do you any good if you're caught by those surveillance cameras in the wrong place at the wrong time. The investigators will almost always make that effort, since it's part of the job.
The CCP is compiling a database on everyone in the developed world, from sources as disparate as their Chinese visa info, to hacked/leaked data from various websites, to social media posts, to surveillance video/audio/images.

Eventually they’ll be able to analyze it with AI, and use it to advance their own agenda. Whether you consider that a good thing, or a less bad thing than whatever the NSA does, is in the eye of the beholder.

But make no mistake, the CCP does not ‘not care’ about your personal info.
GAWK is not a real AWK!!! When will you people learn that GNU is not UNIX®️?

FS is not used on the command line and doing so is asking for trouble. FS is a built-in variable and as such is treated specially.
You Don't Need to Modify Gravity to Explain Dark Energy
It would be nice if they fixed the autocorrect learning insane things like correcting “male” to “Male” and “doesn’t” to “DOESNT”, so I wouldn’t have to do so much text selection to fix it. My iPhone which is really behind on iOS versions doesn’t do this but my iPad is awful for it.
Unfortunately ANPR is becoming ubiquitous - especially around A1A. I’d support banning this as well.
What is Chinese Culture? If nothing else, the writing system? Putonghua was only adopted in all of current China under Mao.

I could also talk of the "western culture" and take Sanskrit and all indu-germanic languages that are descendant from it - so basically nearly all of the European languages" as "one culture".
Ask HN: Should I Change Jobs?
Hello HN,

I'm a long time lurker here and I won't ask this with my real username as some know my real id.
I would really appreciate your point of view on this.

Right now, I'm going through a rough patch in my life as I'm going through a divorce.

We have a boy of 7 and we'll be sharing custody so will spend equal time with both parents.
We spend together a lot of time and being available for him time wise and emotionally is my #1 priority right now.

My current job is really close to home but there is not much room for growth, promotions, it's a small and a bit too comfortable place.
I've been here for 5 years so I'm usually the go to guy.

The company is really relaxed so I choose my own tasks, schedule.
I can work from home whenever I want and the boss is really flexible and gives me tons of freedom and trust.
Salary is ok, at market level for my skills.

I've recently interviewed at another company - they do consulting - and they offered me a 20% hike working on
customer's site, 20-25 miles away from home ( Probably 30 minutes commute ).

No spectacular technologies but I'd grow and it would mean a step up career wise.

I hesitate because I don't want to add to the stress level right now a new job even if it comes with more money.
On the other side, I know I'd do well and it would keep me busy, I'd love a new work context and I could use a bit of extra money to increase my savings.

I'm productive at my work but I can see the other side of my life is impacting my focus and commitment.
I am hitting the gym, eating healthy and doing my best to stay in good health.

Would you go with the new job ?

Thank you
Hopefully... My dedicated hosting was very cheap, I paid $20 a month.
For Guys Like VLAD, Food Stamps Are a Lifeline That’s About to Disappear
It's LGPL'd. They can't add that restriction.

> The object code form of an Application may incorporate material from a header file that is part of the Library. You may convey such object code under terms of your choice, provided that, <...access to source code provisions...>
The results will be unpredictable at best; either set it with -F, or use 'BEGIN {FS = "...";}', but not both.
John Gruber craves the power of keyboard macros on his iPad. He apparently thinks that's not possible as iPad's main power is one-state mode (and it truly is a remarkable tool that way). There's always a learning curve with artificial interfaces. Standard way to bridge this is use of metaphors. The problem with iOs on iPad is that iPhone was it's metaphor...
> It’s the responsibility of the manufacturer, even if the end user isn’t aware of or care for those improvements.

Manufacturers are incentivized to install bloatware and, in some cases, outright malware.

Fixing this requires legal action.
The tradeoff they are talking about is leaving secrets in the cache, because mb(lb) is slow. This is not acceptable for security, only for performance. That time they had no idea about the upcoming cache exploits, they were only apparent to me.
So who was right?
Yup.. My 2012 Macbook Pro is also fine, and is the more capable among my 2 personal laptops. I upgraded it with SSD, and 16 GB RAM, and installed Manjaro. The day to day usage (photo editing with Darktable/Rawtherapee, some light software development etc) is fine - no stuttering. The other one is a Vaio from 2008. I upgraded that one too with an SSD and 4 GB RAM. It is fine for Media consumption and office tasks - no slowdown at all.
Will Project Loom Obliterate Java Futures?
Foreigners living/operating in the US have almost all the rights US citizens do, besides citizen-only things like voting or running for office.
The issue with each of these examples is that hardware advancements barely matter. $200 Android tablet with a simple enough design works just as well.

Apple doesn't want to participate in such markets. That's why they try to push creativity narrative, "what's a computer" and so on. iPad can only succeed as a premium enough product, and that requires software differentiation.
One of the quotes seems to imply Amazon should not let oil and gas companies use their cloud services. Having these companies use less efficient alternatives would seem to be a net loss for society. I don’t think there is a positive upside because the change in cost would not be large enough to change output.
When they fled to Taiwan the KMT crated as many treasures from the capital, in particular the Forbidden City, as they could, given the chaotic conditions, and took them to Taiwan. This probably saved a lot of them from being destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. Many of them are now on display at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, which is an amazing place to visit.
They even did this silly "corner thing" in the server edition, Windows Server 2012 - I remember the first time I RDP'd onto one, and had no clue how to open the start menu (the Windows key didn't work over RDP)!

I had to google it, obviously whilst cursing profusely the whole time. Microsoft have a lot of UI/UX people - it boggles the mind that someone thought this was a good idea!
The secrets stay in the cache much longer, and are rarely evicted to the heap at all.
maybe have a look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22161880
Security Assessments: NU3 Specifications, Blossom Implementation and Sapling Doc
Direct link to the preprint: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Chattopadhyay2020CHI_Noteb...

Interesting study, I like the mixed-method approach. A quick glance at the industry of the participants suggests that there might be a bias towards structural data (which I think is actually acceptable as that makes up a huge chunk of the non-academic ML-Notebook work)
Edit: The authors acknowledge this in the "Limitations".
I work for Intel (not speaking in my official capacity) and the AMD scare here is real.
>Imagine if someone comes along and takes away Google's search business?

I think DDG's going to give them a run for their money. In terms of relevance they seem to offer the superior product - at least in my own experience.
I've never liked that Marxian interpretation of the employer-employee relationship.

Why can't we both profit? If I buy a product from you, you make money from it. And while I lose money (because I gave it to you) I probably increase something else - happiness, if it's for my hobby, or the ability to make more profit, if it's for my job.

With that analogy in mind, consider a test pilot, who wants to push the edge of experimental aircraft. There's no way for anyone except a Howard Hughes to do that without being employed. So sure, the test pilot's employer might make money (if it's a profit-making company and not a hobby or government project), but in exchange the pilot gets to fulfill something highly desired, which otherwise cannot be done.

Another problem I have with that interpretation is that some jobs are synergistic, such that you cannot look to pairwise relationships to understand the economics.

There aren't that many successful solo bass players. If I were a bass player, I'm much more likely to make money as part of a band than working on my own. So my relative profit is greater by being in a band, even if I don't make my full share of income to the band.

The third problem (or the first one re-visited) is that it focuses on the traditional employer/employee relationship. If I'm a gig-worker, brought in as a third-party contractor, I'm not an employee. Nominally, my clients buy my time, so I'm the one to profit. But yet they expect to many more money from the work I do for them.

Which means any exchange must be un-equal, which makes it a pretty useless interpretation.
Why does the article title on HN omit the mention of OCR present in the actual title.
The US has over 6 million unbanked which are not necessarily poor. Some choose to be unbanked. I'm developing an app and network to help with this problem, It allows businesses to become ATMs where you not only withdraw cash but some could accept to reload an E-wallet which in turn would allow you to buy things online without a bank account. (maybe later we would launch a physical card) - DO you think it will work ?
> that is simply not true, most of the studies, rankings all factor in "access" due to price

That's because access due to price affects what care people actually get from the system.

> if you remove price as a factor then there is no better system in the world

No, even if you don't consider how ludicrously expensive the US healthcare system is, the outcomes it produces aren't exceptional.

Now, if you mean if you remove the actual effect price has on care the US system would be great, sure, but that's different than removing separate consideration of price as a factor. And impossible, as well.
Re: the Perl 5/6 stuff

This has resulted in Perl 6 being renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). So now there's Perl, and there's Raku. Each going their own way, but with Raku offering a migration path with its Inline::Perl5 module, allowing you to run (almost) any Perl code in Raku.
The problem is that even if you can disable this one, it's enabled by default and browserv vendors keep adding this shit without any concern for the privacy impact.
OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 3
I worked there around the same time as you and I thought it felt pretty cramped by then already, but nowadays when I end up in that area I almost feel claustrophobic. The city skyline has really changed massively over the past decade..
There's an AI patch that makes it somewhat better though. For me most of the joy of the games was in building up a galactic network, so I still enjoyed it very much even with the "dumb" AI.
One of my favorite tools to help with this is https://github.com/toniblyx/prowler
The company that makes that is Oxford Nanopore
https://nanoporetech.com/products
> Need to digitize documents, receipts or invoices but too lazy to code? Head over to Nanonets and build OCR models for free!

I think that once you go down the path of OCR'ing your own invoices, you better start a company around it.
There are already 27 genomes on GISAID. Very little diversity at this stage though, so phylodynamic analyses are more noise than signal. https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-betacov-app/
That's probably the idea. That extra cost would be passed on to consumers and discourage oil and gas use. Of course, it'll be too small to measure the effect, but it's the principle of doing their bit.
> DO you think it will work ?

Nope. Businesses can and do already reload value cards (including prepaid debit cards) which allow (among other things) buying online without a bank account, and it hasn't solved the problem.
Gram-scale bottom-up flash graphene synthesis
It's not a surprise to me that there's a manual and that it's even on the device :). But it seems like an iOS design pattern to keep this stuff hidden. I think it's okay for things that rarely happen by accident (multi-finger swipes or so), but touching (swiping?) over screen edges is something I seem to do often, so it becomes a problem. And I'm a geek in my early thirties, so it's not only a problem for the elderly!
Logging, monitoring, security, versioning, etc. These are things that most often get ignored due to ignorance or inexperience, but are required for production grade software.
BazelCon 2019: Lessons-Learned from Migrating Our Build System to Bazel
It's only one core pegged at 100%, practically nothing else, which means it's a sequential workload entirely blocked on defender.
I miss the time when there was no "Tips.app" nor a need for such an app. Nearly every UI feature used to be discoverable and made sense. Those that didn't (like gestures to close apps on iPad) were gated by a toggle in Settings so that casual users who don't know/need it don't accidentally trigger it.
I don't really understand it either. Just seems like a way to preserve costs. Only thing that would come to mind is that the US is less densely populated compared to Europe, making delivering them to neighbors/local depot a lot more time consuming