skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC it's not that long ago that trying to criticize Google here on HN was an exercise in futility.

I won't say that the current situation is perfect but I can see why. In my view Google had earned the current criticism by hard work:

- mismanagement of services people loved to the point were Google always running 3 different more or less incompatible message services, while closing services east and west has become a meme,

- shoving other ideas down people's throats (hi identity and real name part of Google+)

- etc
I sort of agree, but beyond deploying, we need to understand how and what to write in order for our code to support scaling to N instances (including N=0), and knowing the target "platform" is a good way to do that.
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And have poor stall characteristics because they're more likely to introduce flow separations near the back of the wing.
Hate speech is free speech.

The whole point of free speech laws is to protect controversial opinions.

Good or bad, because the bad of censorship is often much worse than the bad of free speech.
I agree completely, that's what's so messed up with this "freemium" model that's so popular these days. If companies need to develop the ad-ridden version with tons of tracking to monetize free users anyway, what's the incentive for them to turn it off for paying users?

It's not like 99% of them are going to care and/or notice anyway, and if anything it would be more work to test and maintain a different version of the code without trackers.

Just pay for the things you use people, and block everything you can with browser plugins. This model needs to die.
The indian democracy is in shambles at the minute. In Kashmir there are children as young as 19 months being maimed with pellet guns for "unlawful assembly".
Which is more a reason why they wouldn't slip here.
Anyone else think the async/await example looks terrible? Why do the keywords have to be on their own line?
> We don't even test with Firefox, because fuck 'em

You are the types of people who are slowly destroying the internet, nice work.
I vaguely thought I'd seen this submitted before, so I did a search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22172799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22163917

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22120280

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22094323

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22065500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22054428

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047802

All by you, and all in the past three weeks.

In fact, looking at your submission history you just submit the same few items over and over and over again. The FAQ[0] says:

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

Personally, I think your re-posts don't qualify as "a small number".

Looking further at your profile, you've made exactly one comment, and that was on one of your own submissions. You're not engaging with this site, you're simply flooding it with your own writing.

Edit: I see gus_massa[1] has said the same thing[2].

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gus_massa

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22238938
This is really unfortunate. I've been using Fastmail alongside Gmail and thought about switching over completely to the former at some point, just haven't come around to doing so yet. I'm glad you shared these details -- always good to know how organizations respond when things don't go as planned, as opposed to what's stated in their marketing materials.
Broken is just your judgement. I would rather say that quite objectively, it's just the way the world works, one can play with it or try to change it, but better be sure it's not just human nature.
I can't even load the site due to some issue with their Cert, but based on the headline it's the latter. Bitcoin as a currency is hugely problematic, while as an asset its inherent deflationary nature makes it surprisingly safe as an investment, assuming you have plenty of time to wait out the enormous volatility of the system.

Sure it's basically a giant pyramid scheme, but since everyone is incentivized so strongly to keep holding and not selling it has remained remarkably stable as far as pyramid schemes go.
clippy?
Where are you hosting Mailinabox? I've always wanted to use it instead of gmail/fastmail but all I find are the generic use DigitalOcean, etc tutorials and I'm wondering what somebody actually using it has it set up with, what are the specs? Thanks in advance!
This is really cool. Seems the backend is a bit slowed down with the traffic. Would be cool if the graph had more horizontal space on a small phone without rotating it and re running the query.
What is the best flight simulator for Linux, today? I read that previous versions of MS Flight Simulator did not work well in Wine.
Haskell also allows point free style:

(f . g . h) x
From anecdote; I've seen a months old project go to internal alpha that crashed immediately because the lead developer didn't set rails to production mode.

There are many web sites where a 1700 request burst would hurt.
It’s always relevant because the world has a good idea how the Australia treats data privacy and security. Their elected officials are shooting their tech sector in the gut
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==people are going to look at countries growing faster than them and wonder why they have to slum it like peasants without their flying cars and vacations on the moon==

On the flip side, France typically has slower economic growth than the US, but that growth is spread much more evenly across the population. What good is growth if only a small portion of the country is benefiting from it?
if your the market leader without competition on a large addressable market your valuation can essentially be infinite. But most stock trades are being driven now by low interest rates once interest rates become more sensible , we should see more sanity. but thats only half the story, low interest rates just create insane price pressure , there can be lot of +/- ve price pressure. The people on wall street have concluded that musk has a very high batting avg , so they are willing to push that price pressure on to the positive side.
https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/03/how-to-reverse-sear-best...

Most likely something from The Food Lab when talking about food and science.
Relevant: WTFHappenedIn1971.com
I dislike the utter lack of transparency here.

You have an app that's a critical part of the voting infrastructure for the most important caucus in the Democratic Party, and yet we don't know:

- Anything about the people who developed the app

- The source code for the app, which should be open source in my view

- Any information about the myriad of conflicts of interests that may or may not exist

Another learning lesson is that your startup can have poor or no marketing and have a non-functional product, but if you are well-connected, that's enough to close deals in certain verticals.
I don't know what 'cortical representations' are exactly, but it seems generally true that experts in a domain build up gradually higher level pattern recognition in their area of expertise. Whether it is driving a car, playing a sport or game, or writing software.

As a beginning programmer I had to consciously think about fundamental concepts all the time, or grapple with my limited knowledge of a programming language, instead of thinking about the problem.

As an experienced programmer I think in higher level concepts and abstractions, and the fine code details happen without me consciously thinking about them particularly.

This actually makes learning a new programming language or IDE more painful now than it was when I was new. It probably takes me less time to get to an equal level of skill in language X than a beginner, but getting to the level of fluency where the low level details don't require conscious thought takes time and practice. Being slowed down so much while getting to that point is deeply frustrating.
All these plans for utopia always rely on bending other people to their will at the end of a gun, exactly like every other utopian nightmare.
You lose visibility? That sucks. Sounds like Google provides a lot of value with ads, doesn't it?

And why does it matter what place Google is if you're searching on Bing? Do you use products only because they're popular? Bing will find all the same stuff, I promise. Give it a try.

If Vimeo sucks and their rules are even more strict, why aren't you complaining about that too? If YouTube sucks and the competition is even worse, what exactly are you comparing it to? Why aren't you petitioning the competition to pick up the slack? The alternatives are just fine and plentiful, you just don't want to have a worse experience and yet you are quick to criticize the option that provides the best one. I don't get it.
I rephrased and left a negative where I didn't mean to. Big oops.

Hopefully my intent is clear from the rest of the content.
i think the term is called eustress
Climate Change Fixation
We have started working on it & we will fix it. No need to worry. No need to involve children. No need to go on a strike.
https://contributorsofajit.webnode.in
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Curtains.vim: Match your vim scheme with your system theme
To be fair, that's also true of RFCs as. (E.g., IP over carrier pigeon). But that doesn't really matter.

Take HTTP for example. The is no ISO standard, just a smattering of overlapping RFCs over the years with weird spellings (Referer) and ambiguities (GET request entity).

And the entire web is based on HTTP.

The quality of the "specification" documents is not high, nor very official, but it's the best we have, so people treat it as if it were.
As someone who was looking into the stock somewhat seriously way back then, I'll offer an alternative story. That was their first "profitable" quarter, for which they cashed in a bunch of single-use accounting gimmicks. The part that taught me the most at the time was that they then rapidly leveraged that huge rise to issue debt/equity at the new valuation. That cash infusion all but cemented what otherwise would've been quite temporary. Fascinating stuff.
Listen to classical music. This one didn't come to me until my 40s but I finally realized: there's a reason that this music has been popular for 300 years.

I agree. It's funny how when I was young I would only listen to one type of music, like it was some kind of tribal loyalty. Now I listen to all kinds of things, and I've learned to hear the difference between really good music and stuff that's just manufactured for corporations.

(Ironically, what got me to expand my musical horizons was Apple's corporate promotion, back when you used to get a free iTune each the week on the iTunes store, by picking up a card in Starbucks, or buying a bottle of Pepsi from the vending machine at work.)

Getting back to classical, I also recommend apps for KDFC/San Francisco, KING-FM/Seattle, RTBF Musiq'3/Brussels, RTHK4/Hong Kong, and RTÉ LyricFM (Dublin?). I used to be a WQXR/New York fan, but it lost its way after the New York Times sold it. I've heard good things about WRR/Dallas, but haven't tried it yet.

KING-FM-HD2 is awesome background brain lubricant when you're working on something hard and mathematical.

If anyone else has any favorite classical stations, please reply.
Easy communication and understand each other
I don't think it is inherently better than any other pyramid schemes like the dollars. The only difference between the two in terms of long term holding is in the latter you are forced to.
no. only if one question is asked which you can only answer with either yes or no.
Interestingly, the two best managers I've had over my career both had experience as middle school teachers. Not really sure what that says about our profession, but there it is. When looking for a new manager, the most important thing is that they're honest and that they're savvy enough to know if they're telling you the truth or not.
Unless you know that all the panic buying has stopped there's no way to know when the stock will stop going up. Not only are the shorts buying but all those that feel they are missing out are buying too. It's a hit or miss situation now.
Record are product types, with union types (sealed types in Java speak) you get algebraic data type, you can take a look to SML to understand why there will be used a lot.

Record have an automatic way to propagate annotations from the record component to the generated methods/fields and comes with native support of serialization (like enums).
Thanks. I also just found it in this article https://newrepublic.com/article/156444/abolish-iowa-caucus

> ACRONYM’s CEO, Tara McGowan, is married to Michael Halle, a strategist for Pete Buttigieg.
I'm working on a project to provide exactly this! It's a layout engine that takes a tree of components, emits boxes. Currently it's written in JavaScript and renders to canvas, but it also runs on node + node canvas, so you can do things like generating PDFs and other images server-side.

https://github.com/maxharris9/layout/tree/master/test/compon...
https://github.com/maxharris9/jsx-layout

My friend is working on a native client that will run programs written for layout without a browser.

If you're interested in this, I'm open to DMs on twitter (@maxharris9)
I liked the idea of bitcoin for a while but I think it's pure garbage now. Not only because the blockchain technology has evolved a lot and you can make better networks with it, but because it's being used only to make very few people very rich.

There are others DLT (Distributed Ledger Technologies) far more advanced, with real life use cases and without that monstruosity called Proof of Work.
Back in the day someone figured out that punkbuster blindly scanned physmem for illegal string literals and banned on detecting them no matter what process they belonged to. They then posted one of those strings to #findscrim on gamesurge (or whichever it was at the time) and the channel quickly exploded with hundreds of people saying they just got pb banned for no reason. It was magical.

Short of baking it directly into silicon clientside security is an oxymoron.
And becoming more and more depressed, it seems.
So this is about intuitive explanations of flight.

The complaint about using Newton's law is that it doesn't readily explain the low-pressure region above the wing. Let me give it a try.

Intuitively, all the forces on the wing are manifest as air pressure measured the wing surface and expressed as a force normal to the surface at that point. There are no other forces from the air. You sum them over the wing and the net force upward is called lift, the net force backward is call drag.

If there is net lift, that means the net normal forces summed over the wing are upward, implying that the pressure is low above the wing relative to below the wing.

The Newtonian explanation is that a force must be exerted to change the direction of the air. The net force on the air is in the direction that the air turns, and the reaction force on the wing is in the opposite direction.

On the underside of the wing the air is diverted downward and the reaction force on the wing is upward, and this is measured by the air pressure on underside of the wing.

On the top of the wing the air is again diverted downward and the reaction force on the top of the wing is again upward, and this is measured by a lowered air pressure, giving a net upward force.
This is a great observation. Our tools would be designed according to our experience of the world.

But theres another catch, the tools we use change the shape of our mindset, leading us to design other tools that now map to this new perception of reality we have with the new mindset we built by using the former tools.

The hunter-gatherer example given in the first comment for instance, i bet with enough evolutionary steps, we will not be able to trace back to that mindset, because we have "patched" our own mindset so many times with new tools(over tools) that we will have very little "mindset identity" to share with our former "hunters-gatherers" primordial cousins.
Despite this being essentially sponsored post, I’m glad someone has finally got this kind of thing working.

This is the path that should ultimately be us infinite depth of field and true image injection. Super exciting!
Three lines from the play were highlighted.

>“The government is telling Muslims to leave India and go away.” In reply, the other child says, “Amma, Modi is saying show documents of your father and grandfather otherwise he is telling us to leave the country.” At this point, another child is heard saying, “Hit them with slippers if anybody asks for documents.”

The last one is directed at survey workers who have been (mis)targeted recently.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/...

>Following instances of workers, engaged to conduct Poshan Abhiyan survey, facing hostile behaviour, the state government had issued an ad explaining that the survey had nothing to do with Census and NPR.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/two-women-mi...

>In Kota, the woman attacked was a surveyor from the National Economic Census department collecting data for the National Economics Census 2019- 2020 in Brijdham area. Nazeeran Bano was let off only after she was able to convince the crowd that she, too, was a Muslim, like them. The police later arrested one person for the attack.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/west-bengal-woman-s-ho...

>The house of a 20-year-old woman was set on fire by a mob in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Wednesday, following rumours that she was collecting data for the proposed nationwide NRC.

>Chumki Khatun and her family are now under police protection after the incident happened in Gourbazar village in Mallarpur police station area, officials said.

I don't support sedition charges, but there should be a penalty for (1) promoting (even petty) violence against government workers and (2) getting your children to express this promotion.
This and 'Fraud Guarantee' will go down as the stupidest company names of the decade, whether they were involved in malfeasance or not.
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Right. There are some cases when developers want Kubernetes because it is easy to deploy their application on it and autoscale it but in my experience, this is almost as easy with many other options that do not mean to pull in a giant black box dependency into your project. For those who think Kubernetes is not a black box, just wait for the first outage and measure the time how fast you can recover and what steps are involved. In my limited experience, it is much simpler to recover an autoscaling application on AWS or other cloud platforms that do not have Kubernetes. Why? Because there are significantly fewer things that can go wrong. Some people are ok to trade operational complexity for developer experience. I am fine with that.
Not talking about McKinsey, talking about someone working there. Big difference.
Obviously you have neither been following the news, or understand what happens when nationalist governments come into power.
Why can't it be ignored? I think we're very far away from the point where growth is impossible. We haven't even left Earth yet. Imagine the amount of wealth you could create with a moon-based space elevator.
>Note sure why this is getting downvoted.

Followed by

>Sure it's wild speculation
Shameless self-plug, but have you looked at Cortex? It deploys trained models as APIs and automates the underlying devops. It's also free and open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex
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>From what I see many techies are now aware and upset, and hardly anyone seems to want to defend Google anymore.

Be careful, most of us on HN are part of a very small echo chamber. "What you see" is a small, non-representative portion of "techies". If it wasn't Firefox wouldn't be at sub-5% in general usage surveys and AMP would've died years ago.
Knowing how to use a car instead of a horse is useful regardless of whether other people are using cars or horses.

It is just a much more powerful tool, despite the complexity arguments you see people throw around online.
What if someone hacks it to intentionally blind you?
Im willing to bet the real reason there is inconsistencies is that the app used an home-brewed noSQL back end with week to no protections against duplicate entries and no real data validation despite the use of smartphones, which tend to increase data entry errors over full keyboard devices.

It's likely that you have the same precient reporting in using both the app and the phone system and entries where someone is missing an zero or mistypes a 9 instead of an 8 somewhere, causing the votes cast to differ from voters present in some precients.

Now with an well designed sql schema detecting and eventually correcting this kind of data quality issues are straightforward but as this is the work of an small relatively new digital marketing agency with almost no record outside of working for the party machinery so whats the odds that this app is backed by an well designed transactional database framework rather then a quickly cobbled together nosql schema.

To make it worse this is an case where the democratic party could have demonstrated an commitment to more transparency and less centralization as there is no secrets that needs protecting and yet the Iowa democrats went down the opposite road of more centralization and less transparency in an move that's just showcasing everything that is wrong with america's political establishment.

The open democratic way to run an election like this would be for the individual districts to publish their results for 3rd party validation directly to the public when they are done caucusing instead of placing them in escrow until the incompetents at the party HQ is done calculating the way it seems to happen now.

As of now the app is likely destined for a complete rewrite with the actual tally being done the old fashioned way using calculators and spreadsheets so an DHS code-audit would just make the issue resurface at an inconvenient time when this is no longer news, as im pretty sure anyone with a clue about IT inside of the party machine knows exactly how they screwed up and prefers strange conspiracy theories to being exposed as mundane fools.
Ah, those days when I was young and there was this veil of mystery to computers I still remember those days. When I was in school my mind was at the sinclair spectrum clone I had at home back then. I remember a similar story on a flight simulator where I was expecting to discover something mapped from the real world and was not aware how limited the simulators were. The mystery was real
pellet guns were used against stone pelters
Personally, I downvoted because this kind of wild speculation only leads to wasteful conflict and bad blood in a time when that's the last thing we need. And I'm saying that as someone who has personally contributed to the Sanders campaign.
> More than anything I didn't get a tech vibe in Toronto. I was at UofT and the surroundings all the time, yet it felt like the town is mostly devoid of tech. Not the same vibe you get in Seattle or Redmond or SV for that matter.

Toronto is more of a finance town, with tech tacked on. NYC is similar.

> May be it's my bias but Toronto doesn't feel all that multi cultural. Sure you see people of different nationalities but something feels lacking.

Curious, what cities around the world feel multicultural to you? I've lived in many multicultural cities and my criteria may be different from yours, so genuinely interested to hear your thoughts.