skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All around great work!

Just a heads up if the author is around: I may have found a bug in the Break Out example. Seems to have frozen when two balls collided just the right way: https://www.dropbox.com/s/12z2au9rkkw7hlm/Screenshot%202020-...
Unless you're still supporting IE, CSS variables are now available:

https://caniuse.com/#search=css%20variables
WTF would you want that for? I'm pretty sure the iPad is not designed for general purpose computing.
Everyone glosses over making more money and assumes people are just fixed to their current situation in life
I’m convinced there is a reasonable way to do browser rendering of LaTeX. I’ve seen interactive LaTeX IDE webpges before and even wiki modules that allow for a subset of LaTeX features.
> In my team, we're doing a "check-in/out" inside each meeting where we take turns by answering "With what emotion you're entering/exiting this meeting?".

That sounds horrible and almost cult like by my view. I would be looking for the proverbial door if I were in a team that wanted me to contribute this way in front of everyone.

Just talk to people, if they're quiet talk to them. Pick up on context, treat them like humans not machines that can just have their handle pulled to reveal their internal state.
Why do you believe NSA spying decreases the risk of nuclear war, or helps stave off climate change?

Also, it's not that we "love privacy", it's that we dislike oppression. And believe you me - most people in my part of the world know very well how the US is oppressing them through military and intelligence means. We don't want to live under the US' boot, and the NSA is part of that boot.
Just a small correction: the title is The Interactive Programming Book ;)
If possible could you please provide some sources? Or it’s just heard in person? I’ve been living outside of China for years and read many pro independent sources especially during the protests but haven’t seen any on uniting with mainlanders. And during the protests I’ve seen reports of protesters trashing businesses that are related to mainland and infrastructure connecting to mainland. I don’t think they think every mainland business is CCP sponsored don’t they?
> it's via bluetooth

NFC (same as contactless CCs), not Bluetooth.
Are you sure about that? What about "non-serious" companies? Various fly-by-night self-driving startups?

Fly-by-night self-driving startups will at some point run into issues with the NHTSA. George Hotz self-driving car project was shut down as soon as he announced that he'd start selling some prototype.

States require permits just to be allowed to test self-driving prototypes on the open road. I don't know what the requirements are, but they're probably subject to some kind of review that's more than just filling in a form.
Doesn't seem like awkward wording to me (as a native English speaker, fwiw); just a routine disclaimer.

I suppose the fact that it contains words that start with TIN (TrueCrypt is not) provides sufficient justification for your hat, anyhow.
I talk to them, one on one, then listen to what they have to say and respond in turn.

This is the only option if you want an honest connection. There are no shortcuts.
Wonder why they don't just move to Oregon, which has a significant anti-vax community and otherwise seems more similar to California.
I've never even heard of them....
How to Add the URL to a Show HN Post?
not the OP, but a second opinion from someone with the same reaction -

1) "safe spaces" for emotions is inherently at odds with corporate culture, point blank. They exist to use you. They pay you, you provide them a service and/or your time as written in the contract. It is in your best interest to not be the nail that sticks out from the wood if you wish to keep the money coming because ultimately the power exchange lies heavily with them.

2) I don't do support groups, though this is more of a personal decision. Keeping vulnerable facets of my life completely air-gapped from cash flow and from other untrusted and un-vetted individuals has never failed me.

Now - water cooler-ish 1:1's a la "hey, you hanging in there?" can be done with tact and sincerity by select individuals if there's a previous rapport. But there is an art to sniffing out whether it's meant with a sincere no-bullshit-humanity-centric angle, versus "can we optimize this individual's output" angle. It's demeaning to think one can be the other.
and Sunoco
My favorite part is Huawei is supposedly using our own law enforcement back doors. I hope that this is forever used as an example to fight the ongoing push for "good guy only" back doors.
I'm honestly really happy with GnomeShell once I install the extensions "dash to dock" and "workspace matrix".
Yes, EU database directive is relevant to local copyright law and can apply in certain cases (dictionaries is probably a very relevant example, and other types of books that are close to printed databases), but they do not apply in the vast majority of cases, for the 'stereotypical book'. For example, the database rights would not apply to extracting facts out of a physics textbook, and it would not apply to extracting a model of author's style from their complete works.
The primary license is Apache, but the user may license under MIT for GPLv2 compatibility.

I've been writing a lot of Rust lately, and started providing both after their big relicensing push: https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/82
If it was a tourist spot, it may have been surprising for someone with an American accent not needing a PIN.
No, you’re completely wrong here.

The reason men must be able to marry men is not a moral rationale, it’s a legal one. There is a well established legal doctrine that says you can’t make laws that discriminate on the basis of sex without some sex-based reason.

There’s no sex-based reason for why I should be able to have a woman at my side in the hospital but not a man. You don’t need a womb or breasts to to speak to the doctor on my behalf. That’s ridiculous. If my sister can choose to have a man by her bedside, so should I be allowed to. That’s equal protection.

There is no similar protection for children. Literally no one is able to choose a random 12 year old boy to make decisions for them in the hospital. And that’s fine because there is no equal protection for kids. Nor should there be. They are legally wards of their parents, not adults. They very intentionally do not have the same protection under the law that their parents do.

None of this has anything to do with morality, it has to do with equal protection under the law.
Obviously good for maps and graphs, and any dataviz in general.
> I haven't found a single debit card that works with it

Well yeah. Because the banks don't make money with debit cards so they do everything possible to sell you a credit card. That's why in Switzerland you have this special variant of a Meastro which you can't pay online. That's a special deal with Mastercard for Switzerland only because Mastercard generally doesn't allow blocking this.
Slater never filed a suit against anyone, so no court ever ruled on it. But he did request it removed from Wikimedia, and lots of experts weighed in. The WikiPedia page has summaries and links to lots of sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
You can still use counterfoil machines if you want to. You just accept all the risk.

A former employer uses one for selling excess stock to staff.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Hacker News `best` aggregator?
Hi!

Would you guys be interested in a hackernews aggregator that only list news that make into the `best` filter that can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

Let's say you want to catch up after a few days, this type of tool would help with that.

Are there any similar features built into hackernews itself or a similar tool?

Thanks in advance.
Have you tried https://treasuryprime.com ? I think they allow you to create an account via API.
I'm not sure tab count is really a viable metric here. You'd think there'd be a strong correlation, but...

On one Windows PC, I keep 2-3 tabs constantly open (may as well pin them tbh), and open/close others as needed. Average tab footprint is probably 3-8 tabs. Average RAM footprint is 1700MB. I have different tab footprints on different machines, of all sorts of different hardware and OS combinations; let's say the general tab footprint is 5-30 tabs, and general memory footprint is 800MB-3GB.

On the other hand, one user here reported a few thousand tabs at ~500MB RSS.

Obviously factors like assets and JavaScript affect RAM consumption, but a lot of these heavy tab users have to be running a good number of web apps. There must be something else at play.
Career Builder's CEO: Young people are 'ghosting' employers
This article gives more info on the most probable source of the virus. In 2004, Chinese researchers discovered a bat cave with a virus 96% genetically similar to the coronavirus spreading today.

> “We found viruses in bats that could infect human cells in a lab,” he said.

> The team drew samples from people who lived near the bat caves and found that three per cent of them had developed antibodies to the viruses — proving that the strains can and have infected humans in the past.

Responding to your question, it's very possible the virus is endemic to the region & a particularly virulent strain is spreading.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/cave-full-of-bats-in-chi...
The news here is that all telecom equipment is required to have back doors built into them, the "crime" is the manufacturer sometimes using this too.

I don't know if this is hugely revelatory or surprising, it has been common knowledge that all the telecoms are effectively government entities for a long time now. It's still just a bit surreal to see it all spelled out in black and white in the WSJ.
Sure you can. It's not a special case. That's the beauty of Apple Pay. Industry standard protocol. If the merchant accepts contactless credit cards then Apple Pay will work. No need for any special hardware, any special software or any contract changes.
> That's just being pedantic.

And if everyone cares as little as you do, Spotify will win.

My hope is that most people on HN won't confuse "caring about open standards" with "pedantry".

> It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks.

This is non-sensical. Episodes are delivered via ordinary HTTP. And with podcast apps (again, Spotify is not one), the odds are good that episodes from your subscriptions have been pre-fetched to local storage before you even play them.
An exquisite snapshot of a portion of current sysadmin times. It was about time this meme was born.
Do I feel relieved or like I have to catch up given that I don't know 100% of the technologies mentioned? Mmm.
At least in the UK, contactless is limited to 20£ and probably has other limits as well I suspect.
Back in the late 90's when mom and pop wireless shops were common, I remember the owner of one telling me an interesting about Vegas.

At the time he was getting into the wireless industry, he was approached in the early 1980's by AT&T to be the sole wireless manager for AT&T in Vegas. This guy loved Vegas, went there three or four times a year, gambled a LOT and was considered a fairly high roller at several of the casino's he frequented (but not a whale mind you) but he was curious so he took a month off and lived in Vegas to find out how good the opportunity would be.

He talked to anybody he could find, and started doing research about the people who lived there. He said after a month he realized there only really four kinds of people who were going to be his customers:

- The aging retirement community. Most came here from other cities, live on a fixed income and live in many of the retirement communities in and around Vegas

- The middle aged drifters who come in seeking fame and fortune, end up as dealers, waitresses or hotel staff. Most come, party, go broke and then leave and go back home

- The players. Most of them are like the owner himself. They can spend three weeks here, or a month, but always go back to their native states. To them Vegas is a playground, nothing more.

- The actual population of 470,000 people (this is 1980 remember) were compromised of a mix of the above and an even smaller group of people he'd have to convince to buy his services - which in 1980 were not cheap by any means.

In the end, he turned down the offer, but the article seems to say a lot of what he found is still true today compared to what he found way back in the 1980's.
How To Move Beyond Creative Blocks
The ones I've seen either render LaTeX math using something like MathJax or send your code to a LaTeX process on a server and then display the results as a PDF. The dumb but tempting bit is using LaTeX to render the entire page without the browser PDF viewer.

You can export LaTeX to HTML, for example, but that gives up control of a lot of rendering, including kerning of non-math text.
Consider a variation on the trolley problem. Just like always, there are two track branches and a switch. On the main track, there are five people, on the side track there is one person. But this time things are a tiny bit different. The trolley driver is braking. And the five people on the main track are a few hundred yards down the track, so maybe the trolley will be able to stop before it runs them over. But not. But there is a chance. The one person on the side track, on the other hand, is right here, there is no chance in hell they live if you pull the switch. So what do you do? How do you even reason about something like this?
at times creeping within 100 miles of it.

OMG! Within 100 miles! Oh the humanity!

Wake me up when it gets to within ONE mile.
I tried Kubuntu this week, and it’s the first time I’ve seen a desktop linux distro where everything works, and the experience is not made miserable somehow by poor font rendering or lack of suspend/resume or external display capability. I put lots of this down to Ubuntu but also a lot of it to KDE, so I’d be interested in knowing why Fedora is supposedly an improvement?
Following the wikipedia source:

> CEO Elon Musk says that it is capable of processing 200 frames per second and Tesla’s hardware 3 computer, which is optimized to run a neural net, will be able to handle 2,000 frames per second with redundancy.

No way they're shooting 2,000fps, let alone making that many adjustments per second. Maybe that's just a radar ping/signal frequency?

I like Elon, but why does he keep saying things like this?
I think it's important to clarify that you here are effectively meaningless.
How to read replies to your other, identical question?

Follow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22301639
I'm curious here. In my mind the computer is basically imperitive. It processes a series of instructions. It then happens to process multiple of such streams at once, but it's still essentially serial.

How is it event driven?
Its a general limitation imposed by the payment processors on contactless in the UK.
I wonder if contactless will also gain favor as being less likely to spread disease.

If you just wave the authentication device, it is less likely to communicate surface contamination.
So that's a "yes"? Presumably you think, similarly, that if NSA, say, breaks all elliptic curve discrete log crypto, a random analyst inside NSA will be able to submit a ticket and break random crypto?

No, I don't think that's how it works. A class break in a core cryptography primitive or even a major break in a particular crypto format would be one of the most closely protected SIGINT secrets in the country; the number of people who would be exposed to even knowledge of its existence would be very low.
"practically unusable" is a hyperbolic statement. I use the mobile browser every day.
What is the difference between Langlands program and Category theory?
> There is no SVG support in email, so using SVGs in an environment that has both web and emailed pieces can mean duplicate assets.

FWIW, Thunderbirds displays svg sent as attachments inline at the bottom.
Whatever you do, of course, do not break plaintext email. I only use plaintext emails.
The Apple II was, I think, the last computer that one person could completely understand.
I think they can add value as a response to user action. No a repeating animations, but a short animation upon validating data or handling interaction. I would be the first to find a way to disable these if they'd start autoplaying on every website I visit though.

An animated green check mark when showing a popup confirming that an action has succeeded, an animated red cross when showing an error, wheels of a car icon rolling when hovering over the car option in the menu, those kinds of animations can all aid design by showing the user that the site or application is responding to user feedback.

It makes the user flow just a tiny bit more interactive and polished without being too distracted. After all, if there's a popup, the intention is to direct the attention of the viewer to that spot already. Same with a menu icon.

That said, the animations shouldn't be too fast. Some examples, like the moving train, are way too fast to be comfortable to use in my opinion. Proper pacing is important.
I find Apple Pay more convenient that using a credit card because I usually have my phone more quickly accessible to hand than a credit card. The transaction seems to complete faster as well.

That said, facial recognition to pay is a huge step backward. The phone has be held just the right way, the side button double-clicked, and you have to look directly at it... and even then it does not work 100% of the time! The fingerprint reader was way better for paying.
> So, in your opinion, being coerced to kill someone with a gun to your own head would make you guilty of a crime? Most systems of law disagree.

I'm not so sure about this. There are many legal and law-like systems that would agree you've done something wrong by committing the murder, even if you had a good reason.

I'd expect more agreement as to the idea that punishment should be light than that your behavior wasn't wrong in the first place.
Playground is an Apple product.

And other similar sandboxed code environments already exist for iPad.
Chinese are sooo brain washed. Trump supporters are sooo brain washed. Seems there’s a tendency that for people we don’t really understand their motives, can’t take their perspectives we just assume they are brain washed. Like with that assumption we can just ignore any opinions that are different?
Galaxy Book S is thinner, lighter, faster than MacBook Air
Similar to the other two sibling comments, been using restic to sync to B2 over the past 6-7 months. Stored amount has been 450-475 GB, and total costs tend to be about $2.50-$2.75 per month.
Comment from the post:

> To think that 24 years ago we had streaming vector animation with synchronized sound that could do decent fps on a crappy computer and download over the phone line at 28Kbps AND an IDE that could make those animations with ease. Yes, I'm talking about flash. It's mindblowing that today with HTML+JS+SVG+CSS we're struggling to create stuff that was dead easy back then.
I could be crazy, but I’m not certain of the relevance here.

If the US government ran this, you would at least have a chance at congressional oversight. Equifax is largely unchecked in its present corporate state.

I’d argue for a people very dependent on credit, a financial credit score already approaches the burden of a social credit score.
A C# binary can be decompiled back to easy to read source code. Show me how this can be done with a compiled C++ binary. It is a valid concern.
Your comment just sparked an interesting question in my mind:
If a drive has failed, until now I always imagined the drive was just trashed. But now that you mention they are probably RMA'ing them, do you think that BackBlaze send the RMA drives through a magnetic tunnel of some sort before they ship the drives back to the manufacturer? Because otherwise, how do they ensure potentially unencrypted customer files are not accessed during the repair/refurbishment process?
I miss Fireworks so much, I even tried to run the latest version under wine but never managed to get it to run correctly. Does anyone know of a good alternative that runs on Linux? I've been using Gravit Designer but it's kinda slow.
Our company has opened several new Amsterdam offices thanks to Brexit already. Currently they have probably added low double digit jobs in Amsterdam, and cut single digit jobs in the UK (explicitly related to Brexit...net jobs in the UK are probably even).

This may not sound like a lot, but for a company that operated in every EU country, but only had a single office, in London, that employs 1000s of really well paid employees, and had no plans at all to change anything, it’s a huge step.

At the very least, London now has competition from Amsterdam in terms of European work, and EU employees will likely prefer moving to Amsterdam with free movement than to London with the hassles involved.

And this is right at the beginning of Brexit at a time where nothing has actually changed thanks to the 1 year continuity period. If the deal that the UK strikes a year from now (which is only likely to make things worse) is substantially bad, then things may change very rapidly.

Brexit was a decision by a generation that did not fight the wars, but always wished they did and that greatly benefited from the EU, but their desire to believe that they were being oppressed and they had to throw off the shackles from the oppressors, like their ancestors did, led them to screw the newer generations while they themselves are at the end of their lives and will barely suffer from the consequences.
Nice! My parents have this book, and I read some of it as a teen!
Do I feel relieved or like I have to catch up given that I don't know 100% of the technologies mentioned?

Do you drink?

Do you know that feeling when you can't decide if you want one more drink or should call it a night and head home, but you kind of want to get that drink anyway because "I got 20 more minutes of happy hour prices, may as well get in while the getting's good"?

Yeah.

That's how we all feel/or at least it's how I feel sometimes looking at some new stack coming out and watching companies trip over themselves to go implement it and demand new sysadmins and developers come in the door with expert level capabilities with it and then finding out halfway through the interview the primary reason said company is hiring new Ops person is because the last Ops person didn't really know what they were doing and now they need a fixit Ops guy to come in, tear it down and replace it with a much more manageable infra.
We use 15five and it has these kinds of questions in a weekly report to each team member's manager, and can be addressed in a weekly on on one meeting. It is more comfortable to share things directly with a manager than to share it in the group. How awkward would it be to say "I'm worried about our company's future" at the start of scrum
Banking being the identity verification provider for everything (including governmental services) does add hoops, mainly the requirement for in-person identity verification when opening new accounts. As far as I understand the law doesn't allow strong identification to be provided using accounts that were opened with online identity verification.
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I'd love to know more about the setup here. I am aware of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595046 which is for cases when someone rejects a Promise with a non-Error (and non-DOMException, I suspect) object. Is that what's going on here? Or could it be the thing described in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595046#c5 with throwing a random non-Error object and the resulting console interaction?
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A support group will always be at odds with an employment situation, the motives are inherently disaligned. "Not being emotionally overexposed" absolutely does not equate to "hiding information", that's ridiculous.