skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously this was a general trend at the time; honestly, once you've taken up a seemingly spotless carpet once you'll never want to own carpeting again.

The transit museum in Brooklyn is really eye opening for this; on the bottom floor you can walk through trains going back to the start of the private Subway system(s).

There have been a lot of mystifying design decisions through the years. The earliest ones had wicker, leather and wood and seem more spacious than today's trains.
Can't edit anymore but would like this addition:

Not saying he's right, simply saying he's the type of guy who was at the forefront of where real conspiracies happen. Have no actual opinion on the matter and don't know anything about it. It could be pure rambling for all I know.

That said, look at all the people who were criticised for knowing the truth before Snowden, before MKUltra, before Iran-Contra. It's a fine line to draw here.

To pretend that this world doesn't have some funny things going on all the time behind the scenes is either willfully ignorant or...
You are arguing a digression.

The argument isn't that you never want to present absolute values.

The argument is that you never want to present absolute values on a choropleth map, explicitly because it always obfuscates the data in a way that is misleading.

The data in question should probably be in a table, if the idea is to be able to compare Hubei Province to the others. The bar chart makes the difference very clear, but it also makes it difficult to interpret the data for the other provinces.
Released my first game to steam today (built with React, Node and Socket.io)
Hello Hackernews!

I'm not sure what the advertising-policies are here on HN, but I wanted to share this such the game is a very un-conventional launch/build.

The game is called World Seed. It's a procedurally generated game.
It's playable for free in the browser (chrome):
https://worldseed.eu

Here's the steam store page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214330/World_Seed/

Code stack:
React, Node and Socket.io

Hosting:
Free hosting on Zeit Now & Heroku

Playable through:
Steam (through Electron) and in Chrome browser

Worth mentioning:
- All the content of the game is put into google docs for easy add-ability
- The assets was bought online (mainly from Fiverr)
- I started the development as of June last year

Feel free to ask questions about the game!
That doesn't mean the information supplied was accurate. Which, as it happened, it wasn't and this whole thing was really just a massive misunderstanding.
Google Translate Adds Kinyarwanda, Odia, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur
from reading his book on the topic, my understanding is that they become strionger. he would classify "just remaining" as robust as opposed to antifragile
I guess it's just about the virtue of integrity.

Even casual house parties attract integrity-less people who will destroy your carpet by bringing food into carpeted rooms and then trampling it over without seemingly noticing. That's why it's good for every human on the planet to have experience with cleaning various things, so they know how much work it is when they make a mess.
Ditto. A few times I've had issues where I had compatibility issues until I upgraded the firmware on the card.

For a long time I used infiniband between fast systems just because the cards were available so cheaply, but now 40gbe is really cheap (and 100gbe is getting there).

I'm really not that fond of 10G-T, it's picky about cables and power hungry. Give me fiber or a dac cable any day.
Ask HN: Image File Management
I manage a small corporate network where there are images stored all over the place. It seems a common theme. Many are duplicates. They are usually product images that have been resized for a certain channel. There is a Dropbox for sharing with our partners.

I would like it all in some kind of gallery application, that can manage duplicates, allow meta tagging etc. API acess will allow it to replace some other pipelines. I would prefer Saas but could self host. I have found several Saas Digital Asset Management systems that seem pretty expensive to me. It occurred to me that I can't be the first person to have this problem at an SME! I wonder if other people can share what they are using, and some stories about how they migrated?
They are in the UK, well not completely at random but a number of health centres and hospitals are now testing everybody who has flu-like symptoms.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438418
That's super fast!
Then you definitely did not grok it. What I gather from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)#Go... is that Icon's goal directed execution is more like `react whenever` in Raku (https://docs.raku.org/language/concurrency#whenever)

Junctions autothread. What does that mean? Using a Junction as an ordinary value, will cause execution for each of the eigenstates, and result in another Junction with the result of each of the executions. An example:

# a simple sub showing its arg, returning twice the value
sub foo($bar) { say $bar; 2 * $bar }

# a simple "or" junction
my $a = 1 | 2 | 3;
say foo($a); # executes for each of eigenstates
# 1
# 2
# 3
# any(2, 4, 6)

Documentation: https://docs.raku.org/type/Junction
Benjamin Graham / Warren Buffet have said [1] that in the short run the stock market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it’s a weighing machine.

1. Attribution is murky: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/09/market/
and they are extremely noisy and must be exterminated.
A New Approach to Discover the Talent
Here's the thing: you can't have 1000 "discoverable" actions, there's no place for it.

Correction: you do have 1000 discoverable actions, but you discover them in the menu bar.

What you found out with this article is that users are bad at knowing things, because there are too many things to know. I know all of those actions and their keyboard shortcuts, but I still have to occasionally "google it."

Either you have iOS 1.0 where everything is clear and easy to do — because there's very little to do — or macOS, where each app has dozens of features but can only surface some of them.

This is non-news.
Maybe the commenter failed to distinguish between “left” and “liberal”, resulting in a confusion. Right now it’s the liberals who doesn’t have a clear next step, failing to acknowledge that they are part of the problem for the US’s staggering wealth inequality (which by the way, is the fundamental reason why Trump won), and now just trying to present a more “milder” version of Bernie’s policies to pander to voters.
What he's calling colour is just provenence, which is a perfectly sensible concept. You can even take the position that provenance is a physical reality, if you take 4 dimensional spacetime seriously.

http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime
For a general timeline of events that led up to the 'Galileo affair' and what happened after, check out "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown":

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...

The fact that the Earth moves was not 'proven' (or more technically, had strong empirical evidence for that hypothesis) until 1806 when Giuseppi Calandrelli reported parallax in α-Lyrae. That's ~250 years after Copernicus, and ~150 after Galileo.

Note that by 1700 or so, everyone had switched to Kepler's model: not necessarily because they thought it was "right" (there was no empirical way to tell), but primarily because the math was much easier and it got correct results. There were actually seven models floating around during the 1600s:

* Heraclidean. Geo-heliocentric. Mercury and Venus circle the Sun; everything else circles the Earth.

* Ptolemaic. Geocentric, stationary Earth.

* Copernican. Heliocentric, pure circles with lots of epicycles.

* Gilbertian. Geocentric, rotating Earth. (proposed by William Gilbert in De magnete)

* Tychonic. Geo-heliocentric. Sun and Moon circle the Earth; everything else circles the Sun.

* Ursine. Tychonic, with rotating Earth.

* Keplerian. Heliocentric, with elliptical orbits.
You wouldn't believe how much business value flows through Excel spreadsheets.
Definitely the most extremely programmer thing I've seen this week.
But don't AdBlockers such as uBlock Origin also block Google Analytics itself?
This is from my bookmarks, maybe some of the recommendations are relevant here "Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756110
The things you can do when you're in a high margin non-competitive market.
I created a blog post on this:

https://kevintuck.co.uk/browser-automation-with-hellium/

Great little tool!
Forget Mars, humanity's future lies in colonising Venus
The previous version was not really good on the accessibility side of things.

See this article for example: https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-ui-frameworks/

Maybe it has improved now?
Amidst coronavirus panic, the stock of this hazmat suit-maker is up 88%
That simply can't work.

It used to, widespread car ownership is a relatively recent innovation.
Hm, it looks like it is using things like std::vector and streams, etc.

So it does actually require exceptions and RTTI/still forces linkage against throwing functions, etc.
> as any professional would be

Would call center staff, receptionists etc not be professionals (I.e. is there a use of the term I'm not aware of?). Is it people doing work requiring degrees?
Monkey Patching in Golang (2015)
Why Jean-Paul Sartre was an anarchist at heart
The Elements of Music [pdf]
and decreasing, lots of roads in my nearest city have 20mph limits on them now.
This will be very nice CPU in a home media Kodi server consuming very little power!
Even the AMD specs just says two 10GbE ports, but nothing about it being an AMD design, or some third party controllers that are just included in the package.

AMD has previously made their own network controller chips, but in last 10 - 15 years or more, so I would be a little surprised if they now have a 10Gb design. Maybe I just haven't paid enough attention to AMD.
Your request is too broad, I suggest asking a question on StackOverflow explaining what the issue is exactly.
Ken Allen
I have the same thinking. I believe every 8 years there is a stock dip, the current one is already overdue.

It's easy to blame Corona now, but there was already one correction coming.

I think it will dip way further, since there are actual problems now also and the spread of the virus globally is not a known fact either.
By that logic, the library of Babel owns the copyright on every piece of literature that could be written, which would be a terrible idea.

https://libraryofbabel.info/
A nice writeup about making Crash is this one:
https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...
But if the government stops tomorrow to get involved won't you get a giant backlash? I do not see that universities would stop spending and reduce the costs by 90%, if those universities are also in debt because they planned on the money they won't get you could get them bankrupt. Do you have a solution for this ?

Btw I appreciate you taking time to provide this comments.
There's (literally) one street in a nearby city that, during a redesign a few years back, basically embedded a bike lane in the sidewalk. It's sort of a hazard. It's moderately busy for both pedestrians and bikes and, given that this is an extremely atypical configuration, pedestrians are simply not used to looking out for bikes zipping down this bike lane (sometimes even in the direction that they're supposed to be traveling on a given side and maybe with lights on at night). I'm there often enough that I'm careful but I've still come closer to being hit a couple of times as a pedestrian than I'd like.
They didn't know that, and assumed the apparent diameter was the true diameter (as you would).
Thats exactly the problem with Facebook - no firewalls between the various personas of an individual.
> Would call center staff, receptionists etc not be professionals

Are you just asking what a 'professional' is? As in you're not a native speaker?

The etymology is from 'someone who has professed vows' and traditionally means someone who's part of some kind of learned society. In the past it was classes like doctors, lawyers, religious ministers. Over the industrial revolution it began to include engineers. Engineers used to be part of learned societies (I am, as a software engineer), but now it's more relaxed in many places, with software engineering being at the extreme end of relaxed.

So not call centre staff, because that's not part of any learned society and are not part of a career that would traditionally have been so but has become more relaxed.

Wikipedia explains well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional.

Are you confusing the term with just 'anyone who works for a living'? That's not what 'professional' means.
All London Underground lines have cushioned, upholstered seats. You can even tell which line you’re on because each line has a unique fabric pattern known as a “moquette”:

https://londonist.com/london/transport/all-the-tube-moquette...

(The fabric does wear out eventually, but it seems relatively cheap and easy to replace. It’s rare to see a dirty or overly worn out seat)

Commuter trains into London often have carpeted floors, too, depending on the operator and type of train. It does make for a quieter, more civilised experience!
Admittedly way less thorough/cool than the YouTube video, but we created a limited pre-emptive multi-tasking system on the original Playstation to run our physics engine at a constant frequency. Sony US and Sony Japan said it couldn't be done.

We eventually figured out how to use the vertical blank interrupt to save all the registers, modify the return addres to return from the interrupt to our physics code, then our physics code would run (not in the interrupt context), then restore the registers and longjmp back to the main game code which had been originally interrupted by the vertical blank interrupt.

This wasn't general-purpose pre-emption and had only fixed divisors of the screen refresh rate available, but was enough to get our physics engine to run close to isochronously.

Side note: our game was comparatively terrible and I remember being in awe of what the Crash Bandicoot team accomplished in gameplay and graphics.
On mobile the list items are really hard to differentiate
Well, it could contain the floating-point representation, since floating-point is a finite representation.

But it couldn't contain the real number representation.
Go, the media is beating it up ridiculously. A few magnitudes more people are being hit by lightning outside of China than dying from COVID19.

Can we get some actuaries in here please?
Biased toward what?
They don't pre-generate all the "books", right? So they can't claim the copyright (it's not "affixed to a physical medium")
I have a wife and three kids, so for me that doesn’t feel very far-fetched :)
Nice link; thanks!
Why does it matter? I'm writing node...
I tried VSCode several times, but always came back to vim. I think there is a fundamental difference to a purely terminal based workflow.

Learning a new commandline tool has almost always been something that paid back for years: CLI cares much more about backwards compatibility than a GUI because it's used in shell scripts. And that's another advantage: you are only one step away from automating stuff. A homogeneousness set of keybindings over all applications are just the icing on the cake.
At that point, you simply explain Cantor's diagonalization proof and the concept of countable and uncountable infinities.
That reminds me of the argument of whether math is invented or discovered.
Deaf moths use noise-cancelling scales as protection against bat biosonar
How to Hire a Node.js Developer
F Laptops
That has been the general prevailing wisdom of the idiots and psychopaths in robes but if you strip away the brainwashing commonly referred to as "norms" it becomes clear that is a moronic double standard that I wonder how the hell it has gone so collectively unchallenged.

If you were to personally spy on the entirety of the CIA and keep the data within your basement you would make history and record books with the harm your grand act of treason did or would cause. Hell if you did it to one neighborhood let alone one town you would be widely regarded as a terrifying criminal!

The fact they are government and not one deranged citizen only makes matters far worse not better. They have no legitimacy.

The fact so few see the goddamned obvious because they are so brainwashed is deeply disturbingm
And we all know how that turned out...
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-deaf-moths-evolved-noise-cance...
So...they have remade all songs made as well? I predict lawsuits coming...!
> Switzerland, most democratic country in the world, reminding people that it isn't just the authoritarians who know how to keep organised.

So a democratic country is just as authoritarian as "authoritarians"?

> It is very hard to understand how democracies work

It really isn't. It's been around for many millenia ostensibly going all the way back to the slave owning ancient greeks. And historically, democracies have proven to veer toward totalitarianism. Something even Plato recognized thousands of years ago. It's funny how we conveniently forget that even nazi germany rose from a democracy.

There is nothing inherently good about democracies. After all, democracies have exterminated continents full of people, democracies have practiced race-based slavery and the only form of government to have nuked civilians is a democracy. Hell democracies have attacked and destroyed more democracies around the world than authoritarians have. Instead of focusing on silly labels, why not focus on deeds/actions/results/etc.
And what about that one employee that tend to work more than the others(every company have one of those, maybe it's you), do you find it fair for him to get the same salary as everybody ? why would you better yourself and be more productive only to get paid the same as everybody.
I'm a Dutchie who's also spent time in Salzburg and the percentage of people riding bikes is different. If Salzburg had to support the scale of bicycles that Utrecht does it would require a radical redesign of the roads in Salzburg.

Can't speak for other Austrian cities other than Salzburg, though.
> How many major pieces of legislation does a president get through?

Without flipping the Senate or replacing McConnell, a Democrat POTUS will get bugger all through unless they can do it through executive orders (AFAIK.)
An full build is always the easiest build.

Building as little as possible and having quick iteration is the hard bit when you have statically typed languages and large projects.
If I edit a file and change the name of the function, the call sites should all light up with red squiggles. In a statically compiled language. Without requiring a recompile.
“40% Chance of Pandemic” – Is Moody's Coronavirus Risk Assessment Malpractice?
Parcelv2 Sveltev3 Transformer
I'm surprised RISC-V has significantly larger gate count for 64 than 32 bit; I thought the extra gate count for 64 bits was negligible from around the time when the Nintendo 64 used a 64-bit CPU because it was cheaper to keep it as it was than redo the layout to cut it down to 32 bits. Why is it significant for RISC-V? What numbers of gates are we talking about exactly?
For some reason a single buttom mouse makes me feel super dumb.

Feels less like a tool and more like a giant red press-me button
I remember when the "News Feed" came out. Everyone (including myself) was outraged and demanded the Old Facebook be restored. There were petition groups "5 million likes and they'll bring back the old Facebook!!"... but it didn't matter and people got used to it.

You can imagine the same outrage if they changed Hacker News over night...
Dear Apple: don’t let a trackpad turn the iPad into a Mac
> an infinitely long byte sequence cannot represent all numbers

Okay, all natural numbers then. I don't think that changes the argument.

(Reals are a funny thing because any format you choose has numbers that are infinitely long in that format. Which is basically the same thing you said.)
For the state secrets, the state would have to identify the specific strings that constitute the violation, so that's unlikely to be a problem in practice.
Why not Semantic-ui-react? Surprised it isn't getting more of a mention here, using it at my company and it's been fantastic.
So you don’t think this is unusual enough to be newsworthy?
Async_executors, a building block for executor-agnostic Rust libraries
Incorrect.

Most real numbers have infinite-length constructive proofs.

Uncountable is uncountable is uncountable. If any correspondence/encoding existed between naturals and reals, the reals would be countable. (But they are not, so it is fool's errand to search for such an encoding.)
NY (Manhattan and certain areas of Brooklyn in particular) somewhat uniquely don't really require a car. Partly it's because owning a car is a pain/expensive and partly because of transit. But it's also because there's a general mindset that as a professional 30 year old, you're not really expected to have a car and activities and people's expectations are set accordingly.

In other cities--and there are other cities that have better transit options than SF which is actually fairly poor--you can get by without a car. But Uber, Zipcar, rentals, etc. only take you so far for weekend activities and visiting the friends who probably don't live on transit lines. You can manage but you adjust activities accordingly. [ADDED: Also, lots of jobs are actually outside the city and you mostly need a car to get to them.]

FWIW, I know a couple who live in SF who don't own a car. But they make heavy use of Uber and car rentals of various types. Short-term rental and rideshares make not owning a car more practical for a certain class of urban dweller than it used to be. But not even having a license reduces your options, including both work and recreational options, a lot.
From my point of view, it is second.

Also, from my point of view, I am MUCH MORE conditioned to read second variant of code.

Third point of mine is that TeX source must be read in PDF form, not in the TeX form. I have the courage to extend that that TeX source code must be manipulated in PDF (read: readable) form, not as the source code per se.
Can't vouch for people that are single but I get plenty of human interaction around my family. Still I like to work out of the house one day per week and work with different people in an office. I guess what's also important is professionally mingling with people, what tools and frameworks people use and so on. A change of scenery.

Actually it was nicer when my wife was working mornings, that would gave me a solid quiet 5 hours to work in.
I would make fun of VBA but it is still helping save lives and catch criminals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS55cFZdino
Ask HN: How do I stop being a mere programmer?
I have been in the industry for around 7 years, currently in a mid level engineering role.

However the nature of my work can still be summarized as just picking JIRA tickets and closing them. How can I grow from being a mere programmer to someone with more leadership skills?
I agree - the book's main claim has been the orthodoxy in history of science for decades. (No doubt there are many new details in the book - I haven't read it.)
I don't know about Italian culture, but in general your statement is true.

Another cultural thing affecting virus is when it's not considered appropriate to stay home with cold or other diseases, rather you're expected to work, of course spreading virus to everyone else. I've heard about Japan, but probably there are plenty of other countries with similar approach.
If you’ve gone from earning 40k and struggling, to earning 70k, do you care what the CEO’s motives are?

It’s been 5 years, or $150k each, and there’s been no apparent bad news. What more do you need?

Have you changed in the last 5 years?