skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a lot of changes in software now are made just for the sake of change.

But in a way it makes sense for the developers, if there is nothing left to change or for them to work on, there is no reason for them to still have their jobs.

Why fix bugs when instead you can just move things around and make things more flashy in an attempt to make management think you are making the app more 'responsive' or 'increasing user engagement'
Simple example where this is not quite true: moving a slow, fallible operation out of band to a durable queue with a sensible retry policy will tend to make the system simpler and less brittle, even though it becomes distributed.
> I guess I just don't see how it's all that close.

To me, it is interesting that the rough outline is similar. Yes, I agree that some specifics are not in the same order. Also, simply the fact that Genesis 1 describes a process at all, seems like a prescient paradigm. And, that there was actually a Beginning, rather than just everything always existing.

> Mbombo

My best guess is that the creation story was passed down orally for a long time, thus there are variations in different cultures. So why would I accept the Genesis account as more accurate than the account given by the Kuba people? That's predicated on my faith in the Judeo-Christian God. Why do I have faith in Him? Because I was born into a Christian household, and learned about the teachings of the Bible, then opened my mind to seek the truth with relentless intellectual honesty (or at least tried to), and God worked in my life (just a case study here), and I couldn't harden my heart to how meaningful He is. So, I was no longer debating with facts, but with a Person. In addition, every intellectual debate always left room to maintain faith or abandon faith. I haven't found an argument that forces me to disbelieve (nor do I have one that forces someone to believe). It's clear from Scriptures that God allows us the choice; that he doesn't make himself undeniably plain.
Pouring Acrylic on a Wood – Liquid art painting – easy and satisfying
WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally
Malcolm Harris: how fossil-fuel companies plan to profit from climate change
"China’s bold approach to contain the rapid spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly escalating and deadly epidemic."

"China’s uncompromising and rigorous use of non-pharmaceutical measures to contain transmission of the COVID-19 virus in multiple settings provides vital lessons for the global response."

I don't think they could say it much more clearly.
(very US specific, I assume).

I think everyone should stay sick at home if they are not in a risk group and symptoms don't get bad. Especially when they are not even testing and isolating everyone with symptoms yet. You could have severe case of seasonal influenza and get covid-19 in the hospital.

If there is too many very sick people, hospitals start running out of respirators.
Canadian here, Fandango's one of those names that you hear and it rings a bell, but chances are you haven't really interacted with them and don't know much about them beyond them being in the ticket sale/resale space broadly.
1b) Don't touch your face
Do you actually have a counterpoint? OP's argument is well-reasoned, is shared by others [1][2], and is also empirically supported by actual market events[3][4][5].

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-can-slash-health-ca...

[2] https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/walmart-t...

[4] https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article...

[5] https://kfor.com/news/okc-hospital-posting-surgery-prices-on...
Does this contradict 4) above? I don't have the expertise to judge, but the plain sense of the words suggests it does.

Persistence of coronavirus on inanimate surfaces [0]

Most data were described with the endemic human coronavirus strain (HCoV-) 229E. On different types of materials it can remain infectious for from 2 hours up to 9 days.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019567012...
They think the increased risk is from circadian misalignment.

> observed that spring DST significantly increased fatal MVA risk by 6%, which was more pronounced in the morning and in locations further west within a time zone. DST-associated MVA risk increased even in the afternoon hours, despite longer daylight hours. The MVA risk increase waned in the week subsequent to DST, and there were no effects of the fall-back transition to Standard Time (ST) on MVA risk, further supporting the hypothesis that DST-transition-associated, preventable circadian misalignment and sleep deprivation might underlie MVA risk increases.
If you're looking for only HN stories, hndigest does it for free https://hndigest.com/

(note: I'm the maintainer of HNDigest)
Try to log into your account, US customers owned by Circle now, non-US owned by Polo and many/most have been unlocked.
The local paper, especially if you had a free weekly "alternative" paper in your locality, was where you'd pretty much find anything. The great thing, looking back on it, was that it wasn't "customized for your taste" and you could learn a lot by looking at the listings. Unfortunately, the internet wasn't as good at giving information about stuff until about 1993 so you'd have to ask friends if they knew anything about that band with the cool name. The advertising was relevant and nonintrusive. Instead of the whole paper being covered in ads for the new Avengers movie like IMDB, there'd be ads for several of the new releases, some new record releases, bands coming into town, art shows, etc.
Nice interface. Seems very similar, if not exact to https://cadlab.io/
I suspect this was submitted as a "whataboutism" comparing the COVID-19 response to seasonal flu response. I agree that it would be nice for people to care about seasonal flu more but the fear of the unknown is what drives COVID-19 response and it's not helpful to simply point out that other viruses kill more people.
Greenplum seems to like a way to throw more hardware at a problem. Queries are too slow with postgres? Shard your data across machines and distribute queries to speed things up by running in parallel. It's using scale as a means to compensate for low efficiency.

On the opposite side of the spectrum you have other open source projects like questDB that have full focus on core performance: constantly optimise to get as much as possible from a single processor core. You can't scale out (at least yet), but given how fast it is on single core, it will be pretty powerful if they chose to go this route.
From the menu: Favorites -> irc.mozilla.org

connecting to irc.mozilla.org...

/join #channel (or have it set up to auto-join a named channels)

bla bla bla

/part (or simply just (Q)uit from the menu)

If you did not (Q)uit from the menu yet, either do it or

/quit

If you preset some autoconnects and autojoins, there is no need to know any of the commands.
It’s helpful to see the age profile for mortality. If you are under 50 it’s not a big concern IMO, but older folk should definitively take serious precautions. Here is the profile for COVID-19:

https://www.statista.com/chart/20860/coronavirus-fatality-ra...
Several years ago the phrase "post-modern neo-marxist" became prominent. Not being familiar with post-modernism, I started reading some of the philosophers who got lumped into this category. Of these, Rorty was the one I found myself most sympathetic to. His writing is quite accessible and understandable to an intelligent reader. His book, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is probably the best one to start with. Achieving Our Country is also interesting, but more political.
Some cursory search shows papers published by Julie E. M. McGeoch on related topics over the last 30 years, many of which are also co-authored by Malcom McGeoch of Plex Corporation, who I assume is of some relation (significant other or relative). I admittedly don't know a ton about academic publishing, but from my outside position, it seems unlikely that this report is fraudulently attributed—though it's certainly possible that I'm missing something.
Yeah, Linear is a great tool and has an amazing UX, though as you correctly noticed they are building standalone issue tracking tool while we're building an app that sits on top of other web apps allowing you to use them without going to a browser.
Wow, I like it.
Also maybe this [1] gives you some new ideas

And I'm thinking of a data modeler [2] in this way too

[1] https://animation-nodes-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user...

[2] https://github.com/IfcXtreme/IfcXtreme/issues/2#issuecomment...
People seem to think they're really clever when they point this out for some reason. But it's really obvious that a endemic globally spread virus has killed more than a brand new that has barely spread at all yet.
And if we don't take immediate action against the Coronavirus threat, it will kill more than the flu, given it is an order of magnitude more dangerous and just as infectious.
No, I don't think it's pedantic and impractical. There are many use cases where the possibility of adversarial input makes heuristics a non-starter.
This is not helpful these days.

The novel coronavirus, spreading uncontained is able to infect 40-60% of the worlds population according to some calculations, killing mostly the weak and the elderly at a rate 10x above the influencas rates.

Downvoting is also not helpful.
> its arcane prehistoric appearance

IRC is a protocol, it doesn't have an appearance. And IRC clients can have very "modern" looks. See for example: https://www.irccloud.com/ or https://quasseldroid.info/

> Matrix is the best alternative for a truly free, open-source

While Matrix is certainly more free and open source than the other ones, Matrix clients depend on a non-free bit to work properly, and they don't plan on fixing that: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/7757
Moviefone I understand, Fandango less so. The iOS app for example has almost 2M ratings.
Molecule found in oranges could reduce obesity and prevent heart disease
I'm not sure whether the author of the article is playing on words or not, but in many parts of the world 'your pink bits' is a fairly common euphemism.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink%20bits
The real challenge is to build a reliable reviews mechanism, then resist the temptation to sell it to media companies.

IMDB moved from a respectable site to a parody of itself for that exact reason: they didn't resist and today their reviews are complete garbage. They got to the point of removing the comments section altogether when users found how to spot fake accounts that were created just to give bogus ratings.
I haven't heard about heat before, but generally for the flu high (50%) humidity is very helpful.
Introduction to SerenityOS Programming
California's rules for independent party voters is another form of suppression
I faced many of the same issues while working on a side-project (decksaver.ashishb.net) and eventually went for OCR approach to extract text.
hm, this may be stale info - we've worked loads on moderation recently: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation/ etc. If there's stuff missing for your use cases please let us know (perhaps to security@matrix.org)
“Hello! And welcome to Moviefone! If you know the name of the movie you’d like to see, press 1..”

I still remember that.
Give Your Toggles a Nice Look – MoreToggles.css
Almost every successful discovery ever was an example of us "inventing things that should exist". The Higgs boson, the W boson, the Z boson, the top quark, the bottom quark, the tau, each of the three neutrinos, the light quarks, the gluons...

You can never do anything without tentatively assuming something and computing the consequences. That opens the possibility that you may be wrong. That's not a condemnation of science, that's fundamental to how science works.
Scientists shed new light on neural processes behind our desire for revenge
Truly beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Kind of reminds me of the following bit where deadmau5 talks about reverb and compression to create a sound that goes beyond what the oscillators generate. He plays a tune without, it illustrates a similar effect. (warning: lots of cussing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYr6nlqV3oA&feature=youtu.be...
Gtkmm was using libsigc++ when I started working on Ardour in late 1999. No C++14 required.
It's strange that ls has grown to 58 options, but still can't output \0-terminated filenames:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/112125/is-there-a-r...

As an exercise, try to sort a directory by size or date, and pass the result to xargs, while supporting any valid filename. I eventually just gave up and made my script ignore any filenames containing \n.
Now I just ask Siri. Works great for me.
Thank you for that. For the first time I finally understood what the Apache Arrow is - until today, I didn't realize it's just a way to do SoA in different languages + a lot of buzzwords.
I used to love it when my parents called moviefone when we were headed out on a family outing. Now we book seats through an app that lets us watch trailers and pick the best seats available for any new release - very cool - but I do miss some aspect of moviefone and the even older method of looking in the local newspaper to see the movie times.
You don't think it would be interesting to discover non-Earth proteins within our solar system? At the very least, this finding would be a pretty good indicator that proteins occur naturally outside of our solar system as well.
A panspermia theory that involved non-living chemicals coming to Earth would be pretty useless. There's no real doubt that it's possible to generate those chemicals on Earth, and AFAIK it's still believed to be easier to make them on Earth than in space. Organic chemicals from space would just mix with all the ones that were already here.
I see. Very interesting perspective and facts - thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences. This is exactly the kind of difference in comment quality and details that make HN a much more preferred venue for knowledge sharing than Quora for me (despite myself have been quite active there a while ago - <rant> I feel that, since then, Quora platform's content quality has significantly deteriorated </rant>).
Google uses Clang to build the kernel for Android.
Not trying to go off on a tangent but I feel like every time I see the term post-modernism ... I have no idea what it means either. Then I start googling around and it seems like it is a bucket that everything gets dumped into or almost used like a buzzword at times.

Once I hit something that describes post-modernism and seems fairly thoughtful and authoritative ... I don't understand it.
Apple is rejecting Coronavirus apps from the App Store
It's a feature, not a bug. ObservableHQ notebooks are reactive - there's a DAG underneath. It's not a Jupyter-style execution log.
> While Matrix is certainly more free and open source than the other ones, Matrix clients depend on a non-free bit to work properly

This is FUD.

a) Integration Managers are optional, and in no way required to "work properly".

b) There's a great FOSS integration manager over at https://dimension.t2bot.io/ if you don't want to use the default one.
This isn’t an isolated case – I made a corona virus tracker over the weekend, and was rejected for the same reason as in the thread.
> Or just VESA and Windows' optimized 2D libraries. GDI is a good example.

From what I remember of GDI (and admittedly it's been a while since I've done graphics development on Windows) GDI wasn't designed for real time animations. It was more designed for static (or at least semi-static) scenes like image editing. Real time transformations is a whole different ball game.

Either way, GDI certainly wasn't optimised. If you wanted optimised then you'd have used DirectDraw (which doesn't exist now but back then it was a thing).

> Most 2D FXs don't require a hard computation.

But we're not talking about "fx" as you keep calling it, we're talking about real time transformations interacting with multiple different canvases (to borrow a term from web development). Wobbly windows is a whole different ball game to transparent forms. Then you need to factor in that those transformations need to happen without slowing desktop performance.

Windows 9x used to do really basic "animations" which required no transformation effects and even that used to get turned off by a great many people on modest hardware because of the impact it had on performance.

You're just not being realistic about either the transformation effects in question (repeatedly moving the goal posts to basic translucency on stationary forms) nor the hardware of the era in question.

> Seriously, Enlightenment did those in software.

Enlightenment is a seriously cool piece of engineering but it didn't do compositing until E16. And it wasn't even the early versions of E16 either. So we're not talking late 90s / early 00s there either.

Also did Enlightenment really do that in software or are you just assuming it did?

> You underestimate what could've done in software in the 90's, especially when memory protection under w9x was nil and everything was much more low level.

Graphics development was not more low level. The opposite was actually the problem: Windows APIs lacked direct hardware access the early part of the 9x life time. In fact literally the entire point of GDI was to offer an approximation of what could be done with direct hardware access but without giving Windows developers low level APIs. The obvious side-effect of that is a massive performance hit. There was a reason DirectDraw was so sorely needed and a reason why a great many games developers still favoured DOS for the early part of 9x's life.

> Windows 98 could do these with 3rd party software.

But it didn't do real time transformation effects and that 3rd party software often ran like a sack of shit on peoples systems. Usually the people you saw who ran it well were gamers on high end systems.

> Debian Woody was almost like late 90's for obvious reasons.

No it wasn't. It was released in 2002[1]. The testing repo for woody wasn't even created until mid December 2000[2] (so basically 2001).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Debian_...

[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-detail...
Show HN: Jobs for Voice
Show HN: Simple NaCL/libsodium-based TLS replacement
Actually, there was an (incredibly unauthorized) service held in 1919 during the Allied occupation of the city:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/09/26/the-brave-greek-...
Do you maybe know, when frames rendered by GPU 1 (e.g. fast GPU) need to be sent to GPU 2 (e.g. slow GPU doing the compositing and outputting to the monitor), how does the data actually get transferred? I can imagine the following possibilities:

1) GPU 1 writes to CPU RAM, GPU 2 reads from CPU RAM

2) GPU 1 writes to GPU 2 RAM via PCI Express (DMA between devices)

3) GPU 2 reads from GPU 1 RAM via PCI Express (DMA between devices)
It's a great example because of a totally stupid name, a really important concept isn't being adequately explained or understood.

Meaningless garbage like "Black Swan" is spouted all the time and sets people back, just because it's a cool name with a cool story

Yet Wicked problems are our most important issues at Micro and Macro levels, you will have this problem, but people can't tackle them properly because we haven't abstracted the framework in a cool way.

I also think the definition needs to be tightened. But I honestly think no one wants to work in a meta field called 'Wicked problems'

I wonder if in other languages this is tackled better?
This encryption protocol is meant as a simpler replacement for TLS in the context of the `gemini://` protocol (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/), a newer `gopher://` alternative, which basically provides a simpler HTTP `GET`-only alternative.

Simpler means both "simpler to implement" (only having `libsodium` as a dependency) and "simpler to comprehend". (However it can be used for any other message-based protocol, not strictly request-reply.)

I'm submitting it here in the hope that anyone with a strong cryptographic background can provide some insight into any weaknesses or improvements. (Or alternatively pointers where I could ask this question.)

Please note that I have limited cryptography experience, but I am well aware that "rolling your own crypto" is an extremely stupid idea. However I didn't "invent" any new cryptographic primitives, but instead relied heavily on what `libsodium` provides. Moreover I've looked at both the Noise protocol and CurveCP and I think I got 25% of their internal workings and properties. :)

I think the best solution would have been Noise_XX, however implementing the full protocol is quite involving, thus it doesn't check the "simpler to implement" (and neither "simpler to comprehend") checkbox.

There is also a Python-based proof-of-concept that implements the above protocol:

* https://github.com/cipriancraciun/gemini-experiments/blob/ma...

* https://github.com/cipriancraciun/gemini-experiments/blob/ma...

Thanks,
Ciprian.
I always use -v because every so often I find a tarball that was taken from inside of the working directory instead of outside. Of course these days it's not humanly possible to ctrl-c it before it extracts thousands of files and makes cleanup a chore but at least you won't be confused as to what happened when you attempt to cd into the directory later. For that matter knowing what directory to cd into is also a good reason to use -v.

Note: If none of your files were clobbered and there are no spaces in the filenames to worry about you can do:

tar -tf [tarball] | xargs rm -d

Run it repeatedly if you also want to remove the directories.
Can you explain more about your setup?

What if you're in a different workspace? Does the floating hidden emacs window follow you across workspaces?
Sorry about that, I thought we addressed mobile actually. What was broken specifically?
> You consider something you use mature.

From Wikipedia:

IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988

A major, hugely successful product, that is in the market for 32 years, and has seen many implementations, both on client as well as on server side, must be "mature". No?!
Spotting Generated Images Just Got Much Easier
This is just so hilariously absurd. Transit ticketing is a solved problem. You don't need fuzzy gait recognition when a $2 NFC card works 100% of the time.
While we can assume that our galaxy is made out of matter the same cannot be said about galaxies further away.

If matter and antimatter split into clusters it’s possible that some galactic clusters formed out of anti matter and some out of matter.

This for a time was the prevailing theory however for the most part we assume now that the universe is indeed made out of matter because we do not see annihilation events throughout the observable timeline of the observable universe.

Also if matter and antimatter are still at 1:1 ratios one would expect to detect annihilation events across the galactic void since space between galaxies isn’t completely empty and the current temperatures are too cold for annihilation to occur at any rate that would indicate that symmetry wasn’t broken during the early universe.
... and is much more difficult to extract text from than PDF, given that it's turing complete (hello halting problem) and doesn't even restrict your output to a particular bounding box.
All Super Tuesday election results on one page
> For one thing, it's so secure that things like menus can't show outside window borders

This isn't true.