skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like they were familiar with the Theory of Moral Sentiments^. This work lays out the foundation of the Wealth of Nations and lays out an explanation of The Invisible Hand. From the Section 'Sixth Sense':

"Hutcheson had abandoned the psychological view of moral philosophy, claiming that motives were too fickle to be used as a basis for a philosophical system. Instead, he hypothesised a dedicated "sixth sense" to explain morality. This idea, to be taken up by David Hume (see Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature), claimed that man is pleased by utility. "

I think this is one of the first places to move away from a labor theory of value to a utility theory of value. I'm a dummy though so who knows.

Edit: Publication on or before 12 April 1759 should have had plenty of time to be read and discussed before the Contract Clause?*

^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments
> The cordon sanitaire around Wuhan and neighboring municipalities imposed since 23 January 2020 has effectively prevented further exportation of infected individuals to the rest of the country.

This makes multiple observations to that end. What you consider "extreme" is a matter of how much you want to troll the topic.
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
I can't wait for the SP500 to replace the Dow in news reporting.
First, they've stated that the tickets are non-refundable. If they're still hosting the event and allowing people to attend, your reason for not attending is immaterial.

Second, yes, some of that money is gone. It's likely paid to people for services either already rendered or promised.

That's kind of the hitch here. The attendees cannot go after the venue for the money. The venue acquired the money legitimately from the organizer in a completely separate transaction.

The organizer is the focal point. And if they don't have the money to pay people back, it's not like they can will it into existence. And even if law firms get involved, what's the outcome here? "Yes, they owe money."

Cool. It still doesn't exist.
Hey! Omar here, co-founder of Flowdash. Thanks for playing devil's advocate, and for so many great questions -- I'll try to take a stab at it, and curious to hear your perspective on it as well.

> but is that really the real added value of your solution for a customer?

It's two-fold: 1/ On the engineering side, there's immediate value in freeing up time that can be used elsewhere. Also, because we've built a lot of the features operations teams would need as they scale (e.g. task assignment, analytics, common integrations), we expect a lot less "feature requests" to make their way back to engineering. 2/ Operators are arguably benefitting even more from Flowdash, as they're able to update how they work on their own. Many operators we've chatted with expressed frustrations from being unable to change their workflow, or having to wait 6+ months for engineering to make simple updates to their tools.

> how do you convince these type of customers to migrate?

Short answer is, it depends. If the current process works well, has no pain points, and requires no new features for the foreseeable future -- why change? However, if business is evolving (or team is growing), that's where the maintenance cost of these tools starts to grow quickly. Companies may find themselves building basic task assignment at first. Then, some sort of audit log for debugging issues. Before you know, you need notes for team collaboration. The team grows a bit more and you have to build analytics, and so on... Our goal is to partner with companies throughout their growth with the features they'll need to keep the business running efficiently.

> your solution doesn't really help the operators (=humans) to resolve the problem faster

In the demo video, it's not immediately clear how we help operators resolve their problem faster as the API simply talks back to the core application. However, actions can be setup to automate many of the more mundane tasks that operators have to do (e.g. sending email, triggering alerts, generate documents).

> so called "alarm/alert fatigue", how does your solution helps companies do more with less?

Alert fatigue is real, I'm glad you brought that up. I know it's cliché to say we're the one tool that hopes to bring all the others in a single place... but that's what we're trying to do. For operators, "Work" can originate from many places such as email, slack alerts, another person in the organisation, and so on. Keeping track of all those places makes it hard to be efficient, and also causes things to fall through the cracks. By making it easy to push data into Flowdash from various sources, we want to become the single place where operators have to work from. There's a lot of work to get to that ideal, but that's the vision :)
Accident risk has been shown to decrease by the same amount when the time switches in the fall. It's a wash.
On a Windows 2-in-1 it works more like a mouse with pressure sensitivity. It maintains its separate pointer (which is only shown when the pen is near the screen), so apps that aren't designed around a pen just behave as if you worked with a regular mouse.
Exactly #1. From what I've seen, in a best case scenario we have 30k extra ventilators. Reportedly, 6% of cases require ventilation. Some quick math shows that only .16% of the population needs to be infected at the same time for our ventilator supply to runs out.
The 20% figure is not an imperfect estimate of the true hospitalisation rate. As far as I know the study didn't even attempt to estimate the true number of infections or (by implication) the true hospitalisation rate.
Who knows if they overpaid? Perhaps they made a profit on it even though it's now worthless. Carriage makers, haberdashers and mechanical accounting machine manufacturers had good profitable businesses at their appropriate times, even if now such businesses are marginal and specialized, to the extent they even exist (not the last one, certainly)
> This one is interesting, again, will just get more expensive with time, but that one I never seen any project that allow to buy carbon credit for theses kinds of projects.

And yet Gold Standard reports renewable energy projects are a high share of their pipeline: https://www.goldstandard.org/sites/default/files/documents/m...

> Where can I offset my CO2 emission that way?

That's still at an experimental stage AFAIK (like most CCS technology), so unfortunately not yet available for such purposes.

> I don't care about investing in a solution that has no future. If what I pay for it means that it will just make the next ton more expensive, when it's already hard to make people pay for it already, I'm not for that solution.

A more optimistic way to look at it is as such: if we commit to offsetting our emissions by buying carbon credits, rising prices will pressure us towards reducing our emissions.

That's where we want to be headed, because there is NO future where emissions remain high and are totally offset.

I would encourage you to rethink your approach as follows: invest in the transition, not in the destination.

> Sure that one is 100x more expensive, but the cost can only go down with scale, and if it doesn't, well it will just push other technological solution to be developed because it's a proof there's money in sustainable solutions.

What makes you so sure that ClimeWork's solution can scale better? Their solution requires huge energy expenditures, and its not like we have a lot of geologically favourable sites for their solution.

If you want long-term innovation, why not fund general CCS research instead? It's much more likely to yield impactful and well-thought solutions.
I'm not sure how you'd implement scales, color theory, etc.. in React (a rendering library). There are a lot of useful parts of d3 which have nothing to do with rendering to the DOM. In fact, React and D3 complement each other quite well (maybe that is what you were saying?).

D3 is slightly more verbose than the one liners, but with that I get complete control over the scales and appearance of my chart. In addition it's trivial to combine multiple charts in a single diagram.
I have family members that work in a few different hospitals in the US. Co-workers in the hospitals are mostly all saying the same thing: Covid isn't so bad, look at how many people influenza kills every year.

This is the intellectual equivalent of: "I have nothing to hide," in the privacy debate. It's a form of bargaining, passive resignation, comforting one's self, hiding from reality, diverting mental attention. It's understandable of course.

The problem with the premise is obvious: if we get as many Covid cases as influenza cases, it's going to kill half a million grandparents in the US, at a minimum. I say grandparents, because it overwhelmingly hits people over 60 the hardest (so far) and because these people are important pillars of families and communities, and not just old people (often portrayed that way, played down in criticality, when discussing mortality rates; usually contrasted with: at least it's sparing the young). A half million dead grandparents, or more, in a single year will be extremely traumatizing to the nation. Drastically beyond the damage that influenza does annually.

Covid also appears to hammer weaker health systems (for all the various reasons that have been discussed on HN on numerous occasions), as we're seeing in Iran right now. So 3/4 of nations are very at risk. And that risk also poses a persistent reinfection scenario, where the virus doesn't get snuffed out and keeps going around and coming around (see: China's recent concerns about importing the virus by way of citizens returning home with it). To say nothing of mutation risk, where it hits even harder in a second wave.
>In fact, a Muslim was /is the referee to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The Catholic Church has partial jurisdiction and would also be subject to any referee-ing.
Compile C to WASI in the browser (no server) - WebAssembly.sh
Anything that's shown in main settings has to be QA'd and officially supported, often at a commercial level.

Anything hidden in Tweaks or about:config like settings can be classed as "here be dragons".

That's one reason GNOME has less settings (not the main one). Less Settings = less to test, less to support.
Good stuff, thanks for the kind words. If you are trying the lib, probably best to use it straight from GitHub. I got a bit sloppy about releasing it to NPM and have been using GitHub versions everywhere.

It's interesting to think about how to make BOM parsing a more universal solution. Some things I do for Kitspace definitely don't scale. Embedding a lot of header aliases into npm-1-click-bom is one of them.

Anyway, sorry to make this so much about me and my work. Great to see new platforms in this space. I am definitely going to follow along, try it out some more and see where it goes even if we don't manage to work together, but let's try and keep in touch.
Is this for Mozilla users or Mozilla developers?

From what little I've tried, Mozilla has way bigger issues with making their projects accessible to new developers than which chat system they use.
Discover and apply for all jobs in the Voice User Interface space.

If Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri or Samsung Bixby are your thing, then this site is for you.
According to https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html Clickhouse has better performance than 3 of those (the other 2 haven't been tested in that benchmark)
Ample reason to believe it's more infectious than flu, I think.
One thing I'd like to see is a light-pollution map of the US overlaid with a map of all US federal land. To answer the question: what's the brightest thing the federal government is doing?
> 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.

This is still a great thing.
Google I/O 2020 Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears
I tend to think that the things we do during childhood take on a happy nostalgic glow. Perhaps your parents feel the same way but substituting looking up movies in the paper for "moviefone" and "moviefone" for the app. Your children, in turn, will fondly recall the time when they used an app as opposed to having their movies arranged automatically by their AI assistant, but just like you continue to use the app, they will continue to use the assistant.
Never changing it would only result in gradual changes of sleep pattern.
Whilst backend implementations are going to be different per-compositor, they're exposed as freedesktop apis so tools shouldn't need to be adjusted for each one.
That idea is not true and in fact is extremely dangerous thinking. One example is HIV. It isn't a matter of having it or not having it, the viral load makes a big difference as to what symptoms someone may exhibit as well as how likely they are to infect someone else. If your viral load is low enough then the chances of infecting other people can get low enough to be considered non-existant. On the other hand if you expose yourself to more sources of HIV, it could increase your viral load and increase symptoms and complications associated with the virus.
At this point... I think we only have Susie Lu (Netflix)'s annotator, but good chance of it being removed. For example, we had to do our own timeline to get decently fast zoom rebinning on modern screen widths that we abandoned a JS widget here, and histograms ended up being so custom that we'd get little from a library.

The shortlist for GIS is DecKGL. Graphistry gets a lot of requests here, so we helped the DeckGL folks on some Arrow/GPU stuff and we had promising experiments as part of it, but (if I remember right) we hit memory issues and something else. We'll be evaluating that for GIS next time it makes sense.

+1 to others on HighCharts team!
> our most successful solution was to run OCR on these pages.

That's the most interesting point in the article.

Reminds me of how a friend managed to fix bugs in an assembly source file written in the original programmer's very own undocumented special language implemented in the assembler's macro language. He disassembled the resulting object file, fixed the problems, and checked in the disassembly as the new source code.
Clickhouse Local is great also for importing into your Clickhouse Server, where you can validate and preprocess CSVs into Clickhouse's native table format.
What's wrong with HTML?
Show HN: An Online Intel 8080 Disassembler
It's only a cop-out if you try to use it to explain the origin of life in general, not just on Earth.

Life arose very quickly on Earth, almost as soon as it was capable of surviving, so it raises the interesting question: were we just lucky, or is it easy to spawn life, or did it come from elsewhere? The answer creates very different pictures for what Earth-like planets elsewhere in the galaxy actually look like.
Profitability of Large Pharma. Comp. Compared with Other Large Public Companies
I wrote a disassembler in javascript for Intel 8080 CPU binaries as read on emulator101.com and turned it into an Angular app. You can click on (i) in the upper left to download some (self-hosted) sample binaries to try it out if you don't have any on hand.
just mix with all the ones that were already
In Canada, folks have always been able to e-file tax returns

For various values of "always"
When people affiliated with an institution habitually lie to you (I’ve tried carefully critically analyzing Cato publications several times before, and every time came away extremely disappointed), it makes sense to at least be very skeptical of their arguments and independently validate all of their evidence.

Personally I would just rather skip reading them in the first place and focus on sources whose intellectual integrity I have some faith in. I have found it saves time and mental energy with little downside.

But feel free to read what you like.
I wonder if this predicts any better than a generic IQ test?

The idea behind IQ is that lots of different cognitive tasks are correlated.
> You seem to underestimate how heavily ClickHouse is optimized (e.g. compressed storage).

Is it any more compressed than Apache Hive's ORC format (https://orc.apache.org)? Because that's increasingly accepted as a storage format in a lot of these analytical systems.
This is a very good comment.
Thank you for asking, I reflected more than I had on it.
I agree with you fully.
I'm going to get in context on the thread now, but, basically, I want to get the most of this semester's classes, and share useful notes with my colleagues
Related from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22237145
I don’t think any sizeable company without a competent CTO and/or CIO will actually survive in the future.
There was no internet component to moviefone back then. I think you are narrowly defining "dotcom". It was acquired by AOL, which made it a subsidiary of a "dotcom" which entangled it in the overall dotcom bubble. I think that is fair association. You may disagree, but it's hard to argue that Moviefone did not benefit from the "rampant speculation" of the late 90s.

Another argument one can make is that it is listed as a "Film database" here. So there is definitely a tech component.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL

And finally, it was turned into a site as well (though I couldn't find a hard date for when that occurred).
https://www.moviefone.com/
Some of it is burning off natural gas in oil-producing regions.
> The thing is that it is not significant news, except perhaps to FreeBSD base developers

I think it's significant news, and I have no connection to FreeBSD. It's a significant milestone for Clang, which makes it significant news to C programmers.

> It's not some sort of war.

Well, these compilers are competing with each other. It's a bit like the browser war, such as it is. If there were a respectable BSD-licensed browser, I'm sure the various FreeBSD-on-desktop distros would favour it.

> It's not even much of a change, considering that the actual concrete change, switching compilers, happened a while ago.

As a nail in the coffin moment I'd say it's still significant.
DuckDB perhaps[1]: https://www.duckdb.org

[1] I say "perhaps" because I've only just started using it having migrated from MonetDB, but have no experience of alternatives like Presto.
I was looking at light pollution maps just the other day, trying to find places to do astro-photography, and was blown away by how much light pollution there is. Really sucks, because I'd have to drive about 90 minutes out to get into a dark zone.
Interesting, I was recently looking for an alternative to the recently abandoned PirateBox.
I didn't say it's not. I just commented on the way the tech was compared. OP said that "as someone who gets it", they "consider" it mature.
They used the article's HTML doc title, which is a reasonable choice for an HN submission, and often more accurate and less baity than the title on the page itself.
Yeah, gee! Great idea, if all your private thoughts are just so squeaky clean.

If you carry even the slightest amount of negativity in your heart, do not ever put pen to paper in a way that seems to reveal your inner self.

Kind advice from a person who has experienced at least one horrendous debacle from a regrettably misplaced notebook.

Also, my parent's 25+ year marriage was undone by a similarly stunning incident. A dropped love note in the driveway, not a diary.
> Why would you bother using a database like clickhouse to store data if you're just going to analyze it in pandas?

Because I have more data than what fits locally, there’s a data pipeline that pushes more in, and I only need to work on a subset.

Storing everything in flat csv/parquet etc is useless when there’s more than fits on your local/single machine memory or if you want to search/subset etc some of the data or do anything that’s larger than memory without having to write spill-to-disk stuff in Python/pandas.
The bureaucracy expanded to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Overzealous mods?
We want to open it up as soon as possible. The main reason behind the private beta is that integrations such as Jira are fairly complex due to different setups and a lot of customisation so currently we're in the process of "onboard new company -> fix bugs -> try again" and so on. It's getting better on each iteration and as soon it reaches certain level of stability on the integrations side, we're going too open it up to everyone.
I've never bothered using them, but in the US everytime I see a movie a Fandago ad gets played, usually for some asian-focused theatrical event
South by Southwest to go ahead despite coronavirus concerns
Subcontracting.

I mean, I half-expect all the interesting projects to be contracted out.
This article simultaneously claims that advertising is not effective enough to subtly manipulate how millions of people think about a candidate but that an advertising company is effective enough to manipulate how people think about it. Dubious claims at best.
I'm really happy this topic is surfancing on HN as I've made it my mission to build experiments to try to tackle social wicked problems.

Dinnertable Chat is an online chatroulette-style conference matchmaking system based on mixing people based on same and different viewpoints. The same idea could be used to mix people on any category (by skill, field, etc): https://www.dinnertable.chat/about

The Mix Opinions service matches people in physical spaces by dividing people up into groups, such that each group has maximized viewpoint diversity of each of the members. I could also adapt this to be applied to online conferencing and maximize on both diversity as well as interests (based on weights). https://www.mixopinions.com/

Some of the philosophy of why I was focusing on 'mixed viewpoint' conference software:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q5KWhxhBMLWSvrYoEoWP...
Within philosophy you can think of it as the "rejection of meta-narratives." While modernism (developed during the industrial revolution) puts a lot of weight into science and truth, post-modernism seeks to challenge these assumptions through critical analysis of language, power structures, etc.
Ways to Organize Books at Home, According to a Librarian
My vague understanding is that it implies there are no absolutes and everything is relative. IMHO it's mostly bullshit.
Data Science applications expand to fill the available labor pool, I guess.
Post YC Depression
I flew through the night to Singapore once. I remember two very striking light sources.

Firstly, oil well flares in the Middle East. The oil fields are in the middle of nowhere, so they're these huge orange-red blooms set in utter darkness.

Secondly, Delhi. The city is brightly lit with streetlights. But there's a suburb (?) to the south, Faridabad, that's as brightly lit, but with a different, whiter, kind of lights. So you had these two huge blotches of yellow and blue light projecting into each other. There are also some extremely bright areas to the south of the city - after some investigation, I decided they were probably rock-crushing plants.
Presumably we're talking, here, about relying on GCC as part of the build-process of a package or script you're trying to deploy to this system.

If you don't have execute permissions, then, well, you're not going to be "installing" any software in any practical sense—you might be able to compile sources or copy files around, but you can't make the resulting binaries executable. Nor are you going to be doing much software development, for the same reason.

So why, at that point, would you need a compiler to exist on the box? It'd be like having GCC in a busybox installation.
I'm always confused by that. So there's only one form of life possible? Otherwise life may have arisen before, been wiped out when Earth changed, and life arose again. We may be just the latest in a long series of life forms.
Could be. Either way, I get the same feeling of paternalistic calming that's coming from most mass media.

Not something I would expect here. Let the information flow.

Generally, the people here seem resourceful. More information leads to better decisions.