skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following YugabyteDB ( https://www.yugabyte.com/ ) with interest for similar reasons. It's build on postgresql so it supports more features than CockroachDB. They just forked PG on top of their clustered document store. And the newest version (2.1) is production ready (their words).

Just haven't had the reason to dive in yet, but seems good. Their PR department just isn't as good as CockroachDBs one.
Google reveals travel habits during the pandemic
If you want to read more check out this post https://www.zapread.com/Post/Detail/6204/space-retro-gaming/
(That's where I stole the link.)
True polar wander sounds like one of the most terrifying natural disasters I could imagine.
dude.... this is insane
I love the idea of prototypes, and self, but I always use classes. There's this idea of the self prototyping environment you can extend, which is great for prototyping (perhaps), but when it comes to professional programming we want a program to deploy and no one really touches the internal structure, so classes and deployment win out. The same for smalltalk, you don't want to deploy an environment that your users can extend - except perhaps in research environments.

The other thing I suppose is multi developer environments - classes and compilation win out over prototyping because they're easier to split up. There might be other reasons, but that's why I always come back to class based programming, the idea of prototypes is very enticing though.

Edit: though I have started to use a pseudo prototyping environment - breakpoints and evaluate when things get complex, though its not the same.
But what about the microphone?
What? I moved from Android to iPhone during iPhone 7 and it didn't take more than 10mins to "get used to it".

No, I can't ssh into my phone now, but whatever?
Yahoo uses PostgreSQL. I think that's pretty high-end requirements an debunks the myth of "commercial software is better for high end requirements".
mrmime is really cool - parsing a mail is extremely hard to get right.
PHP 8's release schedule is now available
I agree that usually one uses a higher level API, but I've worked on commercial apps that use Metal both for graphics and compute. The code is not so unweildy as is suggested here. An old triangle test app I have here shows only about 100 lines of graphics code.
Why? Google has enough power to fuck with your life and no oversight whatsoever.
For example, Cuphead at 3.3GB is 1/4 the size on Switch as it is on Xbox One. Another is Doom 2016, which, while obviously having lower fidelity visuals, is 13.2GB on Switch and 77GB on PC.
"In the age old argument about the imperitive vs. the declarative5 programming models, it occurs to me that declarative programming is just imperative programming in a thin disguise. Each declarative token in a database query language ultimately maps to one or several algorithms which apply the declaration in imperitive terms"

Oh, profound, profound!

It occurs to me the author's a n00b.

Anyway, I do MSSQL. Until recently CTEs in PG were an optimisation fence. That would have slaughtered performance for my work. Not that I'm knocking PG, 'best' depends upon the problem.
I don’t have an easy (non-destructive) fix for that one and I actually do voice chats with my laptop. I’d feel better about a real hardware switch for both or a separate device. Sadly that doesn’t seem to be an option.
Fact check: The Wheel Bug is not an “electrical insect” as reported under the linked article. Rather, it’s painful venomous bite is often described as feeling like an electric shock. Don’t believe everything you read in Science!
MI6 WWII workers in rare footage
Bitcoin price bursts up through $7k in $300 surge
Great writing.
To be fair, "the web" means "what Chrome does" nowadays to a lot of people. Even if it wasn't Firefox's fault but rather some web standard that Firefox adhered to, Firefox will be blamed for not being bug-for-bug compatible with Chrome.
Ah, yeah I see now.
"in 1 minute, find 2 people at the party who have not been told this message yet"

What if they are not able to do so?

Let's suppose the party has 1 million people, and you start in the center.

At first it's easy to find 2 people. As the instructions spreads out, it gets harder and harder, because the number of new people you can reach within a minute goes from quadratic towards linear.

"there will be 2^N people who have heard this message"

Big-O complexity assumes an upper bound exists in the amount of compute power available. If the number of processors can grow exponentially to limitless size, then it's outside of the usual N vs. NP - many problems are linear if an unbounded amount of CPU power is available which can scale exponentially.
Can someone point me to greatest hits on the ACM?
Because of lockdowns? I find some comic relief in concurrent studies on "Corona and Lyme".
Your phone company and credit card companies have had access to this data for longer than Google has.
I hope this post is written in an ironic tone. If I was this guy I would reject that money out of pride.
I think that spike is just the two normal days between 22nd's curfew and 25's lockdown
ELF launcher for encrypted binaries decrypted on-the-fly and executed in memory
It uses ecloud for the portal, defaults to the provider DNS (but you can change that), and treats any behind-the-scenes contact with Google (and others) as a bug to be fixed.

I don't think the support range is misleading at all, looking at the device lists, whatever versions are involved. It's support the same as for any free software OS, with maintenance and frequent OTA updates, not random XDA downloads. I don't know if the company provides commercial support. I'm not a developer, so I can't comment on the degree to which they care about security other than it relates to privacy, and the firmware quotes a recent Android security level.

Of course, /e/ is built on LineageOS, and obviously indebted to it. (I was disappointed to find it hadn't been contributing back changes.)
Tell HN: Launch HN Test
This is dang testing something. Please carry on.

Edit: bah! you guys upvoted it and ruined my test. I think I can cancel that out.

Edit 2: I've changed the title from "Launch HN: Test" so that this thread doesn't appear on https://news.ycombinator.com/show, where it didn't belong.
Terrifying how much data they actually have.
The article states:

> Various non-Western practices have become popular complements to conventional medicine in the past few decades, chief among them yoga, meditation, and acupuncture, all of which have been the subject of rigorous scientific studies that have established and explained their effectiveness.

This is wrong as far as acupuncture is concerned. Wikipedia states:

Acupuncture has been researched extensively; as of 2013, there were almost 1,500 randomized controlled trials on PubMed with "acupuncture" in the title. The results of reviews of acupuncture's efficacy, however, have been inconclusive.

... and also ...:

A 2014 review in Nature Reviews Cancer found that "contrary to the claimed mechanism of redirecting the flow of qi through meridians, researchers usually find that it generally does not matter where the needles are inserted, how often (that is, no dose-response effect is observed), or even if needles are actually inserted.
I agree. In case of covid-19 the scientific consensus was quickly reached and clear enough for world to respond accordingly.
I suppose you didn't enjoy 2002-2004 when almost all phones were like that
Jeep is actually enforcing this! In the game hill climb racer 2 there were two vehicles, "Jeep" and "Super Jeep". They had to change the names of the vehicles in the game... (To "Hill Climber").
19 was "The Art of Computer Programming", by Knuth.

I owned a copy of this, but I only used it as a reference once or twice. Sadly it didn't survive my emigration.

I don't think I've ever met anybody who has read the whole thing, and if somebody told me they had I'd assume they were lying.
That's a really cool program that it allows nominating someone from outside the company. Very nice!

Congratulations to Daniel Stenberg and good show for Gaspar Chilingarov to nominating him.
I was under the distinct understanding that on modern macbooks it was hardwired in. If the camera receives power, then the light is on. If the camera doesn't have power then the light is off.

edit: seems I'm wrong from googling
The Amish are more opposed to greed than technology. The two often go hand in hand but not always - individual congregations decide for themselves.
A tale as old as time. From the H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan (1878):

I grew so rich that I was sent
by pocketborough into parliament.
I always voted at my party's call,
and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

I thought so little, they rewarded me
by making me the ruler of the Queen's Navy!

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,
if you want to rise to the top of the tree,
if your soul isn't fettered to an office stool,
be careful to be guided by this golden rule:

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,
and you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navy!
Good suggestion, but the software doesn't hide child comments of dead comments, even for users who don't have showdead.
Until the feature stakeholders see it and say you completely missed the point of the required features and you have to re-do your work.
Negotiator: Golang library for HTTP content negotiation
True enough.

I don't really care about what people believe in, but what I do care about (and don't like about pseudoscience practices) is:

- the dilution/dismissal of scientific discourse

- the real world consequences

The discourse is schematically as follows:

- (scientist) "Foo" is true within 5 sigmas under this overwhelmingly frequent hypothesis.

- (pseudoscientist) So this is not 100%, so this may be wrong and there's room for any other explanation! Also, Newton was wrong! So scientists can be wrong, ergo you're probably wrong too! Even Einstein is probably wrong, scientists are not sure! Ergo your scientific argument (and preemptively any other) argument is dismissed! Since you can't prove me wrong I may just as well be right! Science is a cult! Maths are not real! Mathematical logic doesn't apply to the real world! Contraposition is loads of poppycock therefore in the real world if A=>B then B=>A and correlation implies causation!

A couple of acquaintances of mine are Reiki advocates. One of them has torn her knee ligaments, and refuses to be subject to surgery, instead focusing on binding them again using mind only, in spite of being regularly in pain, and doctors saying it'll only get worse with time. I can only let you imagine the discourse, acts, and consequences about global warming ("Earth is a living being and will heal itself"), I can only let you imagine the discourse, acts, and consequences about the COVID situation ("let me align your aura and it'll help you not getting sick"). I can only let you imagine the discourse, acts, and consequences on close people that got cancer.

I can respect everyone having their own beliefs, but there is a line that makes me downright unhinged.
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Yeah there are stories of hedge funds buying and then selling cars all over the country to find out the serial numbers so that they can estimate their sale count before the quarterly reports in a german tanks kind of fashion. Having good information is very valuable for hedge funds.

However, I don't think that hedge funds are "Googly" products. They fail at the toothbrush test. They require massive capital investments, and while Google has lots of money, is it enough to drive enough revenue growth?

Furthermore, there is the legal danger. With businesses using Google products, Google is likely in possession of insider information on most publicly traded information. E.g. when there is an internal meeting at a company and suddenly everyone is visiting job websites that use Google CDN hosted fonts, or maybe everyone is visiting websites looking for cars to buy or houses. Or think about internal company documents hosted on Google docs or that meeting being conducted over hangouts. How can Google ensure that their products don't accidentially use that insider info? How can they separate the toxic insider info from the okay to use non-insider info? Does that separation already constitute insider information?

Lastly, Google possesses probably more information than most entities in history, and even today I'd put it into the top 10. They also have gigantic capabilities to organize that data, it's in fact the very core purpose of the company. If you possess perfect knowledge how a market will evolve, will someone want to trade stock with you? If you knew how a coin toss would turn out, would people want to make bets with you about the coin toss? Google getting into the hedge fund business might in fact not work because their buy or sell orders alone could change the stock value to a degree where Google doesn't make any money from it. I'm not an expert though, maybe there are mechanisms to counter this effect. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
There's external microphones with an on/off switch; of course, if you can't tell Mac to never use the builtin microphone it's probably neither here nor there.
> you don't want to deploy an environment that your users can extend

What is so bad about that?

And isn't it common practice around computer games for example, which can be modded and extended by custom user content?
There is (used to be?) an XKCD IRC channel with a bot that only lets you send messages that have never been uttered in the channel before.

https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...
Many people face struggles in their lives. Can be struggling to pay the bills, sickness, mental health problems, abuse at home or work, loneliness and so on. These did happen int he past too, but it is just not true that people today don't face struggles.

> Exercise helps with depression, partly because it's not easy, it requires effort and discipline and it's not "fun". Forcing yourself to get out of the house and go for a run is difficult (I know, I went through clinical depression and had to force myself to do this. Still do). It does the same for your body - stresses it to make it more healthy.

Exercise is and can be fun. And there are enough forms of exercise to take the one that matches your personality. People get addicted to exercise and many people overdo it - even injuring themselves for fun.

The struggle to go out was not because exercise is inherently not fun, but because you had depression.
There are millions of people in China with always on VPNs, and they still have a non-insubstantial business in the country.

The thing is, the geographic data there is protected by law, and they don't want an espionage charge.

The same is provably true for a suspicious missing of a few other countries with similar attitudes.
Right, you can't do shit... except not turn on location history, which as this page says, is off by default.
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I'm a core mediasoup developer.

Those libs for native apps are not official mediasoup components. We deliver libmediasoupclient[1] which is a native C++ implementation of the JS mediadiasoup-client[2] and uses libwebrtc[3] C++ native code directly.

Those two libs for native apps make use of libmediasoupclient, but they are not written nor maintained by us. Having said that, to the moment there is no official Android or IOS native client but there is libmediasoupclient which will be the core for both.

[1]: https://github.com/versatica/libmediasoupclient
[2]: https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup-client
[3]: http://webrtc.github.io/webrtc-org/native-code/
All tech will go the way of rational rose Sooner than later.
Canonical page already submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22766840
Except they didn't specify surgical masks as opposed to N95.
postgresql cannot even do master-master. it’s a disgrace. is every service dependent on one machine staying online? or some thin wrapper that “promises” to keep them in sync?
I confess I didn't think it was vulnerable to that. If it is the reason LineageOS dropped it, the drop was a long time coming (2019).
And what about all your data? (photos, emails, texts, browsing history, passwords, etc) If an attacker has compromised my computer to such an extent that they’s be able to record me, I’d be more worried about access to my private data than I am about being photographed through the webcam.
It works ;)
https://i.imgur.com/ofCsS2O.png
IMO, the word "terrifying" is severely overused nowadays. Everything is "terrifying". But no, this is not that much worse than all the other data brokers that predate Google by decades in some cases. I'm not saying it's good in any way, but certainly not "terrifying".
You can order a new ThinkPad with the option of no camera or microphone.
Can you recommend any sites like HN, but for biology?
I use both on a daily basis and I'm struggling to understand what you mean?
I don't know where in Europe you live but i see lots of Jeeps. BMWs and Mercedes are more prevalent though.
A compact Golang library I have been working on for handling proactive, reactive, and transparent HTTP content negotiation. Let me know what you think!
So, I guess in the meantime some developments on the idea have been made. What would a modern intro/reference be?
To be honest I kinda miss the grainy look of traditional cel-animated anime.
You are looking at the wrong place (Pegnitz is a suburb of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Prignitz is a rural district in Brandenburg).

Looking at houses for sale in the state of Brandenburg with price limit of €10k gives several results (some of them probably dubious but not all): https://www.immobilienscout24.de/Suche/de/brandenburg/haus-k...

It will not be a comfy home for a family but for the type of stuff discussed above it would do (e.g. a formerly abandoned but still standing/stable house).
Universal BCG vaccination policy and reduced Covid-19 morbidity and mortality
I tested it plenty in a dev version, but you never know.
how about doctors wearing sex shop costumes? https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/28/medical-fetish-site-donates-e...
I think the only reason I wouldn't choose Postgresql is if I need master-master replication.

It's not that you can't create a master-master setup using Postgresql, I believe 2ndquadrant have and add-on that allows this. It just feels like it's messing with the fundamentals of the database on such a low level that I really only trust it, if it's part of Postgresql it self.
> What about good old fashioned Han Chinese? Mao's rule was devastating. Killed more than WWII killed /people/.

Yes. And the american civil war killed more americans than every other war america was involved in. Doesn't make it a genocide. Genocide has a specific meaning. Using your definition, every war, civil war, etc is genocide. That's simply not true.

> Also the kill number isn't the factor here.

I agree so why the "Killed more than WWII killed /people/." nonsense?

> That's like saying people who died in Columbine should just stop whining because millions of Jews died.

Nobody calls columbine a genocide. That's the point. Once again, genocide has a very specific meaning.
> Modern medicine, with the way hospitals and health insurance are run, do not and cannot address, for economic reasons, a pretty important aspect, albeit subjective, which is well-being.

The "economic reasons" are just the preferences of the rich & powerful. Resources could be allocated in other ways. It is just that those that call the shots are not interested. In the US, they also managed to convince a large part of the population to act against its own interests.

I dream of an economic system that serves human beings instead of the numerical abstractions behind which the rich and powerful hide their extreme selfishness.
Perception of Space
The midwest is pretty infested too. Especially parts of WI and MN
> seem very controversial

It's just a matter of experience and perspective. Many of the permaculture principles have been practiced since long before industrialization. In the scale of human existence, the current "normal" agriculture practices are abnormal, while permaculture is normal.

Also, don't cut the weeds unless you have a very good reason. Even the definition of "weed" is questionable. Most of the time, the "weed" grows where it is actually beneficial.
Turkey bombs waterworks, interrupting supply to Northern Syria
Woah! Thanks for your amazing work. It never occurred to me either to use photopea for this and I use photopea for all kinds of other tasks.
speech recognition's probably good enough if you pick your dictionary well
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That part is mostly specific to retroviruses and DNA viruses. Retroviruses are special because even though they are RNA based they can "translate" their RNA into dna once inside the cell and embed that DNA into the cell's genome. That translation in itself is remarkable since it's the opposite of the normal DNA to RNA "translation" we see in almost every organism, hence the "retro".

DNA based viruses don't have that unique mechanism but the result is conceptually the same: you get a virus that is extremely hard to completely cure/remove due to it being present in some of your own DNA. Herpes is a DNA based virus and that's why you can't ever be fully cured from it.

That's also why retroviruses like HIV can only be suppressed. It's also why antiretroviral drugs try to inhibit the replication phases of the virus, which makes managing the disease possible but can't remove the virus itself. Still, a cocktail of those inhibitors is an amazingly powerful treatment against AIDS and leads to HIV becoming basically dorment in the body.

A ribovirus (which is what coronaviruses are) is RNA based but it doesn't embed itself into our genome. It never translates it's RNA and since RNA is fundamentally less stable of a molecule than DNA, you get really high mutation rates. That "instability" is caused by the lack of a built in error checking mechanism in RNA. Those random mutations are part of why Influenza is hard to build immunity against. But it's also why RNA based viruses are generally either too virulent and mortal to allow for effective spread, or rapidly evolve towards less lethal forms.

Keep in mind that I've generalized a lot and that there are a lot of exceptions and outliers when it comes to viruses. For example, Hepatitis C is a ribovirus but it has a special protection mechanism that protects it's core genetic material from mutations even if it's RNA based.
It would be interesting to be able to compare countries. For example, which countries have responded most to a lockdown and which have not responded at all? The data is already broken down by state so it would be good to see this data on a map of the US.
It still kills tools like Twine in browser though: https://www.reddit.com/r/twinegames/comments/fp1ro2/ios_user...
Germany marks first ever quarter with more than 50 percent renewable electricity
Matrix provides video calls.