skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"95% of the universe we don't understand"

Telephysangelists should also start questioning the 5% of what they do understand. All we hear about is DM/DE as if the underlying assumptions that lead us to believe they exist must, at any cost, be true. It reeks of more lost decades of scientific discovery to me, but then again I'm just a bystander.
I was indeed, but still a very valid point and after all without Grace - there would be no COBOL.
Yes, I know. The point is - in case it isn't abundantly clear yet - that that website does not itself follow the EU official format: an europa.eu web address, no address for the office it is run out of, the normal banner at the top, transparency in who runs the office, what its mandate is, what process is being used to place entities on the list, what appeals process there is and so on. It is as shady as it gets within the EU.

Note that they totally undermine everything they do by stating "Not official EU position".

If this is the best we can do against disinformation we're fucked, besides the fact that it only focuses on Russia whereas China and the United States are also quite active in this respect.
Typescript is not a product for teams of low skill of disciple, and it's pretty insulting to suggest it is.
That is a very nice summary! By then I recently discovered utility of a special bag to bake potatoes in the microwave . It does work even if takes longer than promised 5 minutes, but the result is very tasty and I have no idea how I would reproduce it in an owen.
Ready to play the Quantum Game with Photons 2?
EU Reflex study shows DNA damage caused by radiation from mobile phones
So you are saying that history repeats itself? [1] Or that there are Black Swans? [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_...
I agree, which is why I made sure not to mention immunity.

But at least these people would no longer be a health threat to the community, right? My thought is that they would be one step towards helping society return to normalcy (e.g. going back to jobs).
>but to point out that women can be Super Cobol Programmers too, and in fact the first Super Cobol Programmer was a woman.

Well said and an extremly valid point upon many levels, let us not forget Grace.

I perhaps should of phrased it as COBOL Human, though that may of confused others more than not, more so with the mixed superheroes conversation and that in itself had legacy baggage as do many things that are easily tripped up upon.

I'd upvote you more as detail is as always important and should never be overlooked.
"Bill Gates" was trending on Twitter yesterday. I looked at the tweets and many many tweets were claiming he wants to implement population control and the Covid-19 vaccine will implant an ID in each recipient, which will be the mark of the beast. I saw a Twitterer retweeting this stuff whose bio said "Critical thinker". I thought of engaging, but then thought, "What's the point?".

Depressing how far gone much of the other inhabitants of this planet are...
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You are still not cheating entropy with that.
Hi, unfortunately none. Webrtc is just another islands of silos. Which is quite unfortunate, I would expect webrtc to become like email. Imagine if gmail could communicate only with other gmail mails. That's what the current situation with webrtc-based video/voice platforms, and it feels so wrong.

However, not everything is as bad as it seams. First, SIP has already solved that problem, even for regular telephone numbers, let alone domain-based identifiers (like alice@example.com). Specifically RFC8224 solves that (which is part of a larger group of RFCs, starting with rfc7340). Also, WebRTC Security Architecture draft RFC (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-arch-...) driven by Eric Rescorla is also suggesting a different, yet interoperable architecture for Webrtc (and regular SIP/Voip over gateways I guess) which even involves Identity Providers (like Facebook connect, Google, you name it), in a platform-agnostic way. When it comes to RFCs Erik is top notch on writing them, however getting them approved is a different story and probably it's out of Erik's powers. This draft, has been draft more than 8 years now..

Google, by owning chromimum and driving the main Webrtc force, has the final saying.
> The 880s aren't wireless, active noise cancelling cans and aren't relevant in this context.

Of course they are.

If they provide a substantially better listening experience, at a lower cost and with passive noise-damping and less use of technology prone to failure, that makes them 110% relevant to the discussion at hand.
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> I did a few years in the salty COBOL mines

In the mid-80s, my first year CS professor anticipated most us ending up "in the lead mines of COBOL programming" — it was commonly assumed that we'd never manage to get rid of the dominance of COBOL.

Are references to mining common in the COBOL scene?
At least personally, when my sourdough is ready (by appearance and feel) for the next step corresponds to the "time" from the "recipe" so infrequently that I'm shocked when it does

Following a schedule exactly is a great way to make Frisbees (short dense loaves)
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Sure there are scientific ways to go about things. But the idea that there is 'safe thought' and 'dangerous thought' is just plain batshit lunacy. A lot of amazing stuff we take for granted today started off with "hmm.. I wonder if <x> is possible somehow" ..

Nobody is being paid to conjecture "what if there were a way to do it.." unless, they actually are.
> The reality is, if you wish to combine self reliance and minimalism, you essentially must embrace a life of poverty.

Why?

If you take minimalism to the extreme, and keep stripping away until reaching the bare essentials of living, then the basic tools and materials are what you left with.

It would be "against" minimalism (which is not well defined anyway) to buy say a chain saw because you think you might need it one day or need it for a one off job, instead of borrowing it from a neighbor or yes, paying (monetary or through favors) someone to do it.

Nothing wrong with relying on society to a degree.

If you want to be self reliant without having a lot of money to waste, you'll have to practice minimalism. Not the inner city hipster version of it, but being mindful of what the utility and value of all the things you have is.
It cost me £25 for replacement cushions which they fitted for me in store. https://www.bose.co.uk/en_gb/products/headphones/headphone_a...

Which I had to replace after 2 years of weekday daily use of 3-4 hours a day.

I’m not sure I class that as ridiculously expensive.
As a person who lives in a cold country I got annoyed by the 1000XM3 touch controls pretty quickly. I am however happy to report that a year after the release you can update the firmware and disable touch controls.
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I see this a lot more now. I think it’s a misguided strategy around trying to reduce the number of people choosing ‘other’ if it’s available because data from is seen as not useful. They don’t seem to realize that by limiting options in this way they will only pollute the results altogether with people just picking anything to get to the next step.
Never thought I’d see Dr Gregor on HN! This is an amazing presentation. Humans never learn though and so we’ll be back to our old ways, blaming others and going “back to regular life,” when it’s regular life they got us to this pandemic in the first place.
You know, it just occurred to me that, despite growing up on a farm, I can remember very few used tractor tires; one was a raised bed and the other a sandbox.

Probably has something to do with a lack of vehicle inspections for farm equipment.
Minimal techno had a big moment in EDM circles in the '00s as the bombastic productions of the '90s started to be seen as cheesy and overcooked.

See for example: https://youtu.be/daSid6Lh9Vs
having a lawn service means not needing a mower. Hiring out a painting service means not having old buckets, brushes, tarps, etc, laying around.

Minimalism means not having a lawn which needs mowing, nor walls in need of painting.
I dunno, seems like this time thing could go on for a while.
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Many think too globally, which ironically gives us a narrow view of humanity as we are dealing with such broad strokes. If all you have is a shallow understanding of global politics and news, then you've really got no choice but to be cynical, but you're also missing out on what's really happening around you in your local community. Somewhere you could actually enact change and help, and enjoy the good in the community around you.
"Stop wasting time..." is wasting people's time. That works for a commercial before a Youtube video because the viewer has to wait for the good stuff. On the web, if it's not "the good stuff" there's no reason to wait.

Just say "Collect bugs and feature requests" or something like that. Make things as simple and obvious as possible for anyone who lands on your page and might have a use for your product. Just say what it does and how it does it.

To put it another way, a common reaction to "Stop wasting time" is "You are wrong. I am not wasting time." Good luck.
It's all open source: https://github.com/Quantum-Game/
As a fellow bystander I agree. The problem with science in this age being built on such a massive foundation of knowledge seems to be that it is very counter productive to the radical breakthroughs that in my humble opinion are a major avenue of scientific discovery
There is no "time" prescribed for developing scientific theories. There is no plan here. They take exactly as much as they need to be developed, not any shorter nor any longer. It can be days, months, years, decades, centuries, millennias. Or more. They can take zero large failures, 5 large failures, 1000 large failures.
I'm not going to debate with you anymore. I just copy paste this address I copy pasted from the 'Contact us' page:

EEAS
Rond-point Robert Schuman 9, 1046 Bruxelles, Belgia
You are correct but the poster does raise fair and yes, nothing intended directly nor indirectly - however it would be possible to read that into it and the reply initially was fair and did restore balance for those that may mis-read and all done in the best possible taste - they used a geek-wink ";)".

However, it is easy to view such balance as over-balance and it can then snowball into something of which it was not, and words, like code - heck nobody writes perfect code first time, let alone wording. So you can easily get bugs, be that in the code or in how things are worded that open those words up to tangents or ambiguity that was never the intention.

Anyhow - we are all on the same page of that issue I do feel and with that, let's poor one out for Grace, who without her we would not even be having this conversation that COBOL has given us today.
I got a pair from AliExpress. I didn't notice a significant change in noise cancelling performance (active or passive). But I'm not a picky listener anyway. YMMV.
Maybe we'd be better off writing tests then...
g(x) = 3, alone, is not. I give you 3, and there's no possible way you're telling me what the original x value was. f(x) = x ⋄ g(x) is (for ⋄ in {+, ×}), but that's a different matter entirely.
Sure, though a comment on HN by someone who first heard the term 20 minutes ago and misses the main point of it, _really_ doesn't make it wrong.
That is certainly not what I was suggesting.
> any additional digital surveillance powers should be necessary, proportionate and temporary

generally not as temporary as you would hope ...
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Given a choice between the government doing it and a company that has been specializing in this type of thing for decades, why wasn’t this the best choice?

It’s not like HP is some unknown foreign company.
Show HN: VSUAL, a museum-grade art print marketplace
Which country's education system doesn't have any chemistry at all?

Chemical formulae are required study for 11-14 year olds in England, for what it's worth. (Probably starting with words: methane + oxygen → carbon dioxide, and later writing a balanced equation: CH₄ + 2O₂ → CO₂ + 2H₂O.) The reaction presented is obviously much, much more complicated, but the same concept.

Edit: catalysts are covered too, although I don't know if the notation of putting them above the → is introduced at this age. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zqd2mp3/revision/6
Treatment of Type 2 diabetes with duodenal mucosa surfacing (Revita procedure) [pdf]
Fair point.

Is there an alternate mechanism for invoking a shell's built-ins externally? Obviously for state-changing operations such as 'cd' that's of limited use.

$SHELL -c '<commands>'

Comes to mind. Though likely bypassing initialisations might be useful.
Man I remember copy books. I could do... just no where near NJ. And I am not interested in re-writing anything. Just the stuff working. :)
"Try for free" doesn't provide more information to make someone believe there is actually a product. There is only a identity harvesting screen and most people have experienced entering identity information only to find there is no product or product access.

From a design standpoint, you've succeeded in getting a visitor to actually interact with the site and given them less than nothing in return. Less than nothing because there's more for the visitor to do and no new information.
Working from Home and Creating a Separation of Domains
>they have airplane pressure neutralization

I could not hear any difference at all on my last flight, comparing 1.0atm ground calibration vs 0.9atm in-flight calibration. The effect must be rather small.
Thanks, I experimented with dexador yesterday, it looks good. I ended up adding a caching layer for all web service calls and SPARQL requests in my app yesterday - this makes dev and testing much faster, but won’t help much in production.
10% of my salary wouldn’t be nearly as impactful as helping millions of people get unemployment checks quickly.
> But the idea that there is 'safe thought' and 'dangerous thought' is just plain batshit lunacy.

No one said that...

And it would be clearly false: It can be dangerous to be wrong, such as thinking that drinking concentrated bleach will somehow cure you from a disease. Or, you know, destroying infrastructure based on unsubstantiated fears.
There's another way of looking at this, which is minimalism as symptom rather than cause.

Most millenials, even the upper-middle class ones, see a future with less material prospects than their parents had. I do not believe that minimalism is fundamentally a cultural phenomenon driven by the wealthy, but by the impoverished.

You can say that Marie Kondo and Bauhaus have some subterranean aesthetic connection, but I think Marie Kondo and the 40 year old guy living alone in his "tiny home," watching Netflix, have a much deeper cultural connection.
I’ve had mine for four years in June. Still as good as the day I got them - I’ve just changed the foam once. YMMV, of course.
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Spelling! :D

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> If you want to be self reliant without having a lot of money to waste, you'll have to practice minimalism. Not the inner city hipster version of it, but being mindful of what the utility and value of all the things you have is.

No you don't. A big pile of junk is no drain on your self-reliance; if you're living in the kind of place where you can even begin to hope to produce your own food then space is not going to be an issue.
Look up event 201 and be prepared to cry.
The decreasing number worked, ty. Writing proofs with this will be impossible tho :D
We still haven’t learned.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
messages from a bygone era
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Sadly it seems to be out of print, but Bob Woolmer’s posthumously published Art and Science of Cricket[0] is an incredibly expansive and throughly researched study of cricket as a sport. It seems to have been really difficult to translate the physics of cricket into actionable things for players, but this book is in my opinion the best attempt.

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Bob-Woolmers-Art-Science-Cricket/d...
> I'm not going to debate with you anymore.

That's fine.

> I just copy paste this address I copy pasted from the 'Contact us' page:

> EEAS
> Rond-point Robert Schuman 9, 1046 Bruxelles, Belgia

Which does not show for me on that contact page, neither does it on the 'about' page. A 'view source' does not contain that information either. So I'm not sure where you got it off that page but I can't find it.

I'd expect a regular format EU contact page, with the address in normal text, which this website does not follow.

Conditioning people to accept EU official information from websites that do not follow the EU house-style, live on different domains and in general disavows being "an official EU position" is simply wrong.
so you live in a cardbox box near a creek for running water?
My partner Charlie and I built VSUAL because the other print-on-demand solutions didn't feel right for the fine art prints he was making: if they did sell prints, it always felt like those were an afterthought to T-shirts, mugs, and phone cases. Even then, the prints felt cheap and low-quality.

VSUAL solves that problem for artists by giving them a prints-only marketplace focussed on quality. Every print is made with archival ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Canson Baryta, or high quality Epson Semi Gloss paper. It also enables artists to sell a large selection of prints without keeping any inventory on hand: we handle printing, framing, and fulfillment.

For buyers, VSUAL solves the problem of size: all too often, you can find a print the size you want, or of the art you want, but you can't find the right art at the right size. With VSUAL, it's easy for artists to list their entire inventory at multiple sizes, making shopping easy for buyers.

We're still just getting started—we have /some/ traction with artists, but haven't quite cracked the code on marketing to buyers. What do you think?
The author is yet another member of pronoun-twitter who blames everything on capitalism and white men, not leaving their privileged New York late-capitalist bubble to realise all these things still exist in non-white, non-capitalist spaces and always will.
Is it true, that Orwell's Ministry of Truth in his book 1984, was based on the BBC?

Seems like discussion of what is true in news has been going on for a while, yes?
Zoom Cryptography and Authentication Problems
Japan's “Human Accidents”& the fascinating psychology of Japanese train stations
How does this reverse civil rights? It doesn't.
Thanks! I do really like the idea of turning my notes/bookmarks into a blog for various reasons. The micro blogs on topics is a cool idea too
No, they’re not. The marketing on the companies own site even agrees they aren’t noise canceling.

“The semi-open headphones attenuate ambient noise, but do not exclude it completely”

https://europe.beyerdynamic.com/dt-880-edition.html

These are very different products.
Yes, but from my perspective - not unwelcome and I actually support the comment and took no misalignment or judgment from it - I'm all about balance and fairness - not that everytime the word man or women is used we have to then add lots of small print disclaimers. But it does remind us how some can read into things and reminds us to be more mindful of that aspect.

COBOL human to the rescue would of been better perhaps, so again unnecessary, yet not unwelcome and with that - everyone gets some karma.
> "Just don't write bugs", "just write perfect code", etc

You are putting words in my mouth. I do not believe that you can write perfect code or avoid bugs. Just like I do not believe there is this perfect programming language or framework out there that magically creates clean code.

> you could still argue that type checking the codebase in your head is time consuming

This again, depends on the particular history and skill-set of your team. For example, TypeScript fits very well if you are familliar with C#, while CoffeeScript fits very well to those comfortable with python/ruby, ClojureScript for those who like clojure, ESLint for those comfortable with JS ... etc
So what if you just don't like cooking, do it anyway, ya dongus.
Or an absolute mentalist. I’ve used breadboards for 30 years and almost always spent more time debugging problems with the board than the circuits. Solder FTW.
You can paint canvases if you find that fulfilling, you'd just be deliberate about what painting stuff you treated as a possession. Either you'd rent access to a stocked studio, or you'd buy paints and brushes but treat them as ephemeral, or you'd cherish them enough to count them towards your number, and use them frequently. What you wouldn't do is have a pile of painting stuff in your closet that you used five years ago, because that's how you end up lying to yourself - if you were ever going to use it again you'd be using it now, so either you keep using it, or you dispose of it without regret.
I believe I've seen occasional reports on chemistry sims on HN; the last I saw, someone had managed to simulate an "interesting" number of atom at a rate of 1 ns / week.
Sorry. My bad.

My experience are with the 770s[1], which are closed and has amazingly good passive noise damping. I don’t miss ANC one bit.

[1] https://europe.beyerdynamic.com/dt-770-pro.html
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"Should" and "May" are such horrible words to encounter when implementing an RFC.

Sometimes, implementing workarounds for ends that only implements "Must" is harder than just implementing the RFC as if everything was just mandatory.

In my opinion, RFCs should strive to limit the optional parts of a specification at a minimum and, maybe, put the remaining in extensions.
I can’t tell if you are joking, but “the salt mines” is a rather common bit of workplace humor, at least in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mining#Idiomatic_use
If you’re using Prometheus and restarting servers regularly (a default behaviour for gunicorn for example) then you’ll lose a little data, up to your Prometheus scrape period, ever restart.

My team found this pretty annoying for monitoring a Django site so we’ve ended up moving to a statsd push-based metrics approach and are finding numbers generally easier to trust and reason about.
Wouldn't touch any of the non-studio lineup from either Beyerdynamic or Sennheiser. The dt770/880 and 1770/1880 are great.
While we're at it, any recommendations for having phone calls in noisy environments?
a person is more likely 'to train a neural net to solve coronavirus' while working for the government than in the private sector
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Fortunately, you can't censor whoever you disagree with over in this forum Josh. You aren't a tyrant and a dictator over here like your forum.
I agree with your comment, but unfortunately HN guidelines suggest that we shouldn't discuss comment voting (outside of, perhaps, a larger meta-HN discussion). So I don't expect your comment to last long either. For what it's worth, I upvoted the originally-referenced comment.
Preferably true wireless ones
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> You usually get paid for a fixed number of hours, so the time you save by hiring an expert can't be spent at work paying for it.

That cuts both ways though. I'd rather work 28 hours/week and spend more time fixing stuff myself. But jobs largely come as 40 hours/week (there are exceptions, but they would mean compromising on field, location or both, at least for me); if I could work 70% of the time for 50% of the pay I probably would.