skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from Gmail to Fastmail back in 2013 [1] and haven't looked back.

Fastmail has continued to make significant improvements, while keeping the interface lean and functional.

It seems to me like $3/month is worth it for a service as critical as email.

[1]: https://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/ and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069944
You missed two parentheses
What's the terminal wrapper/gui/whatever you're using in the demo? That setup looks slick.
I'm from Almonit, one of the organizations mentioned in the article. We create a decentralized search engine for Dwebsites, almonit.eth . It also got a (almost) complete list of existing Dwebsites.

We also got browser extensions for accessing Dwebsites: https://twitter.com/GoAlmonit/status/1179633247745171456

The extension let you either setup your own IPFS/Ethereum nodes, or use existing gateways.

To try to be as decentralized as possible, the extension chooses (by default) a different random gateway in each new session (like, every time to open the browser). We call it "decentralization by randomization". You can also edit the gateway list if you don't like the ones we began with.

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which emoji? :)
Today truly is a doomsday for the old giant.

Rest in peace.
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I see most threads are actually looking for project idea instead of technical partners. Anyway bookmarked this site :)
One could interpret it as pointing out bias or ignorance. Considering the slightly condescending tone of the sentence it could be seen as an insult.
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My university has taken this approach. The main intro class is still Racket based, but they offer a Python alternative which satisfies the same requirements. I hope they're tracking the difference in outcomes!
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eh, I understand the sentiment - but it's a little overkill. Junior programmers can be code reviewed and taught these things over time, and also be wildly productive in a production setting.
This article is a confused mess with no point. Sure it would be nice to teach students everything at first. But that's obviously impossible.
TIL syncthing. Looks neat.
I recently switched to backblaze since I only share a subset of my photos, so I put those on gphotos separately.
I've heard it speculated that the thing to do may be to not put people on ventilators, but give them blood transfusions.

Where I heard this:

https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16122794&cid=59...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-...
That's just what the modern web is like now, chickenshit minimalism, oodles of whitespace, vapid hero banners, plenty of grey Helvetica ultralight on white and a pile of bloat.
Your interpretation is understandable, but incorrect.

https://www.jruby.org/2016/05/03/jruby-9-1-0-0.html
That's pretty normal looking. The street isn't actually dirty, but it is cracked and worn; it needs to be resurfaced and painted. A power washer would do a lot of good for the sidewalks though, and they probably haven't scrapped up the gum in a few years.
No, they just have to edit it so it calls home to them.

Still a lot of work though :P
I am glad that they did it. I am pretty big science nerd but even I am getting bored with the nth rover going to the same planet. NASA should be doing science but I think they also have the important role to push the limits of what we think is possible, inspire people and make the next generation interested in science instead of selling ads or creating CDOs. Being too risk-averse is not good for them in the long term.
I read this as "I don't care if my emails get mined to show me ads", not "I'll send out copies of all my email to random HN users".
I often rewatch the first video, not just for math, game-of-life, and John Conway, but also ASMR, when he's (spoiler alert) ...

eating the "dead" almonds.
Scala faces tough competition from Kotlin which has two huge platforms - Android and Spring/Pivotal. Arrow (https://arrow-kt.io), is enough to satisfy all but the most zealous FP purists whilst maintaining first-class inter-op with the host language. I foresee a lot of new projects adopting Kotlin where once they might have favoured Scala.
No one's mentioned Workona? How does that extension get like no recognition

On that note though, how the heck is anyone supposed to sort through the infinite amount of "TabWhatever" extensions.
Plain HTML version is still available and very fast.
Didn't the software need to distinguish between vhs and dvd by the mid 90's?
I was thinking of using the desktop email clients doing the backup.

but someone who cannot do that is definitely not going to move off of free Gmail/Yahoo mail/...
We love playing Original Sin with my SO. We are both rpg players and we are currently waiting for Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Studio (studio behind DOS). Is there any other modern crpg we could play in coop? Any recommendations?
>...in the style of neumorphism...

TIL, thanks!
I feel like people upvoted this because it said don't use eclipse but didn't read the article. Now I'm questioning my sanity - given a choice, do professional developers choose to use eclipse?

The question is somewhat loaded given the previous statement based on my own biases but I've never written java professionally so excuse my ignorance.
Ok, we'll make the title say some of it above.
https://archive.md/PvlHS
The HN crowd from my impression wants to deeply think of themselves as being in control of how their life transpired. I'm an outlier and I think free will is an illusion. Not only do I think everything is fated beyond our control but I have the belief that society would function better if people were educated young about understanding the concept of determinism and why we don't have control over how life transpires. Fundamentally we're living in a judgement & punishment system of society because religion adopted the stance of people being in control instead of what we describe as evil being a product of God. I think a society that replaces judgement & punishment with rehabilitation would be fundamentally just. I'm curious if society will evolve or stay unchanging but I think it likely won't be in my lifetime.
> he

she[0], but yeah.

[0]: https://twitter.com/noradotcodes
Someone should check the statistics, but it should be someone trained to do so.
For what it's worth, I believe that "recklessly" is more accurate than "accidentally". In the motor vehicle context, for example, people acting more or less prudently, and in good faith, occasionally have accidents. But when people aren't acting prudently, we call them reckless.
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There is a lot more drive by downvoting than there used to be.

It takes an open mind to openly entertain a viewpoint that isn’t ones own.

Also takes an open mind to say just because I don’t understand/agree with something, it doesn’t mean there can’t be understanding in it.
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In my academic experience netbeans was used and it seemed to simplify things.
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That's interesting. I reached a similar conclusion, but I entirely credit learning Haskell for getting there.

I thought I had some idea about controlling state and writing composable systems before, but I see now how rudimentary and flawed it was. Maybe you just got it quicker.
Niiiccceee. That does make me a bit more confident about it.
It is not like there is a lack of options. But it is all experimental. Here is a recent review on the therapeutic options from Nature - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339161688_Therapeut...

Or maybe looking at the therapy in countries that show low death rates? Could it be that some countries got lucky with the choice of therapy? For example, Russia seem to show surprisingly low death rate so far - 1 per million, as per today's Worldmeter data. As per Reuters/30 Jan, their health ministry recommended "ribavirin, lopinavir/ritonavir and interferon beta-1b".
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Happy memories! Including my first programming contract.

In high school, I ended up doing telephone survey work, mostly market research. We had to fill out these terrible timesheets so that clients could be billed for each call. Poking around, I discovered that the office had a PBX [1] to run all our phone lines. It was hooked up to a PC, and in the manual I discovered it would log every digit dialed, plus other events.

I talked my bosses into letting me mess with it. And then I convinced them to pay me some outrageous sum ($500, I think) to write Turbo Pascal software that would generate an automatic report every night replacing the timesheets. Given that I was making something like $5/hr (well above the $3.35 minimum wage), it seemed like a great double victory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_telephone_system#Priv...
News articles written by corporate or citizen journalists are not always authorities on interpretation.

There is a Facebook group with 10 or 20,000 doctors exchanging real-time information. One topic coming up is ventilators may be provided too late.
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A person (people?) got really angry about the eggplant emoji a few years ago:

https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3xtep0/socj...
This, and traits too!
i agree with everyone saying you shouldnt use IDE as a crutch.. but as a seasoned Java dev, it is probably my main exception to the rule as well. I would just recommend intellij over eclipse for beginners, but its better than nothing.
That's why you always put down your birthday as January 1, 1901 (or whatever earliest date they allow).
Not necessarily. The platform might just have political biases of its own. But that's also why it can be good to have more variety: it means biases are a lot more likely to cancel out over time.
This was in California. I had to take a science class but there were many options and I just took other things besides chemistry.
It is fun to see python being the beacon of friendly library design :)
Some modern languages do the equivalent. Thanks to lazy evaluation, you can have a separate lexer, parser, and code gen, but still have a single pass as long as you have an upper bound on backtracking.
That's kind; thank you. Perhaps someday, but for now, I mostly want to understand what "notes" actually are / should be.
I only scanned and did a page search for the word “transf”, but I couldn’t find anything in those articles recommending transfusions.
Google has backbone peering agreements because they bought huge amounts of fibre in the 2001 and 2008 crashes.

They don't really pay for bandwidth in the way you are thinking about it.
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As a former student who had to use eclipse, I think the ide dramatically slowed my understanding of what was actuay happening in my projects. A command line and a few commands however really makes things simple and clear.

The only thing you need an ide for is autocomplete and refactoring, and in a small project like you have in school, it’s simpler to use a text editor imho and you can fully understand your project that way too
The world isn't vegan, unfortunately.
It's annoying to read "The helicopter, which weighs 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms)", considering all the pedantic people who like to say weight and mass are different two things, here is something that's genuinely ambiguous because they don't bother to say if that's Mars weight or Earth weight. And it's NASA, not some careless pop sci writer!

...I did a Ctrl-F for "mass" too, and nothing.
Ideally trained, unbiased, aligned with improving public health. Instead of being aligned with protecting their executive compensation, for example.
I don't disagree, but I don't want to sleep on the kitchen floor because it's uncomfortable.

I also wouldn't want to sleep in a bed _in_ a cage, given the option of sleeping in a bed _outside_ of a cage.

And I think that we agree on the underlying reasoning; the consistency. I am just arguing that cubicles aren't an optimal place to spend your time, merely a convenient one for those that want to warehouse you while you work. The fact that it's consistent doesn't make it good.
Back in the mid-80s it would have needed to distinguish between Betamax and VHS.

Or it could be handled simply by listing "The Terminator (Beta)" and "The Terminator (VHS)" as separate titles.
YouTube is also banning all cryptocurrency channels, strike by strike. For no reason. It's disgusting. I know, because I have such a channel with a strike. 2 more and it's permanent delete. Can't appeal, as the livestream was deleted before it was in progress. No response to appeals for over a month and a half. (You get 1 warning before the strikes start, I was able to appeal only that.)
It'd probably be used in a place where internet access is infeasible (much like amateur radio is used sometimes). The kiwix project provides an example of this, where you download a compressed (either with or without images, without is a bit smaller) version of Wikipedia which is then served over the wireless NIC in a Raspberry Pi, which is handy if the internet isn't available (for example, in schools in developing areas).

https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-hotspot/
How is paying for someone to do work for you a "sad hack"?
I'm very similar to you... i even made a webext to help me find tabs quickly as i will tend to open a window do something and then open up a few tabs in that window and eventually minimize the window to dock. if you have a hundred tabs open across many windows you come into a situation of where did that tab go? now it's just cmd-shift-e and visually scroll through the list of open tabs and then click on the link to bring it front and center.

might be useful to you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

and open source too if someone feels like contributing:

https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
Of course it's not a monopoly or moneysink. It's highly profitable ($5b a year in revenue and not huge costs given their peering agreements).

TicTok, Instagram, Twitch, Dailymotion, FB Video, Vimeo, Netflix etc all are counterexamples.
Cool! I'll take a look.
Which is why there are 6 variations of “unemployment”. BLS publishes them regularly and has definitions available. Ignore 5 of the 6 at your own peril - they’re all there for the public to consume as they see fit.
Apparently I snipped off "?now=true" while removing fbid tracker - this works for me - but I can't edit the url:

https://mobile.reuters.com/video/watch/idPHDK?now=true

Ed: that said I think I'd prefer the text-only version.
Correct, and there was nothing OK about that, either.
The thing is, early in their study, students are learning that compilers exist at the same time that they are learning a language. They should become familiar with a compiler, and in the case of Java that it generates class files, that they pass them to a JVM, to inform them of the state of the art of tooling architecture, or even to help them imagine that they could change some pieces or swap them out.

Using the tools directly serves to re-enforce all these concepts.

They can get to know other tools for that same language like in your Borland example, sure. But if you didn't know the compiler existed, you would be in trouble. And in C you will also want to understand the preprocessor and linker.
I just downloaded the danbooru2019 metainfo files, and used `imdl torrent show` to view them, which worked. (Those are some big torrents!)

I don't support non-unicode filenames, which is pretty unfortunate. I have a hunch that it would be a little painful to add, and that time might be better spent on other features, but I could be convinced otherwise if there was a strong need!
> friends who could step in

"could" or "would"? Is there something in place, and have they agreed to this?
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Conway was a legend in the math department. Possibly because he actually lived there -- at one point he got kicked out of his house, and took the office opposite his as a bedroom. A few months later, an artist showed up to paint portraits of famous mathematicians around the border of the ceiling.

Apart from that, the login to his computer required calculating the correct day of week of 10 dates in the last 2000 years. I believe that the record was around 10 seconds. He showed me the algorithm (which isn't actually that hard), but he had a calculating ability that was truly impressive.

He also bet his salary on a series of backgammon games that were played in the common room -- he won, but just barely.

Apart from that, he'd sometimes grab an undergraduate and give them a very brief tutorial on cutting edge mathematics just so he could try to explain a new theorem or paper -- he could be amazingly generous.

On the other hand, he could be astoundingly mercurial -- there was a rumor that he used the stair method for grading, or that the grade was proportional to the length of the answer -- he loved math so much that he couldn't conceive of why anyone cared about their grade in his classes.

Amazingly beloved by everyone who came in contact with him.
I used ubports for a week once. I liked it. The only drawback is it lacked a handful of apps I needed (signal, authy, and anki I think)

A few years ago I heard they were working towards android app emulation. Might have been called Halium?
It actually is. It has some tweaks done so that no matter what device you on it still runs most functionality.
I think that's a pretty harmful comparison in itself. Over-prescription has certainly been a factor, but nothing compared to dirt cheap heroin and illicit fentanyl.

I'm not saying that there's not room for manoeuvre here. Positioning and whatever emergent therapies appear will certainly be factored in by doctors (who are desperate for something), but by the time you need ventilation, you are very, very ill.

You simply wouldn't survive without it.
Thank you!

A sort of no-setup BitTorrent-only proxy would be interesting, to avoid NAT issues.
Apropos of castles, I've been on a look out for a hypothetical game I describe as "the thinking player's Stronghold". You would have control over a region and would need to choose the best place to site the castle, ensure supplies and build the correct structure for your location. I imagine that it would need to be modified as the attackers' technology developed.

The idea came to while walking around various forts. They're various interesting and I don't think any base-building game has really delved into them properly. Stronghold is quite superficial and Dwarf Fortress seems to focus more on the economy.
Python is definitely more real-world practical. Most students will go on to learn it in future classes anyways though. An Intro class is better off preparing a conceptual foundation that will serve students across many languages and paradigms.
My first year CS classes went by SCIP and were taught in scheme. Of course, I went to a place that didn't much distinguish between comp sci and comp eng, so what do I know?
This is awesome. Do you know, if there's something similar for Firefox?
jitsi.org . use jitsi meet as a platform, and you can broadcast and record.
You (and others, I know you're not alone) take a tone ("outsized") as if this is a distortion or problem that somehow needs to be fixed.

The people who hedge, were doing so because they need time to adjust their supply to demand. This is a fact of reality, and hedging is the tool that allows producers to purchase insurance against sudden changes they couldn't otherwise deal with.

Mexico or whoever, paid for their hedges, so on net it isn't some special advantage they have. It's not about preventing adjustment to demand, but about having the producers who more easily can, do so instead.
What happens if you make cost an inverse ranking factor?

Structure your ranking algorithm to allocate a proportionate share of traffic to french news sites, given relevancy to a query topic, and rank order publishers by negotiated cost?

Given there is SUBSTANTIAL value in a news publisher being sent traffic, in terms of advertising and circulation, the power law in search engine clicks should keep cost paid to a bare minimum.

Unless the French are going full dystopia and picking the winners within their own markets?
I miss the old, snappy interface, and held out for the longest time until they forced G Suite users to move over some time in 2019.
"society would function better if people were educated young about understanding the concept of determinism and why we don't have control"

My life got better after I rid myself from those thoughts. I firmly believe, they are dangerous.
To the best of my knowledge the tree of life actually is a tree though. Or are there known cases where two species have merged to create a new species?

Okay I suppose that it becomes a DAG if you zoom into the actual ancestral relations between individual organisms (which is where things become muddy). And I guess the concept of 'species' kind of forces a tree structure upon this DAG (although not exactly, but then the biologists didn't think to use a definition that provably produces a tree, in fact being of the same species isn't even an equivalence relation).
Where the bleep did I say that?

It might be BAD if they are on a vent to increase NO. I am talking about before or at the beginning of infection so they never have to get on a vent.
hello there, I think people will better visualize your work if you host it and provide some explanation about it. I took a quick look and it runs on the browser, right? Using Three.js. You should make a git hub repo and write a nice readme on your approach to create the procedural city.
I would refer you to this recent review in the Nature - "Tracing the US opioid crisis to its roots" - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02686-2 And outlook https://www.nature.com/collections/wcbsjcwqng

At least to me, it seems like that crisis was created, primarily because of misalignment of the system towards maximizing executive compensation instead of public health.
Kilogram is a unit for mass, not weight. Weight is a force and measured in newton.

A kilogram of steel on earth is still a kilogram of steel on mars.
I've looked at https://lbry.tv/ recently. It seems pretty decent for YouTube replacement.

One thing that they have is an automatic system to copy over your YouTube catalog and upload it to lbry.
Yes. U-3 is a useful generalization. But, it’s possible it’s usefulness has waned, as it fails to count two subsets of working-age population that have grown in recent decades - those that are unable to find work and leave the workforce completely and those that are underemployed. U-6 includes these two groups.

But, if U-6 was the commonly reported figure, we’d get cries of cooked books from some other groups, because why should we count people who have given up on working, or why should we care if somebody is underemployed (they have a job and should be happy).

In the age of fake news and too much information it’s a no win.
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IDEs are convenience layers, compilers are essential abstractions - if you don't know how it works underneath the GUI layer you will get stuck really fast and won't be able to troubleshoot when you eventually run in to inevitable problems with IDE, build, compiler.
yeah you just reminded me that gmail is the new old hotmail

seduction makes everyone do its best, over time you rot

time for a new challenger ?
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What??

Can anybody explain to me (non American) why a fruit is offensive? And why people who find a fruit offensive are taken seriously?