skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been a while thanks to COVID, but next time a stranger walks up to you and offers unsolicited advice, try responding with anything other than "thanks"
Have you talked with your wife about it?
Thanks for this. Lichess is pretty great in terms of features. If you see the guy playing the bong cloud, that's probably me.
That seems to be a packaging issue with MacPorts. It looks like it's including build dependencies, too. It's pulling TeX Live and the Sphinx Python bindings for formatting documentation. I'm not sure what Perl is for, or why it needs 3 different versions of Python.

The Debian package doesn't require any of those. The Homebrew package has no dependencies at all (and only "python" and "sphinx-doc" as build dependencies).
I just used this to build a Hackintosh earlier this week. Took a while to go through the docs and figure out which files and config settings I needed, but install was smooth and I haven't had any problems.
7.5-inch e-ink display is powered completely by NFC
> do you think the top management feels the same?

Honestly I don't know. If I had to guess I'd say they probably do agree with the words but might have different ideas of what they mean. Should "open" mean literally anyone can see literally anything? Clearly not. I might put limits where they wouldn't. Maybe the converse is true sometimes.

> do you see a lot of cynicism in workers around you?

Nope. TBH that's mostly because they're heads-down solving technical problems. Or maybe they're focused on social problems other than the ones that apply to the company from an external perspective (e.g. diversity is a big one). To the extent that I see these company-direction issues discussed at all, I do see people trying sincerely to grapple with them and do the right things. Are those people just fooling me? Are there others who take a more cynical position? Don't know and can't know. I can just say what I see.
> Bill Gates has literally been preparing the last 20 years to make enormous amounts of money on a forced vaccination program

Is this one of those conspiracy theories I’ve been hearing about?

Bill Gates’ foundation has been giving away money for decades. If you think he’s planning to make a bunch of money off “forced vaccination”, you’re stuck in the past — Gates doesn’t care about making more money, he cares about getting the respect of his peer group & broader society. He’s not going to earn money off this, he’s going to earn respect.

That has nothing to do with “forced” vaccination, and everything to do with (the perception of) saving lives otherwise lost to this virus. If he funds a real vaccine, whether forced or not, he’ll accomplish his goal.

Please, leave the shortsighted “greed” conspiracy theories off this site.
That we still have the amped-up TSA infrastructure in place is arguably a mistake. If it were allowed to post selfies of sneaking dangerous objects through security, the whole thing would collapse as an expensive farce.
This is down voted, but for someone wanting to learn a Scala like language, it delivers most of the capability with less complexity and tooling problems.

I still prefer Scala, but found Kotlin to be enjoyable to write as well. Probably a perfect gateway into Scala if that's an eventual goal too.
The second HN chess tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/Wg6CHtmp

I'm pretty pumped to the idea of losing some games :)
> This is cool although for practical purposes, I think most people who need such a tool will not be using Haskell

Many people writing documents as text files use Pandoc, which is one of the most popular tools written in Haskell.
Ask HN: What would be a good project on Distributed Systems and ML?
from HN threads, I discovered "MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems" Course. I watched a few starting videos and quickly discovered that most of the learning part is doing actual work. I would like HN to ask what would be a great project in terms of distributed computing and ML.

I was thinking of a distributed database which can handle k-nn query for vector. like using Facebook's FAISS under-the-hood and making it more fast by doing a distributed.
Yeah - Id love to know if there are any cases where someone was sick enough that they were treated, recovered, and then got sick enough they need actual treatment again.
The book called Creation by Steve Grand has great arguments in favor of the analogie. I came across it as the favorite book of Jeff Bezos.

Sorry, I know this is a weak response to your argument but it would be too much to cover here, I don't have the time and I'm not sure I should convince anybody anyway. If you want to shake your beliefs on what life and intelligence are, go read the book.
Ask HN: How do I survive college? (Is there any other way?)
I am currently a CS student in college, and the hoop-jumping has really gotten to me. It feels like for every nugget of knowledge I gain, it requires jumping through 5 hoops. The degree is taking too long. Classes have become monotonous and move too slowly. Classes that cover material I want to learn are structured in a way that loses my interest. I am bored.

Essentially, I am losing motivation to continue my college education. I love the idea of college, but what I’m doing now isn’t working out for me in practice. If I keep the current path I will drop out.

Is there any other way? Maybe a decent online college with accelerated courses? Or maybe I should go directly into the work field? Has anyone else felt the same? Any advice is appreciated.

---

Here’s a little more information if it helps:

I am not new to Computer Science. I have held programming jobs since High School and was able to secure an SDE internship at a FAANG company my Freshman year in college, which I am returning to for the third time this summer. During school I work part-time at a startup. Really the only reason I am in college is to fill some gaps in my knowledge and to check a box and get the degree.

Also, I LOVE learning! I’m sorry if I come off as somewhat pretentious, I promise that isn’t me. I know I have much more to learn; I am just hoping to find a path that works better for me.

Thanks!
This was very true for the H1N1 epidemic but it's not clear something like this is happening with Covid. If anything, the opposite might be happening where prior infection with a related virus makes the current infection much worse.
The issue imo is that SBA is still too narrowly focused on the first 25% or less of commercialization. Perhaps that works for some, I'm not sure. I agree, getting innovation to market is way too dependant upon VC. Worth noting that the traditional banking sector entirely abandoned the innovation economy despite their willingness to fund breweries, coffee shops, restaurants ad nauseum and other business that have huge failure rates but have more collateral and hard assets they can grab on failure.
It is very present in the current discussion around open access publications in academia. Lots of universities and funding agencies encourage or even enforce that scientific papers and/or teaching material they finance be published under a CC license.
A lot of cities don't allow you to grow marijuana plants either, but people manage.

We got a collar to work ok, eventually, but then sent it to a farm as an easy win when overall our animals were getting close to what we thought was inconsiderately loud.
Those cities were also probably built by slaves/serfs/forced labor or with very cheap labor and with little to no societal regulation.
No real solutions I can see other than reducing the wealth/income gap (i.e. wealth redistribution which means higher taxes).

Anything else is papering over the root cause, which is the opportunity gap between different socioeconomic classes. Even if people deserve to be in lower socioeconomic classes due to their laziness, it hurts society as a whole in the long run if equal opportunity is a goal for children.
& just looking at the raw data, they seem to have a waaay better solution than we do: https://imgur.com/a/2T0GVoe

from http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ if anyone wants to compare other stats.
'You haven’t seen the pain’ yet
Summary for those who didn't click on the link to the actual article [1]:

- a car may need 5 kg of hydrogen for a range of 500km (bbc's claim, I'll take it at face value)

- the new "sponge" material can offer "deliverable hydrogen capacities (14.0 weight %, 46.2 g liter−1) under a combined temperature and pressure swing (77 K/100 bar → 160 K/5 bar)."

- so for 5kg of H2 you need about 100 l of this material, at a weight of about 35 kg. Not too shabby.

- however, note the conditions: you store the H2 at 77k and 100bar. So you need liquid nitrogen and quite high pressure to hold this. That might add substantial weight to the 35kg of sponge

By the way, about one year ago, there was quite some big noise on HN about a different breakthrough from Australia, where some researchers showed economic ways to store H2 in ammonia. Not sure if that got anywhere.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/297
They'll be replaced, but the owners, employees, and loved ones who die won't.
That is a fascinating look behind the scenes of top flight blitz chess (I knew nothing). A few highlights:

* There's a dispute over win vs draw, with a great behind the scenes camera work.

* "If he can talk, this is a coffee house!"

* They move so fast, they can't keep the pieces on the correct tile!
One could view this as Uber making a novice mistake. Instead of just fighting to get rid of employment laws that slowed Uber's business, they should have fought to replace them with laws that entrenched its position.

For example: they could have persuaded legislatures to make gig work legal, but only in the context of "licensed and qualified" platforms. Reaching that status might require submitting forms to government agencies, drafting reports for publication, instituting certain internal policies, having certain credentialed staff on payroll, etc... All tasks that Uber, who would essentially write such a law, would be naturally able to fulfill while newer competitors might not.
Perhaps it would indulge the conspiracy theories too much - but I'd kinda love to see an actual breakdown of how something like this could ever make him money. Think of the huge amount of money he has lost from this in the other businesses he owns and think of all the money he invested in this for decades he could have invested in other lucrative industries.

How much would he need from this supposed plan to even breakeven? Thirty billion?
This isn’t how you do privacy analysis. The author assumed stuff about stuff he doesn’t know and extrapolated on that. I was expecting some protocol analysis. Not sure who this is and if the individual usually does cryptanalysis or not. So we don’t know what their thoughts on the actual protocol are. Unfortunately I am worried this will be listed as a negative on the protocol by aggregators who are not technical.
1. Germany has nearly 3x the population so that difference is less stark than you are implying.

2. Maybe they haven't broken 200k tests because there isn't an obvious population to test when you've had an order of magnitude fewer covid deaths?
> When lockdowns end, unless we consciously choose to lead ourselves, we'll revert to our old wasteful ways.

This smacks of trying to exploit tragedy to further one's pet cause. Too soon.
There's an issue for this in GitLab's tracker:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14259

Sadly, it's four years old and seems pretty stagnant.
One note: the README lists one of the objectives as to "Remain open source for independent verification", but the project is licensed under the MIT license. Since it's being designed to be a turn-key solution for governments to use, wouldn't this allow them to distribute closed-source and (potentially maliciously) modified versions?
Has anyone here tried using their Lark suite (looks to be a G Suite competitor)? I'd love to hear more details about it, because they've done a great job on TikTok/Douyin regardless of the issues with CCP.
Won't change as Korea never had a lock down and people were always going to cafes/restaurants
These articles really need to state what kind of testing was done: RNA or serological.

Very different conclusions if 50% test positive for one vs. the other.
Executive Order allows New Yorkers to get legally married via video conference
You want right-click > "Paste & go".
So you want more regulation made in an attempt to prevent regulatory loopholes from enabling private players to protect their market position using government regulation? Without any explanation, this position seems absolutely incoherent.
Shows what strong, competent leadership can do. And a society with fairly high trust in it.
Ask HN: Help Price Website Builder
Hi all!

I have a dream of providing a website builder for everyone on the planet. I have a working, robust product, people tell me the results start to look great. So far it has been free but obviously this model doesn't scale. I can't possibly pay the operating costs for that many websites.

I wanted to come up with a pricing that is 1) free for hobby sites, 2) really cheap for professional use, 3) pays the bills. Here is the best I was able to come up with:

http://boomla-theme.boomla.net/pricing

What do you think? (Time to be ruthless.) Or maybe you can suggest something even better?

Cheers,
Tibor
Blockchain-Based Land Records and Information Platform
Right but there’s a lot of people who don’t trust that that’s actually true, either thinking Apple is lying or thinking third party bad actors can probably hack the software and firmware to get that data. At least that’s my guess based on what I know of the typical HN crowd.
In newer version of Python, you can send values to Generators with generator.send(), which makes python Generators effectively coroutines.
Leaving modeling up to the professionals is completely the wrong lesson. Time series forecasting from business, epidemiological or economic data forecasting is hard so you should always take the results with a large grain of salt. The professionals get it wrong too and just like the weather nearby points from the model are more likely to be accurate than distant ones.

Smoothing helps. Estimating error helps. Domain knowledge helps. Experience in applying the model helps. There are techniques other than the one demonstrated in the article. Sometimes those help. There are also professionals who create models which are used to support the bias of the modeler or the modelers employer (i.e. cherry picking).

Politicians and pundits more often than not take the results of these models and draw conclusions which are unwarranted or at least highly uncertain without mentioning the uncertainty or only giving it lip service.
A significant part of the lower peak is the earlier intervention. There's similar patterns if you compare between US states.
It's actually the other way around. Beat frequencies can't exceed the frequency of either of the component frequencies.
Commodus was not the only sibling with a checkered life, the family was wracked against wealth and privilege. Again, the parenting advice of Roman patricians is not necessarily wise advice. And yes, some of Meditations is great stuff, but some of it is also mediocre, and some of it is bad or just wrong. We've had 2k+ years of new work done in stoicism and other philosophies.

Each family is unique and spending more time with a tutor or parent is not always the best. There are ~7.5m reports for abuse of children in the US annually and ~65k cases of sexual abuse of children. There are ~75m children in the US total. Each one of those cases, horrible as they are, are real and society needs to take them into account. It's nearly 10% of kiddos that get abuse reported annually. Digging into these grim statistics is very worthwhile. [0] Hand-waving them off is not helpful or realistic to most educators, parents, or policy makers.

I'm not saying that larger or smaller classes are more or less ideal or that abuse is related to stoicism or families. I am saying the solution is unique to each child and that many solutions exist simultaneously. Each family and each person is unique.

[0] https://americanspcc.org/child-abuse-statistics/

EDIT: Another post on HN pointed to some of pg's comments on parenthood here: https://www.unclepaul.io/
Simple climate models in the 90's predicted TEOTWAWKI by 2020. Random guesses did not.
To be clear, the Korean government officially still recommends social distancing. They are especially worried about the family picnics mentioned in the article, and have officially closed many public parks in response.

To repeat: don't take this as a sign that Korea believes it has successfully managed the outbreak.
Once I worked at a place which was very interested in protecting the IP inherent in their firmware. They gave me a research assignment to get an idea of how difficult it would be for an attacker to extract it as a binary given unlimited physical access to a sample device.

Since I read and write Chinese, I did some searching on Chinese-language sites and found a company advertising their ability to do just that... for about $10,000 per job. They listed the chips they knew how to crack, but the one my employer was using was not on the list...

I feel that trying to prevent reverse-engineering by adversaries with unlimited physical access is a fool's errand. So this break of Xilinx FPGAs is interesting... But kind of a shoulder shrug.
Very true although the latest binary is only released for macOS.
Taiwan also has a lot of preventative measures, i.e. mandatory mask usage in mass transit systems, government issued masks and mask rationing system, automated temperature checks at various public spaces, mask usage in schools, plastic dividers at restaurants... on top of that they have a very sophisticated scalable method of tracking people who have the virus and ensuring that they are abiding by quarantine rules via tracing the location of their cell phone.

In my city, people are still arguing whether or not people in the mass transit system should be wearing masks.
Except the latest release has only a binary for macOS.
I have been hearing this new argument a lot lately and on both sides of the coin. "It's not a supply problem it's either a "not enough" or "too much" demand problem.

The first time I heard it was regarding the lack of toilet paper in stores, now it's going to bankrupt farmers.

I think it's actually a problem with the just in time delivery system currently being used. What 50 years ago would have been considered due diligence in having a couple months of food and consumables is now considered hoarding.

Maybe the current delivery/storage system is causing these fluctuations in demand to affect the supply so drastically?

Maybe it's small condos without closet pantry or freezer space in our over populated, "housing crisised" cities causing it?

It's been a long time since I took a Consumer-ed / Home economics class and I don't even know if they teach it anymore (maybe it was replaced by coding classes?) but when I was in school "Supply and Demand" were tied together and you couldn't do any calculation with one and not the other let alone blame a problem on one.
Or possibly they could take a picture of their diagnosis sheet?
I didn't realize Pandoc was written in Haskell :)
Elon Musk Discussing VTOL Electric Jet (2018)
Have you visited xmpp.org? To me it already has been extended, the x in its name is for extendable. That said I would start with xmpp.org
Yes, I slipped a zero. Still, your argument is: It's not adopted much, so we shouldn't adopt it--- plus it doesn't matter if naming isn't trustworthy? :P I don't find that a very good argument.

Your same argument seems to imply that since we have good TLS on many protocols, we shouldn't be too heartbroken about people stealing traffic with BGP, either.
War is profitable to energy sector (XLE), aerospace & defense (ITA, XAR). It is profitable to states where oil production is dominant (gulf states, some parts of the midwest). There are many oil billionaires in the states.
You could probably do it with a Gitlab CI step + python (or whatever language of choice) script as well.
Once you drop the exceptional case of the NY metro area, not really.

What makes Washington, Illinois, and Michigan so bad compared to Texas, Virginia or California?
This guy seems like he’s projecting his reaction onto the whole world. People have different reactions and motivations to things and you’d be surprised how different they are to your own.
Just for folks that aren't familiar pulsars are spinning stars that can hold themselves together up to at least ~1khz. Here's what the signal sounds like coming from a few different ones (incl. 600hz range) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0P6x_xDEU
I just built a new hackintosh with opencore, and compared to clover, it was so much nicer. The documentation [0] is excellent; I'm able to grok what each option does rather than just guessing. It also feels so much less janky than clover did. Better filevault support, faster, leave SIP on, etc. It's also better in that one can avoid polluting /L/E /S/L/E, which will also allow users to keep running kexts even after Apple deprecates third-party ones.

[0]: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/master/Docs/...
Part of why it's like this could be because of how our dads and their dads handled being fathers. Perhaps too often they didn't own it, made child raising women's work, and created that gap in society that we see here today.

I might be wrong. I used to get a little frustrated by how men are treated as parents though, and I've come to think it's no one's fault today. If some old lady congratulates me for spending time with my sons (something I do every day and while it is nice, I don't want people to think it's remarkable and novel), I shouldn't assume it's condescending or rude; it's more likely that her husband rarely spent time with their kids and/or her father never spend time with her. She could be totally sincere.

Similarly, there could be very little written for us because in much of the world and recent history, raising kids has been largely placed on women. We might need to start writing if we want to see that change.

Again, I could be wrong. I think about it quite a bit though. Being a 'single dad' was a real eye opener about how men and parenting are perceived in society.
It's unfortunate gitlab is built as a monolith. I'd be very capable of writing the code for implementing such a feature myself if gitlab had a first class API. The code, as we all know, would look something like this:

for commit
diff = commit.diff
for line in diff.result
if 'todo' in line
line_id = hash(line)

if existing := issues.find(tags={'todo_id': line_id}):
existing.update(code_url = new line location)
else:
issues.create(....)

But because these APIs aren't first class a change like this requires deep knowledge of gitlab's internals and acceptance and prioritization of features from gitlab's core team.
Fair enough - but as to the filling network at least, that seems a lot more feasible given a decent way to store it.
Much of road infrastructure is funded via fuel taxes. Roads or "roads" with track laid are also needed for public transportation.
this needs to honestly be discussed more. Even though the article is more about discussion restrictions on the concept, the whole point of non-free culture should be to ensure the artist can realize monetary gains from his work in order to reward the time spent. Also to enable the artist to have some control over the distribution and direction of his work, as well as incentivize new and original work.

CC doesn't do anything for the artist.

it's great for distributors, who can aggregate and monetize free content, and remixers, who have a base of ready-made content to use as a basis for their own works. And of course the audience. But i don't really see the point of it as an artist.