skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's next in the series:

verbal narrative, hand-written text, manual printing press, industrial printing press, mechanical tabulation, punched card computing, Von Neumann computing, distributed public computing, ?
Your diagrams are awesome! Are there any lessons you'd be keen to share from creating a diagramming UX in Vue.js? Are you rolling your own or standing atop another library?
Outlook Lite 10KB Svelte (MS Hackathon Story)
Tanay Pratap talks us through the thought process behind building a tiny email client and serving markets where slow network connections are common.
The authorizor appears to be agnostic, so Microsoft can implement it with Bing's AMP too without Google.
So you're fine with your everyday movements logged and published online? After all, to go anywhere you'll need to step public roads, so you have no expectation of privacy.
> Lies/bullshit/deception and ignorance are nothing new

You are definitely right there, but my point was the barrier for entry has been lowered. No need to have a printing press and to be accepted for sale at storefronts - if you have an internet connection, you have a voice.
'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says (2019)
These are all fine and perhaps valid, but it's not a serious conversation until you add this at the top:

- Because Amazon has extreme market power and engages in predatory anti-competitive behavior
Even without any particularly futuristic hardware, I'm of the belief that someone could design a smartwatch which does 80% of what I use a smartphone for. We primarily need better voice recognition (where better = basically flawless), and more power-efficient CPUs and radios.

A smartwatch can give directions, read and reply to messages, look up information, display schedules, and take pictures—all without taking my attention too far away from the real world. Anything longer I may as well do on a computer or tablet. I wouldn't be able to read the news or random forums, but the inability to do that 24/7 would be healthy IMO.

I don't forsee a future where smartwatches could replace smartphones for everyone, but I do think they could replace them for a lot of people, me included.
It's not about wanting peace, it's about optics. The Arab world needs it's EastAsia.
So e won. Cause the 2nd hump will break the supply chains back in Europe.
I look forward to citations for both those points. But I suspect what you mean is not that the employees did anything illegal, but that you believe a company is legally allowed to fire you for that. If that company is eager to fire people for trying to organize. Because that is what I'm objecting to here.
Data visualizations using Google Trends to explore Covid-19 search queries
Found this via "The Villager and the F-18" article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23006595
In order to make the simulation hypothesis remotely believable, you have to assume a dozen premises which are nonstarters. In particular:

>Simulating the entire universe down to the quantum level is obviously infeasible, unless radically new physics is discovered. But in order to get a realistic simulation of human experience, much less is needed

I'm glad Bostrom says simulating the universe is infeasible (most people loosely following his argument ignore this), but I'm not convinced that simulating an infinitesimal portion of the universe is sufficient. Rewinding the simulation whenever one of the billions of simulated humans gets skeptical while doing science sounds absurd and kind of defeats the purpose of a simulation, no? In general, I don't think you can ad-hoc "fill in the details" of a particular piece of a simulation and have it make sense because you weren't simulating the inputs in that much detail.

I wrote quite a bit more here: http://jere.in/the-simulation-hypothesis-is-nonsense
Reading this is cathartic. I've personally been bitten by VS's "Clean" not actually cleaning many times.
> poor implementation

Well that's an understatement. NYT has the tech resources to do this a million better ways.

> investor quarterly report [...] active users

Speaking of "active user" counts, it's convenient that "jsmith1000" is plausibly an active user, whereas "jsmith(state:deleted)" is not. Hm.
Yeah I agree. A lot of large companies can invest deeply just to drive out their competition. WalMart famously did the same to drive out other businesses in the 90s and 00s.

I think though we need to recognize that Amazon is succesful for a reason, and those reasons are why they are in a position to invent even deeper and more relentlessly...
But their engineers passed leetcode so they're super smart /s
There's plenty of evidence that this coronavirus is less stable in hotter, humid climates. Given India has some dense cities, diverse climates and lots of indoor buildings it obviously has spread a bit, but warm developing countries like India and Vietnam were among the first hit and have relatively little spread for their population density.
Check out - Allegory of the cave. You don’t need computers.
strictly bigger than 0
Gimbal and Gofast lack enough info to not be explained by a baloon or a far away jet confusing the camera operators (i doubt the gimbal explanation due to context but again we lack the data...)

As for the projection idea, that would explain the ability to reach impossible speeds. However as long as this is not demonstrated by anyone your guess is as good as the alien probe guess

> I talked to someone who has a relative that flys high altitude spy planes and he said, “I’ll put it this way. There is nothing flying in the air that we don’t fully understand”.

You see why this might be considered annecdotal at best?
The original AirPods looked hideous, so hideous I stopped wearing them outside of my home.

But the AirPod Pros have fixed up the dimensions a bit, now they look like a communication device rather than a piece of jewelry resembling a miniature cigarette.
Navy withholding data on UFO sightings, congressman says
It's smart of you to bring up the surreal numbers: https://thatsmaths.com/2019/01/10/really-0-999999-is-equal-t...
On a tangent: Emacs has a venerable minor mode called "glasses-mode" that inserts visual underscores whenever the case changes in the middle of a word. So "readJPEGFile" is displayed on screen as "read_JPEG_File". (This is just a display trick, the file itself is not modified.) It can be handy for reading denseCamelCaseCode, esp. when your eyes are tired.
Personally I prefer this, since it also carries on to every following line.

Like, in C#

List<Account> accountsToDelete = accountService.GetAccountsToDelete();
repository.Delete(accountsToDelete);

becomes

var accountsToDelete = accountService.GetAccountsToDelete();
deleterService.Delete(accountsToDelete);

So as much type information is already encoded into names so that all references to this object are clear in what we're handling, and so the type declarations at the point where the variable is declared is just redundant noise.

If your variables aren't informative when I'm reading the code, I'll be confused 5 lines later anyways. So make them informative at the start. And given that, doesn't that mean the List<Account> is a bit redundant?
Bill Comes Due for Overextended Airbnb Hosts
(author here) Not quite, a 256 bytes PC intro CAN have decent non MIDI music as showcased here https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=79281 (won the "outstanding technical achievment" award) I did some intros in 32 bytes and 16 bytes having that "horrible buzzer", looks like some ASCII effects and a dutch gabber bassline is the maximum you can get in this category :D ( https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=76093)
Ahh... yes.

Your somebody's relative's anecdotal proof has definitely put this case to rest. I suggest nobody prose any further questions.

Do we know if this person even has a relative? Maybe they have schizophrenia and it's a relative in their head. My anecdotal idea is that it's probably against some fairly serious oath that those who fly "high altitude spy planes" don't disclose that work to anybody... even relatives... Who knows tho, right?
We should also consider that the current mainstream definition of "open source software" only dates from the 1998 founding of the Open Source Initiative; yet debates about "open"-vs-"closed" source code have been going on in the industry since at least the early 1980s, and I'm sure someone at some point would have used the phrase "open source" prior to 1998, but not in the exact same sense it is currently used.

IBM caused immense controversy in 1983 with their "Object Code Only" (OCO) announcement–they were no longer going to ship the source code to customers with new versions of their mainframe operating systems. Might it make sense to describe that as a shift from "open source" to "closed source"? Even though, most of that software was copyright by IBM and required paying IBM license fees to legally use, and hence isn't "open source" by the contemporary meaning of the phrase.

IBM's "closed source" decision upset a lot of their customers, who found source code availability very useful in debugging problems and also implementing local customisations/extensions. And I'm sure competing mainframe vendors who had an "open source" policy instead (including Honeywell, owner of Multics) would have emphasised that differential to their customers.
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I think these models will drop in requirements pretty dramatically - there is a lot of work in finding sparse subsets of NNs that actually do all the work for example, and embedded hardware is getting a big bump in neural network inference due to massively parallel FMA blocks being added to their DSPs.

Also remember that the majority of academic work is done based on benchmarks that don't include inference time or hardware requirements. As these things start becoming useful without these restrictions industry will start tweaking the cost functions that are being minimised to make it useful in the real world too.
Yes, but does it support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
>other orgs heavily micromanage or have structures that create more politics than value

Isn't it hard to generalize like this? Consider Apple under Jobs: arguably Apple succeeded because of Jobs micromanagement because Jobs had (to quote Bill Gates) "great taste". Without that unifying sense of taste, you get something like Google, which is quite data-driven, and which doesn't have any unifying personality.

Although, in a way it feels funny drawing general conclusions from observations of unicorns which are, by definition, extremely rare and unique. It feels akin to cargo-culting.
Jakarta's Trash Mountain: When people are desperate for jobs, they come here
Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
Thanks. I can certainly appreciate that aspect, and reading it is on my bucket list. I think I'll still read the old version.
If this is a problem for you, I recommend pylint. No need to rely on code reviews, and catches majority of cases like this.

(You’ll likely want to disable some of the more opinionated checks, but this is well documented and supported)
It may or may not be. Nobody knows the whole science, it accrues too fast for people to keep track of it. Maybe some PhD somewhere out there wrote a paper about a chemical or therapy that would solve GP's problems. Or maybe it will exist in 10 years. Or maybe never.

I assume GP did a lot of searching and experimentation, and haven't found a solution. From my own experience I can tell that the process of searching itself is very draining, especially if your trial-and-error has to involve help from a specialist at each step. So at some point one just figures out a coping strategy and cuts their losses.
How do you plan to monetize it?
Or light. One of the most striking parts about driving to northern Canada (well, central BC) in the summer a few years ago was how bright it was at night. I was driving through the night, and for the longest time I was trying to figure out what that light in the sky ahead was. I was sure there must be a big city ahead or something (there wasn't), because I had no idea you could still see light in the sky at midnight.
FWIW there's also wasm2c and wasm2js out there :)
Agent Wehrter
You are referring to Agent Wehrter, which turned out to be Martin Bormann, Hitler’s Private Secretary.Now, throughout the war, starting on 12 April 1943, Bormann provided direct intelligence to Stalin directly. All reports from Wehrter went directly to Stalin without being reviewed first by the NKVD as was the normal procedure.Now, the process was not that Bormann provided Stalin with everything he knew, that was technically not possible. He had to use telephone lines that were not being monitored and there were very few of those in Germany. So the amount of information he could pass on was limited.Secondly, most of the time, he replied to direct questions asked by Stalin.
While Bormann knew about an offensive being planned in the West as early as September 1944, he did not know the details. He was not present when Hitler finally decided on what to do exactly.Stalin’s private archives, which reveal all communications with Wehrter, do not include any mention of an offensive in the West. So clearly Stalin was not aware of it.
Well, there's two ways to write an application, analogous to two styles in mathematics as described by A. Grothendieck.

http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf
> Luckily he has many years before it matters!

and depending on career choices, it might never matter at all.
Fantastic NASA NIAC Concepts
And this is why I prefer hyperreals.

0.999... = 1 - 1/∞

We talk about infinity all the time in mathematics, teachers use the concept to introduce calculus in a way that people can more easily understand, but using infinity directly is almost universally banned within classrooms.

Nonstandard analysis is a much more intuitive way of understanding calculus, it's the whole "infinite number of infinitely small pieces" concept, but you're allowed to write it down too.
Symbols with broad scope like functions, fields and types are psychologically heavy because of their broad scope, caps thus reflect their higher weight. Function parameters and local variables have narrow scope, so they are psychologically light and are thus lower case.
I wake up and the first thing I do is check my phone and I don't think that's unhealthy. Quite the contrary I believe.

It is a slow start to the day and I feel connected to friends and family. I am living abroad, a few hours behind my native country where most of my friends live. So when I wake up, there is already a lot of activity in the WhatsApp groups I am part of. I don't use WhatsApp professionally, so it's just personal stuff. I love to read trivial chatting from my friends and family first thing in the morning. Specially living abroad. Specially these days of Covid.

I also check Twitter and HN, but just a quick look, not the reason I pick up my phone. I spend about 20min on WhatsApp, 5min elsewhere.

It also wakes me up, so I don't oversleep. Then I am ready to go the bathroom, prepare my breakfast and when I get to work, I am ready and sharp.

I believe people use the idea of picking your phone first thing in the morning as an image and a proxy for phone addiction, I don't think it is. I believe I would be less healthy if I had my phone locked away from me in the morning.
A Riemann integral in complex analysis uses the same definitions as one in real analysis. Derivatives ditto. In the thread we're comparing real analysis to nonstandard analysis.

I'm eager to be corrected if you can tell me something I said that's wrong. I'm not interested in gradually upping the ante with you until it's clear who really has more math background.
That would certainly be an interesting study, I just have never been able to come up with any concrete idea on my own.
As someone who has taken this iteration of the course and read most of the original SICP, I actually think this new CS61A does a really good job of covering the same material as the original SICP while introducing beginners to a useful rather than esoteric language. The capstone project is still writing a scheme interpreter, just in Python. We still do actually write some code in Scheme, just in the later portion of the class.
UK’s coronavirus contacts tracing app could ask users to share location data
What's very neat is that the algebraic argument also works for other sequences like 0.888...

x = 0.8...

10x = 8.8... = 8 + x

9x = 8

8/9 = 0.8...
Not Washington:

https://esd.wa.gov/newsroom/job-search-requirement-now-optio...
This looks nice for this case but I don’t think filter would work properly. JS is much more similar to Linq and people seem to love linq. I don’t know of anyone else that does it like python, but plenty do it like JS. For me that tells you all you need to know about whether it’s actually a good idea.

Edit: SQL does it a bit like python and it’s a massive pain in my opinion (and the opinions of many others I’ve talked to). Msft agreed so they made Kusto which does it like JS and everyone I’ve spoken with vastly prefers it.

(Work at msft, no info on the actual business reasons behind kusto, etc etc.)
bigger or equal
When you're selling a luxury good, one of the important aspects is it being recognizable. Other people in the target demo need to be able to see and understand that your customer owns and uses a status symbol without it being tastelessly obviously flashy.

Think the Birkin bag.
"I had known some of the Skinheads there from prior rallies in Tennessee and because of not knowing anybody there, I ended up meeting with them and hung out with them for some time," he said.

Isn't it human nature to reach for familiarity when in new places? You're reaching.
The Central Line is also the busiest (most trips, I can't find most passenger-km), so without knowing the number of assaults on the other lines, this is irrelevant.
> There is no proof that will ever satisfy a person dead-set against this.

Yes there is. There is a proof that uses only fundamentals of first year university analysis. When you see

0.99999....

this can be written as an infinite sum

\sum_{i=0}^\infty 0.9 x 10^{-i}.

Truncate the sum and set

S_n = \sum_{i=0}^n 0.9 x 10^{-i}

and now simply use the rules of arithmetic progressions to get the limit out:

0.1 S_n = \sum_{i=0}^n 0.9 x 10^{-i-1}

S_n - 0.1 S_n = 0.9 - 0.9 x 10^{-n-1}

0.9 S_n = 0.9 ( 1 - 0.1^{n+1} )

S_n = 1 - 0.1^{n+1}

Now let n tend to infinity to find the limit, which is 1.

You don't need to imagine infinity to do any of this.
C++20 almost got them.

There are some Java annotation processors that rewrite the bytecode for contracts.

As extra info.
>To compete with Amazon, you have to learn from them, and be prepared to adopt their practices as the new industry norm.

Amazon has taught me to go out of my way to buy directly from manufacturer or a reputable retailer that doesn't offer third party sellers on their website.

I don't want to save 10%, 20%, even 50% to risk any chance of getting some counterfeit crap. Hopefully, there will be sufficient customers like me to make it economical to offer quality, vetted goods at whatever price it takes. Sadly, I see even target.com now allows third party sellers.

I wouldn't care about third party sellers if the retailer explicitly mentioned they don't commingle and allowed me to restrict all of my searches to items procured, shipped, and sold directly by the retailer.
TechCrunch started highjacking the back button :/
I used to be the same. Then I broke one. Replacing the screen wasn't a huge burden, but I use a case and a (glass) screen protector now anyway.
Andddddd, already hugged to death.
Do you seriously have the OG Laserdisks? Those are crazy rare - for the good of the people you should make their digital content uhhhhhhhhh "available" as it were ;)

If a Holdo is a 1 in a million chance, it's weird that it worked again in the orbit of Endor, as we see at the end of the final movie...
Have you seen these guys (makani)?

Kiting in an figure-8 with turbines instead of propellers (actually used as propellers for liftoff).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6NW0QeKLZA

That thing is also huuuge: https://makanipower.com/makani/images/pages/technology/cta.j...

longer vid with sound: https://youtu.be/hYxeni2vVOs?t=60
It could be interesting to separate the visualization functionality from the syncing/sharing aspect.

For example, if you store the schema representation as a logical dump (CREATE statements) in a git repo, syncing/sharing becomes trivial. This also provides a branch workflow for collaborative editing, and the commit history serves as an authoritative changelog.

From this point of view, it could be compelling to have an offline visualization tool that simply operates on top of the current local filesystem state of a repo. Ideally this could be paired with a self-hosted server/daemon that can generate a visualization of any arbitrary commit of a remote repo on GitHub, GitLab, etc.

Disclosure: I'm the author of an open source schema management tool https://skeema.io which is designed to support a repo-driven workflow for DDL execution. So I have a heavy bias towards storing schemas declaratively, as repos of CREATE statements.
> Well, just do it! You can join the event on facebook,

Fail.
Unfortunately, if they are determined enough, bureaucrats can have ways of enforcing their silly laws. Ignoring them is not always a good answer.
"Tmux on my server has been a godsent." Exactly. I let my cloud VM tmux sessions run for months. I manage other VMs and Docker containers from my tmux "command center".
> Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces.

Market forces are not moral. You don't get a free pass on your actions because you made a bunch of money.
Nah, it's time for the world to decouple from the US.
C style: abspdpsfacfac

(even has pdp in it, truly C)
just tell them to write out the complete infinite sequence of 9's

when they are done they will have undesrtood.

chuckle
Disney is saying "in exchange for a chance to spread your message in our marketing materials, you agree to our follow our ToS".
> To compete with Amazon, you have to learn from them, and be prepared to adopt their practices as the new industry norm. Not just dismiss them as some relentless and heartless evil empire.

Amazon has figured out how to appeal to the typical consumer and keep them real happy.

Exploiting workers, suppliers, distributors, the country it's founded in are some of they way they deliver that promise.

Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces.

Until the fundamental consumer model changes, competing with Amazon is not very logical or effective. It might make people feel good, but not effective.
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Great website. What tool did you use to create the press kit page?
Researchers Use Machine Learning to Unearth Underground Instagram 'Pods'
I wonder if this is related to "intuitionist" math. This is an alternative formulation of math which doesn't have the law of excluded middle, recently discussed on Hacker News relating to this physics research: https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu...
Startup idea: auto twitch highlight to youtube aggregator as a service.

Put in your channel, upload your intro, outro, and paid testimonial for raid: shadow whatever, profit.
Pascal is not better, it's just more verbose.
Do active/inactive fields comply with data privacy laws like those in California and the EU?
https://drawsql.app/templates/hacker-news:

> Database schema for

> Hacker News

> Social news website: Sample database schema diagram for Hacker News, from open-sourced Pythonic News

Seems a little misleading. It's the schema from a clone, not a the original Hacker News site that most people think of when they see the title.
Annnnnd, it's gone.
What specific concerns did you have with the redux-thunk types?
Yeah forcing myself to keep making sure I'm defining "equality" seems to be a really useful way of "breaking my brain" until I understand what an algebraic structure "really is."