skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent a lot of time there.

Yes, the smoking culture is similar to the West in the 70's.

But more important, it's a very hot and humid country, so urban people do not go outside to walk more than a block, and if they do, it's with long sleeves, hijab, etc.

So they're not getting Vitamin D from sunlight in the larger cities.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-...

>If a request goes through multiple proxies, the IP addresses of each successive proxy is listed. This means, the right-most IP address is the IP address of the most recent proxy and the left-most IP address is the IP address of the originating client.
Isn't it just price discovery?

Nobody would be upset if you bought a company you thought was undervalued and told other people they should buy it too.
Perhaps the blog post from the company is a better link

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroach-labs-raises-87-...
Look at their "sample selection" section. "The goal of sample selection was to select a set of individuals that collectively captured the maximum amount of weighted allelic diversity53." And also says "We also added the three Ashkenazim Trio samples and the Puerto Rican individual (HG00733). These four samples were added for the purposes of comparison with other studies that are using them."

Four genomes make a comprehensive evaluation set, don't think HG001 is "absolutely" needed.
Array.from({ length: N }).forEach()
In theory I like this system. What are some of the downsides?
Such a disappointment RethinkDB ended up being. Converted over my side projects quickly after that went South.
Stop Overcomplicating Shit: A reminder to myself in a world full of advice
All the translate addons take you to the Google translate variant. It does not help at all especially when buying stuff from websites for example. I prefer the on-spot translation of chrome. The user experience is very bad with these translate addons.
I have a feeling engineers who managed to find employment at AirBnB in the first place will turn out just fine. It's not exactly your local no-name web dev company.
How We Got to Sesame Street
My 2 cents: Not the worst idea, but you should really explain what it does on your web site.

Also a subscription per QR code is not very attractive and it's hard to keep track of multiple codes for users. Selling memberships (such as 5 codes for $9/mo, 20 codes for $19/mo etc) could be a better model.
There is a Firefox Focus though: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/... I use Firefox Focus almost every day, mainly for "focused" browsing, i.e. one page at a time, no tabs; without tabs and the urge to open links you really get to focus on the current page more. It has some content blockers capable of blocking ads and trackers too, although in my regular browsing I use 1Blockers for configurability (say, disable cookies on news sites).
"Note Pinco" is prone to being bullied.
Writing a Shader Graph
Hey Lawrence,

Thanks for this detailed comment and the historical background, it is very informational!
We pay the dictators, they give us raw materials and our fair share of the surplus value from their slave's labor. The dictators enjoy glorious wealthy lifestyle and we get goods manufactured cheaply. Everybody wins.
Aurora: A Live Map of Twitter
No packed mass transit like other dense urban centers. Even their "urban center" is much less dense than other cities.
What are you using to do translations?
Side letters are legal. Lying to an auditor is not.

Ideally, auditors would verify the legitimacy of a transaction with the counterparty. As in, physically visit their office and speak to the person whose signature is on the contract.

Unfortunately, this is impractical when there are hundreds or thousands of such contracts every year. There aren’t enough auditors and there’s not enough time. So mostly, auditors rely on the assumption that they’re not being provided with falsified documents, and they’re not being lied to.

Unfortunately, that’s sometimes (often?) just not true. Even though it’s illegal, it’s still highly vulnerable to exploitation.
Metaprogramming is very alluring on the surface, we've all been frustrated by the limitations of our languages of choice at some point or another.

But, I think this trend might lead to extremely hard to read code, and there is a good chance that this hard-to-read code will be treated as some black box/voodoo.

It might not be a better idea than self-modifying machine code or some of the wildest C macros...
One of the funniest things I've read on HN is Gluten Free Antarctica (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729224), which didn't have much to do with tech. I was glad to have come across it.
Labor day is celebrated on May 1st around the world in honor of the events of the Haymarket Affair, where the Chicago police attacked striking workers. But in the US it is celebrated at the end of summer. This is not an accident, and is directly connected to your question.
Http polling came across my mind, but I always thought "No I won't do that". But in my noob mind it was full of http overhead and it must be ws like interaction. Apparently it was a thing, Facebook and a lot others use it.

And laravel, it was everything I knew. I really liked it, the orm was superb, the template engine was superb. It has it downside though, the big amount of code need to be parsed.
“You can make up a convenient story for any reality you’d prefer. Whatever you want! It’s crazy. My grandma never measured anything and she’s an airline pilot.” - Abraham Lincoln
> Whenever I look at WP articles on any topic I know, like deep learning/deep reinforcement learning/behavioral genetics/decision theory/darknet markets etc, I find that they tend to be hilariously out of date, short, incomplete, or not covered at all.

The same is true for the stuff I know anything about, too. But I wonder if there's an alternative interpretation of this. The article argues:

> And it’s casual users who matter. We lost the credentialed experts years ago, if we ever had them.

I can see the truth in this. But at the same time, couldn't you say that to the same extent, the more "casuals" you have editing, the worse the articles that really need an expert's oversight (like machine learning articles) are going to be?

I recently made some huge improvements to an article that was basically unreadable. Then I started looking through the history, and found that the article had been basically okay (though not great) about 8 months prior. Tracing the edits, I found that a professor at a community college had made it a semester long assignment for each student to pick a Wikipedia article to work on, in order to learn ... something. In any case, the student assigned to work on the article in question couldn't even write coherent English, let alone make high quality edits to this article. They had systematically ruined the article with a new account over about 4-5 months, with no oversight, and none of their commits were reverted by any editor.

So I find it rather hard to say for certain that what we need are "more" editors, if those editors are largely going to be casual editors. As an expert (in a small number of fields), I don't (usually) edit Wikipedia for two reasons:

1. The starting quality of most of the articles I would work is so abysmally bad that I'd honestly rather tell the students I work with to just totally ignore Wikipedia as a way of learning about stuff in my field. Making two or three articles passable would not resolve that fundamental problem. (The problem is that the quality of an article not overseen by a very good editor is at best going to approach an average quality essay by a college student - in other words, about a 2 out of 5.)

2. I don't mind strict editing rules (see above), in fact I think they may often be necessary. What I've encountered when trying to edit Wikipedia, however, is that long-time editors know how to use and distort the rules to their own advantage. This doesn't mean the rules are misguided, necessarily, it just means that Wikipedia's culture is too insular and the top editors tend to have their own way with things.
This is precisely the falsehood the present time is dispelling.
Love the level and amount of documentation/tutorials provided by the author!

Also, wondering when and if the source code of Circle itself will be available.
Trust over IP Foundation
What about AWX/Tower? It offers both a GUI and REST interface to the playbooks.
You have me confused for someone that would ever be in any part of this equation. Your name calling doesn't change the fact that you're replaceable. Very soon, it'll be by robots. And robots aren't scabs -- they're scars.
We admire the hacker spirit. Obviously, we also support the cop who saved the kid. And if something had gone wrong, our admiration would be overshadowed by grief. Yet in this situation, thankfully, nothing catastrophic occurred. I hope the kid learns a lesson but still maintains a spirit of adventure and discovery.
Obviously 5 is to young to be driving a car. Its not to young to be dreaming of driving a car.
Show HN: Recreating Clippy for My Website
iTunes uses CoreFoundation but it kinda barely uses AppKit even on macOS.
I love 60s and 70s retrofuturist style, white everywhere and rounded shapes being the most recognizable marks. Starwars was very much in that style: R2 and Luke, with a revival in episode I and maybe II. Rest of the movies were much darker.
As soon as the escape key has been removed, I had to do a big switch. Use the caps lock key as escape key. Happy since then!
The only hassle is to go set it up in the keyboard prefs.
Airlines are very capital-intensive, and those are exactly the type of industries that do not weather recessions very well. One does not simply lay off a 50 million dollar jet. It needs to be maintained -- regardless of whether or not it is in the air, making you money, or it's grounded in a hanger.
> Zurich is
Not when you factor in the tax differential

I doubt that $100k is the 99th percentile for London developers, maybe it is for European in general.
> If all you end up with is one user.

This isn't what I'm talking about. With just one user, even for desktop software the complexities of distributing the software are negligible.
> First mover advantage. It's like asking why no one has created another Reddit, or another HN. When the original exists, a derivative doesn't gain traction unless something goes seriously wrong.

Good point, yet here we are:

- slashdot feels like a shadow of its former self

- reddit replaced digg

- lobste.rs is a healthy alternative in addition to hn

- stackoverflow replaced expertsexchange

I still think someday someone will create a better q/a site and if I was an a position to do a startup to change the world for the better that would probably be high on my list of ideas.

I admit I could be wrong, but I am surprised that nobody has tried as far as I can see: after all the early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese, and there's a lot to be learned from what works and doesn't work today.
That one was correlated by author, though, because Maciej's a tech person and his articles have been prominent on HN for years—rightly so, because he's such a good writer, but not an example of the "you can't predict it from any sequence" test.
If you were an insider, yes. If you are an outsider and especially if you disclose the position, no.
Not super relevant to this thread, but you came up in conversation today: https://twitter.com/shortjared/status/1257863398433468416?s=...
Take a look at Eyes in the Sky, it's an interesting read.
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare-ebook/dp...
There are many reports that SARSCoV2 actually mutates quite slowly.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutation-rate.html
Few private companies been at this for a bit selling to law enforcement. Persistent Surveillance Systems have a few good videos on their abilities though strangely enough aren't mentioned in this article. They've been secretly doing this in Baltimore before it became public, be interested whether they are still contracted.

Intelligence agencies have been doing it in-house for a long time, you can watch them daily on flight trackers.

Buzzfeed open sourced their tracking methods.

https://www.pss-1.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WShv8ckdgE4

https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/6/11380034/fbi-homeland-secu...

http://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-04-federal-surveillance-p...
Any good takes on the benefit/harm ratio of these pre print servers?

Yes, it’s good to get info out quickly, especially in a pandemic. Yes, it’s very important that this kind of science is not stuck behind paywalls. But I really worry about the quality of data being published there and the ability of interested but non-technical readers to understand it in the appropriate context. Many news reports about this article didn’t reference this Twitter thread. But likely if it were published in a major journal after review and with an accompanying editorial, the context might have gotten through better.
I wrote a small post to explain the bias-variance trade-off in OLS visually, leaving it here in case it helps anyone: https://towardsdatascience.com/bias-and-variance-in-linear-m...
Once you start throwing tens of millions of lines at them, crashes become quite more frequent.
Snap does monthly no cliff as well.
Their analysis has new case rates falling off the peak as quickly as we arrived at it. And new case rates almost zero by end of June? This is wildly optimistic. Italy’s chart looks nothing like their forecast for the US.
Thanks for this breakdown, it's actually very helpful and explains some of the shamefully high bounce rates I've seen on some of my side projects in the past.
I use Cloud9 for 100% of my projects. I don’t have to worry about dependencies on my local machine or virtual environments or local resources or permissions or disk space. It stops charging for use when I stop using it so my average AWS bill is in the single digit dollars per month. I can use whatever machine I want because it’s just a dumb terminal.

I am a big fan, have been since before Amazon bought it. I’m shocked more vendors don’t have something similar.
Adult CAM site takes server offline, but not before it leaked 10B records
For sure - I'm glad you're enjoying the new Firefox. One issue, though, is that you didn't use the word "faster" in your comment, you just said it was "a stark improvement".

I guess what I'm concerned is illustrated by the following thought experiment. Suppose you took the old Firefox for Android code base, and re-released it as "Firefox Preview" with a prominent badge "now 20% faster!". Would you see glowing reports by users on forums talking about how much better it is? I think you would. The only way around that (as far as I can see) is to try to do objective measurements or screen recordings and find out if there's a real difference.

Again, not intending to put a damper on your personal experience with and enjoyment of the new browser. Just some thoughts about what's a fairly common comment on articles like this one.
Even if they find a technical workaround, Apple will just reject the app though. Not sure there is a workaround for that.
“the future according to the past” as my writing teacher called it quite pithily
Airbnb has been giving RSUs since 2014. I doubt hardly anyone who had options was impacted by this.
I understood the same.
Under AB5 the business to business exemption allows independent contracts who incorporate or otherwise form a business(including sole proprietorship) to avoid the new ABC test if they meet certain criteria. Being in the same line of business affects some of the criteria, but no single factor is dispositive.
We recently migrated a few small systems to CockroachDB (as a stepping stone). Overall, the experience was positive. The hassle free HA is a huge peace of mind.

I know people say this is easy to do in PG. I have recently setup 2ndQuadrant's pglogical for another system. That was also easy (though the documentation was pretty bad). The end result is quite different though and CockroachDB is just simpler to reason about and manage and, I think, more generally applicable.

But, on top of the well-documented postgresql incompatibilities, we have run into other issues.

First, and probably the reason you should stay away from CockroachDB's community edition, is the poor story around backups. You only get full backups. They are very slow to take and very slow to restore. There are even cases where it can fail to backup (https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/28948).

There are a lot of little bugs, which isn't a huge deal, but it's hard to find and you can spend a lot of time looking into it. Just yesterday we noticed that queries that use now() can't use indexes. Searching github's thousands of issues for "now() index performance" I get ~500 hits. Thankfully they are fast to respond to questions on slack / forums. But they _really_ need to clean up the hundreds (thousands?) of little bugs - some of them have been around for years. Most of them are near-non-issues, except for the time you waste looking into it.

Finally, performance seems worse than it could be. Running in single-node-mode with an _in memory_ database (for our integration tests) is still slower than postgresql. Restoring a 150mb dump file (just a bunch of inserts) takes over 2 minutes. But it's more than fine for the CRUD kind of thing we're doing.
Well, seeing as how the second amendment says "shall not be infringed", it could be argued that any law restricting arms ownership is in violation. In fact, you'll find many folks with that opinion.
It's not at all clear that they have identified anything on GitHub that is a copyright infringement. They've correctly claimed that the software is being used elsewhere to accomplish infringement, but the URLs they identified aren't reproductions or derivative works of any movies.
Well, then people have the choice of not updating because why would I if the only change that's noticeable brings more restrictions. I'm on Mojave and I don't really feel like I'm missing on anything. Both Mac OS and Windows are more or less feature-complete at this point.
Note that the marketing might make you think it's a drop in replacement for Postgres, and while it is very impressive, it lacks many common features and some are just different enough to be confusing.

The first difference I ran into was ALTER TABLE commands could not modify the datatype of a column. (It should be added soon.)

Your app probably won't "just work" -- yet.

But IMO this is the coolest open source database with a bright future.
> Come on...we're talking about Stripe...a $36B company that accepts payments around the world. You can't just drop a random website in here and claim it's an example of "good" when it doesn't even take into account context.

I would like to counter your point with this website of a company that has over $700B in assets and can probably buy a Stripe every single year for the next 20 years...I present to you Berkshire Hathaway: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com
PostgREST: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest and http://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/

Sample PostgREST apps: http://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/ecosystem.html

React-admin: https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ and https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin

React.js: https://reactjs.org/

Combinations:

- https://github.com/tsingson/ra-postgrest-client
- https://github.com/raphiniert-com/ra-data-postgrest
- https://reactjsexample.com/a-react-web-application-to-query-...
- https://github.com/tomberek/aor-postgrest-client
- https://github.com/priyank-purohit/PostGUI
- https://awesomeopensource.com/project/priyank-purohit/PostGU...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/bzrr1c/how_to_...

More links:

- https://github.com/topics/postgrest
- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22postgrest%22+%22react%22&t=ffab...
- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22postgrest%22+%22react-admin%22&...
- https://react-admin.com/docs/en/ecosystem.html

I'm sure you can find more!

Yeah, there's not one solution. There are many. Many are open source. PostgREST is amazing. The rest is up to you, but there's tons of tools out there.
>We absolutely have the right to picket and block the entrances, it's the entire point.

You have the right to picket but you have no right to block the entrances to a private property. Your tyranny won't be tolerated in this country. You will be imprisoned or shot dead. Your freedoms do not supersede the freedoms of others.
This is nothing. At the tender age of three years old, I had been driving cross-country for five years. After the first six years of that, my 10 year-old adopted daughter would switch off with me in the semi, so we could make deliveries around-the-clock.
"My Incredible Journey"
Run it in VMs. The Qubes OS is optimized for this use case. Then Solaris sees a very stable device environment, removing most of the work in keeping an OS fresh.
HN is the exception not the rule, it's half full of devs with irrational hatred towards javascript frameworks and half full of devs with irrational devotion towards javascript frameworks. The two groups have found a tenuous peace by agreeing to direct their hatred towards designers.

As a designer, I use one of the many alternative HN clients made for my people.
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann suing SoftBank over failed $3B stock deal
A lot of developers, particularly at larger companies, do actually need these things before launching a service.
It might be the case that the current virus is already very good at its job, new mutations are now able to compete.
Makes me think of OMNI magazine.
Communicates intense boomerism.

> And a fraction of the design costs!
Indeed
Which could sometimes be a ridiculous amount of time itself too!

https://twitter.com/rosyna/status/1194765305987227649
Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18966421

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148570
Aside from growth-oriented activities, are they in the black yet? Like could they be sustainable if needed?
this kid really embodies the american spirit: rich white boy doing whatever the fuck he wants without the slightest concern for who he might hurt or kill in the process, all in the delusional pursuit of a meaningless status symbol he has been conned into thinking he can get because of the cultish adherence to the belief it’s the land of equal opportunity despite any and all evidence to the contrary, all while trumpeting about how great he is to anyone who will listen
Wait a bit for the roll-out to complete. I find it's usually a couple days between announcement and an update hitting my phone.
I would call that quite native, because you can see what they do when they can't actually use the platform APIs. In my mind, blitting pixels onto a screen is non-native; using a NSView/NSCell or similar "generic" view and drawing into that wouldn't really cut it either, but using an actual button cell is basically as native as you get. Like, that platform API exists for exactly the thing Safari and Firefox are using it for? I'm not saying that they're rendering and interacting with the web natively–that would mean they're translating divs into NSViews and text into text components–but for controls they are using honest-to-goodness AppKit controls that they have hooked up to web APIs. What is not native is what they do when you mess with them, as I described.
So that’s a no on the example?
It has already been removed
https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D70023
I think in addition to a spec, an official test suite that's used to certify an implementation as compliant would also greatly help.
Yeah, my understanding is that SARS-CoV-2 has a proofreader enzyme that error corrects, which ensures fidelity during replication. In other words, it mutates a lot slower than say the flu.
> Do you remember Javascript before Node/React? Or before jQuery/Prototype? It was _trash_.

Anyone remember Dynamic Drive DHTML?
http://dynamicdrive.com/
I don't expect those numbers to be adjusted for the millions of Verizon subscribers who are getting 1 year of Disney+ for free.