skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What drove the worldwide populist uprising?

In America, it's easy to see why, if you're actually willing to pay attention to the complaints of the white working class. They are tired of being exploited for tax money while not receiving anywhere near the entitlements of other groups, tired of not being officially in the civil rights legislation, tired of their communities being flooded with foreigners that don't share their values, and tired of being replaced. Opiate crisis, brain-drain taking all the youth away from small towns, Walmart destroying Main Street, and other phenomena have combined to make much of America a desolate shadow of its former glory.

A lot of this is the direct outcome of policy decisions nobody agreed to. Nobody would have agreed to the 1965 Hart-Cellar act if they had known that the result would be the end of American culture as they knew it.

Such an uprising was inevitable and it will continue to get more strident as long as the actual concerns of these people are brushed off or claimed to be offensive concepts. It's not a matter of being "left behind", it's a matter of being replaced.
Some think that electron is a string!
We still need to apply caution but what we are doing right now is excessive. This is a new virus, there are still a lot of unknowns but the current situation doesn't warrant a complete shutdown. We need to protect the most vulnerable members of our society. We need to make sure that long term care homes have strict procedures and we owe good care to our elderly and vulnerable. They've earned it and we're more than capable of providing it. The facts seem to be that if your young and healthy you have little to worry about. We should still practice good hygiene and reduce unnecessary contact but we need to do our jobs. We need to produce the essentials that our civilization depends on. It's not business as usual but it is a matter of soldiering on so there will be a world to come back to.
A lot of this builds on Amateur Radio experience. If you dont have a licence, start there. You dont need a license to receive radio transmissions, but the learning involved in getting a license will give you a start on taking on more difficult projects.
I just subscribe to the hacker news telegram robot (@hnrobot). All the updated posts and articles are just posted there on one page. Really convenient.

I also collated some of these sites that I think are really useful and segregated them based on their domains. Hope it is of great use for you readers! (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-02-29-articles-in-sec...
Read some of the comments. Perhaps I'm over thinking.

I guess it depends on where the livestream is hosted. Is it YouTube or some other site?
who shat in all your brains?
Wonder how much money he got to shut up
The powers that been do not give a toss about Iran having access to cubesat tech. That isn't the end of the rocket they are worried about. It is the booster, the thing that can also throw bombs around as easily as cubesats, that really worries them. The bans on payload-specific tech are just a tiny extension of the more meaningful bans on core rocket technology.
Build admin and debug endpoints/pages into your services. Software is allowed to facilitate its own operation and troubleshooting, and it's almost always easier when it does.
I like these analogies to other engineering challenges!

It's easy to make predictions when outside a field (and I'm guilty of this fallacy too), but easy to miss the true challenges. For example, a lot of people just assume that fusion reactors will be better than fission, because that's what they were told their entire life and because we still haven't figured it out. But looking at energy density or thermal transference and fusion just looks like a really crappy heat source, something that would be incredibly difficult to ever engineer into a product without a secondary invention that is just as difficult, if not more, than the initial idea of fusion.
Let's argue about that when there's a modicum of evidence :)
For me, listening to music is just another distraction.
Next year is not cancelled.

> The good news is DEF CON will survive, and DEF CON 29 is planned for August 5-8 2021, you can reserve your rooms now.
Indias-frightening-descent-social-media-terror
> Software estimates are notoriously hard to get right and it's not uncommon for them to be wrong by several orders of magnitude

OK now hold on there just a sec... I've seen estimates off by 20%, 50%, even 100%. I'm sure there are estimates that have been off by 500% (I'd hate to dig into why). But "several orders of magnitude" is something like 10,000x -100,000x.
Hopefully that is just extreme hyperbole, but honestly in the context of discussing estimates, it seems particularly out of place.
I use org-mode in emacs for this! I usually keep notes on whatever task I am working on, and more general programming notes which I file into tagged headlines for easy reference later.
Totally agree, and as newcomers enter the field they can have a mistaken sense of time as they digest a bunch of really amazing new ideas, like has happened with deep learning in the past decade (the decades before that felt much slower to me).
> It feels like we are on a space ship, drifting through time, but basking in peace and solitude.

This comment reminded me of this video by CGP Grey which I think you may enjoy if you haven't yet seen it.

https://youtu.be/snAhsXyO3Ck
Google quietly gave a press release to Bloomberg so they could quietly show it to thousands of people.
I dream of a world where we could discuss the complex trade offs involved in the situation without people accusing others of just wanting to sacrifice workers to a volcano god.
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Does sgx have its own oscillator or it just depends on the external clock signal for timing?
Hum... Are you candidating yourself?
Damore does not fit into the neat ideological right or left classification but it would be impossible for an institution like Bloomberg to have nuance on this issue. Just because some deplorable lifted him up doesn't mean he should be defined specifically on an ideological axis.

But, of course, who gives a fuck. The rage machine rages on.
Language is ambiguous and we are debating between two meanings of empty - nothing there or nothing there, but can be replaced with something else. And we have the added distraction of what nothing means - no physical, permanent “particles” or the abstract empty space.. We can go down the rabbit hole of parsing semantic meanings.
Probably not much, court costs and some attorney's fees. They weren't winning.
Very US-specific, exceptionalistic, arguments in this piece. The fact is that the 1% is making the same aguments all over the world, including all the places that have universal healthcare.

>>> They think they won't get sick, and if they do, they think they'll get better. That's because they never had to go without medical care because they lacked insurance or because their insurer-imposed rationing denied them the care their doctors advised them to get, so they are less likely to have chronic illnesses and other comorbidities.

But in canada all those workers have health care yet exactly the same arguments are being made by business leaders. The reality is that the 1%, who are generally older, are probably more susceptible to this disease than the workers they hire. Rich people have heart disease. Rich people are old. Rich people are diabetics. They don't want to see disease sweep though the lower orders anymore than the rest of us.
How is this any different than native apps that offer the same functionality? The article is about facebook, not emacs. A native facebook apps is a much bigger privacy concern. The native app still stores your data in the cloud so you don't control it. It still can be using 3rd party libraries that are doing more than their stated function. It can still be communicating with servers from all over the world. On top of all that it has raw packet access to your WiFi for scanning your entire network on all ports (web apps can't do that). It can scan for SSIDs to find your location (a web app can't do that). It can scan bluetooth to find out your location and/or proximity to others (a web app can't do that). On most OSes it can read most of your files (like say your private ssh keys) web apps can't do that. If you give it access to your photos to select one photo it can read all of them, web apps can't do that. On a web app you can easily add all kinds of mods via extensions to add or remove features because the web apps are based on a known structure (HTML). that's rarely true for native apps. For app in question, Facebook, see FBPurity as an example.
I'm curious, in what way was your conception wrong? Sounds like it could still be interesting.
Except this wasn’t a conversation between people. It was an email blast nobody asked for or opted into.
Genuine question: do you think that writing your own editor was a better investment than extensively customizing an existing editor like Vim or Emacs (even going so far as to change the keybinds and UI)?
I remember at a previous job, a female engineer talking to other engineers when the Damore story broke. She said "I can't believe he said that women can't be good engineers" and indicated he deserved to be fired. As someone who actually read what he wrote, I just had to bite my tongue. That's not what he said at all, but even making the distinction makes you one of "them" and politicizes the workplace. It's just disappointing that these little whirlwinds of misinformation bullshit get to circle around and everybody just has to nod their heads.
“Empty space” is a completely relative notion. If I have a heavy steel safe which I do not have the key for, whether there is an empty space inside it is irrelevant, and the space occupied by the safe cannot be seen as being (partially) empty in any practical sense.
Work only on things that really matter.
> The open core model is also ethically-poor.

Can you speak more to this?
But he did become an alt-right / Fox News / conservative machine darling.
React by itself is just a templating language, yeah I got it.

But i think for most devs out there, like 99% (yeah I made this up) of them, React is actually React + React-dom, the latter per the account of the official team is like a runtime thing, which perfectly fits into the description of a framework.
Sorry, my mistake. I thought you wanted to have a discussion in good faith about the details you were unaware of. In hindsight, I was foolish.
Government provisioning of something that is a natural monopoly would have all the same problems associated with a lack of competitive discipline, but none of the problems of monopoly markups by those interested in maximal profit.

Nor would there be any ability to censor or discriminate for private gain. Government censorship is possible either way, so is not a difference.

Henry George did advocate municipal provisioning of natural monopolies, but was in every other respect a believer in radical free markets.
Node.js: you can share code between client and server side.

Typescript: you don't need to remember the arguments of a function or return types. Easy to refactor. Just no brainier. I also use it for all my config like webpack config with ts-node or ts-node-dev for auto reload.

Auto format all your code with 1 command. Prettier or lint fix. But that's basic.

Don't ever write global css. Use emotionjs or styled components. Scoped css it's a delight.

If you notice all my tips helps you to reuse the code you write. Therefore write less code, more efficient.

Plan all your stories ahead. Then do one at the time. Then mark it done. Prioritize.
Banned, or not recommended by the algorithm?
> This amounts to saying "we don't yet have a good theory of quantum gravity"

Er, yep. Thanks for taking the time to do roundabout arguments that lead to this very simple thing that we're not even disagreeing about. Sorry for not just stating this in a better way outright.

> string theory is the only candidate I'm aware of that is a QFT of any sort.

Loop Quantum Gravity is built from a QFT called "Group Field Theory" too, that's why they still have their renormalization problem. I suppose you could argue that it's "not comprehensive" enough, or that it's not a serious contender.

> Newton's laws and Maxwell's Equations are incompatible approximations.

...and they are therefore both failed paradigms, but we're not going to agree about that opinion. All I can add is to say that we're never going to find a fifth Maxwell equation that works with the other four and explains more things within that framework. That's all I mean by "failed" and it's probably a controversial perspective.
Side note, this already doesn't work if you don't have a Touchpad / Magic mouse. The normal workflow is Right Click ==> Look Up, but Firefox overrides macOS's normal right click menu. :(

Firfox is just not a very good macOS citizen, sadly.
Agreed.

Even beyond that there is this desire for people to note something is wrong with how someone said it, spelling or just about anything....and that is used in place of actually discussing the topic.

Nobody cares what anyone actually means it seems. They'd rather bicker about the minutia around it to discount whatever anyone said.

I've been told by other people on the internet what I really meant when I said a thing, told them that isn't what I think...and have them tell me again that I think that thing.

It can be surreal.
Not that you're wrong, but this sort of presumes that no conversation was had or attempted. It doesn't seem likely to me that this is so. It sounded to me at the time (if I remember correctly) as if there was a conversation, it broke down, and Damore's response was the document we all saw.

It feels more like he simply didn't like the way the conversation was going.
We just waisted a couple trillion dollars on sci-fi capabilities at Lockheed without result shall we let China & Russia know we didn't find anything in our R&D?

No just send them some sketchy UFO videos that will keep m busy!
Hello, Seoul resident here — AMA!

It’s always surprising when you see our city’s name in HN...

Looks like the TLDR is that LA only has subways in downtown (I can’t understand the reason... why would people use subways then?), they should fix them. Looks like it strongly correlates with the car-centric culture of the US...
One issue here I'm realizing is in a difference of assumptions... I'm used to taking vitamin D3 drops under my tongue, which I imagine absorb differently than capsules.

But even so, fat soluble substances can get into the blood pretty quickly when you ingest them, well within the timespan of one day.

So I'm not sure if I understand your reasoning. Can you link to a source?

Something I'm reading now that sounds similar to what you're saying is that during supplementation, it takes a while for serum vitamin D levels to reach a steady state. Maybe that's what you're referring to?

Edit: check this out https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

> After an oral dose of vitamin D, blood levels begin to rise at 4 hours, peak by 12 hours, and return to close to baseline by 72 hours.

In this article, I take "baseline" to refer to what I called "steady state" earlier in this comment.
I don’t recall from where I heard it, but I’ve heard libraries described as proper tools where you get to take their facilities and (to an extent) use them as you wish, versus frameworks which are an old text adventure game; you have to work within the constraints (and hopefully the frame work is both sane and well documented, otherwise “You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.”)
It wasn't always true. The internet made it globalized. Prior to the internet a person's reach was much less powerful. I honestly don't even know who my local leaders are anymore, but I definitely know about PewDiePie. I think this has to do with Dunbar's number as well. More global celebs taking the spots of others.
Wired: sailboats
Tired: van life
Expired: tiny houses
the idea is to make a video that you can watch yourself. 8 hours of video isn't very enticing to watch. i suggest organizing the recordings by feature or task.

the only other thing I considered setting up in OBS is to make it work with Spotify to get a great bg music.
I use this too, it's great!

My usecase is that I often have queries for debugging purposes for API's that I need to send, so in my repos I keep a requests.http file for quick-access.

I also put them in repos for projects I publish (like boilerplate/demo API's) along with a screenshot and a note + link to the extension in the README because you have a working spec for API requests, and so do if/when I ever revisit it.

Tiny extension saves a ton of time and super useful.
Aren’t there already property taxes? That seems proportionate.
Do we know his politics to say he is or isn't a thing?

I think the story just notes that he got a lot of positive attention from some specific groups.
Connecting stars with super fans. Dr Cox from Scrubs made a video for me
XML's main limitation derives from its base primitives: Strings and hierarchies of ordered strings labelled with strings. Starting from that premise adds a great degree of schematic overhead to convey semantics, which tends to overflow into syntactical boilerplate.

Traditional parsers start from one string and evaluate that a character at a time. JSON starts from a few JavaScript primitives. SQL has primitives that vary with the engine you're using. These are other points on the spectrum that are appealing in the details - a plaintext string is accessible to all text editors and simple string processing tools. JSON covers a selection of common data primitives. And SQL has a grip on automatic constraint enforcement, which helps in defining user types with high data integrity.

If I had to pick one that's really going underused, SQL would be it. A string source file could be dissected into a number of tables and edited like any other CRUD system, then re-serialized as a string. That we don't do it this way is more an accident of our current beliefs about which means of implementation are appropriate for various tasks - queries on relational data are "slow" compared to bodging buffers and recursing through DAGs. But if we want nice developer tools we should probably start acting like data integrity is more important. Slopping dependencies around the file system and relying on a separate bespoken tool chain to reconstruct their relationships as part of a built artifact is a thing we ought to outgrow at some point, but it's also so intrinsically accepted that the paradigm is hard to escape.
Solving the Binary Guess Problem in Python
Sites like Bloomberg spread this misinformation [1]. The same site of the thread we're commenting on. Maybe we in HN could stop giving publicity to websites that spread fake news.

[1] First paragraph of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-05/harmeet-d...
The dude is talking about probabilities and distributions, while the stats-ignorant public is generalizing to every individual.

It's impossible to have a scientific and open minded debate about the differences between genders. Even theorizing biologic differences exist makes you a sexist. Let alone bringing up this question in public.

Edit: Yes, his memo is totally tone deaf. I thought his wording was very questionable. But the his core argument (regarding differences in biology leading to differences in distributions) is worth debating.

Example: There's a noticeable distributional difference in 100m running times between genders (due to biology). That said any number of men or women are faster runners than me :) Population doesn't mean anything for the individual.
It was purposely leaked from an internal message board by an employee who didn't like the content.
You didn't have to bite your tongue - you could've told her she's wrong.
What? For example, "X is typing..." message in messenger is great for pacing the conversation. It makes online conversation closer to offline conversation. Not all "dynamic HTML" stuffs are good, but some are indeed a big plus.
I'd be curious what the agreement is if only because it didn't seem like he had much in the way of a strong with case.
I don't use/speak Japanese, but the GP's conclusion makes complete sense to me.

Consistent behavior > inconsistent behavior, almost always. If I can anticipate what my computer is going to do, I can plan around it, even if it means a bit of extra manual work.
I think you indicated that you were already not speaking in good faith with the condescending "perhaps you can fill us in on your tips" and pretending that nobody would notice.
I'm confused. If vitamin D imoroves covid outcomes, and supplements run short, shouldn't we be happy that vitamin D is naturally accessible to many people?

It's harder to obtain naturally for blacks living in Seattle than whites living in Arizona. But it's still a good thing if it reduces covid deaths, right? And may slow the spread, therefor benefitting everyone?
Ummm?

I will offer this: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-worlds-highest-coronaviru...

And this that shows we are currently sitting at 6%: https://covidusa.net/

Even if testing ramps up seems hard to imagine a world where this drops by a factor of 10.

So what are you talking about?
I work in a tech company based in Silicon Valley. I also have a pretty conservative view. I like trump for standing up to Chinese government, even before the whole Coronavirus event. I despise the Chinese government, especially since the coronavirus took away two of my friends’ grandparents.

Every once a while I will Chitchat with my coworkers and my view about the Chinese government will surface. And my coworkers are mainly liberal. And guess what? They will avoid the Chinese government topic like the plague. Even suggesting that it could be racist.

I was dumbfounded. These are some of the smartest tech folks. Yet they are somehow ignorant, even afraid, to criticize a government run by a dictator that clearly Waged war on all of humanity (I am not just talking about coronavirus).

What explains liberals avoidance with Chinese government?
If I had designed the system, I would have made it a fireable offense to knowingly leak something from the platform. Without a penalty, this kind of situation was both foreseeable and inevitable.
Skui – Skia-based C++ UI framework
Was it an random email or on Google's internal discussion boards?
Those leaks that contain nothing of substance? Sure, why not. Waste of space if you ask me.
I can't speak to Intel or CPU manufacturing, but in almost any job, the most dangerous part of a worker's day is their commute.
Wow, I had no idea that Ohio had a line for reporting people who don't show up to their jobs out of fear of becoming infected [1]. It seems crazy to me that people are being asked to choose between their life and their livelihood.

[1] https://secure.jfs.ohio.gov/covid-19-fraud/
Buy an RTL-SDR on amazon (20-30$). Start playing around with the software. Listen in on aircraft and such. Then start reading about catching satellites.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
So by that logic, if someone is drowning, you would not attempt a rescue unless there was a law that said it was required to try?

Ergo, we uncover the unethical basis of such position.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

and

If your private actions do not generalize then you cannot have general ideas
=Meta=

With the rise of this new breed of knowledge management apps, I have started a repo. to track tools, open-source projects and pros-cons of the Zettlekasten methodology.

It's slightly opinionated and I try to update it regularly.
If you'd like to stay updated in this space, you can check it out at https://github.com/krimlabs/z
Use Emacs for everything.