skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> other countries you speak about have already lost their rights

Freedom House has the US at 86, most of Western Europe in the high 90s.

https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2020

While I am not going to say the US is an undemocratic hellhole, after all a score of 86 is respectable, saying that countries that score significantly higher "lost their rights" is unlikely to be correct.
I am a sucker for these. I don't know what it is about decay that just piques my interest, no matter which era it might be from. There are a bunch of channels for similar pictures if you are interested:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AbandonedPorn/

https://www.instagram.com/itsabandoned/

https://www.instagram.com/abandonedafterdark/
My understanding is kind of matches yours, but I assume it will depend. If you have a memory-bound problem then yes I'd expect a laptop perhaps to be competitive, but if it substantially hits cache for the server then the laptop with smaller cache, may be waiting longer.

> But looking at [the server cpu numbers] per core makes them much worse

but for what benchmark? (sorry if you said and I missed it)
Started a scripted podcast with my little brother about our misadventures trying to get our scripts produced in Bollywood (Indian film industry) and Hollywood. It's called The Content Podcast -- https://contentpod.substack.com/
The US Senate is a proper subset of Congress, comprising one of its coequal houses, the other being the House of Representatives.

Collectively the two are Congress.
how come ? can you give some examples of how this works?
In old Firefox it was possible to have multiple rows and variable width tabs. So there was no horizontal overflow and tabs could have been wide enough so that title fit into each. I wonder if it's possible to get this back.
To be honest 2D games are more art heavy than 3D games. At least in 3D games you can get a long way with shaders, textures, geometric shapes and store-bought meshes. In 2D games everything is custom art.
It appears that the team lead's incompetence is not your problem. Then you should mind your own business.
True! “Render unto Cesar”!
Here's a higher res (3MP) photo from the paper PDF: https://i.imgur.com/8GUcuuP.jpg
Poor Bob. I bet he was sad that his super laptop went on to better and greater things :(
Please take my reply with a grain of salt, it's subjective and not backed by any research.

Is it really the case that you lean slightly forward when walking forefoot strike? For me it's the opposite, my posture is way more upright in forefoot strike than it is in heel strike.

When I walk (or run) heelstrike, I usually put one leg forward and "fall" on that leg, which causes me to lean forward a bit.

When I walk (or run) forefoot strike, I do the opposite. I slide one leg backwards and thus push my whole body forward. My other leg lands directly under my body, I don't have to stick it out much to land on it, compared to heel strike.

Try to walk in heel strike very very slowly (like in slo-mo), maybe you'll feel that "falling" sensation and lean forward like I do. But it could also be that you walk slightly different than I do and don't experience the same.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any research, but I also don't actively search for it.
> Email providers already tell people sending email when an address is real or not.

I don’t think email works the way you seem to think it works.
Well that famous tech website had a similar, more granular way of voting (which made sense I guess 10 years ago), but I think I like this way better
Thank you very much. My initial goal, should the number of quotes get too large for me to follow up myself, is to tag quotes and invite volunteer experts in a specific field to moderate quotes tagged by certain keywords.

Automating that sounds very attractive, but I wouldn't even know where to start. NLP? I've heard algorithms are sometimes used to automatically make trades based on news stories, so I imagine such a system could initially help moderators by providing suggestions/assessments?
I taught people web development mostly friends and cousins, to help them discover this as a career opportunity.
And I got better at cooking, I'm thinking to open a restaurant soon.
The GoLang-like URL import and dependency management are indeed an innovation in simplicity while simultaneously offering better compatibility with browser JavaScript.

Perhaps the HN-hate is not about simplified greenfield tech as much as it is about breaking established brownfield processes and modules.
Seems like a great idea. I hope you will be keeping track of all the stats so we can see how it works out.

The hardest part I think is that people will likely get their personality type more than a little wrong. People tend to answer personality questionares with who they want to be or who they are told they should be rather than with honest answers and deep self knowledge.
there are a lot of issues with using a non secure protocol to do anything over the internet, actually someone summarized the issue on the Deno issue tracker.

According to them, confidentiality is also a risk. also someone could also send you garbage that would polute the memory of deno until it explode.
They don't have to give away electricity. They can charge money for it like the other charging networks do. The main problem is that they refuse to charge any non-Teslas at all.
Sunlight, the Immune System, and Covid-19 Interact
Why do they need http access on push bullet?
Miss the point any? To be criminally prosecuted for not following a rule some producer made up, makes that rule into law. Because its enforceable in a court apparently. Really?

Being a criminal case makes it more egregious.
The same applies to information websites, imho.

Of course, in the end Reddit doesn't want to be a utility, it wants to be a cash grab. And it's fine to do whatever if your only goal is to get as much money as possible with no concern for anything else.
How Is HeapHero Different?
I thought NY came out with a set of conditions for going out of lockdown for each county. I believe it was on HN front page within the last week.
My wife always worked from home.

But now, she works from home and then can't socialize after hours, except virtually. She can't go anywhere or do anything. Shopping is the only time she gets out, but she didn't like it before and now it's even more stressful.

The difference (unless you have kids or a noisy house) isn't the home bit, it's the not-home bit. For people who aren't introverts, this is a very, very tough time. Their basic needs aren't being met.

I'm lucky that I'm an introvert. This has been a pretty good experience for me. I have no commute, I get more done in the same 8 hours, and all my socializing can be done in my own home. I miss going places a tiny bit, but only the places that have things I can't do at home. (I'm talking Disney World here.)
Smarter approach to error handling in Go
Analyzing dota2 match history and what heroes work in combination a la dotaplus
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Zoom fatigue is real
Female+Fat-Loss+Code
A collection to learn the fundamentals of React Hooks
I've been working on a function generator for my own personal use! I can get sine, square, and triangle waves out of it, and I'm just starting to implement modulation schemes like PSK and FSK.

I'm also just starting to help my fiance launch a consultancy on remote teaching. Crossing my fingers that goes well!
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> By and large we have the rights we want.

If you have only "the rights we want" then your rights are subject to the whims of the majority.

In America our tradition of civil liberties protected the Illinois Nazis' freedom of speech as they marched through Skokie, celebrating the enemies of America who, within living memory, had waged war and killed millions of our citizens. The exercise meant as an affront to our nation and everything it values. We celebrated it, because if our worst enemies can have rights we don't like, then everyone can have rights.

In the UK, you can't even tolerate Dankula, and people think it's wonderful and good that he was fined for the nazi pug incident, and no one has really has rights unless they're popular. You'd think incidents like that would wave a few red flags, given that your nations' checkered moral history includes multi-century exercises in the deliberate oppression of your religious enemies.
Threatening to move his factory unless the county caved and made an exception to its public health rules.
This is brilliant. Authors could use this to create new words in their universe. Entrepreneurs could use this to get a unique and short dot com and product name. Someone could use this to create a "which word isn't a real word" quiz.
Show HN: A Game of Nonsense
Oh I believe it, happened to my dad. Also to one of his friends. And the appartment over my gf's old place. After the tenant moved out they had to tear up the floor and take the unit down to the studs to get rid of 10 worth years of cat pee.

I can see both sides. But being a landlord is agreeing to run something closer to a public utility than not.
I have a full time job that has moved to remote and my spouse is on Zoom calls most of the day for work. The only “side project” I have time for is managing my kids’ remote learning. They are 7 and 9 yrs old. There are so many links and logins and forms and downloads and uploads. I’ve learned. Lot about how Google Classrooms could be redesigned to improve independence of younger learners. Candidly, this is very difficult and my mental health is taking a serious hit.
I find the groupthink on reddit to be impossible to deal with. Many subreddits have a particular dogma then stick to and if you variate at all you get downvoted into oblivion no matter how obviously correct you are.
Sweden has 342 COVID deaths per million. The US has 254 deaths per million. Germany is doing better, but the rest of Western Europe has much higher rates of death than the US.

There seems to be a myth going around that Europe is handling this better than the US and the statistics don't really support that claim. If you have to bash Golden Corral to make your claim, you're probably a bit biased against Americans.

That being said, none of these countries are handling this well, it's just annoying to see the double standard.
So then you would tune your game to use 50% CPU and 50% GPU if the requirements are equal on both sides.

But I think this style of hardware also changes the way you make optimization decisions. I.e. in a world where you have a fixed CPU/GPU budget, you might try to think of ways too move work to the CPU if for instance your GPU is saturated. But if the relative capacity is variable, you can just do things in the most efficient way overall, and you just have to make sure you don't exceed your overall budget.
Synthesis of Flexible Accelerators for Adoption of Ring-LWE Post-Quantum Crypto
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I have been working on typescript runtime reflection https://github.com/aenario/tsmirror
Online voting has worked so far, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe
I've actually found myself coding in the evening again due to quarantine. Contributing to OSS, releasing stuff on GitHub, ...
I created a directory project for thrift stores as a learning project.
https://thriftstored.com/

'thrift stores' is a high traffic search term with low competition and low value traffic. I aggregated data from various store brands and websites and categorized based on locations data. The site is run on Python Flask framework on AWS Lightsail.
There are imho 3 key features what made Docker great:

* the combination of all technologies touched here in the example, but it's missing a very important-one: the layered filesystem

* A defined packaging format and way of distributing images

* Having an API to talk to these things easily.

That is what kickstarted and revolutionised the container space, but there were still many technology gaps and questions. They tried to put everything in one single tool, which was a double-edged sword I think: it made usage easy which accelerated adoption, but also caused it being a big 'monolith' project, which is a bit ironic given that it ended up being extremely suitable for micro-service architectures.

For me as an early adopter, it was very clear from the start that the main problem was how do you actually deploy this in production. Docker saw a very large part of the conceptual bigger picture, but they had any clue how to address this, but to be fair, very few did.

Right now, a lot of lessons have been learned, and standards have been created in the container space.

Nowadays, for production loads, k8s has become the de-facto standard container api, and Docker itself doesn't really carry that much weight anymore, the runtime itself isn't important anymore. It being podman, runc, or still a full-blown docker? I couldn't really care less. Docker's stronghold will remain the development environment for a while though, just due to the massive amount of resources and easy to use solutions out-there...
>I remember years ago it was neogaf that was the big bad gaming forum, but now nobody talks about it.

Resetera is the neogaf successor, so you're more correct than you realize
I'm working on a vegan catering platform (launch page: http://launch.vegcraver.com/). Stack is nextjs, postgraphile and stripe as payment provider.
Kinda working off a small sample size there, aren’t you?

The last world war was almost 8 decades ago, and the last pandemic of equal impact was a century ago, and also overlapped a world war.

We have no idea what life looks like on the other side of this, but I’ll take pandemic over world war any day.
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I started learning some machine learning and nlp.

Built a Product AutoExtract API, to extract clean product data from any e-commerce product page automatically, without any selectors or rules.

Most of the project uses off the shelf open source software: chrome headless and puppeteer for rendering, some computer vision algorithms tech and Cloud Run to slash costs for hosting.

Still training the algos, but you can try it our for a spin here: https://crawlify.io.
My last real side project halted when my second kid was born almost two years ago. I likely won’t have time or energy to do another one for another two years, regardless of quarantine status.
As I said, this is mostly coming from supporters of the party. Though Starmer has been pushing for firm reopening plans sooner than is perhaps advisable, he has indeed mostly been doing risk-free back-seat driving that demonstrates how much easier life is when you don't have to actually pull of the things you're calling for. (For example, his latest thing is expecting the government to have information on what exactly is causing excess deaths that actual scientific experts reckon they won't be able to pin down any time soon.)
> what if the police could go to Apple and Google and ask them to "blacklist" your phone, so that everyone around you gets a notification with your description, alleged crime, and cash reward? Your phone becomes a walking WANTED poster.

Now that would be a very white christmas.

For this to work, the government would need to know which one is your phone, defeating the privacy purpose. This wouldnt be a problem for amber alerts - as family members would willingly provide it.

However, my main concern is that this would lead to mob justice; you'd have a walking "hit me with a bat" poster.
i think the word "miss" is raising/idolising his personality. I didn't know Steve, but based on what I have been exposed to about him, he was a person I would dislike a lot, but, how he appears to have shaped some products is impressive. It's hard to tell if it was he genius, or if he was lucky or combination of both along with other factors, however seems he had the required chops.

I think we should not conflate people's perceived excellence in work life with their personality, and extrapolate "success" to mean they were also great personalities. I don't miss Steve, and hope someone/something knocks Apple to their senses to stop abusing (over-charging).
If you publish your module versions on IPFS that would provide a guarantee to your users the module versions do not change once published. But hashes are not very memorable as module names.
The original discussion is about whether or not remote work is enjoyable. I too find it enjoyable and have done it, generally, for about 4-5 days a week for years now.
Bought a digital piano and started learning piano from scratch. Been trying out different software for learning piano using MIDI input. (Simply Piano, Playground Sessions, Flowkey, Piano Marvel).

Sorted and deduplicated all my photos.

Set up backups for all my important stuff using Restic to BackBlaze B2.
In a way this is a relief to hear. I keep reading up on the excess productivity of others, while I'm pulling my hair out trying to manage normal work and my kids when on paper nothing much has changed given that I was WFH before this. It sucks, but I'm glad I'm not alone.
Then you could say something like "共产主义者是土匪".

"共" doesn't really mean "communist", from my very basic duolingo mandarin I remember it means something like "together". The slur is a very specific abbreviation which doesn't make sense without the context of the civil war.
One thing I hate is that the go flags package sorts the options by default. Ordering options in a thoughtful way is definitely a plus in an api. I know there are (not very intuitive) ways to override this, but I just can't understand why they would make such a bizarre choice even given their penchant for being opinionated.

edit: Now that I read this over, this complaint seems a bit misplaced in this thread, but I guess I'll leave it due to its sort of relation to cli programs in go.
I was curious about this so I looked into it. Seems like deno allows for lock files (similar to package-lock.json for NPM) https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_...
> The point is making it more expensive for malicious actors.

Malicious actors don't care about expenses nearly as much as benign ones do. So the point ought to be, if you want me to fix something, tell me what's broken.
Anti-vaccine movement could undermine efforts to end coronavirus pandemic
Except most targets won't modify their Firefox.
Well, first word I had actually exists: cyanoplast.
I've been a chronic insomniac for as long as I can remember and melatonin changed my life. Recently though, I've been having trouble getting to sleep again, and waking during the night. I've also recently started taking Vitamin D at the same time as my melatonin and hadn't twigged that that might be why. So thanks, gonna switch that one to the morning.
In other news, setting up accounts for a financial service and not verifying the associated email address is beyond stupid.
This is particularly good. Apart from the already mentioned seasonal references, a common element is that the thirst two lines should seem completely unrelated and the third one provides synthesis/closure.
A lot of comments here can be answered by reading the documentation.

https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code#faq
Tabs is a form of "Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface"?

Windows MDI is a nested window manager. Tile and Cascade, move and resize, maximize, minimize. That is gone. Windows stay maximized, title bar eaten by buttons and tabs.

Browser tabs is Taskbar:

* Navigation: Ctrl+Tab vs Alt+Tab

* Position: Top vs Screen Edge

* when open a lot both were unmanageable
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Yeah. I'v refused to install extension in the past because Chrome tells me this extension wants to read all data on all web pages... No thanks. (Except those extensions I KNOW must have those permissions)

Very good thing app store may nudge people changing permission scope.

Hope extension authors manage to meet the deadline and get their extension re-approved.
It's the opposite of power, it's like being downpromoted to janitor. Now you're the one having to clean jira tickets. Grunt work to add a field or setup a plugin for every manager who feels important and a hard-to-maintain software.

If you want sysadmin power, get DNS access or AWS admin or active directory admin or root on all servers.

Actually, the jira admin probably grants more "power" and visibility onto every manager who's got to come to you for tickets. So it makes sense for politics.
An article 10 freedom of expression defence was available to him, and the judge even asked him to make that defence, but he and his legal team chose not to use a freedom of speech defence.
After a few years I decided that I should only see the sub-reddits I actively used/followed. As each became increasingly painful to visit I unsubscribed. Like you I ended up with just one, a local sub-reddit (/r/denmark), but that too was just an echo chamber of one particular world view. During the last Danish election I promised my self that I would close my reddit account after the election. I wanted to follow and debate the election on Reddit, but I pretty much gave up as it because clear that I'm apparently wrong about anything, according to the users on Reddit.

Reddit and Facebook groups pretty much killed the forums, but the communities are somehow much worse. I suspect it's somehow related to how users would previous cluster in smaller forums, but now everyone descents on one Facebook group or one sub-reddit.

Having both Facebook and Reddit is interesting though. It more or less proves, at least to me, that anonymity is not what makes people behaving badly towards others. The Facebook users are just as bad as those on Reddit. I believe that it's the social distance to others that makes some users behave like jerks.
Thank you for deciphering ars' point for me, I'd missed it; too busy snarking :)

Ars makes the leap that giving everyone money means they won't produce anything, and uses that to prove that giving bulk money won't work. Competent managers realize that money only goes so far, and there are things other than money that employees (also) value.

Yes we need the economy, but does the economy disappear if the poorest aren't having their bootstraps constantly cut off?
Someone has a working exploit patched two days ago, and they want to extend its useful life by sowing confusion.

A disinformation campaign targeted at technical site seems like an interesting approach, as we HN types provide advice to the non-technical folks around us.
What are his thoughts on Erlang? (I have not finished the talk video yet.)
It's controversial because people are now wondering if money is involved. Getting mod control of that number of subreddits doesn't come about for being dilligent and helpful.
Gliding refers to shutting off the engine with the car moving, which isn't the same thing as engine braking (using the retarding forces of a running engine to slow the car down). Without the engine running there are various pumps that aren't running and fluid movement that isn't taking place anymore, so certain things won't be getting the proper lubrication while the parts are moving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding_(vehicle)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking