skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A lie can make it around the world ..."

Seneca?

Seems unlikely. Jonathan Swift has an early variant, from 1710:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

Though there's: "We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth."

https://dailystoic.com/seneca-quotes/
The problem is person at receiving end won't follow instructions for opening in Office, software they're moderately familiar with, but not enough to navigate a special open file process even with hand-holding.

I sincerely do not think the solution is instruct receiving person to install an even less familiar Office alternative.
Although the purpose of the lockdowns isn't to prevent old people dying, per se. It's to buy time and prevent system collapse while the government builds out systems to track and quarantine individuals who may be infected.

The lockdown can be eased once we have a better option.

You could argue that there was plenty of time to build such systems before COVID-19 made it to your country, and you'd probably be right. You could also argue that maybe your government hasn't been on the ball with the second half of this story, and you might be right, but that's neither here nor there.
I have not seen very many business analysts open an IDE. In my experience, most edit CSVs in Excel.
I assume they must. Otherwise analytics sent to Giphy would make it too easy for FB to track growth.
It pretty much turned into a hivemind where you would be suddenly be assaulted 300 people with the a new opinion you would never have seen before. Sunday mornings seemed to be when the information was disseminated.

It was most blatant when Hillary basically collapsed in front of the van. First wave was it was hot everything is fine, second was that she was feeling a bit under the weather due to the heat, and then it just a one off thing she's perfectly fine now look at the cute girl who greeted her. You would see hundreds of posts saying this exact thing and then change within 5 minutes.
Are short clips that you see on Giphy a legal risk?
Hmm .. wonder if this is primarily a acquisition to get training data and ML devs.
I'm guessing Data. Trends, among others.
A robot wrote this email
Very interesting for me to see how much shuttle legacy is present in the planned SLS. I knew it was using the same engines but based on the timing here it seems to follow a very similar flight plan with the boosters jettisoned at the same time and the 1.5 stage running out around the same time too.
Hacking at My Tesla Model 3 – Security Overview
Open up a csv in notepad vs opening up a tsv.

One actually looks like a table the other is a garbled mess.
The fact that it is embedded in tons of software and delivers information about usage and trends.
Slightly less steep than the landing angle of an actual brick though.

Edit: glide slope is the word I was looking for.
As someone who owns a normal Liftmaster garage door opener that malfunctioned last week and destroyed the door because it didn't adequately sense that the door was blocked, I have to say I don't think I'd want to homebrew my own opener. Especially not with kids in the house.
Congrats to Giphy, but honestly it baffles me they are worth this much money. Do they actually bring in decent revenue, or was this all about eyeballs? Is this content even decently monetizable?

Disclaimer: I am the jaded creator of Twicsy, a Twitter picture engine with many millions of visitors over its lifetime, and I apparently missed the boat on this trends and had to shut it down.
Web apps can also work offline.
But if you are going to override the defaults, then the argument of "Rails is performant out of the box" no longer holds water, does it?
Unless you wanted to be acquihired into Google/Instagram, you likely wouldn't have made any money in equity. This acquisition is $200M less than their most recent valuation from 4 years ago, the investors are probably taking everything and most employee options are likely underwater.
I'm trying out building a board game modelled after Blokus in TypeScript with online functionality enabled by websockets. I have a group of friends who enjoy the game so I'm mainly making it so that we can play together :)
> If you haven't read Facebook by...

Thanks! This is exactly the sort of thing I love to read. Got anything else you can recommend?
> Virgin isn’t trying to leave orbit

It isn't even trying to reach orbit. As soon as the fuel is exhausted it cannot help but fall back to Earth because it hasn't achieved orbital velocity. The passengers get a few minutes at high altitude, enough to experience weightlessness and see the stars.

It's a suborbital lob, a much more polished version of the X-15 in the 1960s.

[Edit - clarity]
The only time I use giphy is through google keyboard (yes, I send a lot of memes). I guess google will have to pay them now? Or will keyboard stop supporting giphy?
This will continue as long as human beings are in the loop. If it were automated, code-reviewed and made secure we might have a system that could follow the rules.
Swamped bankruptcy courts threaten US recovery
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Wasn't sure why the SLS escape tower stayed on while the S5 was shown jetissoning it
Yes.

So? That doesn't prove anything to do with testosterone. There are at least a dozen other possible reasons that men might have higher infection rates and worse outcomes than women, which have nothing to do with testosterone.

And just to be clear, the paper doesn't say that testosterone his associated with worse Covid19 outcomes.
I tried to find a The Social Network movie overlay with the words "Dumb fucks" on Giphy - though it doesn't seem to have it; https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/mark-zuckerberg...
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This post was flagged, why?

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TITLE: “New law protects US Federal officials from Patriot Act surveillance”

URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23190748

Text: “(G) if the target of the electronic surveillance is an elected Federal official or a candidate in a Federal election, that the Attorney General has approved in writing of the investigation;“

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I would be the first to agree post might be better crafted, but without feedback unable to address the reasoning and no idea why the topic is needs to be flagged.
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Trapped In Hell Independent Zombie Horror Feature Film. I would be very thankful If you include it at your site.
CCP rewards citizens who steal and bring home. They’re touted as some kind of patriots.
Define good? The data's worth at least $400M to Facebook.
I'm not working for Palantir, what we work on is linked to one of:

- capacity planning for renewables (hydro power)

- streamlining mass transit

- large scale collection and recycling of bottles

- search and rescue operations in the North Sea

- education

as for why the NDA, my best guess is because "they could". Someone should tell them they are losing out on some great publisity and goodwill.
> compelled to have sex with people they didn't want to have sex with

So we're not talking about OnlyFans anymore are we?

Also what about all the women who enjoy doing online sex work? Are you telling them they shouldn't be allowed to work a job they enjoy?
> I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

~ John Steinbeck
Check Out

https://literatea.com

This is a creative writing site with a free basic tier. The free tier has a curated library of short stories as well as moderated forums. Plus, there is a bookshelf to keep track of your reading in general.

For middle school and high school students, I would recommend the writer level. Subscribing offers a safe space for self expression through writing, including monitored social interaction / collaboration. This level also comes with self-paced courses with live office hours and workshops. The courses consist of video lessons, exercises and story templates integrated into one builder.

(There is an advanced level, geared more toward adults, with live writing groups, one-on-one coaching and a scaffolded author website.)
I've been working on an Expanse based theme syntax and UI for Atom:
https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-syntax
https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-ui

Now I'm starting on a daily logging package.
It actually was fast tracked by the trade war. Government mandated domestic development of certain things after the US made it clear to China that they're not trustworthy trading partner. Not that China is, but kind of besides the point.

Similar to how the google ban fast tracked Huawei working on google free systems e.g. buying third party map services like TomTom. Bad for Google good for competition.

Basically the US has lost its standing thanks to Trumps bully diplomacy[1].

“Some if not all regional countries may harbour concerns about the security ramifications of using Huawei, but there are real pragmatic considerations,” said Collin Koh Swee Lean, a research fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. “Cost-wise in particular, Chinese offers for infrastructure development present more attractive propositions.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/301282...
Time to play Kerbal Space Program again :)
They're integrated into a lot of apps and maybe even apple's OS. In addition to those integration and business relationships they probably have some sort of data sharing / ad tech thingy that's worth some money on its own.
> Technobabble. Solves any problem! Causes any problem!

There's a really nice interview with some of the writers about "Tech the tech". Charlie Stross has it on his blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_ha...

> At his recent keynote speech at the New York Television Festival, former Star Trek writer and creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore revealed the secret formula to writing for Trek.

> He described how the writers would just insert "tech" into the scripts whenever they needed to resolve a story or plot line, then they'd have consultants fill in the appropriate words (aka technobabble) later.

> "It became the solution to so many plot lines and so many stories," Moore said. "It was so mechanical that we had science consultants who would just come up with the words for us and we'd just write 'tech' in the script. You know, Picard would say 'Commander La Forge, tech the tech to the warp drive.' I'm serious. If you look at those scripts, you'll see that."

> Moore then went on to describe how a typical script might read before the science consultants did their thing:

> La Forge: "Captain, the tech is overteching."

> Picard: "Well, route the auxiliary tech to the tech, Mr. La Forge."

> La Forge: "No, Captain. Captain, I've tried to tech the tech, and it won't work."

> Picard: "Well, then we're doomed."

> "And then Data pops up and says, 'Captain, there is a theory that if you tech the other tech ... '" Moore said. "It's a rhythm and it's a structure, and the words are meaningless. It's not about anything except just sort of going through this dance of how they tech their way out of it."
I watched it come down over Orlando and it looked like this could never work out. Much steeper than any airplane I have ever seen.
You can do that without going full SPA. See 'old reddit' vs 'new reddit', with the former being user friendly while remaining minimal and performant.
Not trying to trip you up, but how do you handle namespaces?
From four to thirty two. Early years of computers and networks in Russia (2017)
I'm an ex-military now furloughed airline pilot working on a flight planning tool to save trying to spot the needle in the haystack that is the current NOtice To AirMen system.

https://www.rapidplanapp.com/
Note that Tenor is owned by Google.
As you said, unfortunately programming turned out to be quite the tribalistic activity indeed.

I got severely disheartened that 2-3 casual mentions of Elixir were enough for several people in this thread to attack and quickly stereotype me. I think I'll just keep quiet, or at least not mention what I work with. This seems to get the message across much better.
Probably not to a high degree of accuracy. Many will die without having been tested and diagnosed. Some will die indirectly of complications. The testing itself is not perfect. Seriological screening will only give us an approximation for how widespread total infections have been, since we know some infections will pass unseen. For instance spain just released a study indicating that 5% of their population of has been exposed and 1/3 of those had no symptoms. That means that exposure is ten times the tested rate.
the goal behind the rewrite
Origin of High-Energy Neutrinos in Parsec-Scale Nuclei of Radio-Bright Galaxies
Does it mean there’s nothing one can do?
This is the kind of the issue Facebook will help sort out. On the other hand, they will collect a lot of data about trending topics/searches in a bid to sell/suggest more trendy ads to advertisers.
Multiplying by a number raised to the zero-th power is a NOP.

This comes up frequently in the context of polynomials, where the constant term is often expressed as the x^0 term.

E.g in f(x) = 3x^2 + 2x^1 + 1x^0 , we would like to have f(0)=0.

In many cases this is important because we express polynomials as a sum:

f(x) = sum (n from 0 to 2) { (n+1)x^n }, so having x^0 behave reasonably at x=0 allows us to avoid needed to special case the n=0 term.
Facebook is buying Giphy for $400M
So it's a way for FB to get metrics from its competitors?
China is working on taking Hong Kong first, before moving onto Taiwan.

I give it between 1-5 years before they move in some way on Taiwan.

One thing I would not bet on is a direct military incursion - that would cause too many foreign headaches. Something messy that's hard to pull apart is better. The current events with social unrest in HK are a good example of creating ambiguity.

The one interesting thing to me is that China normally has a very long time horizon, but now they don't. Trump has effectively made sure that Cold War 2.0 has started, and China is the enemy. The problem for the Chinese in this situation is that a substantial amount of manufacturing will move out of China, weakening their economy. And a weak economy is usually not a good thing for leadership.
Do slack and others pay Giphy when they integrate? Is that their main source of revenue or is it ads?

I am wondering what makes them more attractive than someone like imgur for example.
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Worth to mention is the
https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

A High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library used for HFT.
Calm down, please. It's "experimental". No sane person is actually going to use this.
Early March was also the time people really got scared of Covid so...

As for the claims, yeah they are his claims and no doubt he's milking it for traffic. If he has anything close to 30m visitors a day, no doubt a lot of "cures" and related stuff can be sold. But it may short lived, all he has others can do it.

>>"Now I know a ton of VCs and investors...if I started a company tomorrow, they'd at least read my business plan."

I made $XX million in 4 months when I was 17 also opens doors. And the money is, essentially, FU money.
> I wonder if the people that could/cycle aren't already doing it.

I know plenty of people who are within cycling distance, but haven't chosen to cycle because they prefer other options for transport and fitness.

Cycling comes with certain inconveniences that it takes a certain enthusiasm to overcome. You have to own a bike you're happy to use. You have to be fit enough for the distance you need to go. You have to plan out and learn a route. You may have to be confident/experienced/macho enough to ride among traffic and navigate big multi-lane junctions. You have to be willing to shower and change at your destination, or not do so. You might need to buy lights or bags or even different clothes. You have to be willing to get wet in the rain. You may have to figure out how to store your bike at both ends.

I agree not everyone will be able to change to cycling, of course. Reading to Paddington can be done in 30 minutes by train, but takes 4 hours by bike - and some people have disabilities or other things that keep them from cycling. But I'm confident there are plenty of people who can rise to the challenge despite not having done so before.
> In other words, running a 5k every day would only increase my calories burned by 17%.

Working 8+ hours in a manual labour job on the other hand, will greatly increase the calories burned. If people who are stuck at home now don't change their usual eating habits, they will see some weight gains.
Does Elon Musk have enough credibility that we can trust data he posts as accurate?
It's extremely frustrating that none of the vendors are taking advantage of the built-in 10Gbe functionality of the new AMD chips. I've seen the same with the embedded options that compete with the Xeon-D. If anyone happens to work in that specific portion of the industry and can comment - I'd be curious if there's a reason other than motherboard mfgs just don't want to invest the time and effort so they slap a 1Gbe intel NIC on the mobo and call it a day.

Little stuff like that makes the AMD option (which SHOULD be cheaper) not cheaper for a lot of applications because now you've got server + NIC vs. just the server from intel.
Genuine question: are smooth page transitions really worth all of this?

It seems that page transitions really are the main reason given for using JavaScript-everything for sites and simple applications that otherwise could have been built with some fast loading HTML and a couple of POST forms.
Woah, very cool! Going to take this for a spin this evening.

Have you thought about saving to the file system and then letting a different app handle Git (such as WorkingCopy)?

Are you actually rendering the SwiftUI components like VStack and HStack or "pretending" to?
JAMstack doesn't make you invulnerable but it removes some big surface areas.

You've still got to secure e.g. your hosting account, DNS account, Git account, comment system (against injection attacks). Phishing attacks aren't going to go away.
That’s a great idea, haha. Giphy Roulette
Yes. It’s Maybe even higher signal than the shady VPN they bought
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Yeah I thought this was going to be a page about controlling an existing garage door opener via a Raspberry Pi.

This is nuts.
> "Intelsat is the third large satellite communications company to declare bankruptcy this year,"

They're still launching C band satellites as the FCC is requiring the spectrum to be used for other purposes. In fact this bankruptcy is partially to help them get more benefits from the FCC over that...

I wonder if it occurred to anyone there to, you know, not continue spending big on obsolete goals.
Great info, thanks for adding, you are helping ;)
This animation doesn't do enough credit to Saturn V. Tell me again off them 4, which one carried people to the moon and back?
Makes sense because Whatsapp is a client.
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It’s hard to make a cash bailout that isn’t based on income/wealth due to the optics. By inflating asset values, it isn’t as discriminating against those on the upper end of the income/wealth scale, who also probably have major business interests in propping up asset values.
I want to say cool project, because I love home automation and have done a fair bit in my own home (though mostly just lights...). But having recently experienced a failure with my own garage door opener that destroyed the door and could have seriously injured a person, I think I'd be reluctant to completely homebrew my own solution.
Every time Facebook is buying something I feel sad and imagine Facebook like the black plague that will swallow that normal organism.
Of course, but AV parallelization is limited by the fact that you're all working on a single, tightly-interconnected system. The reality is somewhere in between "do more (fungible, separable) total work" and "dump engineers into a single project". Onboarding costs are substantial for a fast-growing AV company.
It was a reference to an actual ad campaign, I believe, for a real product
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> Children do deserve more happiness, because they're more vulnerable

That does not sound like a utilitarian argument. Are you saying that more happiness should be allocated to children and that vulnerability entitles one to more happiness? Conversely, does that mean non-vulnerable people require less happiness?

> Still, a child's logical utility demand is not _that_ much more to call them a monster, it's within limits.

Well, logical demand is not the concern here but irrational "think of the children" thought-terminating cliches used to justify policy changes at the expense of others. The children are held up as purported utility monsters. I.e. they are rhetorically treated as if they were true utility monsters.
Troy's fighting the good fight, but it's so freaking depressing. If he has hundreds of millions of records worth of personal data from just the breaches that have been shared with him, what _else_ is out there in the hands of criminals and corporations, neither of which have the public interest at heart—only naked self interest in exploiting members of the public for as much money as they can get?
Yes and no:

“Except during the summer months, the skin makes little if any vitamin D from the sun at latitudes above 37 degrees north”[1].

Also everybody’s production of vitamin D is different. There are plenty of people who work outside all day and still have insufficient levels.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/time-for-more...
It's going to be interesting change of landscape when we have isomorphic Rust/Wasm delivering truly native web apps that don't render on top of the 30 years of DOM kludge.

Google Sheets has used canvas for rendering for years.
No single method of intelligence gathering will win a binary game, that is just moving goal posts.
>With a framework-authored site with client-side routing, we can start to do more interesting things. We can make informed guesses based on analytics about which things the user is likely to interact with and preload the logic and data for them. We can kick off requests as soon as the user first touches (or hovers) the link instead of waiting for confirmation of a tap — worst case scenario, we've loaded some stuff that will be useful later if they do tap on it. We can provide better visual feedback that loading is taking place and a transition is about to occur. And we don't need to load the entire contents of the page — often, we can make do with a small bit of JSON because we already have the JavaScript for the page. This stuff gets fiendishly difficult to do by hand.

No, it's not. It's easy and you can do all that without an SPA framework. If you can't see this in about 5 seconds, you shouldn't be lecturing other about how to design websites.

Preloading hovered links can be done with a standalone library. AJAX can be done with another a standalone library. Removing extra crap from your page to facilitate faster AJAX can be done with a custom request header and a couple if-else statements on the server side. Best of all, this stuff can be added after you have a working website.
It seems very hard :-) Not the COBOL.
Voter here. It's not just that I'm willing to subsist on dog kibble in 35 years to see most of Wall Street go to jail. It's that I'm willing to make that trade this year. If you founded a political party whose platform was "fuck Wall Street in every way possible, and damn the consequences", I think most of my generation would vote for that.
Which would you say is more morally problematic, HFT or figuring out ways of making people click ads?