skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could somewhat be the fault of web developers. Unless there's a paywall, the (client|customer|boss) probably wouldn't object to throwing in an RSS feed. Maybe it would require a little extra time, but it's easier than jacking around with HTML / CSS. Most of the time, developers probably don't even think about RSS or it's at the bottom of their list.

I read my feeds in Thunderbird. I don't want yet another 3rd party service for this. I get overloaded, but my web browser is a worse distraction. I probably waste less time surfing through RSS feeds than I do by mindlessly browsing. I can more easily develop a routine for browsing feeds and the view is less distracting.

There's probably a lot of opportunity in aggregation. Newsletters such as "Inside" do a great job of this, but it's just one small slice.
That's an interesting idea. It would cut down on the number of garbage patents, which is a huge positive in my view.
email: "Go f--- yourself!"
Clippy: "Would you like me to put that on your to-do list?"
How to use PureScript with create-react-app in 2020
It is really easy, keeping glass wet (with water) while grinding & polishing keeps it in a slurry so no airborne particles to give you silicosis.
I don't disagree with that. Though not clear if you were replying to my point about where the order to block it came from. Unless I missed it..
Yeah, and also it is actually really easy to use. I justed checked the Python how-to for Tink and it's a lot more verbose than NaCl.
> Pretend money met reality.

Do you realise you can sell it to get real money?

If you were doing that every year and treating your RSUs are a normal part of your compensation then you would have been taking home your entire half-million or so pre-tax as an engineer at Uber.

That's not pretend money.
It causes harm to American expats because FATCA's terms are horrible for banks. Basically, they have a whole host of new reporting obligations for their US citizen customers, wherever they are in the world. If their compliance fails, their US operations will be subject to a 30% withholding tax on all transactions. American citizens are the rare exception for banks outside the US and the compliance costs and huge operational risks make it very unattractive to accept US citizen clients. It is very difficult to find a bank willing to take them on as a customer, and those that do often put restrictions on their accounts.

Fat cat expats are relatively unaffected because they can afford to set up all kinds of complicated legal structures, companies, trusts, etc. to skirt the law and anyway have enough money that even with increased compliance costs they are still worth keeping as customers.

Finally, in general, US tax law regarding foreign earned income is completely absurd and nearly unique in the world, and direct compliance costs on expat Americans--for example, FBAR requirements--are equally absurd. I believe this is a result of the structural disenfranchisement of expats in the American political system. Expats vote where they last resided, so lots of places might have 0.5% expat voters, but no one place has 100% expat voters. So no politician has any incentive to represent expat interests.
> Among the antibodies showing neutralizing activity, one antibody stood out for its ability to completely block SARS-CoV-2 infection of healthy cells in the experiments. STI-1499 completely neutralized the virus infectivity at a very low antibody dose, making it a prime candidate for further testing and development. Initial biochemical and biophysical analyses also indicate STI-1499 is a potentially strong antibody drug candidate.

https://investors.sorrentotherapeutics.com/node/11241/pdf

This is as far from a "cure" or "treatment" as the Wright Brothers were from Apollo 11. In vitro results are a necessary, but insufficient path along the trajectory of developing a drug.

Heck, this press release doesn't even mention in vivo experiments. Everything is on cells. Drug development is absolutely littered with the corpses of promising in vitro studies.

Calling the experiments have have been run anything other than "preliminary work" is misleading.
Does This Work?
Seeing if this actually works?...
Surprise Feminism
> It's that infalling matter has very little time once it crosses the horizon, before it hits the singularity. For example, in a 1 solar mass black hole, it's only 10 microseconds from the horizon to the singularity.

Why should it be hitting the singularity at all? Why can't particles have a stable orbit just under the event horizon? Is it because the orbit speed would exceed the speed of light?

> The singularity is at r = 0.

Also, why singularity at all? Neutron stars compress to a certain density and then stop compacting any further. Of course, gravity in black holes is stronger, but why people think that all matter would compact into a singularity? Can't it be a very dense object where compacting force is compensated by matter density limit? (i don't know the exact term in english, sorry)
The thing you need to know about US economics (and politics), is that it's always driven by some narrow special interest group. Just follow the money, and you'll find some billionaire with special interest, and their millionaire enablers.

I'm not saying that it's not like that in other countries, but the big difference between the US and many other western countries, is that core services (health, education, freedom, etc.) are unfortunately so heavily influenced by private interest, that the majority of Americans end up paying more for less - while some few end up filthy rich.

And it is quite interesting - if you ever find yourself reading about some policies getting put on the table, just follow the money.
IIRC it doesn't use ANS for every compression level, can't remember much more than that, though
We disagree then. I consider the US government's performance during the Cold War to be more impressive than its performance during WWII. In particular, the US managed to avoid using nuclear weapons in anger, managed to prevent its adversary from using nuclear weapons in anger, managed to prevent its adversary from invading Western Europe and managed to break its adversary's hold on Eastern Europe.

Diplomacy and soft power were more important in the Cold War than they were in WWII, which is why I feel the need to use "US government" in that last sentence rather than "US military". In particular, the US used free trade as an incentive to induce the governments of Western Europe, Japan, South Korea and even mainland China to go along with US plans to stop the expansion Soviet influence.

But putting aside the performance of the State Department and the other non-military parts of the US government during the Cold War, I consider the performance of its military specifically to have been good. The most important consideration during Vietnam War for example was to show Europe that the US would uphold its security guarantees even at large cost to itself in money and American lives, and the US military succeeded in that. It would have been nice for it to have saved South Vietnam from being conquered, but that was not strictly necessary to winning the Cold War. Another important consideration was for the US military to conduct the war humanely enough that the other side would not end up hating the US for generations, and the US military seems to have succeeded in that goal: these years, public opinion in Vietnam toward the US is generally positive and the Vietnamese government (even though it is still communist) is generally friendly to the US.
> so it's hard to disentangle or fix

Give the Id to everybody who wants it for free. If someone cannot prove citizenship, but they can prove having worked or lived in the US for more than 5 years (checks, bank receipts, etc.), give them citizenship.

There, problem solved. That way, you only discriminate against those who are either in the US illegally and are not working, or are working but have been illegally living in the US for less than 5 years, and both situations are fixable by the individuals themselves (work for 5 years and "earn" your citizenship).

Of course, what many want is an Id that can actually be used to prevent poor people from voting, while also being able to employ those same poor people at very low rates using the fear of "reporting them".
I use RssDaemon on Android, which had been around forever (8-9 years maybe?) is apparently so dead that the author just released a new version with major UI update.

My most used been apps on my phone are RssDaemon and Twitter. I read Hackers news though RSS. Twitter on the other hand has been getting worse.

The backlash against centralized social media platforms is building, but it is hard to say what comes next.
Speed of light is still fixed.
> No one wants things to be shut down until we have a vaccine, they want it to be shut down until we have a test and trace infrastructure in place.

I wouldn't say "no one":

> Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that the city will "never be completely open until we have a cure,"

This is also a mentality I've seen numerous times on the web, including this site.
Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results
I always go for a native app over a web app/electronjs app. Native will most likely have the familiar idioms of the OS, lower overhead, and take advantage of platform specific features. I happily pay money for native apps. I generally don’t pay for blobs of JS in app form.
Aren't mAb therapies very expensive, though? My experience in oncology tells me that some mAb courses (bevacizumab, for example) have costs that go through the roof.
YouTube deletes video of anti-lockdown epidemiology researcher
I'm going to be slammed for using these two words, but for any real work you need to have as few layers of indirection between the user and the machine as possible, and this includes the UX, in the sense that it is tailored to the fastest and most comfortable data entry and process monitoring.

I don't see any `web first` or Electron solution replacing Reaper or Blender in a foreseeable future. One exception I'm intrigued with is VS Code, which seems to be widely popular. May be I need to try it to form my own opinion.
I guess the equitax data breach will lead to real consequences. Just not for equifax.
> you should see the bunkers congress built themselves with taxpayer money

One of Congress' duties is to declare war. So they need to be alive to authorize the use of military force. Should they have built their former bunker at a luxury hotel? Well, it provided a good cover story, and if you've seen the videos of it, they were sleeping in metal bunk beds, so not all that luxurious in the bunker itself.

> monitor icbms via internet

The USAF is very serious about securing those systems. They aren't even going to use SIPRNet for that. They have watched War Games too.

> can you just imagine them actually staying in bunkers during nuclear fallout

I was trained as a radiological monitor in high school and would have collected readings for determining when it was safe to go out, or more likely, which part of the improvised shelter provided the most protection. This isn't Switzerland where bunker construction is part of the federal building code.

edit Here's an article about Swiss bunkers. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prepared-for-anything_bunkers-f...
It can also be related to your insurance and employer's choices when setting up the benefits.
The author posted a follow-up piece:
https://www.drmaciver.com/2015/04/surprise-feminism/
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Seriously, you linked to a conspiracy website on Hacker News?
No affiliation, just picked the name because it fit... The company I work at was exploring various sort algorithms to use and this turned out to be the fastest.

Another benefit of this algorithm is that it is parallizes extremely well.
Certainly fair, though I'd probably replace "extremely effective" with "our best ideas to solve a very serious problem, and therefore worth trying".

For example, is Reff < 1 in Korea only because of contact tracing? They're doing a commendable job with that, and it's certainly helping, but by how much? Is their voluntary physical distancing actually responsible for most of their success? Or some yet-unknown factor?

I'm not sure how anyone could answer that now with confidence. That uncertainty shouldn't stop us from implementing the best ideas we have, but I believe it should be acknowledged.
What Theodore Ts'o said about it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180611180213/https://plus.goog...

(This Theodore Ts'o: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts%27o)
It obviously depends on the type of the book and the reader's expectations. It just might not have been the type of book where you write about things like that.
If it’s trivial to do this type of fraud, imagine how easy it is to falsify voting records. Especially in states that don’t have strict voter ID laws.
Lol, you’re commenting on an article criticising one such attempt!?
Your dismissal of “sorted flat thing” as being necessarily not online is incorrect or unnecessarily strict to your detriment.

I wrote this comparing the high-level performance of a “set” (AVL or red-black tree) against just that:

Faster lookups, insertions, and in-order traversal than a red-black or AVL tree [0]

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2019/sorted-list-vs-binary-search-...

(Spoiler: it depends on the nature of your data, but sorted vector can be dramatically faster.)
> Why isn't the implementation of the algorithm as simple as linking in the related library

Because filesystems need to store compression metadata and compressor settings differently than individual archive streams do. Because of the way ZFS stores configuration like this, in the previous version of these patches, they had to choose a subset of the available compression levels when adding zstd support.

Different compressors and decompressors also have different state sizes for different settings. Allocating, reusing, and discarding buffers for compression/decompression state in a sensible way inside an operating system kernel is not trivial.
I'm reminded of Jonathan Blow's talk, "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" [1]. Are we going to end up with a generation of game developers who don't understand the internals of their game engines? The unreal engine 5 demo has really wowed everyone but could we maybe reach a point in the future where these amazing game engines are struggling to compete against really inefficient game code?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
Most studies of voter fraud have shown it's negligible. Compared to the disenfranchisement of minorities and the poor caused by requiring voter ID, I'll take that risk.

This is the same argument being wielded against Vote by Mail. Yet fraud in VBM is rare as well, and VBM works extremely well for servicemembers deployed overseas. And Trump even votes by mail...

The GOP just knows that if more people vote, the GOP candidates will do worse.
> When Oscar uses the word “water” he is talking about water, whereas when Twin Oscar uses the word “water” he is talking about twin water. As a result, what you mean depends in part, but crucially, on the world around you.

(edit: i'm sure the "Criticism" section of the wikipedia article abt Twin Earth does a better job explaining this, but anyway...)

i never understood this perspective. let's assume the Oscars don't know anything about water's chemical composition, and H2O and XYZ have the same properties (which i think the experiment does). then magically swap the Oscars; neither of them would realize it, nor would anyone around them. and there's no magical oracle who would be able to say that e.g. Twin Oscar's thoughts about "water" are now all nonsensical because he's thinking about Twin Water and not the Normal Water he's actually experiencing -- actually, i'd say they'd make as much sense as they did before the swap. because "meanings" are in the head, they're not magically bound to the real world, at best correlated.

though if i'm misreading Putnam, please let me know! i'd be happy to stop being vaguely annoyed every time i see his stuff mentioned :)
Your other choice without lots of friction is Google, an advertising company. I hate that this is the world we live in.
To make them free enough that they don't impose a burden on people's right to vote, we'd probably need to collect an amount of identifying information in a central location rivaling anything attempted previously by the US government.

Enough biometrics to recognize a person regardless of whether they have any paperwork, paired with a system to update those biometrics when people's situations change (If you identify people by fingerprint for example you can't deny their right to vote if they lose both arms).
Why are we so certain we'll be sending human bodies?

All of sci-fi is steeped in interstellar transportation of human bodies, each with human brains and human biological needs and handicaps. I just don't get it.

There's no forcing function to make us go to the stars, establish permanent habitats on Mars, etc. They're not very hospitable or profitable enterprises.

I see us evolving human biology before we attempt this seriously. Genetically modified bodies that have different metabolisms, different mechanical gaits, changed oxygen metabolism.

Or perhaps we'll have brain uploads, and exist ephemerally. Living matter isn't ideal in outer space. We can always turn on biology again when we reach the destination - if we even want to.

Or maybe AGI just kills us.

In any case, I don't see human forms doing any of this nonsense. I think people fantasize about the familiar things they can relate to. I see a fundamental mismatch between the human body and outer space that would be served by optimizing humans for the environment.
By no means i am demotivating anyone. I have just enumerated the minimum possible evaluation criteria and current state of development. This is what i often do at my workplace as an Architect.

If someone is eager to try out new possibilities in Deno and their application use cases intersect well with what Deno has to offer, then by all means it's a good decision.
When the submitter emailed to ask why that got flagged, I said it was probably because of the baity name, and if they changed that to something neutral we'd allow the repost.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different than that here, and we need you to get on board with the intended spirit of the site in order for that to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We don't look at this as a moral issue, by the way. It's just necessary if HN is to achieve its original purpose, which is to remain interesting as it grows. The alternative is to burn to a crisp, and we'd prefer not to:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
That doesn't scale well for a country the size of the US, where local voting is determined by residency. For national elections, sure, no registration would be fine. But how would you keep people from voting for elections outside of their region?
> I still write and think in SQL, but don't have to write queries as strings.

Why is that a benefit though? Why would I rather learn some custom query builder-specific DSL when SQL is at least mostly standardized pretty much everywhere. The use of template strings in JS can get rid of all the problems of just plain string concatenation for SQL (e.g. it can prevent SQL injection, enable safe dynamic queries, etc.)
I definitely could use something like this! Or more specifically, something that will take a channel's RSS feed and convert it to the podcast format for my podcatcher.
> Some things can't easily be libraries like databases

The world's most widely deployed database engine (SQLite) is only available as a library.
This repo looks like what amounts to a "I have an idea! Somebody else do it" project. It's just a ReadMe file.

Before you'll get any sort of quality contribution, you'll want to contribute... something at all.
I went the same route but it was too buggy and slow for me, I found screen sharing to be better using Jump Desktop.
Ask HN: How to prevent audio downsampling with AirPods?
It seems that whenever I'm using AirPods (Gen.1) on an app that requires both audio output and input (microphone), the sound output seems to be automatically downsampled to what can be described as super low-quality MP3. Using e.g. the laptop microphone seems to fix the issue. This doesn't seem to happen with other BT headphones (e.g. with my Beats Studio).

Even worse, this is system-wide (e.g. bad audio quality is across apps, e.g. a YouTube tab or Spotify).

Any ideas?
It's not XUL anymore, actually, as far as I know. That's why it ripped out support for XUL addons.
I read this via RSS.
If the right click menu itself is the problem, that kind of is the browser's fault. Especially when firefox has an override for that, pressing shift.

> Copy/paste with video in a browser is not as straightforward as images.

Copy is already broken and weird for images, since it doesn't get you the original file. But if you fixed that, I would expect pasting to give me a 'transferring...' window as long as the browser is still open and it can't be fed from cache. That wouldn't be particularly hard to implement. (And being unable to feed from cache wouldn't be unique to video at all. Image downloads already ignore the cache all the time.)
These aren't signs that you're not finding the right feeds. They are signs that you need to unplug a bit and go do something in meat space. The Internet will still be there when you get back ;-)
Legal liability or the general threat of having to expose themselves to additional scrutiny of government agents.

If a government agent determines that the doc is over-prescribing they can get into big trouble.

It is because of the US Opioid crisis, but the regulations are directed toward all controlled substances, not just oxycodone.
Yeah I agree, it's sort of an open problem, but I guess a bunch of arrows are pointing toward FUSE.

Distri uses FUSE and it appears Microsoft's GVFS uses FUSE or whatever Windows technology is the equivalent. (My teammates developed Google's equivalent about 14 years ago, using FUSE, so it's something I've used / seen several times.)

FUSE requires some kernel support (a module), which git of course doesn't require. That is a barrier, but perhaps not an insurmountable one. Basically I would like to offload all the "network" work to the OS, so applications are free of that logic.
I remember that brief time when free email addresses were being offered up before RSS was created. You could get daily news emailed to your inbox from such as USA Today, Wired, and so forth. An electronic newspaper tossed at your digital front door every morning. I actually looked forward to it.

Then RSS was invented. Now RSS is supposed to be dead, and/or killed, what appears to be several times over. I never did get on the Google Reader bandwagon because I was subscribing to RSS feeds via other means.

Nowadays, I have the app ‘Podcast Addict’ [free with ads, $0.99 once for no ads; I'm just a user here] installed on my tablet through which I subscribe to over 50 RSS feeds – podcasts, webcomics, even a comedian’s “upcoming shows” feed. There are countless other RSS feeds available via in-app search and discovery let alone the “add your own” option.

By missing out on an RSS apocalypse folks seem to love to talk about from time to time, have I accidentally become one of those “welcome back” guys?
I received a letter on May 8th telling me that I applied for unemployment benefits... but of course I did not. I am also in WA state. I filed a fraud report, so we'll see how it goes. So incredibly frustrating...
Promisifying makes the node APIs more convenient, but you still do not have the ability to provide back-pressure. See the link below:

https://deno.land/v1#promises-all-the-way-down
A Quick Look at Impredicativity – Simon Peyton Jones, Chalmers FP Seminar Series