skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not decided by direct democracy and not by dictatorship. If people involved are unable to act responsibly, they are the wrong people for the job.
>Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable

But that's not what they said. Were you asked to use your real name? Nothing stopping you keeping to one, anonymous sounding username
I like the design, but honestly this doesn't seem to give you any added value when compared to Grafana + node_exporter + Prometheus or dtop [0][1]. But anyways, I like the clean UI of this solution

[0]: https://github.com/ddierickx/dtop
[1]: https://github.com/denysvitali/dtop (my fork)
> Oh, man. This is so evil. My LinkedIn inbox will be filled with job offerings by companies like Facebook and Uber.

I really enjoyed this part
Actually I believe the biggest reason could be mundane. As far as I understand most US police officers are working alone. So even one unarmed sucker punch means game over. I would be scared.
In Europe police patrol is usually 2 police officers, so there is much less worry, which allows you to deal with the situations more relaxed.
That’s really interesting. We do something similar for clients that don’t have access to the budget needed to hire the agency proper.
If I may make one comment, I thought there were too many colour choices. I work with designers everyday and even I got confused.
> From a European perspective

I don't think there is a European perspective. We haven't had anything close to the gang crime problem in the US in a long time, and when we did have it, guns weren't a thing.

It's obvious that there are lots of issues, but "look, we don't have them because we do X" doesn't work when we didn't have anything comparable in the first place. I'm certain that we would see very different policies if London, Paris or Berlin had the murder rate of Chicago, and it wouldn't be "let's spend more money on mental health".
The big problem with the Oxford ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine that I haven't seen discussed much is that it doesn't seem to work very well.

Viral gRNA was detected in nose swabs from all animals and no difference in viral load in nose swabs was found on any days between vaccinated and control animals

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.093195v1

For a less technical write-up:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/05/16/did...
Box-drawing characters are allowed. I made a comment[1] a while ago that used them to make a table. Unless they're only allowed in monospace blocks?

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23139517
Sound travels, what, 30 centimeters a ms?

Bluetooth/wifi is good for at least a few meters, and should have latency of around a ms. Should be pretty easy to synchronize via that.
I think the values have changed, I didn't get the ability to downvote until very recently at >1000 karma
Not feeling unsafe doesnt mean it is safe (and vice versa).
Here’s a perfect example from today[0]. Trump is denouncing the Kaepernick kneeling trend in the NFL, which represented a protest of police brutality in Kapernick’s own words. His action wound up costing him his career, and now the NFL is apologizing because they got caught suppressing a peaceful and justified protest to speak out against police brutality. Trump, among with many others, refuse to even acknowledge that this legitimate protest in fact denounced a very legitimate problem in America by subverting and redirecting the discussion to respecting the flag. This intentional redirection is an explicitly racist strategy to avoid discussing police brutality.

On the violence front, just a few days ago, Trump threatened to deploy active duty troops on protesters marching for a George Floyd. This was such an egregious action that Trump’s own former Secretary of Defense and one of the most regarded leaders in the military to denounce Trump as a threat to the Constitution[1]. Those were his exact words.

Trump has called immigrants animals, he secretly separated immigrant children from their parents at the border, he’s constantly calling for investigations of his political rivals, numerous types of behavior that we’ve never seen in a democratically elected leader before. If you’re not understanding the accusations of “coded language”, I’d encourage you to read up on the history dictatorships, because authoritarian behavior (deploying troops against peaceful protestors) and dehumanizing speech (calling immigrants animals) have preceded every single genocide in human history.

0: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12689981437330513...

1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-mattis-trump-statement/
Don't dismiss people being angry and upset at police right now like this. It's extremely disrespectful towards the very real problems they face.
I think the underlying problem here is that we accept the trade of hitting people with batons to protect property. It's priced into the insurance. To make progress, we have to move away from the mentality that this is acceptable. There will be pushback because a large amount of infrastructure is required. Everything that can be stolen will have to have a traceable serial number. We'll have to look for those serial numbers on things like eBay and the Amazon marketplace. Insurance costs will go up. The customer experience for people buying things will go down. Massive changes in how we think about the world will have to occur. But it seems like the direction we have to go -- we don't need to be damaging people's bodies (you only get one!) just because they're stealing a watch. Prosecute them. Don't let them make money from their crime. But we have to draw the line somewhere.

(The whole arresting protestors thing also confuses me. Free speech is the foundation of our country. We should be celebrating people risking their lives to fight for an issue that matters in the middle of a pandemic. But instead, we "kettle" them, hit them with batons, and send them to jail. It's not good, and shows that our society has a LONG way to go. What's nice about being so far from the goal, though, is that small changes can have a big impact. The first 99% of the work is as hard as the next 1% after all.)
Anyone know of a language that has vocabulary that distinguishes these two meanings of rarity?
It's always been -4 for me. At times it's felt like more when I've doubled down on my unpopular comments with more downvoted comments (and because usually every down vote hurts).

I think the limit probably discourages long winded "all these downvotes are a badge of honor" comments. People who crave downvotes only get four. People hurt by downvotes only get four, too.
This is tied to the absolute path of files in your home directory making it difficult to rebuild with say differing kerning values. It would be nice if it referred to relative paths. At least one path seems to be /home/sacha.local/lib when I assume it ought to be referring to /home/sacha/.local/lib

It would be neat if it referred to relative paths within the repo even nicer if it if evaluating it installed needed python libraries locally so you could clone it. Open it in emacs. Modify. Eval buffer.

Regarding kerning the only thing I think is really off is r followed by e example Here its not as noticeable with a smallish font but becomes more noticeable in a larger headline or title. I'm using it as the font for org headlines.
there are several benefits to using named constants over literal strings, and enums give you namespaced named constants
Well if he was trying to be obscure, he did a really poor job of it. It didn't take that many paragraphs before he laid out his political and social ideology on the reader. I really thought I was going to learn how modern technology engenders my brain-fog and how to prevent that. I've been had, I guess.
Get an audio spectrum analyzer app for your phone, and enable its log-X scale. Very useful for this sort of thing. The FFT will reveal sounds you don't hear yourself.
traditionally these events are considered archetypes as well as historical realities, just as jesus is supposedly prefigured in various ways in the old testament

so these could be said to be prefigurations of the end time pattern, as in satan keeps trying various ways and keeps getting defeated, which would in their mind lend credence to constant concern about these things
I'll take a contrarian/devil's advocate stance. for some applications and some usage scenarios, snaps makes a lot of sense.

Take a multi user system and users who run applications like chromium or firefox.

It's dangerous to upgrade the application while users are running them as the files the running applications depend on can change thereby making them either break in weird ways or force the end users to restart them.

if these apps were just distributed as snaps, it wouldn't matter. they would keep on using the old image without any problem, while new executions would get the new image. If one really wanted to encourage them to exit and restart (i.e. some security hole), the same mechanisms that exist today to get people to restart could be used.

with that said, I think it should be a choice, not something force down our throat. if I install something with apt/dpkg , I expect it to be an apt/dpkg package, not a snap. if I want to use snap, I'll install it with snap.
Reading the article, it sounds that it is pay on delivery, not on order.

> “I have always refused the deliveries, so I have never paid for anything,” he said, adding that the harassment is not only annoying for him, but also for restaurants.

> “It costs them money and they have to throw the food away. On the day that ten deliveries showed up, I did the math: it cost €450,” Van Landeghem said.
I think Brave's attempted cure to ads is worse than the disease. Now you don't just have adblocking, you also have a weird crypto middle man who tries to peddle you affiliate links. It's like a sort of protection racket
The US has the highest gun ownership (1.2 per capita), double the country next on the list.

When police officers from Europe come to visit, the first thing that surprise them is how tense the police is. They are constantly in fear of getting shot.

Reducing civilian gun ownership would help a lot to reduce violence, cops and non cops alike.
What are they going to do? Ship a distribution without proper graphics support?
Telegram Is Down
USA here - I had to look up what Revolut was. It sounds like another one of the many payment apps we have. Is this akin to Venmo/Cash App/Paypal here but in Europe?
It's not a zero-sum game, and it doesn't easy at all :)
Rotating... amateurs. Just use a detonation-based scramjet burner. Bonus: could be air-breathing for a large part of the first stage.

The downside would be the massive instability from the need to keep a supersonic flow matched up perfectly with the detonation velocity. I'd figure stochiometric deviation would be a feasible way to control the detonation velocity, but the control loop would be hard to get right. And it might be necessary to use film cooling with liquid cryogenics to prevent the shock front from melting the engine wall.
You need enough definiteness in a disclosure to enable someone of ordinary skill in the art make the invention.

The specific data structures, programming languages, program/application architecture, are generally unimportant (unless they are the invention).

Gadget patents are the same way. They don't have to claim particular fasteners, coatings, materials, dimensions, or the like, unless they are necessary for the invention.
Doesn’t seem what?
Crypto Startup School
2020 is a reminder that life is a circle
I saw a video on Twitter from what looked about half a mile from the bridge - sounded like Lustmord to me. All it needed was some ethereal demon howl and it would have been perfect.
"BART says", but as of 6 months ago I was compelled to buy ear plugs for my commute. There's a stretch just before West Oakland (Westbound) that I'm near certain has given me ear damage.
> Walmart and every single grocery store know my voting record

Well, they could just look up your social media accounts to see if you've made any comments they don't like.

Sure, that would catch everyone, but it would certainly find some, and cause a chilling effect.

> anti-trust actions.

Ahh, no it wouldn't though! Anti trust is about competition. It would not be a violation to collude for non price related non competition reasons.

> I would open up a new grocery store

Even if you happen to be a multi millionaire capable of doing so, most people aren't capable of doing this. Many people might also starve before you get around to doing this.

Also, there are many towns where such competition is not really possible, because there are only a few stores in the area.

> you fail.

You are misunderstanding how long it can take for the market to react. Market power is real, and established entities cannot be overthrown overnight.
It reminded me of this installation in Croatia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_organ
Horizon (IT System)
Lurk more
One of the "philosophers' stone" goals of the software industry is to completely replace human testing with automated testing.

Basically, I think automated testing is a very good thing, and we should definitely try to do as much of it as possible.

So we can clear the way for more useful and meaningful human testing.

I've always thought that the engineers in QC should be just as skilled and qualified as the ones building the product.

Part of what they should do, is design and build really cool automated tests, but I think that they should also be figuring out how to "monkey-test" the products, and get true users (this is 1000% required for usability and accessibility testing) banging on the product.

"True users" != anyone even remotely connected with the product development or testing, beyond a contract agreement.

But I'm kind of a curmudgeonly guy, and my opinions are not always welcomed.

I do write about why I prefer using test harnesses, as opposed to [automated] unit tests, here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/testing-harness-vs-unit-4...
Not only the tool is infuriating, the language is baffling. With most tools the first time I ever set eyes on the configuration I had a pretty good idea what was going on without reading any documentation. With Gradle it's like someone invented proto-Java and just left it at that. A build file which was actual Java would be much easier to understand and most importantly edit, because then I could get the IDE to help explore the API.

As a side note, this is probably (intentionally or not) the same tactic that Microsoft used in the 00s to avoid competition: keep changing things fast so that anybody using your tool chain a) has to follow your lead to keep up, b) ends up with huge sunk cost, and c) (if they trust whoever's behind Gradle) keeps being reminded how much they innovate.
Also BBC podcast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j/episodes/guide
What if a white person is one of the shareholder of a restaurant run by blacks? /s
If vastness is One Quadrillion and earth-like planets are one in Quadrillion, it is still rare.

E.g: Given All things equal till the point of your parents birth, the probability of you existing is still astronomical -- 1 x 10^25 or something like that and that is just a 30 year event.
Ask HN: Monitor Zoom / MS Teams Quality
Hi there.

What are good tools to monitor the quality during an 8-hour workshop via Zoom / MS Teams?

Background: I am conducting a three-day workshop next week via MS Teams. It'll be roughly 8 hours per day with breaks.

I always do a brief test session with the participants on a prior day to identify any tech issues.

This time it seemed that the video was hanging for 1-2 seconds a time a couple of times. But I as the host did not notice that.

So, I was wondering if there are any tools that monitor the quality on the participants' devices and show that to me.

My default network speed test did not indicate any troubles.

Also, in the past, MS Teams sometimes showed a "bad quality" message on my side when the participants did not notice that. So, MS Teams built-in connection check seems to not be super reliable.

Thanks for any tips.
Rio Tinto knew significance of 46,000-year-old caves years before blasting them
On my computer, the default color for visited links is also lighter.
There's definitively a value in knowing about culture, and being able to categorize it and discuss it on many levels. If you simply want to get through to more people, the most direct approach I can think of is to study things like rhetoric or take communication classes. There's a wealth of knowledge there for how to improve the way your communication impacts and includes other people. And while I'm at it, let's not forget the cross-section between marketing and psychology, for all those boiler-room types among you. :D
Well, I guess I don't know what you mean by accuracy, then. I'm thinking of the accuracy required to hit the right note in a guitar solo, or the accuracy required to time a clean & jerk correctly, or the accuracy required to track a fast-moving object with the eye.

Those things can be surpassed by machines, of course, but if you wanted to design a machine to do all of them? With human efficiency?
Where aside from the US do you see police shooting unarmed people?

The fact is that police decided to escalate their response to gun crime is entirely on them. The desire to turn things into a "war" between police and non-police validates the decision to use guns against police. After all they're soldiers.

Further more the consistently abusive behavior of police and complete lack of consequences reinforces to abused communities that police are no different from any other gang, with the exception that they will never be arrested. That again justifies treating them as just another violent gang, and so use of equivalent force against them is reasonable.

Police also are more violent, and push harsher charges, against specific communities. By doing that they've established that they are not operating fairly, and that lack of fairness further establishes police as an enemy.
Not that easy. If any of the above mentioned information is not "personal data", it's not GDPR relevant.

Also GDPR does not require an "export option" to export data ad hoc. The site owner must provide personal (!) data upon request.
Heh, just this week I was struggling to get a device to work with my laptop, until after 90+ minutes I realized there were different types of USB-C, and the one I had (the Apple charger cable) only did charging.

I needed one that transmitted video, so I then went to order a $10 USB-C, only to realize those also only did charging. Finally found what I needed, but I thought USB-C was finally "universal", but turns out much of that is just marketing...

Edit: Turns out the one I just bought ($40 USB-C Apple thunderbolt cable) doesn't even fit into the device because the edges are too thick. Ridiculous
Where do you host your sites. Are they on cloud?
For actual use, look at r/UsabilityPorn
Thank you for clarifying! Not intended as a joke :) #noob

I’ve used Ubuntu since the 2000s and never really branched out to explore different distros. I’ve added LWN’s Distributions List [1] to my reading list to lessen my ignorance.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Distributions/
Not OP, but I find that the ethical questions tend to not be about web scraping itself and more what you are using it to accomplish. If you want to scrape and rehost some data then your ethical violation is in the copying and rehosting, not that you automated the downloading of data. It would be the same if you copied all the data by hand and then rehosted it.

Then, of course, the way you go about it is important, too. Sapping the resources and bandwidth of a small site by sending it thousands of requests a minute is very different from automatically checking a public index once an hour.
Was in Manchester to see Metallica last year, Beetham Tower is spectacularly ugly in person though I suspect it'll be around long enough it'll become a much loved icon.
Does anyone know why the top bar sometimes has a thick black line underneath it?
>I'm not sure how representative the screenshots are of actual usage.

There's a subreddit for that r/UsabilityPorn
Please don't put "Show HN" on reading material. That's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html), because otherwise every post would have Show HN on it, defeating the purpose.
The black line is a symbol of mourning, used when someone deemed significant to the community passes.
I wonder if he left out the

LET nums = nums - 1

on purpose.
Basically yes.

Note that most of the GPU driver problems are on phones and neither RHEL nor Ubuntu officially support phones at all. And there are also many PC components that RHEL/Ubuntu don't support either, although usually that's just because the hardware is too new.
I get the tech issue, but what's interesting to me is that this person seems to be affected by delivery services that charge ON delivery, which to me points towards malicious intent. It would be interesting to know if the delivery people know the person's name. The article is a little fuzzy there.
Mathematical typesetting before there was LaTeX
"Why are you dieting? You're not fat!"

...is a version of this fallacy. Rationalists probably have a name for it.
The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
In my gmail double life, I'm a falconer, a long-haul truck driver, and like to go on pilgrimages to Scottish golf clubs and to the holy land.
I feel like the only good option at this point when purchasing a prebuilt desktop or a laptop is to nuke the drive and do a clean install of Windows. Seems like the only way to ensure that you've killed the crapware and any partitions meant to preserve/reinstall it.
My bet: depression rate is going to increase around the bridge where the sound can be heard.

I wonder if you can hear it from top of Mount Tamalpais?
At the risk of sounding like I'm boasting, I'll share concrete figures. I earn about $285k USD (~$380k CAD) as an L4 SWE at a FANG company. My top earning friends in BC work at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Juul and earn about $60-$120k CAD.
> I know that if I post something about C, it will get downvoted.

You "avoid like plague any post or thread that talks about C" because you will lose points?! I suggest you try caring less or not at all about fake internet points and more about saying what's important to you. Post if you have a point worth reading, that contributes to HN and the conversation. Write as well as you can. That's all anyone can do.
Pretty much the only good thing about the lockdown was the massive reduction in sound levels in London. Just off Old Kent Road which means traffic noise dropped, plane noise disappeared[1], general hubbub of the feral children vanished, no late night parties at the community centre, etc. It was as close to blissful as I've encountered in London.

[1] Normally one every 5-10 minutes from 0500 to 23000 since we're on Heathrow approach and not far off City's path.
They did lobby for better patent laws--that's how we got first-to-file and inter-partes review.
Yes, run a script from someone...smart.

And wow, tbf that haskell script is simple enough to read w/o compiling. Never knew it was that easy to read. If you know a ceaser cipher then you can literally do it in your head.
Awesome! Thanks so much for this! I will take a look just as soon as I can.
An unorthodox mindmap of higher mathematics [pdf]
I think because a) this is a huge additional investment b) they still have to invest in patents until (if) the system changes c) then the whole playing field is changed, and that's also a huge risk

Status quo is almost always safer if you're one of the biggest.