skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are thirty-something's questions. They give me the "Was I really obsessing over that?!" vibe. Maybe I'm old and cynical.
Interview with International 14 World Champion Glen Truswell
> You will waste a LOT of time getting it set up and fiddling with it.

I'm always a bit surprised by people claiming Gnus is hard to configure. When I decided to try Gnus, I opened the manual and it says which variables to set:

(setq
user-full-name "My Name"
user-mail-address "my.email@address"
send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
smtpmail-stream-type 'starttls
smtpmail-smtp-service 587
gnus-select-method
'(nnimap "gmail"
(nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
(nnimap-server-port 993)
(nnimap-stream ssl)
(nnmail-expiry-wait immediate)))

Must have taken less than 10 minutes to setup. Haven't touched that configuration since then.

Now, many people complain about the difficulty of setting Gnus up, so it must be true. My best guess is that what is actually hard to setup is external mail fetching and indexing. I've never tried that. Were offlineimap and dovecot hard to setup?

I don't paticularly feel the need for external fetching and indexing: Gnus is already much, much faster than loading the Gmail webapp, and is comparable in speed to using the web app's reload button (not the browser reload button).

Now, many people also complain that fetching mail with Gnus is slow, so it must be true. My best guess here is that either they are comparing to something much faster than Gmail or they have a very different email usage pattern than I do. Maybe they keep a lot of email in their inbox?
Part of the reason it's historically sold so well is that its particular combination of features is difficult to get economically in other ways. If you want, say, a blinking LED without a microcontroller, it can't really be done without a 555 except at severe penalty in cost, complexity, or both. Any analog solution involving an op-amp, for example, has to deal with the fact that an op-amp is usually more expensive than a 555!

(Example: TI's cheapest 555 is the NE555 in TSSOP-8 package at $0.05, and their cheapest op-amp is the LM321LV in SOT23-5 package at $0.04, actually slightly cheaper than I remember last time I went looking for the cheapest op-amp money could buy. But the op-amp will require more supporting components, increasing total cost.)

That's not true for voltage regulators: there are many other parts that do what a 7805 does and many ways to build that function, some of which can sometimes end up cheaper.

Of course, the previous caveat of "without a microcontroller" is quickly becoming a concern of the past, and, accordingly, the 555 isn't designed in nearly as often as it was even in 2003.
> never speak ill of your spouse or put them down in front of anyone. Be their biggest fan.
> Speak kindly. Act kindly. No matter how you feel

Really? No matter what they do, no matter how they make you feel? Never, ever?
My guess would be that phone numbers are guaranteed to be unique IDs that (almost) every phone will have which simplifies things and reduces the risk of someone impersonating someone else.

I think they are working on non-phone number IDs though (Moxie was in an earlier signal thread on HN recently and mentioned it).
Exactly! Awesome work :)
Designing a good boolean variable name
If there was an easy way to get iMessages in Windows 10 I guess it would just increase the number of people who consider switching from Mac? Maybe Apple can't fit that into their business model?
The "fakes" are usually off pieces that didn't go through the official quality control.

The easiest way for you to demonstrate this is to get some official Legos. Then go on Aliexpress and order some no-brand knockoffs (Lepin or whatever they're called now). Both work as building blocks, both connect to themselves and each other.

But you can just feel that the knockoffs haven't been produced to the same exact standard as the officials, they're just a little bit off and squeaky and wonky.

Now if someone sold you the knockoffs as officials, it would affect the Lego brand. And this is why companies go to court for.
At that point you're writing something for /usr/libexec, not /usr/bin though. (i.e., at that point it becomes sufficiently inconvenient to use from the shell that no user-facing program would do so.)
Yes, something like that. Interestingly enough, Dart has a mode to compile to the AST, so that when you run it, the interpreter does not need to parse the text again and check the types, it just starts straight off an AST. The TS compiler and V8 could definitely do something similar.
For those who wondered like me who this software was built for, the answer is in the full article:

> The operators at the refinery sometimes had trouble getting a big picture for what was happening at the plant beyond their particular area of focus. “The whole goal if this was to teach operators that they are part of a bigger system,” Skidmore said. “Their concern at the time was that operators tended to be very focused on their one plant, and their one thing they do, and so [they] weren’t keeping in mind that what they do affected other parts of the plant. So they wanted a training tool that allowed operators to manipulate inputs and outputs of the various pieces of the refinery process to see how they impact.”

> The non-technical staff at the Richmond refinery needed to know how it worked too. The people in human resources and accounting weren’t chemical engineers, but it would help their work to see how the different areas of the plant were networked together, how one department affected another department.

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/
If it’s like that, it’s time to call a divorce attorney.
You can register as a photographer very easily. I've been doing my own pics for years now.
I wanted to read a bit more about this and started googling.

Then it turned out that this article is plagiarized word-for-word from https://www.computerworld.com/article/3427839/ten-years-on--...

Posting it here in the "Show HN" section adds to the audaciousness.
Adding a line where you want there to be a shadow in the output seems like something you could learn from trial and error when messing with a model. It somewhat weakens the accomplishment of the paper if the sketches aren’t drawn by naive users, but it’s a lot more defensible than generating the input like you suggest.
Show HN: Pic.Hance New Feature – Blur Faces in Photos
We’re saying a lot of the same things. I feel like you didn’t read my post carefully, and you’re making some wrong assumptions about my post.

Why do you equate my post with something that resembles saying that anything the police did was justified?

Unlike the parent, everything you said about the incident is accurate. You’ve interjected your opinion on each event of the incident, which is fine. You’re having an honest conversation. We can’t have those when we start out with hyperbole, omissions, and fabrications. Case in point, you’ve suggested alternative actions that could have been taken, which would not have been possible if we went with the original narrative. After all, if they do this for “literally no reason”, there’s no possible fix for that.

Emphasizing de-escalation sounds like a great idea. On a subsequent night, they changed their procedures to put the fence about 100 ft in front of them. That would ensure that they could not feel “threatened” or agitated by protestors partially encroaching the barrier. It also solves the problem of a mouthy kid getting right in your face and cussing you out, which might trigger a negative reaction. It looked like it went a lot better that time.
Twitter disables Trump video tribute to Floyd over copyright complaint
Stop with the stupid nitpicking. You should already know the reason why we have humans in our war machines is that they are the ones with the authority to designate targets and deploy the weapon against the designated target.
Mozilla fixes high‑risk Firefox flaws, bug in DoH feature
TIL that there are still enslaved people who suffer in your country.
Red blood cells are more than bags of hemoglobin. The membrane is responsible for limiting the interaction of nitric oxide with hemoglobin, which deactivates the NO and causes vessel contraction. There may also be active release of NO by RBCs under hypoxic conditions, but I don't think we've proved that yet. This is interesting work, but a long way from being safe and practical.

Edit: Sorry, wrong link.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.0012...
How Much Does It Cost for Creating a Church App?
In the 20th century, you can see the impact of mobile computing in every industry, and there is no exception for religious aspects as well.
You’re still doing it man. Come on. Be objective. You can still be accurate and think they were in the wrong. But you’re drawing lines that were not there, mixing up unrelated events, and failing to acknowledge the contributions to the escalation on the protestor side.
A counter point is that most large companies these days operate with lots of small teams, not one big team. And most systems are composed through a service oriented architecture of some sort, not a single giant monolith worked on by all teams.

So in practice, even at a large company, you find yourself with lots of small teams.

And no such small team at a large company would be composed exclusively of junior developers. There's at minimum going to be a team lead of some sort, and most often you'll have a spectrum from senior to junior.

So in reality, Clojure can be quite a good fit even at large companies. In fact, it might be a better fit at bigger companies, because I think small startup might actually be where you could find a small team of only juniors, and a "deliver at all cost no matter the quality" business need (due to not being profitable yet).
jqGrid, DataTables, ag-Grid, jQuerygrid, ... a lot. How many grid libraries do we need?
Agreed. It just looks a bit strange and doesn't help to instil confidence in the paper. My first guess would be that they've used a reverser for the learning process somehow. As it's a preprint, hopefully comments like this will help them to strengthen the paper and release their code!
Wave, G+, Currents?

Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on you; But fool me a third time?
What's going on with the first one? A WMD is defined as a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon or...a large firecracker?
Yes, jimage is relatively new but this is more about the way the ransomware attempts to evade detection. The way it gets in, according to the Blackberry article, is through vulnerable, internet-facing (or anyway, hostile-facing) RDP servers this is much less eh 'innovative'.
You are (presumably) safe if you have no exposed/vulnerable RDP servers.
That would still mean 60% of passport holders will be surprised by this change. I hadn't heard of it, and I'll need to renew my passport in a little over a year.
I had heard once that new imaging modalities that advance a lot of new research invariably translate to Nobel prizes. Would that be expected of cryo EM techniques?
The definition is broad (and self-referential, oddly): The "Apple software" is defined as "The Apple software (including Boot ROM code), any third party software, documentation, interfaces, content, fonts and any data accompanying this License"

If a subset such as "Boot ROM code" on the VM host was sufficient to allow for using "Apple software" beyond said subset in VM guests, then any other subset (such as "fonts") would also have to be sufficient, and no reasonable person would agree with such a thing. Therefore, it follows that the _entirety_ of "Apple software" must be "already running" on that "Mac Computer" before booting any VM guests that use "Apple software." This interpretation is supported by the use of the word "and."
If you're arguing about whether some weapon is a WMD after the fact, good faith isn't really something we can count on. The whole point of precise definitions is eliminating subjectivity. Anyway, that definition includes cruise missiles, which can't be WMDs because they're in widespread use. This line of inquiry is dead in the water.
VMware delays vSphere 6.7 end of life by 11 months
Do you have any recommendations of online resources or books that can get a web programmer (experience in PHP / C# ) up to speed with clojure ecosystem ?
> The die-hards who still, in 2020, complain about HTML email are just wrong and absurd.

I understand not liking HTML email, but I agree that complaining about it is unnecessary. For one thing, in my experience practically no message of any importance whatsoever is in HTML. I could simply not read any HTML email and no-one would ever notice.

Of course, this is isn't true for everyone: while I have no first hand experience of this, there are apparently some work environments were people receive HTML email that actually is important for them to read. If the formatting isn't too complex, say, just a few headings, italic text and images, then rendering it in Emacs with shr works just fine. For more complex HTML that Emacs can't handle, Gnus has K H, which opens it right away in a browser window.

Now, if you feel pressure to send HTML email, not just to read it, then you can use one of several Emacs packages to write in Org mode or Markdown and have it automatically converted to HTML and sent as email. I actually do this sometimes for math-heavy emails and it works just fine (my previous system for that was to send people PDFs).

> Contrary to what they say, HTML email is very useful for discussing code: e.g. the ability to send well-presented syntax-highlighted code fragments for discussion is helpful, not a hindrance.

OK, that I disagree with but just because color schemes are highly personal. It's more comfortable to read that code in your own text editor, with your preferred color scheme. Doing so is easier if you were reading the email inside your text editor to begin with.
So, I started this particular thread on cancelling rent and I started it with a proposal that both rent and mortgages go on a holiday and a universal income supplement be enacted for the duration of the emergency. This is an arrangement that enables all three of renters, landlords with mortgages, and landlords without mortgages to have a shot at getting through this without bankruptcy.

And yet every reply comes in crying about mortgages, which I said right in my first post should have a holiday as well because otherwise there's conflict.

There's a knee-jerk reaction of empathy for people holding property that isn't being extended to renters here in this thread. It's showing in where people stop reading and hit the reply button. If you can't read past "rent holiday" to see the next part, you aren't spreading your empathy evenly, let alone fairly (which is not necessarily the same thing).
Declaring Variables in ES6 – JavaScript
I'm not sure what you mean? I think the Fed buying ETFs is fine, and that the Fed buying individual corporate bonds on the secondary market would be fine too but more complicated to administer without the appearance of political favoritism.

So it makes sense to me that they're buying ETFs. whatok pointed out that the Fed didn't originally set out to buy mostly (or exclusively) ETFs, but rather to buy mostly individual bonds--it's just that the individual-bonds program turned out to be too complicated to actually use, so they ended up buying all ETFs. I thought that was a good clarification, and an interesting lesson on the complexity of modern finance (that even the creators of the program failed to predict how it would actually work).

I'm not sure what to say to someone who hates the Fed for buying government debt, beyond that they've grossly misunderstood how a central bank works. I'd guess they also hate both the individual corporate bonds and the ETFs, so I'm not sure what your point is there?
That seems rather unwarranted attempt at vilification of the language, worded in an odd way: if something sucks, it's bad, so suckless would actually be positive?

But why? What's Go done to you? A few if err != nil { ... } statements too many?
70% of infected with Covid don't pass it; superspreading events account for most
Pretty good summary yes.

The idea itself of supporting Europeans alternative to face American and Chinese tech giants is by itself noble (and I think necessary).

However, the usual way it is done is a disaster: top-bottom, funding some existing behemoth company that will have no capacity whatsoever to innovate, nor will to do so. But they will get the money because they have good connections.

If you think about it, it is not very different of the American military-industrial complex and the way the DoD/Army/DoE fund their programs (F-35 ?).

Creating a good environment for startups and giving grants to several ones in parallel to create an internal competitive market would be both cheaper and more effective.

But that would imply first a generation switch....
It's not great even on a local network I can use Firefox reasonably well, but I can entirely forget that on current remote working environment with VPN and SSH... And this is from land-line connection with reasonably powerful machines at both ends. A few seconds response time makes user-experience useless...
how can my personal experience with American culture be wrong? it's not like I'm citing something I read but things I have and still experience. I'll leave it at this since there is no point in further discussion if we don't share the same basis/foundation in how we perceive reality.
This is one of the superior aspects of FreeBSD: no parsing of human-readable strings to get back machine-readable information about the process table. It's available directly in machine-readable form via sysctl().
I feel like that book was required HS reading in the 80s. The movie is also good.

I'll add the film Miracle Mile to the suggestions.
On that note, does anyone know anything about SIMULA-C? It was a reasonably high-level PWR simulation, if I remember correctly, with a detailed description of its internal model. There is a paper floating around mentioning its use in training. But I can't even find its original website any more (and even when I could, the executable was not in the archive).
To be more precise: A->BCPL->B->C
How did you arrive at choosing Cloudflare? It's clear Google Domains has broken processes not conducive to running a business centered on user content. How do you know Cloudflare does not suffer from similar broken processes?
I organize my notes the same way, though I have a structure of my documents: every midnight my server creates a new directory with today (06-05-Fri) which I work with. So when I need to create a file with Markor (which is very rare case), I create it there. The only issue I’m having with this system is that Markor does not work with symlinks, which I use frequently. Or maybe it’s not Markor but Android, not sure on this part.
I have been running EXWM (emacs window manager) on top of GNU Guix for a few weeks now, and while it’s not perfect, it’s the closest I’ve come yet. I also use eshell as my default shell, so except for when running icecat (Firefox), next (Common Lisp based webbrowser), mpv for the odd video, or alacrity when eshell is not enough, everything is just emacs buffers and it’s actually great.
That does make sense. If I were using Cloudflare I suppose it would be a no-brainer, and if I were Cloudflare and didn't want people not routing their traffic through me on my registrar, that would be an excellent way to discourage it. If they're forced to offer to everyone as part of being a registrar, then the combination of all of the above is my answer. Thanks!
With all due respect, I do find work - just as anywhere else - to be a place for meaningful discussions.

I usually work as an engineer and manager/mentor and prefer being vulnerable with the people I support. That leads to them often choosing to be themselves.

This only requires some honesty and sincerity. Once we and everyone else who choose to do the same connect on that level, such meaning shows itself in not only one on ones, but also in online chat.

I also find it a boost in productivity because it allows distilling work discussions into pure work because people have to worry less about what they say/write or how they express it.

One huge and rewarding benefit is also that people begin looking behind misconstruable messages, reading the discussion in positive light and helping each other communicate better, too.
Maybe off topic, but I find the styling of this website so pleasant. The colors and fonts really improve my reading experience.
Here's one tool that it does not break. (-:

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/console-flat-...
> It was (most) other countries that changed strategy from “we must prevent healthcare from being overwhelmed” into “we must eradicate the outbreak at all cost”.

I was surprised to learn that the aggressive approach has become more the rule than the exception. This is great for the world but sad for my country.

Here in the US we are still taking the weaker “we must prevent healthcare from being overwhelmed” strategy. Having (mostly) succeeded at that (so far) we’re already looking to ease the lockdowns.

I tabbed through the statistics [1] and confirmed that much of the world is indeed on the path of “we must eradicate the outbreak at all cost”. Whereas in America the total cases are still climbing linearly (new cases roughly constant) in many other countries the total cases have decelerated (new cases decreasing or even approaching zero).

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/26/covid-19-tracker/
Does it simulate Hubbert peak ? :-)
I was assuming you might have referred to the covid-19 epidemic. And if that were the case then yes, I definitely do think there should also be other topics at the top. It's not like we're starving for news, or like feeding ourselves more is going to do much good after a certain point. Too much of it just becomes noise.

Of course you might be referring to the issues of racism and police brutality. While those -- especially racism -- are significant matters on the global scale, the current events are mostly a U.S. thing, and not everyone is American.

I agree those topics should be getting high visibility regardless, but I don't necessarily agree with the idea that we should just drop everything else we were doing and are interested in, or that it would be automatically sad if the top posts on a tech-oriented international forum don't happen to revolve around the current hot topic in the U.S.
Bland and unoriginal is a great way to put how I also feel about Facebook's latest design iteration.

The previous one was not exactly outstanding, but I found it tasteful and pretty functional.

Are these big product looks done by dispassionate design committees?
It's still being developed: https://www.portsofcall.de/
I'm Sai, co-creator of UNLWS. AMA(relevant).
Look up suckless. It has a specific meaning and history.
Did you watch the video? It's intended to be used as an interactive tool, so you draw some lines, see the face then draw more to refine it.
Signal exposes the user's phone number, better alternative is to use burner phones or Telegram.
I personally love the idea of a drone swarm flying over the ocean. All of them will run out of battery after 15 min and then disappear into the ocean.
Planes.Passenger planes.
Now when is corona virus crysis nobody is flying,
and those planes collect atmospheric data for meteo forecast.
That told me a friend, when I complained at lousy weather prediction. Is it true or false, I don't know!
Lattice and Open Source, the end of a dream?
Kitty Hawk shuts down
Having spent a good amount of time failing to do anything but nuclear meltdown using this in my teens I remembered it and searched it out a year or so ago, surprised to see its still around and so are Gamtech the makers http://gamtech.com/oakflat.aspx