skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of a great comment on a thread for a similar critique about this aesthetic, imagining the future after Instagram-friendly minimalism:

> I remain convinced that the next true popular aesthetic will be an offshoot of art deco combined with heavy nature related elements.

The next wave of tech is clean tech.

Electric cars and lab cultured meat.

We've entered years of clean designs of pure white backgrounds derived from Apple and more recently the pastels. There's no chaos with our designs and too much order.

I think Travis Kalanick was right to enter the real estate/land use industry. I think Stanford and Harvard buying up real estate in the central valley of California is the smartest decision.

We're going back to the land, just like the 70's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19735224
Just quintuple (or by some far greater factor) skilled immigration after the pandemic; Canada will still be incredibly attractive to people from around the globe. It's one of the countries I'd be least worried about.
New Approaches for Dealing with Thermal Problems
Single Line Working (1957) [video]
Machine Learning on Top of DNA Encoded Libraries
Discussion in progress: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23545698
Same here. Looking forward to trying this out!
> This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work.

A-men.
I just wish people shitting on statically typed languages would remember they came to solve the mess that arose from dynamic typing.
> If it helps, I think "kill all men" is reprehensible and illegal.

Why would that help? Did you start the meme?

> isn't "defund" accurate?

Yes. That's the whole point. "defund the police" is wildly unpopular, so people have started to change the very meaning of those words so the other people won't hate them quite so much. It's not working.

> an opening position for negotiations

I can't tell if you actually believe that or if you're arguing in bad faith now. Nobody believes the people saying "defund the police" aren't extreme and serious. Killing people and burning down their homes and businesses is not the beginning point of a negotiation. It's a hostage taker's demand.
In the short term, it's great.

It really doesn't take much to tell banks to add numbers to people's bank accounts.

What it's really doing is subsidizing everybody that works in or is tied to non-essential face-to-face service industry, by everyone else.

It's really not even that interesting, other than seeing how easily frazzled people are by the slightest calamity - why is non-essential services taking a vacation for a few months at the expense of everyone else supposed to be a major event with long-lasting consequences?

Imagine you have a family and you lose your job. If you have savings for a couple of years, you can take it easy for a while and then go look for a job and find one 6 months later. Was anything other than your ego bruised by the loss of the job? No, not really.

Why doesn't this analogy translate to what's happening with covid? I'm guessing because not only have you lost your job, but you owe tens of millions in gambling debts and spent half your waking hours convincing various factions to give you some extra time to come up with the money.

That's what the economy looks like to me and I find it difficult to be sympathetic - people need a reality check and get back to living a simpler life with less shit being bought and sold all the time. It is within my lifetime that I've gone from owning 2 t-shirts to 20 and I have no idea why. I can go back to wearing 2 and my life will be the same - I just hope others can see the silver lining in all this and not go back to living frivolously.
There must have been a thread that tipped the scales. Anyone know what it was?
Accessibility can't be stressed enough. I have worked with many big companies that want a small project/initiative for their users.

They always want these things, at minimum:

* Data security/compliance (GDPR, CCPA)

* Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

As much as my team would love to just make every app in React or whatever. I always just say:

No. They want a CMS. Just make it with Django and Bootstrap. Then we'll be done with it in a couple weeks and you can all go back to your own stuff..

Django + Bootstrap gets us an incredible amount of accessibility just right now of the box. Invaluable for small development shops!
Gotta figure out why you want the karma in the first place. It's more fun if you don't worry about the karma. That way you can actually be interesting. Because to gain karma you have to align yourself with the dominant voices instead of being unique. Alignment makes for ideological echo chambers. So chasing karma will make you like the people that upvote your content and comment on your posts.

If you look at the front page right now you should be able to see what kind of content is popular and you can submit similar content to gain karma.

People enjoy debating the finer points of programming languages so that's usually a popular topic. Similarly, JavaScript frameworks and drama around that stuff is also a good bet.

Then there is science and physics. That usually does well. Evolutionary psychology and neuroscience is a good set of categories to pick from. Usually articles around intelligence in either category do well.

Then you have your typical startup stuff and economics/politics related topics. Those topics also do pretty well especially when there is a libertarian slant or anti-libertarian slant (because people enjoy debating the finer points of the political philosophy involved and how it helps or hinders the entrepreneurial stuff people are involved in).
Types also are also massively useful in making better tooling. The ability to refactor with confidence and get meaningful autocompletes is already enough justification for a static typesystem.
little slow but i like it!
Having recently experienced raising an infant, let me tell you, getting all my sleep in <2 hour chunks is HORRIBLE, even if I'm getting a pretty reasonable total amount of sleep.

I was getting what this article suggests would be a viable polyphasic sleep schedule (total of 8 hours per 24 hour period, in chunks of 1-2 hours throughout the day and night whenever the baby slept), but I started hallucinating, got deeply depressed, and felt like I was losing touch with reality. All the symptoms vanished as soon as I started getting longer chunks of sleep at night.
I think you may be misinterpreting the author’s general assertion as a categorical one, in which case your possibly exceptional brand of minimalism doesn’t disprove anything. I think it’s neat, though.
Needs a "(1997)" in the title.

This sort of thing happens all the time, the unusual thing here is that someone wrote it down and got it published.
Such a nice reminder of the simplicity and beauty of the web
Jeez, that line really irked me too. When writers use Marxist terminology as a crutch for lazy writing and half baked thinking, it just annoys me because I wish they'd show and not tell. It's not the "vacuous, petit bourgeois taste" that is hated, it's the fact that they're "normies" who should know their place and be shamed for "appropriation" of aesthetics.

And of course, neither one has really anything to do with the fact that minimalism is generally a useful design choice because it allows people to actually make choices about what they want their set of possessions to actually mean to them, by virtue of having as few as possible.
Not sure where you live, but in Ontario Amazon delivery trucks outnumber all other delivery trucks combined.

Seemingly 50% of every package sitting on anyone's doorstep has the familiar Amazon branded packing tape surrounding it as well.

They're definitely dominant.
There are some python based ones.
It's the first time I heard of it.
Incidentally, "drive fast, just a little crazy, and sunny and hot." sounds like hell to me :-)
Did you configure FFMPEG to encode your video with the exact same encoder as ScreenFlow? If Screenflow is using hardware accelerated encoding and FFMPEG was configured for software x264 encoding, that might explain the discrepancy.
man it sucks. I'm one of those savers and have been waiting for my turn to be able to buy a home for last 5 years. I was hoping the house prices would come down to affordable level, but they are on fire again! What's the point of being responsible when spending and borrowing like there's no tomorrow will guarantee you help from govt?
Parent comment isn't implying that functional vs imperative is a binary; they're pointing out that the power of a type system is orthogonal to the imperative/functional spectrum.
Thank you for your response. What's the source of incompatibility between standard model and general relativity?

Gravity is about acceleration and flow of time. What's the problem with plugging general relativity in place of classical dynamics whenever you care about flow of time and acceleration in quantum physics? As if those gravity and other forces and particle had nothing to do with each other.

Why does general relativity is more incompatible with quantum mechanics than with fluid dynamics for example?

My understanding is that general relativity says that gravity is not even a real force. It's just a function of acceleration caused by misshapen space-time (deformed by mass/energy).

Some other things I don't understand... How gravity is considered to be a fundamental force, while Pauli exclusion principle is not, despite the fact that it can keep neutron stars from collapsing. Is it because there's no hope for finding mediating particle in the math that describes the principle because the math is too simple?
Be genuinely helpful, earn karma.

For example:

* Post insightful articles or comments that others have not posted

* Respond to questions from others

Welcome and good luck!
I recently set up a LinkedIn profile after avoiding them for many years, and was horrified to discover that there's now a "Facebook wall" feature, replete with all the horrible political conversations that made me abandon Facebook. It's totally in-your-face, too; it's the default home page and the default Android app page. I don't want to see what people I've connected on LinkedIn have to say about, well, anything. I only maintain social connections there to help me network with potential employers. I'm deleting my LinkedIn profile as soon as I connect with my next employer.
“For me, understanding the brain has always been a computational problem,” says Papadimitriou, who became fascinated by the brain five years ago. “Because if it isn't, I don't know where to start.”

Interesting - we do tend to approach problem sets via the lens that is readily available to us.

Slightly unrelated but I've always been fascinated by how useful it is to overlay two areas of interest and the insights that present themselves when you focus at the intersection. What's more it seems to work with disparate ideas as well as it does with adjacent ideas. I'm convinced it's a useful way to ideate/think of ideas for startups/businesses.
A major reason open source projects use GitHub is the social network features. It really helps you build traction and get noticed. Regardless of what you may think of it the trending page does indeed drive further traffic which drives adoption.

Otherwise we'd all still be on SourceForge or migrate to something more OSS pure like Gitlab.
A friend of mine used a power leveling karma service. He picked a tech stack and general attitude (contrarian or positive-energy) and they they hooked him up with appropriate Medium blog posts to submit, and appropriate comments.

I actually don’t believe such a service exists, but apparently your entire identity can be purchased if you go for the full package (GitHub repo with projects, blog posts, HN posts, stackoverflow answers).

You can even add extra stuff to fill out the identity like blog posts about sourdough bread baking to round out the full geek identity, introspections on math and stuff.

It’s all out there apparently, Identity as a Service.
> We can't solve systematic inequality until we solve the inequality black people face.

You're looking at it backwards. The inequality black people face is systematic inequality. (I would argue that it's actually as much based on culture and poverty as on race.) But you can't fix it by focusing on the racial aspect of it. You have to focus on the systematic aspect, because that's the root problem.

> You want to broaden the topic but by doing so, you're erasing all nuance and approaches for solving a problem.

We've been trying "all nuance and approaches" based on the racial aspect for decades, if not longer, and it hasn't helped. The systematic problems, if anything, are worse now than they were in the 1960s when the landmark civil rights laws were passed. If those laws, plus the huge structure of regulations, affirmative action, and so on that has grown up around them, hasn't fixed the problem in more than half a century, maybe it's time to consider the possibility that the root problem is something else, like the system as a whole being corrupt, and try to fix that instead.
It's still fleshing out the details, and this is a great point to bring up. I suspect it may be a shim to make the parser more manageable. I for one would love to see all generics harmonize with the existing syntax for map, chan, etc.
Dealing with third-party sellers is no fun. Newegg is probably the only major e-commerce website whose search feature can exclude third-party sellers.
Environmental Kuznets curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Ku...
I hear ya, but as a counterpoint to my above post I've yet to have a issue with Linux in a server context, although I tend to use FreeBSD on servers where ever possible. The only time I've had issues with either FreeBSD or Linux is using it as a desktop/dev machine. They are both awesome operating systems, I just prefer FreeBSD.
I think you are approaching this from a position of afterwisdom.

Case in point: Think how hard it was for the general american to realize the police in their country actually has pathological violent tendencies and blacks actually are in a weak position. If modern state is able to treat their minorities in that way in our enlightened age for a long time, think about what the chances the public had in WW2 Germany to have a clue.

Generally, Germans trusted their government. The Nazi propaganda was astoundingly enticing (there were excellent books on WW1 propaganda that the Nazi:s studied from in earnest so they learned from existing knowledge).

How good was the Nazi propaganda? People are still today falling in love with the concept, even though the Nazi idealism was proven evil and non-functional, and fascism itself inserted to modern day would be extremely anachronistic.

Think about it. People are falling in love with a brand and ideology created by people who died 70+ years ago.

Now imagine these same people are running a country. Portraying themselves as glorious leaders, and saying to all germans - hell yes, we will triumph, love us. And love they did.

They have total pulse on the public sentiment. They control the mass media (they have mass media! Which is itself a novelty!). They control the public image of the state and they control the public mindset. They control the public news and what people are concerned off.

I presume the public sentiment was along the lines of "So, they are moving those jews somewhere? Oh, better in some 'jewtown' rather than here in that ghetto, I'm glad I don't have to see them again". But I doubt they had in mind the slaughterhouse.

It was horror what happened. But it is very hard to convince me the average german would have had any clue.
> Were pinch points not considered during design?

It's fairly difficult to design a joint with a reasonable amount of motion without pinch points. Though, I'm kinda shocked they don't have detection for current spikes on the controllers so they can limit the damage to anything that is pinched.

End of the day though, how often is the plan to cohabitate a space with humans? My understanding is it is more designed to do monitoring and inspection with maybe some light manipulation tasks. If there's a person along with it why not just have the person do the inspection?
I’m sure every company would like to sell stuff for free and bypass the retailer’s markup.
The music/sfx is amazing. Feels super "old internet" :D
How do you feel about the strong pro-Russia influence on the site?
LHC is 27km long and cost $4.75 billion.

Which is around $175,900 per meter.
I feel this needs better context, because besides not being able to prove a negative, debugging is so much beyond only the essential ability to "problem solve". And as an anecdote, I've certainly gotten significantly better at debugging with my experience among many aspects. For instance the ability to recognize a somewhat common bug based on it's symptoms is something that at least within a certain context, improves with experience and is at least to some degree "getting better at debugging"
/r/coolgithubprojects has some interesting links
This CNBC article was debunked with much evidence: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/google-demonetizes-zero-he...
Same, it's my first time of hearing this feature/product
When I worked at best buy in early college I remember at $15,000 50 inch LCD. Hung there for like a year until a model half the price replaced it and actually started selling.
For comparison, US film industry revenue is around $11 billion a year.
Care to name a case in the last 40 years where “a monopoly” was defined by revenue?
Reminds me of some of the effects in KidPix, sound and all.
Agreed. HN and reddit are way better at helping me find repos that are relevant to my skill set and interest. It’s like the author doesn’t even try to utilize these other social spaces that have already largely solved this problem.

Sometimes I come across people whose idea of a perfect world is an app that knows exactly what to show them and when without any curiosity or effort, and it blows my mind. That is my hell.
Lambda can trigger off a bunch of AWS events. One of those events types are CloudWatch events, mostly used for triggering in response to things like CPU activity or other metrics. One of the CloudWatch events you can specify are plain old Cron events:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/S...
Note that Brew doesn't even support macOS Sierra[1]. It doesn't outright refuse to run, but there's a big warning message that stuff will break and maintainers won't care—and lots of stuff does indeed break.

Macports's support for legacy versions of OS X is unique, and dare-I-say incredible.

1: https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#macos-requirements
This is true to an extent. The other half of the equation is just a cultural thing with the CIA. There’s a lot of intelligence groups in the US, but the CIA considers themselves the top tier. They’ve been around the longest and even other agencies recognize them as kind of the eldest when it comes to intel.

The NSA does some seriously insane stuff, but I don’t think even they take themselves as seriously as the CIA does.
Your understanding is correct.

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441
Why not just keep it simple. Why not have a government run cell phone company that meets the need of the people?
Fair enough; I suppose I was oversimplifying. I think the broader point I was trying to make (in addition to the specific downsides I mentioned) still holds though.

The Template Haskell paper has some interesting things to say on the nature of C++ templates:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
To be clear, I don't think Anti-racism isn't a kafkatrap or "religion". I take issue with the polite white-centric material made to further coddle and remove liability from future racist incidents.
AWS lambda is used in 2 categories:

1) AWS administration-related actions (required for non-trivial mgmt.)

2) end-user actions (optional).

AWS throttles and limits everything, so expecting 100,000 requests in 20 seconds on a default AWS account is unreasonable.

The Cloud doesn't mean unlimited capacity.

Also, I haven't seen anybody version control lambda code, even in compliance environments, so something to investigate.
Why Vue CLI?
The original lie came from NBC. They made up a false quote from Google's comms team to fit their narrative -- presumably to go after a news competitor.
Unless recruiting or sales is part of your job, the best approach to LinkedIn is to set your profile up well, connect with the people you know and then go to Settings & Privacy -> Communications and switch on email notifications for direct messages you receive. Then you'll only ever have to login should you get an email about a message you might be interested in replying to.

There is absolutely nothing of value on LinkedIn for the average person beyond being a place to host your resume for discovery.
Scrappy vs. Polished
> > project chat

> IRC/Slack/Discord already exist

Or even closer: gitter! Or just set up an irc/matrix room for your project.
I wish I had immediately thought of my two-time coauthor J. Alex Halderman (https://jhalderm.com/) as a present-day computer scientist who gets cited by first initial and middle name.

And also the famous albeit fictitious J. Random Hacker! (Perhaps inspired by the inaugural FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.)
Not in 2020.
So NBC invented a false quote from Google's comms team to take out a competitor. That's what happened.
> isn't much help if you're a tired confused angry mess.

Depends. I can go through a lot of email like this.
Thanks! Having an answer from the project owner is super valuable.
Comments sections don't belong on news sites. They belong on discussion sites.
I tend to regard punks as libertarian. e.g. Ramones.

But they're a mixed bag.
This happened even before the Euro though, I remember when prices for apartments or cars used to be listed in DEM for example.
Thirded. I tend to associate "normie" with edgy teens trying to make themselves feel superior.
The regional variance in covid infection rates in Canada is high. Covid has always been at a relatively low level in BC, but severe in Quebec. (15x the death rate).

One wonders if you'll consequently see very difficult economic recoveries in different provinces.
Signal Boost for Steve HSU
Never heard of iasl, but it is automatically installed and looks cool.
This was fun. I wonder if the code/algo behind this tends towards a certain type of painting or "average".

Reminds me of this video that shows what the youtube codec tends towards over a 1000 reuploads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4KHfqw-oE
C++ Features Banned from Chromium
My experience agrees that sleeping less through alternative sleep patterns is possible. However, the benefits of sleeping less are spurious: While I can improve motivation and concentration in my observation, work results when inspected later do not agree, at least for the concentration. It is easier to get stuff done, but the overall quality of work and thought is diminished. I would equate the state to being intoxicated: Certain inhibitions to motivation are removed, but so is a part of your intelligence and concentration as well as the ability for self-observation and self-judgement. Therefore I would suppose that many who report improvements while sleep-deprived are just inadvertently fooling themselves. However, all this is just based on my observation, ymmv.
I'd venture it's not so much the technique behind the individual layers but the understanding of the need for all the layers and their interactions and the best practices in given situations.

We're prone to tediously repeat the same conversations over and over and take the cosmetic approach rather than the fundamentals-first way of doing things.