skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd imagine Buzz would be pretty mad

He's already knocked one dude out. Might as well add me to the list ;)

I agree with your sentiment. My mind honestly can't wrap itself around the terrifying sense of wonder and vulnerability those guys must have felt being up there and looking back at earth. Incredible.
> who the heck allows a negationist like that one to teach children?

Heh, I strongly disagree with a lot of what is taught in public schools. I even got some Fs in high school for telling teachers they were wrong.
Tactics, techniques and procedures used to target multiple Australian networks [pdf]
Do you really think lunar landing conspiracy theorists are going to "revolutionize our understanding of the universe"?

There is room for subtly in these arguments, it is not an all or nothing proposition of listen to everyone, or listen to no one.
> it would still be crippled on modern versions of Android, because it would not be able to receive push notifications

My understanding is that this is not an effect of side loading, but an app not using Google Cloud Messaging, which is not available when play services are not installed.
I had a similar kind of "something isn't right here" feeling when I saw the mold cape (linked in wikipedia article on Golden Hats). It was so tiny and would have been so cumbersome to wear that there might be something we are missing. These things might look vaguely like hats, but they don't really make sense as "clothing" even for spiritual purposes.
It’s a single example. The list of governmental frauds is as long as recorded history.
There is a difference between, on one side, questioning one's understanding of the universe, which is how science works and progress and, on the other side, being unable to accept facts, which is where moon landing skeptics are.
> Stop being contrarian for the sake of it .

That would eliminate the need for this website almost entirely.
To be fair many tools use iterator types that are not lists like Django querysets.

I feel the nice thing in Python is generator expressions, so for lots of code you can decrease the memory footprint and speed some code up through easy lazy evaluation.

I do appreciate the clarity of function chaining, and I think Rust made particularly good decisions around iteration in that way.

Function chaining ideally needs good ways to break iteration, skip and things, and JS isn't very feature rich beyond the basic map, reduce, forEach. It feels very incomplete compared to a lot of languages that offer that stuff. Hence the popularity of underscore and then lodash.
"The web is built around server-side rendering."

That's the React definition of "server side rendering", where HTML gets generated on the server. Real "server side rendering" would mean generating an image server side and shipping that.
We don't laugh at skeptics who doubt something because they have evidence to the contrary. But to believe in a conspiracy that, as Armstrong writes, would require hundreds of thousands of people to lie, without any evidence at all, is delusional.
Maybe there is a way to align spamming and curation? I mean what if all those people working on SEO would actually work on curation?
For completeness, Huawei and Samsung also have their respective app stores.
I wonder what people millenia from now will make of of the Stanley Cup.
Rule of thumb I’ve heard is, in order to feel “natural”, you should be at:

- 10ms response time for interactions (scroll, click, entering text)

- 100ms for in-page context switch (changing tabs in a dashboard, loading the next picture, etc.)

- 1000ms for page load

these are obviously rough guidelines — page load in particular is obviously gonna depend on your user’s internet speed if you have any kind of media — but they’re helpful when thinking about “reasonable”
What would you consider a system? Python definitely has more market share than R, but there's still name brand companies of various sizes that use an R stack for data science.

RStudio lists dozens of example clients here: https://rstudio.com/about/customer-stories/.

Use cases include collaborative model development, EDA tools, dashboarding, printed report generation (PDFs and HTML), public facing websites, etc.
Why would faking it with a soundstage and some actors in a room, and some small models, cost so much more? A big budget Hollywood film like James Bond Moonraker (1979) was 1/1000th the cost of the Apollo program, and with no famous actors/actresses, simpler script, TV quality, surely a fake would be cheaper than that?

If someone thought it was fake, they ought to be asking where the budget really went and whose pockets it lined.
Java is definitely not free.

https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/do-not-fall-into-oracles-java-...
It’s true that we shouldn’t just follow dogmas, but skepticism isn’t about simply being contrarian. It’s about only accepting evidence based claims and scrupulously and accurately evaluating the evidence. Conspiracy theory types typically fail badly at this because they usually don’t actually know how to evaluate evidence.
That's not the point though. If Aldrin's implicit argument is the US government would never try and defraud its citizen, then any example of such a fraud disproves him.
That, or a prettier-ignore comment above the JSX tag. I find your solution more elegant, though.

My two cents: Write the comment's purpose inside it.
"// Comment inserted to force prettier line break until more attributes are added"
Less sun isn't no sun. Lots of trees just slowed down for the year.
It's very cool to see Fourier analysis applied to neural networks! It looks like we have so much left to do with AI yet! As a Telecommunications Engineer, it feels natural to use periodic functions to represent data and to avoid losing high-frequency information.
Interesting, but ultimately the best linting tool is one that runs prior to commit. Especially if it can auto-fix.
Again, you are conflating frauds and have't actually refuted the point in question: did we land on the moon or not?
I've been building Watch.ly, which can provide you reporting like this (this is the daily email, mine in this case)

http://imgur.com/gallery/EP8jNTk
Then perhaps laws should be updated to reflect the digital age?

I wouldn't mind one bit if there would be a general inquiry for practices of all app stores.
It's actually the result of a natural civilization cycle where falling living standards and increased intra-elite competition and conflict erodes the public trust in its institutions and leads to political unrest. America is now in the thick of it (starting around 1970 and culminating in the last decade), and so trust will remain low and conspiracy theories high for years to come yet (not to mention the riots).

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7ahqn/
It fits right in the middle for Autobahn, so in this case I assume 2 lanes each way (with a third at the right for emergency stops), controlled access, no major earthworks, and either steel or steel-reinforced concrete center and side barriers. Also including some trees or brush either side to shield noise and, presumably, also side winds.

Depending on curves, it would be rated between 120 km/h and ~200 km/h (though anything above 130 km/h seem to be declared as "no limit", deferring to the motorist's judgement).
Armstrong's exact argument about the vast numbers conspirators that would be required to keep perfect secrecy is exactly what I use when people try to claim that the coronavirus is some kind of hoax or that there's some kind of conspiracy about vaccines.

Have you ever tried to get thousands of people to cooperate on anything, let alone perpetuate a massive lie, when they have nothing to gain personally from doing so?
> I don't see the anti-competitive part there.

Maybe not exactly anti-competitive (but maybe): It requires you to have hundreds of megabytes of Google blobs with root permissions on your device, which some people don't like.

If course this pales in contrast to Apples actions.
Thank you. Finally a sane comment, while other people only bashing the skeptics. I am not saying he is right or wrong, I am saying this are complex and we should not dismiss any theories.
That would be great if I actually worked on a team who saw the light and used tabs. Unfortunately I haven’t had that pleasure in a long time, so no, I do not agree with their formatting choices to use spaces. I guess what I really need is an editor that will convert spaces to tabs when I open a file and then convert it back to spaces when I close the file. Although that’s still not quite ideal because it’s not always a lossless 2-way conversion.
I can confirm the only phone call I got from Apple was to explain why they can't accept my app.

It was a small display test app / game which apparently is not allowed as the users might start thinking they have a defective product (and perhaps ask for a refund / replacement).
This looks like another stone into RCI. Wirecard processes payments for a multitude of companies including RCI and most likely remittances for most of them are under huge question, but for some reason accent was made on RCI.
What do you base that thinking on?

Amazon, Google, Walmart, Mozilla, and Yahoo all have numbers that say otherwise.

"Amazon and others found that removing 100 milliseconds of latency improves sales by 1%."

I'm 100% sure there are people who care about 1% differences in sales, and the fact that has been rediscovered independently by different organisations shows that "people" at least "aren't happy" with very small increases in page load times, at least when making purchase decisions. (Whether that extends to people reading your latest blog post or endless scrolling your social media site's newfeed is a reasonable question, which I'm not sure 've got a good enough handle on to have an opinion worth sharing.)

(From an earlier HN submission today: https://instant.page/ - click the [1] link n that page after that "Amazon and others found that removing 100 milliseconds of latency improves sales by 1%." sentence for sources.)
The Flat Earth thing makes no sense to me, but regarding Anti-Vax: again, not defending them, but it’s trivially easy to find examples of governments (worldwide) deceptively giving people medicine which had a negative effect on their health, whether as experimentation, sterilization, or otherwise. The fact that vaccines are scientifically known to be safe is just lost in the noise.

I attribute the rise of conspiracy theories to an overabundance of information; doing the research on each individual topic is just overwhelming to the average person and subsequently a simplistic conspiracy theory has appeal.
But are there other video apps that charge to enable background play on iOS?
In the UK, far more companies are making contracts for end users that fit on one screen of a phone as 3 bullet points...

Eg.

To use this service, you agree:

* You have no criminal convictions

* You have only 3 donkeys.

* No family member has ever owned a kazoo.

[ I agree ]
The reaction to dumb people should not be stooping to their level but trying to uplift them to yours.
> Breathe into a bag, dude.

That's not ok in HN comments, so please don't post like that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar and please omit generic ideological rhetoric. It leads to repetitive, tedious discussion on the internet because forum comments are much too shallow a medium to get anywhere new with it.
The way I look at this is Zack reminds me of the collective group of people who truly struggle with basic science.

As Armstrong points out in his reply, it only takes a very basic level of scientific/forensic examination to easily prove the moon landings happened.

But all of that falls on deaf ears (much like in the clip) when you are responding to someone with a Zack level of scientific ability.
Which district to invest in during Crisis?
GOV.UK is a good example of a mainstream site that's built in the traditional manner. It's actually a collection of hundreds (thousands) of separate services, the vast majority of which are rendered on the server and use JS only where necessary.

As there's no advertising or images on most pages they tend to be incredibly fast too.
How much is the actual CPU as part of the whole package. I doubt they'd be mkaing those laptops significantly cheaper. This is Apple after all.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, it's repetitive, and it's nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry but two wrongs don't make a right.

>It would be so expensive that you could cut the budget in half and just...go to the moon.

Not even close.
I was making a meta point about institutions and conspiracy theories, not commenting on one in particular. I specifically said this in my initial comment.
There's intelligent skepticism, and then there's skepticism for the sake of skepticism. It's not that hard to tell apart the Galileos from the Kyrie Irvings. Skeptics deserve legal protections, but they don't deserve attention if they say things like the Earth is flat.
Please don't copy/paste comments on HN. It strictly lowers the signal/noise ratio. If you want to refer to something you said elsewhere, that's what links are for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Circuit breakers, retries, back-off.
Monitoring, heartbeat detection, automated restarts when service is unhealthy.
Here's a no-nonsense paper, and a lot can be relevant to a smaller company too: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/...
Pink suggests that money isn’t the main driver for highly skilled workers

Consider that the people who benefit from convincing engineers that other engineers aren’t motivated by money are those who hoover up that money for themselves.

Or alternatively, managers aren’t “highly skilled”, can’t have it both ways!
The saddest and most worrysome aspect of the exchange is actually the sender of the letter being a teacher.

"As a teacher of young children, I have a duty to tell them history..."
I read it somewhere that the best way to respond to conspiracy theorist is to make a more outlandish claim:

- Moon landing was fake.

- You believe in the Moon?!
> Do you really think lunar landing conspiracy theorists are going to "revolutionize our understanding of the universe"?

No. But just be aware that ideas people laughed at as clearly wrong and absurd have sometimes turned out to be the truth. Some examples:

1. heliocentric solar system

2. evolution

3. Titanic breaking in half on the surface

4. quantum mechanics

5. all men are created equal
> Operating systems follow two extremes, they give no fucks and let you do what you want with minimal instruction or they lock you up and tell you what to do

Android actually does it decently well. Apps are pretty well sandboxed with quite clear interfaces and side loading can be enabled in the settings (even as a side loading fan I think it's a bit easy, considering the consequences).
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The cost of buying a new high end laptop is trivial in relation to your work value.

I used to run a dev group of 40 people. Every developer got fastest possible pc with big screen monitor back when both were expensive, and their own office with a door. Added about 1% to the cost of each developer, but the benefit to productivity was at least 10-20 times that.

And Not even counting benefits of reduced turnover.
Why is the fastmail app allowed?
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That’s amazing. I wish they could fix the bugs on mobile where scrolling the viewport also moves the mouse, which almost makes it entirely unusable. That it works at all on mobile is amazing, all the same.
All three of them are great. The aliens, Moon landing, and Princess Diana.
So what does HN think are the downsides of using Node, the article didn't really state them explicitly?
Before switching to a smartphone I used a J2ME Twitter client on my Sony Ericsson. You paid through PayPal and downloaded and installed a JAR file manually. It wasn't very convenient, but at least direct sales were an option. It was similar on the Palm and Symbian side of things.

Apple not allowing side-loading seems like the main issue.
Hi, I'm the guy who did the OpenBSD code reads.

The daily started in June 2017 we kept up doing it daily for 42 days straight. In total there were 47 code reads.

http://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/06/09/openbsd-daily.html

http://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/09/10/openbsd-daily-recap.html
These people aren't skeptics. They aren't simply questioning and doubting accepted opinions; they are absolutely certain in their contrarianism. That certainty means they produce no actual value.
Doesn't work well on Firefox. Perhaps it's an extension, but the plots disappear, there are access violations, and a few other things.

Technically, it's funny: it looks like a relatively easy way to set up simulations for other people to run, with the integration with plots and viewers.

However, it's simple. I don't think it'll go beyond a bit of playing around and educational purposes (which, btw, is not to be underestimated).
Please provide evidence of this "deep integration" with mobile networks.

Moxie has cited this previously with no proof, despite protocols like xmpp performing similarly on mobile networks.
I am an intermittent developer, because I need to sell, and manage my (small) business too.

In my case, using javascript on the front end and PHP in the back, and as a scripting language for servers was frustrating. Function names are always slightly so different...

I increased my productivity and my fun tremendously when I switched to Node on the backend.

Sometimes I am thinking about using Python for computer vision stuff. Nope... Everything Javascript, so much better for my sanity.
Sometimes I think that that colleges and universities should accept students after they sign consent (kinda like medical consent): I understand that classes take sensitive subjects and i Agree that being exposed to information about disturbing historical circumstances is necessary for learning and graduating
Yeah, people have been selling an invisible product since thousands of years (religion), so it is quite possible to get billions of people to lie to themselves and to others.
and Apple to remove Google from it's store in escalation?
Hm; a sibling comment about p2p made me start thinking about some kind of "authority" system, with personal tracking. I know it'd be a lot of work for everyone, bit it still sounds maybe doable to me. Like if everything posted to the "directories" was signed by its author, and you'd be able to mark entries (links) as valuable or not for yourself, which would be tracked in your local authors DB, by tweaking particular author's total score. Then you could share your list with friends, who could merge it into theirs, but still marked as coming from you. I know, kinda complex (and reminescent of gpg's "web of trust"), but maybe still could be an alternative to centralized services like google? Also the emerging p2p networks like dat/hypercore or ipfs or ssb already auto-sign people's published data, so maybe this could be tapped into...
When you have finite resources, you need to make tradeoffs. We probably don't have money to make every single sidewalk in the US ADA compliant, and there are also other things the city needs to fund. Given that, it's better to focus on streets where ADA compliance would be the most useful, and that's probably not in a street like this. Here, pedestrians, cars and wheelchair users can probably just share the road given that it's not a through street. The 1.5M can then go towards funding other initiatives that would help more people.
My money is on the "state-based actor" turning out to be a teenager in his bedroom.
Do you mean Armstrong? Because I went back and read the argument in the letter, and that's not his argument at all.

His first argument was that it's incredibly unlikely that 400,000 people would have been complicit in such a fraud with none of him breaking ranks.

His second argument was all of the scientific experts from other countries who all agree it actually happened.

He didn't make any claims about how "the US government would never try and defraud its citizen".
maintenance ability. building any big system with node is just difficult. typescript helps a bit but it's no where close near a statically-typed language
I find your opinion very subjective. In my experience, I remember that in 2013-2014 when i switched from MBA to retina MBP i experienced the wow effect. But recently MBP fall off and screen got broken. Now using 720p 20” monitor and have not noticed significant difference. Mostly programming, as in reading and writing text, be it in text editor or shell. It is as good as before. Less screen estate, right, it does not affect my workflow much.
<snark>"This is why we built the Firefox Private Network VPN Network which you can use with your Personal PIN Identification Number! Please get some cash out at the Automatic ATM Machine and donate today!"

Naming things: one of the truly hard things in computer science... (But come on, you don't have to fail _that_ hard Mozilla, surely?)

:sigh:
Most consumers have no idea they are paying this 30%. I wish there was a law forcing the amount of Apple tax to be disclosed on a separate line in any purchase price and receipt, like it is the case with sales taxes. If people know, many would be outraged that the company they have paid over $1000 for a device is also nickel-and-diming them for using the device.
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Armstrong's point isn't that the government would never try to defraud its citizens, and I think it's a stretch to mold his argument into that. His point is that it would be impossible to hold over 400,000 people to the same lie, without anyone breaking. Bush's WMD claims had plenty of people contradicting it at the time, and has been completely debunked now, unlike the moon landing that happened 50 years ago.
This needs to be weighted though: while the US government had, is, and will be lying on some stuff to its citizenry, it's unlikely that it's constantly lying, and most of the time it's telling the truth.

A massive lie, with no holes nor whistleblowers for decades, is even less likely. This is exactly Armstrong's main point: go and actually do real research and cross-reference
The fact that it’s the US government isn’t the important bit; Armstrong isn’t asking you to trust the government, and his entire argument is explicit, no reading between the lines required.

What’s important is the “gigantic fraud involving 400,000 people” part -- clearly establishing that it would have had to be a pretty extreme effort. And rather than just saying “trust us”, he explicitly suggests asking people outside that group, such as scientists from other countries, who would be able to verify whether the moon landing was real.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

Please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait also. We've already had to ask you about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html