skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Due to the US cultural influence over the world, the "outside world" often has to deal with Americans expressing distances, volumes, weights, temperatures etc in US units, especially in text. That is probably where the complaints comes from. You read something in a foreign language (English) that has become a lingua franca, and come across a unit expressed in what is not a lingua franca.
Perhaps the criticism is actually about US cultural dominance, which is highly benefitial to Americans.
If people say that Americans are stupid, I agree you have a right to be annoyed. But I hope people never stop to point out the merits of the metric system to Americans. That is a small price to pay for a cultural hegemony.
I also had that problem with the "ew" sound. I'm never understood if I ask for a "Mountain Dew" - I have to translate to "Mountain Doo" even when the context of a drink is clear.

The other one is asking for a cheese sandwich - that seems to throw Americans every time.
If you're interested in an answer, read the rather long article. Sometimes it's good to leave the comfortable bubble most of us live in.

It says that in the case of Romania, warehousing children was a disaster on the scale of Dachau in WW2.

Psychology textbooks had to be rewritten afterwards as this level of child neglect was never contemplated - no biological or custodial parents to pattern their behavior.

One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited.

People that I've talked to in the Philippines and Indonesia visibly recoiled when I mentioned the word "adoption", so there must be an unfortunate history there.
I don’t like it as much as iOS. The interface paradigms it uses I don’t enjoy. It’s a little too Linux on the Desktop for me.
And written in Java.
Less is more. Intricate details where they aren’t necessary don’t make better architecture. Or better anything, for that matter.
I'm sorry to say this, but it's not a problem with the newfangled stuff. I think you just don't work with very good frontend devs. Which isn't surprising honestly - it has the lowest barrier for entry of any programming specialization (I started there myself).
Pulse SelfSupervised Photo Upsampling Latent Space Exploration Generative Models
- What do you think of breaking changes?

I think it is better to apologise and acknowledge for terms that are offensive rather than erase them.

While removing offensive 70’s TV comedy shows is probably a good thing to avoid perpetuating unhealthy stereotypes, preventing the use of 19th century literature is less helpful because we should not forget history.
Then they assumed that these civilizations retained [communication] capacity for about 100 years — again about as long as we've had it.

Does that part of their calculation seem awfully conservative?
> Useful in elevators, bathrooms, or anywhere the public might be a nuisance.

True, but I'm not in the habit of randomly picking a laptop off of someone else's desk and disassembling it.
You make the allegations so bringing the proof is on your side...

To believe everything a state says well THAT is arrogant..one hint?

-Chemical weapons in Iraq (many times repeated by 'free' media, with a war at the end and no chem found)

And NO i like the HN community exactly because thinking out of the box is normal, just believe what a state like Australia says and the standard 'enemy' is china...that's a dangerous thing. I'm NOT saying it's not true, i just want some proof, otherwise it smells once again foul.
I'm not sure this comment contributes to the discussion at hand at all. Other than to try to derail the convo into some dialog about "censorship".
I’m not exactly understanding why this is surprising.

There are some 250+ million Nigerians. It is the largest country in Africa by population. Sheer numbers alone demonstrate a minority of its citizens would excel despite the long-standing discrimination issues in the US.

It’s like being surprised that there are so many Chinese and Indian students at university.

It’s like being surprised that there are a handful of Black American billionaires and many more millionaires.

What is surprising? That these people continue to be hopeful despite America’s problems with healthcare disparities, wage inequality, police brutality, redlining, predatory lending and underfunded school systems that disproportionately affect them.
China refuses to share maps showing their Official view of 3,488 km line of actual control to India/World https://archive.vn/0dcGF / https://archive.vn/1PvXa because it intends to grab Nepal,Bhutan,Ladakh,Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh https://archive.vn/OHJkC
A Parable (1993)
Agree with this. I’ve got a medical degree as well as self taught developer for 15+ years. The longer you do it, the easier it becomes as the knowledge just kind of seeps through immersion. But I can imagine for a mind that’s new to either topic can feel quickly overwhelmed without significant motivation to overcome that learning inertia.
as a wireless hater (and especially a hater of designed-to-fail rechargeables), I would love it if the trend reversed. I don't want to have to manage charging devices. I want a keyboard that works, always, if it is plugged in.
Tg – terminal telegram client that works
this begs the question if nigerians who had no legacy of jim crow or slavery and are the most succesful ethnic group should be recipients of affirmative action
On public streets and property? Outside your home in plain view (from the street)? no.
Adages aren’t really meant to be informational; they’re memory triggers. The phrase “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again” invites comparison between your present situation and prior experiences when you struggled to learn a skill.

Other adages work similarly: they connect disparate memories together based on some abstract similarity and provide a hook that can be used to recall them.
Pretty much this. I knew all of the things she wrote about but all I could think was "I can't imagine writing foo.classList.add and remove 100 times. That's going to create some major spaghetti code once that project grows beyond a couple of pages"
You need some kind of shutter that orbits the sun, which can be opened and closed rapidly to modulate the existing light. At least we can send the message that we were here and you’re not alone.
Nonmeasurable sets of infinite independent fair coin tosses
> Dongles. Even though all computers now have built-in Bluetooth, many Bluetooth accessories today still ship with proprietary dongles. I assume this is because the manufacturer was worried about inconsistencies or incompatibilities between their own Bluetooth implementation and your computer’s built-in Bluetooth hardware/drivers.

I've never seen this before. Is the author mistaking proprietary 2.4 GHz receivers (that do not use Bluetooth) for OEMs' "own Bluetooth implementation"?

They refer to swapping between built-in Bluetooth and the dongle, which sounds like Logitech's line of dual-mode keyboards that can use either Bluetooth or Logitech's proprietary "unifying receiver," which is based on Nordic Semiconductor's nRF24L, not Bluetooth.
"Department of Generalists", is that another name for Liberal Arts?
Living in France, general aviation is a bit of a mess.

- Light aircraft use nautical units.

- Ultralight use metric for speed and distance but feet for altitude and vertical speed

- Gliders use metric

- Charts use feet for altitude. Aviation authorities define airspace using nautical units but ground authorities use metric for things like fly over altitudes. All converted to feet in charts but the legal text use meters.

- AFAIK, mechanical parts for non-US built aircraft are metric. Pipe fittings have always been in inches for some reason, but commonly converted to metric (1/4in is written as 6.35mm).
From previous discussions this is not the case. It is not illegal to ship an aircraft to Australia. See the link below talking about packed aircraft. Also some aircraft have short ranges that would make them impossible to fly across the ocean (even island hopping).
https://fcbrokers.com.au/customs-clearance/aircraft/

However it works out to be cheaper for most aircraft since it is very expensive to take an aircraft to pieces and put it back together and then have it certified to fly.

Reading a few forums there seem to be several factors decided if it is cheaper to ferry or ship.

https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/38...

https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/48...
What about my comment makes you think I intended to make a Apple vs. Microsoft comparison?
Elliptic curves produce smaller keys which meant that addresses could take up less space and be more portable, so perhaps that was part of the motivation.
If you look at our solar system, humans can survive on Earth, Mars, Venus and likely some larger moons without too much fictional technology. The universe seems to be full of rocky planets. The only insurmountable problem to living on a rocky planet with hydrogen, oxygen and carbon in some form really is gravity, if the planet is too big. But species that can travel interstellar distances must have the technology to live in space and only send robots to nearby planets or asteroids to mine raw materials. That increases the range of suitable systems considerably.
I would recommend http://www.bottomupcs.com/ if you're looking for a quick crash course. It's a bit out of date but its the shortest book I've found which covers most of the computer science stack.
The fact is that immunological memory does not equate to having antibodies in the bloodstream all the time. The title of the article is pure clickbait, at the very least.
That doesn’t sound right.

I am not a pilot, but I am an Australian living in Australia and know some folk who own aircraft.

CASA doesn’t mention ”service bulletins” but does have a category called Airworthiness Bulletins and states:

* An Airworthiness Bulletin is an advisory document that alerts, educates and makes recommendations about airworthiness matters. Recommendations in these bulletins are not mandatory.*

A browsed some of the actual airworthiness directives and didn’t see anything about seat leather or such.

https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/airworthiness
How I as a mechanic major started in CS:

My lab had a project that nobody tended to, an evangelist at the lab told me all the good things about linux and git so I bought a burner laptop for $250, wiped the disk, installed ubuntu and wrote 3000 lines of the crappiest code you can ever imagine.

But it worked.

So now when someone ask me for advice to start fresh in software engineering, I always tell them you just have to wipe your computer and install $DISTRO. And start from the terminal, everything else will just come naturally (with deadline pushing it might get faster).
I ran ethernet cable in hopes of eliminations video call dropouts, but I still have plenty of issues.
We are pretty good at communicating with our pets.
Yes, I sometimes do this with a lot of stuff. Also sometimes to get rid of animations, worthless popup messages, bugs in the CSS that the site provided, wasted space, too big fonts, etc. Sometimes just disabling CSS helps, but sometimes not. Even on here on Hacker News, I added CSS to make all comment texts black, and to add a dotted vertical line to the left of indented comments so that it is more easily to see which one belongs with which one.

Usually, if a web page doesn't already have a CSS though, then it is already good and I won't need to add one.

I actually want the ability to have "privileged" CSS commands which can only be specified by the end user, including meta-CSS.
I've long said we should prepare for global warming by buying holiday beach houses in Siberia while they are cheap.

The only problem is knowing where the beach will end up being.
I was wondering about this myself. Someone mentioned grpc is not for video, so kinda gave up.
Ask HN: What are some of the best small companies to work for?
I am looking for great tech companies that might be hiring now or soon.

I am building a jobs and work platform and I'd like to bake in some curation starting out.

So if you know of any companies that are especially good places to work at, I'd appreciate if you'd give them a shout out below.
Why dont they make the road dip down a smidge?
Some people learn great by watching videos. Some people learn great by reading books. I personally learned the best by taking an example ripping it apart and changing it to do something new.
In many cases, they are "imprisoned" against their will because zoning does not permit any other kind of development. The other problem is they are not paying the full cost of the suburban lifestyle. It is only sustainable through huge government subsidies.
> If the client doesn't trust the server, the crypto protocol is a little irrelevant.

What? No. The protocol is the only thing that is relevant. Peers don't generally trust each other a priori at all. They trust the protocol. If they can authenticate each other within the bounds of the protocol then they trust each other. If one party no has reason to distrust a certain protocol, then it should not be used as a basis for establishing trust. If the two peers can't agree on a protocol: stalemate. If I compromise your server and only serve weak protocols a responsible client won't authenticate me whereas a vulnerable client would take my word that my protocol is secure.
Cross platform email debugging tool
Hotels have universally switched to wifi, but I miss having an Ethernet jack. I think that at least some hotel Internet problems are actually wifi problems and not due to the crappy service provider they use.
My father in law is very proud of his Virgin Fibre (“they’re the only ones doing fibre to the home!”)

Doesn’t matter how many times I point out to him he has fibre to the cabinet not the home.

I think both BT and Virgin should have been reined in years ago on their outlandish claims.
If you're going fast enough, the Bremsstrahlung in your water shield itself becomes dangerous.
In the article it states that Izidor was not an unwanted child, but got ill when very young, got hospitalised and the family just left him in the hospital and stopped visiting.
The Blockchain Guide to DeepFakes
Combining two algorithms is very hard and when it does it can become insecure(new attacks can be found). Even if you can combine and its secure then it becomes infeasible to use it often as the length of keys, IV, etc. increases
I don't like wireless either, for many reasons (the reasons they list there are only some of them; there are more).
Show HN: A JSON database on the filesystem with indexes
American Psychological Association -- "Belief in Learning Styles Myth May Be Detrimental"

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-sty....
The majority of victims of police brutality (at least deaths by police, of course there are other forms of police brutality but killings by police is what the current conversation is about) are violent criminals. Of the ~1000 people killed by police in 2019 538 were armed with a gun, 159 with a knife, 60 with a vehicle, and 63 with another weapon. 41 were unarmed, 23 had a toy weapon, and 49 is unknown. [0] The majority of people that cops interact with overall are not violent criminals, but the majority of people subject to the type of police brutality which is overwhelmingly controlling the conversation (i.e. killings by police) are violent criminals.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/5211/us-citizens-killed-by-po...
I think many people don't get why Axure is still popular is because they don't design for enterprise software. Sometimes it is just much easier to create table as a table and not as a bunch of vertical and horizontal lines like you will have to do in most of design software.
That biblical argument is pretty much the rationale for the events that take place in Farenheit 451 and the reason for the Great Firewall.
Arguably international adoptions are a good thing, given the proper checks in place to ensure those children aren't adopted into slavery.

There are currently tens of thousands of abandoned children in Romania that nobody wants to adopt. And many of Romania's orphanages are still terrible.

And your last sentence isn't a "fact", but an unsupported allegation. For it to be a fact you'd need actual proof, instead of links from shitty journals.

I'm a Romanian living in Romania btw.
I exclusively use a wireless mouse. No latency, never have to charge it or change the batteries.

I like wireless but I hope there's a better interface than Bluetooth at some point.
> This is the exact opposite of the Anthropic Principle, which says (correctly) that we cannot deduce anything about the probability of life originating from the fact of our own existence.

Your definition of the Anthropic Principle seems to clash with the Wikipedia definition [1], which states:

> The anthropic principle is the philosophical premise that any data we collect about the universe is filtered by the fact that, in order for it to be observable at all, the universe must have been compatible with the emergence of conscious and sapient life that observes it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Also you use the word "correctly" for your definition, but as it isn't self-evident, some sort of proof should probably be required.
> One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited.

Adoption is considered a noble act in Romania
"th" is occasionally /th/, for example in the compound word "hothouse".
I don’t see 0.26% on that CDC page. The “best estimate” listed is 0.4% and based on April data.
Video decoding is still a binary blob. There is no documentation to start writing your own decoders.
> The problem was a lot of it wasn’t job relevant and it felt very rigid, and sometimes even more complex than it needed to be.

CS was born out of a time when computers were very limited. How do you write a word processor with a spell checker, when the dictionary alone won't fit on a floppy disk, or fit in memory?[1] How do you draw rounded rectangles on your GUI when they take too many CPU cycles to draw?[2]

CS people managed to carve out paths through problem spaces that could be done on the computers of the day. These days, you put everything you need into a hashtable and it looks up in microseconds and you don't have to care anymore.

[1] https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html

[2] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
How do we find users for our SaaS?
I think the Bluetooth is Yamaha-branded, but it's really just BT -> MIDI. Probably pretty similar to your cable, but wireless.

WebMIDI doesn't care, so either adaptor should work with it.
Whatever you described (looking up key signature etc. in youtube) is the real thing. You are trying to do sight-singing and you are working on it. And if you keep at it and get to sing the whole piece,then you have truly achieved your goal. But if you languish on watching more and more youtube videos, say watch how someone else plays a piano piece or go into something inconsequential to the original problem in hand, then in your mind you started with something and you have not done enough to help that.
I am not exactly telling that sidetracking is the problem here, but you moving farther away and away from the original set aside goal is what I am saying.
What data flows back to Google from an internal Tsunami server?
Thinking on the other side of the fence, I wonder if certain vendors will now refuse to sell to NYPD, as this mandatory disclosure would likely cause issues with the NDA's and End Use conditions of sale..?

Im sure some companies wouldn't be to excited on having their tech publicly exposed.
It's still used in real estate and quite a few lawyers still use legal-sized handwriting pads, but otherwise to me it seems to be dead.
I hadn't heard of this, so I had to look it up: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8610
Have You Seen the Violent Shooting in Atlanta Last Night? (Raw Video, VIOLENt)
The wireless mouse has been the exception to this rule for me so far: the G Pro wireless (and some other mice) don’t have the latency issues, and have egregious battery life (and the charging cable fails over so it’s basically just a wired mouse).

The lack of a cable saves a bunch of space and avoids the floppy cable. Probably irrelevant if you don’t game, but definitely quite convenient for FPSes.
I never get offended when I am asked. Why would I? It’s natural curiosity IMHO. And actually makes small talk easier as it’s a subject I know and can chat about :)

But I don’t know, if I told you I was from Greece, would my visa be the first think that would pop into your mind for small talk?
Looks like mental problems
Well, you'll kill the occupants instead of just get them stuck.
Exactly right. This article seems biased and uninformed.
On the topic of wired vs wireless... Has anyone had experience doing anything ridiculous such as getting a 40Gbit Ethernet adapter for say, their macbook? https://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATTO/TLNQ3402D00/
Show HN: Golang httpcache. Get a working HTTP-cache with only 3 line of code
> it states that Izidor was not an unwanted child

Where does it say that? I might have missed it. Abandoning a child for having a leg deformity doesn't strike me as if he was wanted much.

Anyway, the poor conditions in the orphanages and children hospitals were a result of overcrowding and this happened due to Ceaușescu's policies that turned Romania into a baby factory. And there was also the issue that children with disabilities were incompatible with communism's "new man" ideal, so the orphanages for children with disabilities were genuine horrors.
How is this conclusion different than saying that, say, reading anything in any magazine is a waste of time because the magazine sells advertising space?
Related: anybody have experience with powerline ethernet? Are there good adapters that can make high-quality/high-speed ethernet connections over power wiring inside a home? I know these are a thing but I have no idea how good their quality is or how strongly they depend on the wire itself.
Hi there, I'm the maintainer of this library.
I made a simple library in Golang to ease the engineer if want to use http-cache on each call.

Current version: v1.0.0-beta with support to

- Custom Cache Storage, in case people want to use their own custom storage

- Default in-memory cache. For default storage, currently, it's supported only for the in-memory cache.

- Comply with RFC 7234. Yes, I try to comply with RFC 7234, TIL: Building something with complies with the RFCs is a new challenge for me.
I owe it to this comment for finding the parable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758407

With the author’s name (Perry E. Metzger) I was able to track down an archive of the original Usenet post.
NVidia ships heaps of Linux stuff, mostly via their machine learning teams. For example they have their NVidia Jetson devices which all run Linux: https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
> The FAANG interview process is pretty standardized

Not really. It is standardized at some FAANG companies but not others.
Ira Glass's advice for creative careers
Here's an example from 20 miles away on a spur line of what kind of bridge damage can result: https://www.wral.com/17469149/

The road and railroad were only closed for 4 days, but it's clear that if the truck in this incident had a bit more momentum, the bridge could have been removed entirely.
True, I guess it all boils down to ease of use (convenience). You can build a system which accepts schema + data and build dash boards and data relevant relevant processing + optimisations, but that results in a much more complex system with higher entry burden. Sadly convenient systems always get broader adoption.