skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry are you totally taken by crazed conspiracies of marxists roaming the streets?

Can I ask why users like you suddenly started adopting the word as an object of obsession just as recently as a few weeks ago? Specifically when did it enter your vocabulary?

No offense but its already a joke with people blaming Marxists for taking down Aunt Jemima[1], and here you are doing the word salad thing "BLM antifa marxists in the shadows woo."

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hcps06/the_marx...
That explanation makes sense!

Some selected highlights from the paper, saying, i think, the same thing, in a little more depth (PE = photoelectron, PES = photoelectron spectroscopy):

> The nature of the metallic transition in both liquid and crystalline alkali metal–ammonia systems, directly evidenced by an orders-of-magnitude increase in electrical conductivity, has puzzled researchers for decades and is not yet understood in molecular detail.

> There is thus a clear need for a direct PES investigation of excess ammoniated electrons that would cover both the electrolyte and metallic regimes. We have recently overcome a critical obstacle in collecting PEs from a volatile polar refrigerated liquid.

> This work has paved the way for PES investigations mapping the electrolyte-to-metal transition through the study of liquid alkali metal–ammonia solutions of increasing concentrations, as reported here.

> The present study shows that the electrolyte-to-metal transition in increasingly concentrated alkali metal–liquid ammonia solutions is a gradual process rather than an abrupt first-order transition, which is in line with previous suggestions. From the molecular point of view, this transition may be understood in a simplified way as gradual coalescence of individual solvated electrons and dielectrons upon increasing alkali metal doping, with the metallic behavior appearing around the percolation threshold.
> Evidently people care a lot about such stuff.

They don't, though. When was the last HN thread about a building named after someone undeserving? Or really any discussion about a routine honorific misapplied? Anything remotely similar?

Only now, in a thread about a building named after a black woman, do "people" start to "care a lot about such stuff".
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Discoverability is everything!
I'm actually harvesting water through condensation machines and storing them in a man-made underwater resevoir now.

Soon I'll be pumping it into the house for plumbing, etc.

My reasoning is, in 20 years I'll have a cool project to talk about, or I'll be sitting on a fortune in freshwater.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your reading list?
Hey all, I was wondering how do you handle your reading lists.
I found myself constantly having tens of tabs open with interesting articles to read later, interesting project/library on github that I'd like to look into at some point, interesting blogs that I'd like to explore more. And to make the things worse have the same situation on my phone.

what systems do you have to easily save links for later consumption? I tried different things like pocket and Instapaper, but didn't really work well enough. In browsers reading lists and bookmarks don't work either since different devices and no tags plus can have loads of duplicates :(
> This reads exactly like bad plagiarism

Are you also saying that it is plagiarism or that it just look like it? To be honest considering the huge training sets and knowing nothing of the testing methodology I have some lurking suspicion that it could be just copy-pasting chunks of texts...

On the other hand if it is just writing "articles that feels a lot like they are plagiarism" then I suppose it doing its job properly considering what you find on the internet.
What most people seem to fail to realize is that in of itself is not necessary proof of collusion. There is the "street" theory that publishing records on powerful Russians ends with a bullet in your head( or worse) and not jail or any legal proceedings. Something to think about.
That's not quite right, and the author is reaching for a valid definition, but it also not quite getting it right (entropy is hard).

Entropy is defined as: "It quantifies the number of microscopic configurations that are consistent with the macroscopic quantities that characterize the system."

Where there are two levels - microscopic - which in this case doesn't necessarily mean invisible to the eye, it means the individual units of the system. In this case shoes. And macroscopic - which is the system as a whole, or in this case, the set of all shoes. A single macroscopic state is the set of shoes in some (maybe random) order.

Finally "macroscopic quantities" refers to a property of the macroscopic system. In this case the author is using the macroscopic quantity of "how fast can I find a shoe of a particular order".

In this case, entropy measures, for a given macroscopic quantity, how many microscopic configurations exist. For example, lets say the given macroscopic quantity is "I find a given color shoe in O(n) time." Then every configuration of shoes that does not attempt to order the shoes is a possible microscopic state. There are lots of those, so high entropy.

Another possible macroscopic quantity is "I find a given color shoe in O(logn) time". In this case the shoes need to be ordered, leading to far fewer states. Hence lower entropy.

If this is not clear, it is easier to see if we constrain ourselves to having one pair of shoes for each color. Then the O(logn) configuration has 1 state, while O(n) clearly has many more, so obviously the O(logn) state has lower entropy.

However the same logic applies to having >1 pair of shoes for each color. In the O(logn) case, we can only swap shoes of the same color to have the same macro state. In O(n), we can always swap any shoes of any color, as long as this swap isn't the last swap needed to achieve order.
A requirements-writing assistant would be killer. Maybe something that uses natural language and writes a spec in a formal language under the hood.
> Google is still showing realtime Frankfurt prices. Currently at a market cap of about €350M.

Trading had resumed by then. It was supended temporarily (for one hour) just before the announcement.
Any social group has a code of conduct. Classic codes of conduct have been in place for generations and are implicitly taught to members accepted in the social class.

The difference now is that these codes are being challenged by outsiders to the former dominant class; and making the new groups work requires the code of conduct to be enumerated explicitly, in order to define and coordinate the new, non-classical values.
Funny enough it's based on the American "killdozer" incident. Excellent film though.
Bird, position in the Catholic hierarchy, countability, or direction wise?

Something to do with using floats to indicate cardinality briefly plummeted, but was summarily dismissed.

Regardless, losing track of the numbers to accounts reminded me of this one place I worked where the transaction geese weren't recorded as explicit callouts on the transaction ledger, but rather had to be cross-referenced with final transaction amounts and the fee configuration for time period, but where the changing of fee configurations were not tracked with a granularity sufficient for resolving all ambiguity come audit time.

And I thought that was bad.
Nothing your saying in this thread is true.
Reporting about western countries isn't expected to land you in a jail cell or early grave, as is the case with Russia and China.
Nancy Pelosi backed EARN-IT, a bill that's just a more passive aggressive way to try to get the same camel into the same tent.
Worse - an AI decision puts an obligation on the user to follow it. What do I mean? Well - imagine you are a cop, you get an auto flag to arrest someone and use your discretion to overide it. The person goes on to do something completely different; like they are flagged as a murderer but then go and kill someone DUI. You will be flayed, pilloried. So basically safety first, just do the arrest. The secret is that these systems should not be making calls in this kind of context because they just aren't going to be good enough, it's like cancer diagnosis - the oncologist should have the first say, the machine should be a safety net.
> regurgitating tired old arguments that are trivially discredited

who judges this? fundamentals of human right are often old, who decides they are tired or outdated?

If they are constantly repeated, then either they aren't considered rebutted, or the rebuttal rarely spreads, and that is the thing that needs to be investigated.

We need to identify "thought-terminating cliches and propaganda" via a bipartisan standard. The current standards seem to be "your propaganda is propaganda, my propaganda is defence".
Why do services like whatsapp need support for GIFs? We have URLs people!

Here I just send an URL to the GIF to my friend via whatsapp. They click on the link. They look at the GIF. That's it.

From a user's perspective to see a GIF I just have to click a link. And to send one I just send a link. How easier can it get?

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I swear HN's community has the brightest minds yet so often it fails to understand simple user experience stuff (see the infamous Dropbox comment)
Hit the nail on the head. This culture has no concept of "thick skin" and interprets any nuanced position in the most unfavorable light. Then they put on a dramatic show of being offended, hurt, or outraged in hopes of accolades from their peers.
Thanks for update and nice work for the community. I didn't end up taking job at WL, but Hapi greatly increased my technical opinion of them and was valuable for recruiting devs too.
Zoom on iOS is listening even when muted
I've discovered this with the new iOS 14 feature that shows when apps are using the microphone and/or camera.

IMO this isn't malicious but just lazy code because nobody would ever know that the mic isn't closed. Even so, the app shouldn't be receive audio data when muted.
I used Symbian. It was annoying.

Easy of use and better UX is a very valuable "innovation".
There is a difference between someone who is a confidential source on a story, and someone who is the subject of a story - it appears the NYT argue that those who are a story's subject are fair game for full-naming. However people have found a number of past stories which respect subjects' wishes for pseudonyms or anonymity, so it appears to be a rule that is unevenly enforced at best.
The page you have linked to won't even open. I have witnessed a number of attempts to replicate LittleSnitch on Linux, none of them went far enough to anything near a usable product quality.

You need to implement at least some functionality on the kernel level (what LitleSnitch does with a kernel extension) for this, most of the people who care about desktop apps on Linux (me included) lack kernel developer skills.
Greece isn't so much on the Eastern Bloc, I guess, so that's probably why.
I edited to include a source after you posted: the founder of BLM refers to herself as a trained Marxist.

The reason people are speaking about it more now is such Marxist groups seized part of one city (Seattle) and staged riots nationally. Generally speaking, when an ideological group uses their network to stage violent riots, people talk about it.

People such as Jordan Peterson or Michael Knowles have been speaking about Marxism in universities and other institutions for a while.
BBM absolutely did take off with youngsters for a while - I sold a lot of blackberries to teenagers in the U.K. in 06.

Blackberry failed for much same reason it failed everywhere else - much better phone platforms came out very quickly etc.
The newer iPad Pro has a native USB-C output that supports 4K 60hz with an HDMI adapter.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUF82AM/A/usb-c-digital-a...
Curated list of Eastern EU movies (good), asking to pay for a pirated content? (bad)
> Atomically? What if your DDL times out?

Effectively yes, during a defined outage period (don't ask, this is finance), on any error anywhere in the platform during rollout, the entire platform would be reset to its prior state.

> What you describe is, in my experience, extremely standard process for rolling out breaking changes

But entirely unnecessary here. There was no requirement for a single version of the microservice to be able to address multiple versions of either dependency. It was a net negative to have that support, added significantly to the software complexity and the raw LoC.
Refute.
Reminds me of what Neil deGrasse Tyson said about being a visible black authority figure of science and knowledge.

> In an undated interview at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Tyson talked about being black and one of the most visible and well-known scientists in the world. He told a story about being interviewed about a plasma burst from the sun on a local Fox affiliate in 1989. "I'd never before in my life seen an interview with a black person on television for expertise that had nothing to do with being black. And at that point, I realized that one of the last stereotypes that prevailed among people who carry stereotypes is that, sort of, black people are somehow dumb. I wondered, maybe ... that's a way to undermine this sort of, this stereotype that prevailed about who's smart and who's dumb. I said to myself, 'I just have to be visible, or others like me, in that situation.' That would have a greater force on society than anything else I could imagine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson#Race_and_s...
Untrue. I've worked in Government, private sector, and nonprofit. All can be managed atrociously, and all can be managed well.

In my experience, fiefdoms and graft are much more common in the private sector. Nobody can be voted out or replaced when their boss is voted out. Nobody even cares as long as the long term profits are ok.
The US is the only country to have used nuclear bombs in anger, and that was during it's nuclear monopoly.
My advise would be; if you have the funds and the need now, then get it now.
You've been going 5 years on 8GB RAM, and so for dev purposes you'll notice a good improvement going to a machine with 16 or 32GB RAM. If you can, get more RAM and make the machine last.
I'm quite excited about ARM Macs, and I suspect they will be excellent in many ways, but there is always new hardware on the horizon. If you keep waiting for the next promise, you'll be suffering in the mean time.
Get a decent Mac now, and get another one in 5 or 6 years time.
Many said this about the music industry. And much of it went away.

I don’t think music did very well as a result.

I think everyone forgets that the majority of activity in any industry is likely to be absolute garbage and in need of reform.

This does not mean the best next step is to destroy that system wholesale.
> I personally believe that he's guilty due to the sheer amount of witnesses

Yeah because the Swedish police is totally credible at this point.

So this is what we know of the first woman who went to the police, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer, starting this whole charade:

- There were no rape allegations. She described the sexual intercourse as consensual. Instead she was worried Assange may have HIV and asked whether the police could force him to take a test.

- Instead, and for no apparent reason, police try to pressure her into accusing Assange of rape. She refuses. She also refuses to sign the interrogation transcript created by the police.

- Finally, and emotionally exhausted, she goes home and writes one of her friends a SMS: "I don't want to report him. I just want him to take a test, but police want to get him for rape." and the next day: "Police is fabricating this."

- Then, that very next night, newspaper are already calling Assange a rapist.

Another fun tidbit:

- Some time later Swedish police was ready to come to the UK to interrogate Assange, but was asked not to by the UK.

- Also Swedish police was worried because their highest court wanted them to either charge him or drop the case, and was told by the UK: "Don't get cold feet now."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kha_5G70pi0
Maemo Leste is a fork of the original Maemo bits. It's still maintained, at least to some extent.
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This is wrong, the Python list supports random access and random access inserts and removals. It's a dynamic size array underneath, and contiguous, so it's pretty much the same as a std::vector of Python objects.

Also notably a Python list does NOT have an efficent pop operation at both ends, only on the far end.

Doc: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list
Anything you see in the news are the egregious instances that get pushed to ridiculous levels. If you've seen a sign saying "wash your hands after using the toilet", that's an explicit code of conduct done well.
WW1 was a total war. Fascism was a response to total war which conscripted every civilian into the military. Italy did not have an army of 500,000 soliders before WW1, no country did. The british empire's armed force was 80,000 -- and was one of the largest in the world. Where do you think 500,000 "soliders" came from? They were drafted from the population.

It's literally in the first paragraph in the wikipedia article on fascism...

> Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of total war and the total mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between civilians and combatants. A "military citizenship" arose in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner during the war.

> I suggest you better inform yourself about the 20-th century history of European societies before spouting more nonsense.

I'm British and I know my own history very well. Read any book of the time, "Road to Wigan Peer" will give you the quality of poverty.. and any graph by any serious economic study of human history will give you the actual level of wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_World_War_...
>There is no "right" way to convey the issue above without offending someone.

I really disagree with your defeatist attitude.
Is it not possible that Wikileaks decided it was safer for them to report on the US, given our supposed press freedoms?
Of course, but it doesn't factor in the interface and input differences. It is next to impossible to port a game optimized for PC to mobile. And nobody cares about mobile games making their way onto desktops.
I hope this is the stupidest thing that I read today.
I agree that if there are rules, it's much better to make them explicit instead of implicit. I also think your example makes sense, but I'm not sure it applies to larger groups or public forums. There are simply too many people to avoid discussing every topic that could offend someone. I'm not saying overt racism or homophobia is okay, but especially when it comes to humor it's almost unavoidable that it can hit too close to home for someone who sees it.

In public discussions there has to be some baseline ability by the reader to accept that they can be offended while the value of what was said to the rest of the audience may outweigh their own feelings. The implicit rules of what is acceptable to talk about, especially online, have been getting stricter to the point of being ridiculous in my experience.
So if there is a peaceful protest and some looters pop up, what does it make of the protestors?
First, good on you for helping the world be a better place.

I have to ask, why use "Black Market"? It doesn't make sense whether you are involved in these issues or not.

Modern day slavery is universally known as human trafficking within law enforcement, social justice and international peace groups. This isn't a word police thing, it's just not accurate or common. Seems like using "Black Market" just makes things confusing.
Zoom's whiteboard is pretty bad. Slow, clunky, weird bugs on some OSes (pen draws in wrong place on Android IME), no pressure sensitivity. There are loads of shared whiteboard type services (search on HN; IIRC we've had a few discussions recently), but most of them don't support audio and video as well. I think Zoom for audio and video while using a separate shared whiteboard might work quite well, but I haven't had reason to try it yet.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think we should encourage people to vote as much as we do. Voting is an opportunity to make your voice heard. If you have nothing to say about the issues facing a particular office, don't vote.

I do not vote for candidates who I am not informed about, but many people do. Those uninformed votes just drown out the voice of the informed voters and reinforce the party-line tribalism that seems to be slowly taking over the nation. In an ideal world, I would be informed about the issues surrounding all of the offices for whom I'm asked to vote. Unfortunately, I simply do not have time to concern myself with more than a handful of offices.
Many news agencies have very good reporting.

Not all are run by Robert Murdoch.

I would say Google is a very bad actor replacement. A lot of us ( I think) are critical enough to know when news through Google seems to be politically motivated.

But many people don't...
Except it's far worse than any flu season in recent history in the US, there aren't any treatment options or their immature, but yea...
and good luck renting anywhere else if you have that on your credit report, at least anywhere desirable. You'll end up in crappier housing for a minimal reduction in rent.
Where do you live / what type of buildings are these?
> Feels like the last decade has shown Leaking to the General Public is not very productive. As in outcomes are poor.

Who cares about "productivity" or outcomes? I am in for the truth. And WikiLeaks really helped.
Did you actually sign an IP agreement when you did that contract work? If not, it's your copyright anyway.

Selling this stuff is actually much harder than you think. A lot of organizations have home built solutions that work "okay" and are hesitant to switch. There are internal gatekeepers who will need demos, evaluations, test/trial accounts. That can go on for months, sometimes years.
There is plenty of room for a sane, intelligent conservative position in our political landscape and discourse.

Where is it?

There are over a dozen congressional candidates today (all on the R side AFAIK) who espouse or at least dog whistle to the Qanon cult.

Imagine if PETA, Earth First!, and the most unreasonable histrionic "social justice warrior" types took over the Democratic Party. That's where the Republican Party is going if it isn't there already.

Where's Eisenhower or even Reagan?
Too bad he probably stopped reading Hacker News some time back in late 80s, otherwise he could chime in on this.
While not semantically the "same" - you'd be surprised where this principle shows up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance
TikTok grabbing clipboard data on iOS 14
>Symbian: Opening a secure connection. Continue?
>IE6: You are about to view pages over a secure connection

Why did early 2000' software had such obsession with asking user about secure connection?
And Hamburg at 10°E is also split, so really the question is: Is East London bigger than West Hamburg
Yes, but when you ask someone to write markdown they usually write markdown. And when you ask someone to write HTML, they typically add closing tags.
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I have a MBP 16. 32GB RAM, i9 8-cores. Yes it's powerful, but it does generate a lot of heat, and the fans spin up easily.
I run mine with Turbo Boost Switcher Pro, and that helps a lot to keep the fans off.

I do wish it was more power efficient, but I'm also glad to have upgraded from my dual core 2013 MacBook Pro 13".