skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a plausible idea, but there are no guarantees. The reasoning goes like this:

So far, the Standard Model is holding up quite well (too well in fact; it would be nice to have some glaring discrepancies pointing to new physics). According to the Standard Model, all fundamental particles with mass get that mass by interacting with the Higgs field. Now, assuming that dark matter also consists of particles with mass (plausible), it's a fair guess that those particles also get their mass by interacting with the Higgs field. And if they do, we should be able to produce them by making Higgs particles (excitations of the Higgs field); when those decay, they will produce pairs of any particle species which they interact with (provided that those particle pairs are less massive than the Higgs particle; and even if they are not, their existence should indirectly affect Higgs decay to other particle species in ways which may be possible to study).

An obvious way this idea could fail is that dark matter gets its mass from a different Higgs field than the Standard Model one (SUSY generally requires more than one Higgs field, and GUTs can have lots). Another is that dark matter is not just another particle but something more weird.
Probably gonna get a link to go with my PC for rift/steam content to supplement. But yeah.
Probably won't be any answers around how to save on egregious, anti-competitive bandwidth pricing?
Erm, are you you talking about the Charleston rally in which a Neonazi ran over counter protestors? And if yes,are you saying it's a bad thing less people showed up to sing "Jews will not replace us" the year after?

And regarding the symbolism...I can kinda see that example, maybe, but I generally don't see the hammer and sickle used in mainstream politics either. And even then, there is a line between something like the hammer and sickle which was used before and after Lenin/Stalin as a symbol vs. the swastika which was literally designed by Nazis and only ever used by them (the Buddhist one is slightly different)

If anyone directly sympathises with Stalin/Lenin and calling for dekulakhisation, I'd expect that to also remove them from polite conversation. It just seems to happen less ?
My understanding is that the compiler performance issues in Crystal are sort of inherent to the language design and making it much faster will be very hard. I believe it's related to Crystal's type inference -- it has to traverse every code branch to ensure type safety. I believe explicitly typing everything is supposed to help, but I'm not sure by how much (especially if you have dependencies that aren't doing that).
Thank you for your explanation. That makes a lot of sense, and was a lot better than anythign i could find.
Previously it was at the top in the same row as Code, Issues etc.
Now without scrolling it is at the bottom right corner.
Yeah sigh, homebrew had definitely slowed down in recent years.
This blog post is 90 prelude/buildup toward these two claims:

* MacOS X was a very good OS for developers,

* MacOS X 11 is not.

The first claim is discussed in the prelude, but irrelevant for the conclusion. Three arguments are given for the second claim:

* macOS11 runs on ARM

* macOS11 UI supports touch

* macOS11 is not open and good [like macOSX] but easy and good enough

That's it. This leaves me quite disappointed.

macOS 11 running on ARM, RISCV, x86 or powerpc has little to do whether it is good for developers. I have an intel mac and do a substantial amount of ARM development on it: qemu works just fine. I expect qemu to work as good on arm for developing for x86.

macOS11 supporting touch does not say anything either about whether it is good for developers. Windows UI supports touch, and that's quite good, even for developers. I also have a Lenovo Yoga, and I can fold it, and sketch on it, which is great for web meetings. All thanks to having a good touch screen and good OS touch support. So IMO this change could make macOS11 better for devs than macOS10.

I haven't heard any information suggesting that macOS11 is less open and less good than macOS10. macOS10 was never great. It has quite old BSD utilities that are often subtly incompatible with their Linux or modern BSD variants for apparently no reason. macOS11 does not make this better or worse. macOS10 requires pretty much every process to grant permissions for everything nowadays, which makes it a bit of a pain to do something in the terminal without granting all permissions to the terminal, but that's only one click away, already "prepared" by apple, and you only have to do this once, etc. Each release of macOS 10 has made it more painful to use for development in some ways, and also better in other ways (zsh as default shell, C++17, C++ modules, dropping CUDA support, no native Vulkan support...). It was never great, it was always kind of a mixed bag.
Fugaku, the fastest supercomputer in the world, is used in Covid-19 research
Thanks guys I just named a few and figured out you were hanging out here so I gave you something to do.
I’ve resisted upgrading to Catalina because of the missing UBlock Origin support.

Does anyone know of a tool to migrate open Safari tabs to Firefox?
> One is how closely related were these neolithic people to modern Irish people

The article explains that these are related to the first farmers, who arrived (slowly) from roughly what's now Turkey, and mixed with local pre-farming people (who had been there a few millenia).

In northern Europe these people were all but completely replaced by the Indo-European arrivals, who (with various smaller-distance and smaller-number movements, like the Vikings) were the people living there until the 20th C.
COVID Articles start with a random selection of cases, tests or deaths over a random selection of time frames and areas.

Then halfway through the article it randomly changes to a different combination of cases, tests or deaths or a different time frame and different larger or smaller area.

And then finally it switches again, but about a totally different country or worldwide statistics.

Now you can procedurally generate multiple articles all day!

"Wow engagement is so high", said the Product Manager. "Our KPIs are through the roof, keep doing more of that our customers must love us."
Your Career in Computer Programming (2015)
It's just adaptive arithmetic coding, with the distribution provided by GPT-2 instead of some other statistical analysis of the source. He uses CJK simply to make the output printable, but it's really just random bits. I mean, it's a neat idea, but certainly not novel.
Truename Service Launches to Protect Domain Names from Phishing
The first US airline pilot with diabetes captains commercial flight
I actually like it but I miss the small bar at the top containing the links to the releases, commits, language information etc. in a single place. However, I have a quiet big display with great color settings and didn't try it yet on my smaller laptop displays.

I guess if your display doesn't show the light grays and shadows as well it may suck.
I propose an experiment.

Create two separate web servers. Open both of their ports to the internet. Put a bitcoin on each one. Only publish the IP/URL to one of them on a website with millions of DAUs.

My hypothesis is the address you publish will see its bitcoin disappear more quickly than the other.

There's a difference between being able to easily find an answer, and knowing which question to ask. This is basically the entire point of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The original PowerPC on Intel Rosetta was pretty amazing.

First, most programs do much of their work inside the OS - rendering, network, interaction, whatever, so that's not emulated, Rosetta just calls the native OS functions after doing whatever input translation is necessary. So, nothing below a certain set of API's is translated.

You have to keep a separate translated binary in memory, and be able to compile missing bits as you encounter them, while remembering all your offset adjustments. It worked amazingly well during the PowerPC transition. Due to so many things running natively on x86, the translated apps frequently faster than running native on PowerPC macs!
> I'm not sure how to turn geography into a problem you have

An old office mate once quipped that: "Ham radio is just a conspiracy on the part of the world's geography teachers to make their subject interesting."
There was an NYT article saying ventilators only give a 12% additional survival rate. This is the service hospitals provide.

Sure oxygen can be given at a hospital, but if we are overwhelmed, you can easily do oxygen at home.

Anyone have a different understanding?
> Disney's penchant to make kids think they need to be groomed for life in royal society

That's not about teaching your kids to live in royal society - that's grooming your children to know they are not part of it.
>You arbitrarily picked 16 possible photorealistic faces out of a total solution space of what? Millions?

Wouldn't the solution be to find a 4 different axes and pick faces that represent different endpoints. With a little psychology to help us identify what features are best to inform the public of we should be able to create a collection of photos that will be more likely to result in someone identifying the suspect than either the single photo option or the photo collection option. We would still need to test to see if it is better than the single lower quality photo option.
Really? I found that I only really look at the code when I look at projects I'm involved in. Usually though I use GitHub for discovery and then I care much more about the languages, commits, releases and Readme.
There's a celtic myth in Ireland that their ancestors came from Spain. This was so widely believed that at the time of the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, Irish refugees were granted the right to settle in Spain because of their shared ancestry.
That's perfect, thanks! I usually resort to Firefox's userContent.css file, but the feature is now disabled by default, so I'm glad to hear uBO can do it too.

Did GitHub only test their new layout on 4/3 screens? It looks so odd when the project header is fluid but the project itself is still centered and 1280px wide. Especially if you log out of GitHub, in which case the GitHub banner is no longer fluid and makes the project header look really out of place[1].

[1] https://imgur.com/3wOE7Nr
Tech is a circle that goes round and round.

Remember when everyone thought NoSQL was a good idea and wanted to get rid of their relational DBs? Nobody remembered _why_ we went to relational DBs until after all of their data was duplicated and inconsistent in NoSQL solutions.

I think the root of this is a lack of appreciation for or lack of knowledge of the history of software engineering.
The most infuriating to me is that educational curriculum drilled into people's heads that color blindness and treating all people equally was the key to ending racism, and now there's been a complete 180 on that
But ingenuity is part of work. Granted, knowing when to take a step back from brute force is a skill that must be developed and one at which some seem to have stronger natural aptitude than others.
Lots of hate here. I probably don't use GitHub as much as others here, so I can understand that any change adds friction and people are going to hate that. Having said that, I'm comparing using the Wayback Machine:

new:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

old:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200619163555/https://github.co...

and I can't find it in me to dislike the changes they've made. They've removed the double repo navbar in favor of just 1. They've added a right-sidebar that shows various info about the repo in general, like what the last release is. Before, I would open the branch/tag list to look at the versions; now, it's plain as day in the sidebar. For the main contributors, I no longer need to go to insights > contributors. They're shown in the sidebar. For the main languages, I no longer need to click on the thin color line. I find that the most common bits of info about a repo that I sought are now displayed in the main repo page. That's an improvement.

I don't understand why people are complaining like it's an absolute disaster. It's not perfect, sure, but this seems to bring significant improvements.
I second this. My MBPs 2015 are the best machine ever. The only things that could make them better is upgradeable RAM (16GB can be tight with VMs) and an nvidia gpu for faster DL prototyping offline. Apple Unix has a long history (AIX) but MacOSX was most def the best OS ever. As Apple is moving away from this unix power users's paradise, MS seems to be moving in, with tighter and tighter integration, now offering easy GPU passthrough to the unix subsystem... Open sourcing the rest of 10.14 would be really awesome by Apple. (one can only dream)
Spins Is Hiring a Senior Director of Platform Infrastructure
SPINS hiring a hands-on Director to develop and manage our Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. We have been on GCP for about 5 years and have plenty of experience with it. We're looking for a person who can lead by example.

https://www.spins.com/

Please check out the job post:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/spins/jobs/2007961
Stewart Brand: an American icon.

You might not always agree with him, but he won't bore you. And you've got to love an old guy who still has the enthusiasm of a boy.
There are two general issues here: there's the nuts and bolts, and then there's the emergent properties of the protocol.

In my experience, async (which includes futures/promises, and actor-like mechanisms) makes the nut-and-bolts problems of avoiding variable race conditions, avoiding deadlock, managing multiple things going on, way easier.

You still need fuzzing and model checking to make sure you got the strategic stuff right.

That said, the team I work on is about to release our first Raft-based product, so I might have a different opinion in a few months.
Is it better? The AVIF examples in the article look even worse than the WebP ones
If you haven’t seen this already you might wanna check out this article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512151941.h...
Good luck and hope your friend can recover fast!
The fluid width makes text harder to read. There's a reason why newspapers print in skinny columns. I wish they would at least let me set a max-width on the body.
It'd old, but it's not boring!
Apple never gets your saved login credentials. iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple hasn't been shy about advertising that fact.
I just responded to this same notion in another comment thread [0], and I don't want to spam the discussion, so I'll quote part of it and link to it:

> There's a difference between being able to easily find an answer, and knowing which question to ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23620455
The other possible outcome is to get enough testing and contact tracing in place so that we don't have to all get sick. Other countries have successfully done this, but it seems impossible in the US.
> what do you think will replace police?

Honestly? My fear is that governments will privatize policing. Because that's the policy that both parties can agree on / take bribes from.
The new web design layout on GitHub is awful and has less accessibility.

For example, the repository languages used to be at the top center of the page, while now I need to scroll past the bottom of the screen and find the information off centered in an awkward place.

The stars and other top bar links are off centered in an awkward way for the mouse and the eyes. Also, the profile tabs are less accessible because followers are now on the other side of the screen instead of in the convenient tab location.

Please contact GitHub with your feedback if you also think it's less accessible design.
Wow, thank you so much.
> I've seen more people switch machines before any of that happens.

My opinion is that people switch machines more often precisely because they're not upgradable/repairable. I think if most people could go to their local computer repair shop to get RAM/storage/etc. replaced or upgraded, we'd have a lot less electronics waste, and consumer computers would last a lot longer.

At this point, software CPU and GPU needs aren't increasing all that much year by year, unless you're a gamer or do HPC. For the rest of everyone -- the majority -- a CPU and GPU made 5-10 years ago is still just fine for what they want to do. These old machines just need more RAM and sometimes more storage.

I get that it's hard to fit sockets for replaceable modules when everyone wants a super thin laptop, but overall this is a source of so much economic and physical waste.
> Please do not buy into the hype that this is the first step toward reform.

Where in the official proclamation does it say that it's a first step towards reform?

Answer: It doesn't. Rather it lays out exactly _why_ they're doing it to address unprecedented surge in unemployment.

"American workers compete against foreign nationals for jobs in every sector of our economy, including against millions of aliens who enter the United States to perform temporary work. Temporary workers are often accompanied by their spouses and children, many of whom also compete against American workers. Under ordinary circumstances, properly administered temporary worker programs can provide benefits to the economy. But under the extraordinary circumstances of the economic contraction resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak, certain nonimmigrant visa programs authorizing such employment pose an unusual threat to the employment of American workers.

For example, between February and April of 2020, more than 17 million United States jobs were lost in industries in which employers are seeking to fill worker positions tied to H-2B nonimmigrant visas. During this same period, more than 20 million United States workers lost their jobs in key industries where employers are currently requesting H-1B and L workers to fill positions. Also, the May unemployment rate for young Americans, who compete with certain J nonimmigrant visa applicants, has been particularly high — 29.9 percent for 16 19 year olds, and 23.2 percent for the 20-24 year old group. The entry of additional workers through the H-1B, H-2B, J, and L nonimmigrant visa programs, therefore, presents a significant threat to employment opportunities for Americans affected by the extraordinary economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
Tax & Dividend isn't necessarily the fastest-acting policy in the world, and I'm keenly aware that we're on a clock; indeed, it seems exceptionally likely we're already beyond an inflection point, and will need something akin to geo-engineering in addition to however we reduce new carbon emissions.

I think a concerted PR effort could move the needle on popularity relatively quickly (which isn't unprecedented on other policy issues: opinions on gay marriage and marijuana legalization both tipped relatively quickly). The fact that it's market-based and doesn't expand government bureaucracy helps sell it to the right, the fact that most working people would come ahead economically helps sell it to the left. But absent that: do you have a better policy solution in mind that is more politically viable? I think the Green New Deal is a pretty good idea, at least in the abstract, but without a major sea change it seems to be DOA as well.
Does exactly what?

Given that the discussion is of a utility function for human life, the first assumption a reader should make is that deontology isn't part of the picture: it's incompatible with utility functions from the get go.
Well, one symbol is inherently tied to racial purity politics, the other is a symbol which was used by communists both before and after the atrocities committed by Stalin/Lenin/etc. Is that not a difference?
There's not enough contrast compared to the old design.
Women gamers compared to white male psychiatrist bloggers who occasionally criticise feminism? Yes.

There's no mystery here. Scott belongs to a class of people for whom sympathy is not culturally trendy at the moment.
open source doesn't mean apache license, just means you have access to the source lol

but yes, a swing and a miss for this dumb reason.
Despite my desire to have open systems everywhere, I think this issue falls more under the bucket of being an early adopter of a technology. New tech can always die like that.

But of course we need the early adopters, otherwise things never evolve to the point of being mature, so thanks to early adopters for being our guinea pigs.

To my view, pretty much everybody buying VR headsets today is still an early adopter :)
Show HN: Turn Google search into you customer support
There's still a non trivial amount of time to get that propagated. First merged into chromium, the merged into electron, then actually used by the client programs.
> The police said a group of teenage boys that night had punched and kicked another teenager at a nearby playground and stolen his cellphone. The teen flagged down an officer and was driven around the neighborhood looking for the boys. He pointed out a group, and police descended from different directions. One car sped against traffic until it hit a kid; the boy slid over the hood, hit the ground, and then popped up and ran away along with the others.

This bit is child abuse? Or the bit where the cops took some suspects in for questioning?
But "almost every browser" doesn't sync your saved passwords seamlessly between devices (mobile and desktop) with an end-to-end encrypted database, and automatically offer to autofill them, with the autofill itself protected by Touch ID/Face ID on the devices that support those.
The NYTimes is filled with anonymous sources as well as pseudonymous sources -- look at many articles about Banksy.

This is just a hit on someone the reporter viewed as not sufficiently an ally in the culture war.
My first thought reading the headline was that this was an implementation of Awk that ran on a JVM. But no, this is the reverse of that. This is way is far less useful but infinitely more interesting. Bravo!
Clobits: Use C Inside Clojure
Apple for example refused to support Vulkan and don't allow anyone else to provide drivers for it. It means they have control over what features you can use - you have no say in it. Even Windows being as closed as it is doesn't have such restrictions. So I'd say macOS is closed to a sickening level and it's completely disingenuous to call it open.

May be if you compare it to iOS which is closed in even worse ways, you could say macOS is "open". But it's like comparing something that's rotten to something that's rotten even more. Both are rotten.
The top energy of the accelerator might not be a good judge of how practical its technology will turn out to be. The maximum center-of-mass energy of CLIC is 3 TeV [1], far in excess of what would currently be considered practical. Nevertheless the technology developed for CLIC is now being looked at for providing very high-energy electron beams for cancer therapy [2]. Making something like the FCC isn't just a matter of making a bigger copy of the LHC, it has its own specific challenges [3,4].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Linear_Collider

2 - Slide 7, https://indico.cern.ch/event/578818/contributions/2487012/at...

3 - http://fcc-ee.web.cern.ch/content/accelerator-challenges

4 - https://indico.fnal.gov/event/16753/contributions/39405/atta...
Sqlite-generate: Tool for generating demo SQLite databases
Right, but I've never heard of that happening except from US media.