skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60yrs ago, Nehru was still the Prime Minister. That war was done because of Nehru's disasterous forward policy where he single handedly asled Indian Army to capture Chinese posts because of bad advice from his generals/advisors.

China then waites until US & Russia were busy in Cuban Missile Crisis.

JFK was still alive 60yrs ago!!

JFK had such close a relations with India that Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee had askes his brother "when will a Kennedy become a President once again".

JFK wanted to help India but he was busy in Cuban Missile Crisis. But after that, UK and US started dropping military supplies. And China ended the war single handedly and went back to the status quo.

Things that have changed:

1. We are a highly interconnected economy
2. China is at a backfoot
3. Modi is at a backfoot. (Note that Nehru was facing no such pressures 60yrs ago about corona, self inflicted short sightedness on Economy etc)
4. Nehru and the Congress at that time was not based on total and pointless bravado. The current regime in India is just busy in bravado. China has encroached since May probably and PM Modi spoke a few weeks ago and then, too, he denied any incursion and that lead to China hailing him
5. Neither India nor China will afford a war, leaders will gain from a skirmish. Chinese subservient media will hail it as a Chinese victory, same as Indian media which is super subservient will hail PM as someone who defeated China.

They won't be able to peddle lies if there is a war, for the war will be entirely up in Ladakh. And Russia and US will intervene because both Trump & Putin will need that tag at home of avoiding a war.
Current deaths per million population:

UK: 642

Spain: 576

Italy: 575

France: 441

US: 365

Netherlands 340

EU Average: 208

Germany: 107

I dont have an easy way to adjust for demographics, but the median age of most of the countries listed is 2-3 years greater than the US. Italy is ~ 6.
I respect that it put you in a bind, but a warning would have totally ruined the joke for me.
Do we really need another chat app? Wouldn't it maybe be better to capitalize on the existence of an open network that is already around, and build a better client for it that kicks the pants off of whatever's already out there?

> will not be able to build anything robust by myself.

Then who's going to build it? Are you hiring a team to do this? Don't underestimate what's involved here to get something working and keep it running. At the very least, if you don't go with a decentralized model, you're in for expensive server bills and considerable ongoing maintenance to keep up with security patches, etc.

How will you monetize this to pay for all that infrastructure?

> Too much info/options

There are already too many options in this space. Why would anyone choose your client when Signal, Telegram, Riot/Matrix, etc. are all free and decent to use? What is your unique value-add?

Will you be writing a client for multiple platforms? Desktop? Web browser? Don't be fooled into thinking you can build one client that works everywhere, you're up against native apps with native integrations that make sharing and interoperation easy - features that take whole teams to get right, much of the time.

> All suggestions and thoughts welcome, especially specifics. Thanks.

Don't do this unless you have a business plan good enough that someone will lend you $1MM to get it off the ground. Seriously. You're talking about entering a massively crowded marketplace, and you're clearly out of your element.

If you must do something, make a paid Riot/Matrix client that doesn't suck as much as the stock one does, and steal users from an existing network.
What fraction of this week's WWDC was spent on iMessage?
Using C code is how you get the next cloudbleed. I'm happy to pay a performance cost for the sake of memory safety.
Cars are wildly impractical in much of Benelux. You’re forcing your worldview where it doesn’t fit.

The other poster said Home Depot though so is most likely American. Go reply to that person with your myopic views.
> the protections of an LLC

Won't protect one guy or a small team in case of legal disputes, it's called piercing the corporate veil. I wonder if the EU has something similar.
It's also appropriate in cases where the subject's real name isn't relevant to the story in any way. That's certainly true here.
I don't think he's really upset I think he's just "having a laugh"
You are worried about a sudden and unpredictable event which is right to be concerned about.

I’m more concerned about routine, predictable care (even expensive but schedule-able surgeries like knee replacements) that are gouging our entire system. We need drastic decrease in costs in this area which I believe is achievable in part through price transparency and “shopping around”. Indeed, the medical tourism industry, where Americans fly to foreign countries for medical and dental procedures, exists for this exact reason.

Medicine is not entirely the same as other markets but pretending it is somehow entirely disconnected from basic economics is how we got into this mess in the first place.
I do agree with the premises, i don't agree with your conclusion.

Yes only a part of patches would be marked as such.
That, major or minor, part would simply mean that people won't have to reinvent the particular wheel, as happened in this case.
People won't be missing critical _discovered_ changes, the vulnerability would be discussed, recognized in its totality (PoC, documentation etc) and proper patches will be offered. There have been cases where LTS backports were old revisions of bad patches.

I think that baking LTS kernels is unnecessarily closer to an artistic approach of doing things.
We need a “ding!” sound effect when you get to the top!
Do you plan to release this? If not, can you discuss your approach?
Go Out
The adversary in this case is the local (Moroccan) government, so using a VPN would have likely saved him, as long as he chose one with an exit in a different country (one unlikely to cooperate with his own, obviously).

If the insecure website itself is in Morocco then he's hosed either way, whether the website is behind SSL or not.
Yes exactly what I meant.

Even the changelog summary is similarly directionless:

> Today we’ve launched a refresh to the design of GitHub UI, and layout changes to your repository homepage. We hope these changes improve your experience visiting and maintaining repositories, and using GitHub in general. Along with visual design changes, you’ll see the the following updates to your repository homepage:

- Responsive layout and improved mobile web experience
- More content surfaced via the repository sidebar
- Ability to show or hide Releases, Packages, and Environments in your repository sidebar

> These changes lay the foundation for future incremental improvements that will better surface your projects, the people who make them extraordinary, accessibility, and yes, dark mode.

The whole thing reads like it was an update to a landing page, which it is for some projects. But it's also a core point of collaboration and workflow for many, not to be rearranged without precise and deliberate intention for each and every change. A "refresh to the design" rebrand to signal new ownership is not welcome.

Edit: it's even really bad as a landing page. I just realized that the README is now often 'below the fold' because of so much linespacing whitespace above it.

The 'refresh' was clearly meant to be for its own sake and any improvements secondary or incidental.
Yeah, we see a lot of these here. At one time, I thought they must be valuable, because successful people were telling everyone else, for free, what it was that made them successful. If we just followed their advice, we too could be successful.

I now see it differently, and though I'm quite certain I was wrong before, I'm less certain that I'm right now. But here are my two thoughts on this anyway:

First, no successful person, that I can recall, has ever credited their success entirely to following some other successful person's habits. No great inventor has said, "yeah, I just looked up Ben Franklin's habits, and followed them exactly, and here I am." People have credited other people for inspiration, for guidance, for mentorship, but if there's any evidence whatsoever that a person's success is entirely due to their habits -- that is to say, that the same success can be replicated by anyone who follows exactly the same habits -- I haven't seen it. Likewise, no successful person has ever turned out to be a clone of a previously successful person. Each one has made their own name, developing their own habits according to their own innate strengths and weaknesses. At YC, Sam Altman did not become Paul Graham; sama continued to become the most sama he could be, while pg was the most pg he could be.

Second, I've reluctantly decided to believe -- careful choice of words there -- that these sorts of "prescriptions" are not only not helpful, they are unhealthy. The natural conclusion for a shlub like me, having read so many of these, is, "if that's all it took for that person to be successful, then why am I not?" Am I lazy? Perhaps. Stupid? Too arrogant? Not arrogant enough? Am I not sacrificing enough of the other things I love? Am I sacrificing the wrong things? Too many things? Have I read the wrong books? Do I have the wrong priorities? Am I broken?

A lot of people are fond of saying that certain fields of study aren't science because they're not testable or repeatable enough. I submit that the nature of success has never been tested in the scientific sense. It's all, mostly, cargo-cult flim-flam. There is no way to know whether one successful individual could be born into entirely different circumstances and still come out as successful; it's unknown to what extent biology, early childhood, developmental psychology, and dumb circumstantial luck each factor in to the result. There is no equation for it, no universal constants.

25 million copies of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People have been sold. 25 million! Has it made 25 million successful people? 10 million? A hundred-thousand?

Maybe I could have made different decisions and found some great success years ago. Maybe it is yet to come. (See? I've still kept my youthful naivete.) Or, perhaps, my equation long ago determined that I could only be a decent uncle, or mentor for some better programmer, or maybe just... not a shitty person. That one's still a work in progress.

So there it is. I've come to see those essays "On How I Became So Successful" as approximately indistinguishable from heavily-altered Instagram photos of pretty people on beaches.
While Homebrew is absolutely slow, the experience of package management on macOS (homebrew gets you bleeding-edge versions of the crap you install, whereas Apple manages the system and keeps it stable) is IMO better than Linux where the choice of stable vs. bleeding-edge is systemwide.
I'm not sure why people seem so agitated by this. The guy is not being very serious...
it deprioritises the readme. which was the whole point of Github.
I don't think this is a problem with git-flow, it's more a problem of using git-flow when you don't need it.

I use git-flow on projects that need to be installed by various different clients and there's no way to force all of them to migrate to the latest version, so you have to maintain support for older releases.

When the software needs to be installed in a single place and you can do it with CI/CD theres no need for the git-flow complexity.
I'm honestly curious, what could make one loathe SSC? Overall it seems pretty anodyne even if you're not into the whole rationalist milieu.
The demo page needs a lot more floors.
Good. This was by far the biggest gaping hole in iOS's privacy surface. It's really egregious compared to everything else.
Same here, it's 6.40am here and I am about to start my 2h sprint before my kid wakes up. I feel I deserve for browsing HN instead of being productive :D
I love that it's on the right. It means when on mobile, I don't accidentally upvote something that I meant to collapse.
you could have option to anonymize posts just by removing the name of the poster, pretty sure that would be enough for some maybe even majority and off-load lot of work from you to pay attention only to those who want remove posts completely
Yes, you can bring in workers as long as these workers are used for that non-profit. However, you can't act as a staffing company.

Some administrator at Wright state university got cap-exempt H1B visas, then sent them to various for profit clients: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/wright-state-university...
No. That is entirely your biased reading of my comment, presumably because of your sensitivity to references to the Ctrl-Left.

It's a comment that would only benefit from some misrepresentation

But I thank you for the admission.
I rarely share my story with people, not only because it put me at the lowest point ever but because it made me a person of ridicule among family and friends. I put all I had into Binary Options ($100,000) after hearing great testimonies about this new investment

strategy. I was made to believe my investment would triple, it started good and I got returns (not up to what I had invested). Gathered more and involved a couple family members, but I didn't know I was setting myself up for the kill, in less than no time all we had put ($300,000) was gone. It almost seem I had set them up, they came at me strong and hard. After searching and looking for how to make those scums pay back, I got introduced to (Troyhermes8@gmail.com) He helped recover about 90% of my lost funds within a month.
Buy a good skipping rope, should be heavy.

Do maximum sets of skipping that you can.

I started with 100. Because I used to do Yoga for 40min daoly, used to cycle 72km once a week, so I had built that stamina.

You can start with sets. Sets of 10/30 whatever suits you.

Weekly, either increase the set count or the speed of jumping

For eg, I used to do 100 in 1min. Yesterday I did 100 in 29seconds!

I am also doing skipping based on minutes now. Yesterday, I skipped for 3min 45seconds. My goal is to skip for 5 to 10 min nonstop.

They say x min skipping burns twice calories as x min running!
I think the developer community need to start refusing to use the cellphone. It cannot be trusted. It's tainted by non-free software on top of non-free OS on top of non-free firmware with the separate processor whose behaviour we cannot observe from the main processor. It also relies on central wireless network from only a handful of providers. Easy single point of vulnerable target.

I do refuse to own a cellphone. What about you. Since you're suggesting the boycott, can you?
It will be called ML winter, not AI winter.
We know now — definitively — those populations who are at risk from COVID, and those populations which are not.

In general the world is too connected, and populations too mobile, for a virus like SARS-CoV-2 to be contained, save for special case island nations that are willing to keep borders closed or visitors quarantined and ensure compliance until a vaccine becomes available.

For the rest of the world, what is abundantly clear in countries that are willing and able to perform the requisite testing, is that this is a virus that spreads easily and rapidly but thankfully in those under 50 is vanishingly unlikely to kill if it is symptomatic at all.

With over 10 million confirmed cases worldwide, likely in excess of 100 million actual infections, COVID could burn out in it’s own before widespread vaccination is available. Not due to containment measures, but due to enough people gaining immunity.

In my non-expert estimation, the public health response to COVID will ultimately result in about an order of magnitude more deaths, or roughly an order of magnitude more years of life lost, than due to COVID itself. The longer we continue lockdown-type policies, the greater the damage done.

COVID spread anyway, COVID continues to spread, although now it seems to be mostly in less risky populations as case counts surge and hospitalization and death rates remain constant. Some of this is of course simply sampling bias now that testing is more available for lower risk populations. We also see people who know they aren’t at any real risk willing to be exposed in order to live their lives. Most inexcusably is that the most vulnerable populations (e.g. in nursing homes) were not adequately protected and even directly harmed by policies while the general masses bore the economic and social brunt of the involuntary enforcement measures.

In general every person who gets COVID and is asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic is basically someone getting an early access vaccine, and this can only be regarded as a positive in exerting a downward effect on R.

I think that speculating about long term effects in largely asymptomatic populations is an academic exercise which misses the forest for the trees. We need to reopen emergency rooms for the cardiac patients, reopen oncology departments for the chemo patients, reopen primary care clinics for health screenings, and reopen gyms, all to reduce/prevent well known and proven morbidities that cost millions of lives a year, not just continue to incur increase death in our most prevalent causes of death out of fear or politics.
Why would anyone post something like this without even bothering to check if it's actually true, which takes less time than typing the comment itself?
Hard to believe, some of her other writeups are not any more human-positive. I hope she gets some justice for some of those things. I hope there is a possibility.
Apple won't allow you to run any hardware driver without them signing it. And Vulkan would require GPU driver support for it. So they are the gatekeeper who is preventing this from happening. Keyword here is gatekeeper. "Open" system much? In open systems gatekeepers aren't in the way of the user.
> if you think the Reddit redesign is really good

Conversely, if I think the reddit redesign is horrible, I guess I should stay well away? ;)
Yes, I was going to say. Taking courses in "ML" is a great way to get to write a hyped-up term on your resume. Actually understanding and being able to write code for statistical learning is something else entirely.

Edit: On the other hand, I think Carmack observed that as long as you get the sign right, you'll get something out of it, even if it won't learn very quickly. So maybe speed of implementation and learning is how skilled people will differentiate themselves?
Shoelaces are a strawman. We've had laceable shoes for at least a century.

Work any sort of tech support and you'll find that many people who are otherwise intelligent, capable, and at the top of their field look at a computer as a box that they do certain specific things to, and it does those few things that they understand. They've never needed to delve, so they don't, and things even as simple as Windows shortcut keys outside of Ctrl-X/C/V, or any browser use beyond open it, type in the search box can be utterly mystifying.

Then take a person at that level of understanding who is paranoid that if they do something wrong they won't know how to get back, or that they'll lose their very carefully memorized workflow, and try to teach them something new. Even one small change that would save them surprising amounts of effort.

Most people _aren't_ imbeciles, but when it comes to things they don't know on "that box", the edge of the world is very sharp and bottomless.
Just going by elsewhere in the thread, if you want to not lose any quality then brunsli / Jpeg XL sounds like the way to go.
No mention of an architecture diagram - to, you know, tell people something.

Sure explains the mess at Fujitsu.
with fucking music, I wasn't prepared for that
Relevant post (relevant to this incident even, as a sort of "Round 1" from about a year or so ago): https://web.archive.org/web/20190228161939/https://slatestar... — best to read the whole post, but if not then look for the text around “scarily conservative”, the part from “very easy to moderate comment sections” to “your brand” to “dominated by”.
Love this. Every few years I feel I want to get deeper into it, but ... never get enough time commitment behind it.

Recently been wondering if Mathematica would be a good way to do this.
One learns to avoid locking up the brakes by feel and experience. ABS is not necessary, though it is more reliable. For an extreme example, Formula 1 drivers or MotoGP drivers do not use ABS, and yet are able to brake at the very edge of possibility.

Indeed, it is actually possible to brake ever so slightly more efficiently without ABS than with ABS using very slight wheel slip, and smoother braking allows for weight pre-loading going into a turn.

https://www.nathanarose.com/blog/2017/10/4/braking-capabilit...

According to this study, braking using both wheels on modern motorcycles (And, by extension, modern bicycles as both have in the past decade standardized braking systems that operate at the limit of grip) achieved .75G +- .15G. This is without ABS, and the limit using perfect braking at higher speeds yielded deceleration rates greater than 1G.

If the average, skilled rider is able to achieve .7G on modern bikes, this is not at all worse than cars where the average driver is assumed to brake at .4G. According to https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/vehicle_stopping_distance_and_ti... , a moderately skilled driver is assumed to be able to brake at about .5-.6G. This compares favorably.

As for braking technique, it is about extracting as much braking force as possible from the rear tire, then attempting to lower one's center of gravity by leaning down and backwards. An absolutely crucial difference is that in a car, braking is very detrimental to turning, causing over-steer. This is not so on a bicycle or motorcycle, which contributes furthermore to safety, as most accidents are avoided via steering, then steering and braking, and then only braking.

According to this, braking forces of up to 0.83G are possible on a normal bicycle, without suspension nor special positioning: http://www.industrializedcyclist.com/braking-pitchover.pdf
I know this sounds shallow and it is and I've out grown it (I think) but could a young person's 'problem they have' be parental expectations?

It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between this and a student's academic performance.
How is better hardware-to-price ratio and driver performance a "personal preference?" Do you not want those things? If you're saying that having a particular UI is important, that's another matter. I'm just explaining what it is that caused me to ditch the Mac ecosystem.
Huh, that didn’t play on my iPhone. The music just stops.
New monkey species found hiding in plain sight
It looks good on an annual report though.
Scientists decode how the brain senses smell
What Is the Hiring Process of Data Scientists at Siemens?
Are you sure that's all there was? I've never heard anyone argue that the slaves themselves benefited from slavery. I want to be clear I'm not making this argument myself, only describing a thing I have heard... I have heard someone argue that modern blacks have received a net benefit compared to if their ancestors had been left alone. And the context is about how to calculate reparations. What you described, slaves themselves benefiting directly, doesn't sound familiar at all.
Implement this on infinite scrolling sites with sounds of crying and screaming, then we're talkin'.
Boys, do you remember the hype around the original Segway launch? hehe, how time flies
But if you make a really big button (or a button that appears out of nowhere on mouseover on PCs) that people frequently hit by accident, your "engagement" metric will improve, showing that the feature is valuable!
I didn't know this. Thank you for pointing it out.