skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Senate backs bill to punish China over Hong Kong
Almost every time I see Pakistan on the first page it's because of something bad. Also not surprising because almost every time I submit something about tech related to Pakistan myself it's usually horrifying. It just makes me sad. Hoping it'll be better at some point.
I also wish we had a functioning democracy and those were still apolitical.
Is it really that difficult? I can connect to my entry level nikon d3400 over bluetooth and send an image to my smartphone, edit it a bit and upload it to instagram pretty easily.

Granted the bluetooth is very slow and image editing on a smartphone is fairly rudimentary but personally I prefer not to edit images too much.
How I built my time machine MVP in 10 seconds flat.

First I spent my whole life building the time machine.

After this life long period, when I finally finished it at a really really old age, I went back in time, to 10 seconds after I had decided to build a time machine, and I handed the time machine to my past self and then I died, but the past me lived on, with a time machine that from his point of view was built by him in 10 seconds flat. It was a great success and all rejoiced, including past me, future me and present me.
This is an off-topic point, but perhaps this TED talk by James Flynn might give you a perspective to understand why your parents and grandparents tought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI

It posits the idea that the way of thinking back then was different, because they had to overcome different cognitive challenges from us today. This would shape how people back then viewed the world.
Advertising.

Maybe 1 in 3 of the answers you see are just paid ads. They read like utterly normal answers, but work in a reference for why X is the best product to item #4 on their top 5 travel hacks list.
There’s a ton, actually. Bitcoin has a system of “standard” transactions, that is the ones that are accepted by miners, vs. “valid” transactions that are accepted by nodes.

Any nonstandard transaction will be rejected by 90 if not 100%, miners, but if you get lucky to get someone to mine it, it will work fine with the protocol.

The nonstandard txs are any that are something more than a transfer, multisig (i.e. the ones that have some sort of smart contract capability).

This is not theoretical - literally killed my project of decentralised oracles (Orisi) back in 2014. Our beta transactions were accepted only by 10% of miners, so you had to wait for hours to get your tx through. Perhaps it changed - I think in 2018 not even one mining pool accepted that, but perhaps by now they fixed it, although I doubt that.

May seem like a small thing, but I met other projects that bumped into it. They had the tech, just didn’t manage to convinve miners to accept their transactions.
I think you're giving Trump too much credit. I find it difficult to believe Trump is highly educated about anything, much less esoteric quotes and symbols used by dead racist people.
What's Behind Technological Hype?
Maybe for PR... Verizon sells your browser history.
And dosdude1 has wonderful tools to upgrade unsupported devices. I’m running Catalina on a 2011 MacBook Pro.
I would think it's more to prevent fire from moving easily between floors, and perhaps for HVAC efficiency reasons.
What? You want a political movement based on requiring municipalities to use standards that don’t exist and WILL DESTROY PEOPLES LIVES?

Most people appearing in court don’t want the contents of their proceedings made public.

This isn’t political at all. It’s isn’t practical or advisable enough to be political.

Just look at the World Wide Web. It’s like that, but more complicated.

A very good friend of mine is a legal librarian. She has more formal education than a doctor. Peoples lives depend on her doing her job, and it’s hard as heck.

This isn’t something you can automate away.

The info systems are complicated because the domain is complicated.

Imagine: person A and person B create a partnership in the Cayman Islands. However they agree any disputes between the London Commercial Court. Do I even need to continue?
You're not wrong at all, and there is. It's just surprisingly easy to filter it out. If something new or non-standard is happening (ATC gave you an unusual approach, there's a traffic conflict, etc) you WILL start filtering out the less important information such as the screech of a gear horn or some other in-your-face indicator right through touchdown.

The thing about flying an aircraft is while it's 90% boring monotony, takeoff, approach and landing are all extremely time sensitive operations. It's easy to become cognitively saturated or to "get behind the aircraft". You can only go forward and you're going really fast so everything has a deadline.

The best description would be like when you were learning to drive and you merged onto a highway the first time. Lots going on, can't slow down, just have to commit and try to keep up.
Less than 1% of Facebook ads get clicked. Not sure what sort of roi marketing folks have come up with to convince purse strings their ads are actually producing, but if the "marketing" department can't spin numbers to look good, might be time find a new marketing department.

Then you can get 2% of your ads clicked on.

All that said, I'd be interested in learning if my layman's perspective is garbage (which, let's be honest, it probably is).
I'd ask for recommendations/referrals from friends and your local startup/tech community.
Because you don’t live in a state with strong eviction privacy laws.
Ever since I was in high school and first read about topology in George Gamow's "One, two, three ... infinity", I always perceived dogs as tori. Now I'm too old to change that perception.
I'm currently in the market for a pro NLE. In the mockups I've seen of actual workspaces on some NLE websites, not a single Apple logo was seen (but other logos were).
C++11 Multi-Threading and Concurrency
Food for the food for thought: Is more learnt from disagreeing, or agreeing?

I don't think people mind being wrong.

Or maybe people like pointing out others are wrong more than sticking around for the conversation.

We do know the quality and diversity of opinion and conversation doesn't suffer from upvoting, but it can be suppressd by downvoting.

If downvoting had a requirement of a one sentence input, that was maybe anonymized or made only visible to the OP... maybe there's something there.

How many downvotes wouldn't happen if it wasn't quite bad enough to articulate into one sentence?
Renaissance's $10B Medallion Fund Gains 24% Year to Date in Tumultuous Market
16% is not alarming to me given the situation and how ridiculous real estate is in SF. I expected a higher number than that.
The United States also transports nuclear weapons in ways that are not obviously a transportation of nuclear weapons, including in seemingly unarmed semi-trucks for thousands of miles.

Its a pretty effective way of moving things that need high secrecy and present logistical challenges in required protection. In the past highly valuable items have been moved using mundane methods with little fanfare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

There's exactly one division required.

(Implementing it using vector instructions is left as an exercise for the reader. A very elementary exercise, so I encourage you to try it if you're curious about SSE and such.)
found Tipper Gore's burner
MATLAB ban on two Chinese universities
I was just pointing out the foundation of your argument is categorically false. We can quibble over the rest - such as “creating greater value for others” being a completely arbitrary concept. Perhaps a better argument to make for your position is that money collated by organizations such as the ACLU, BLM (or the NRA), is used for political advertising, and therefore justifiable. I would personally find that argument difficult to refute. On the other hand, I personally think 100% of lobbying, which includes political advertising, should be illegal.
Thanks for your detailed reply!

Echo chambers are exactly the thing to avoid, both up and downvoting.

We know that downvoting will suppress activity more than upvoting.

The downvoting limit to -4 is a new to me so thanks for sharing that.

Perhaps the downvote reason could be published anonymously to the original poster and doesn't have to be public... or that could be optional.
This is from a blog that has 2 posts. Both discuss a compiler for an experimental dependently typed language. That's a fairly specialized topic.
Bingo on the last point. Though if you make it to the border, you’re okay (they can’t really deny entry if you can prove your PRness in other ways). The issue is that they’ve created an apparatus to deny you boarding onto commercial vessels in the first place. You could always charter your own jet and get around it.

There are a few exceptions for Canadians not requiring a Canadian Passport. Namely: If you have a US Passport.
My understanding is that cheaper devices (at least historically) tended not to have a discrete chip for handling GPS, which could run extremely efficiently and at very low power, and instead were forced to use the CPU to do the work - contributing to the reputation of being slow and power inefficient.

Modern devices do the sensor fusion on CPU but it's just polling the GPS chip for coordinates as required, which handles all the actual signals processing stuff.
It's true the lenses Olympus make may take up much less volume than an equivalent large focal length for full frame.

But the downside is they're not cheaper in the prosumer space. The spatial resolution demands put on the lens by a 20MP M43 sensor is actually pretty similar to a 42MP Sony A7Rii. This means the manufacturing tolerances are the same as full frame, which is a large component of lens cost.

This means that for the average consumer not interested in long range wildlife photography where the price of glass does come into play (e.g. 600mm), there isn't any price advantage.

As an example, have a look at the 12-100mm F4 for Olympus (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1281427-REG/olympus_v...)
vs
the new Tamron 28-200 F2.8-5.6 for Sony FE (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1568708-REG/tamron_a0...)

The Tamron actually outperforms the Olympus lens in terms of spatial resolution/sharpness on a 24MP sensor (because the photosites are larger), has a 2 stops faster wide end, and is $500 cheaper.

Even more interesting is that there is only a 14g difference in weight between these two lenses. Granted the Olympus will have better weather sealing.

The average prosumer is going to do the math and see that for a lower total system cost (body + lens) they're getting more in terms of sensor and lens performance for a negligible increase in weight.

This wasn't true in the early days of Sony's FE system, but as of 2020 with modern, sharp, short flange lens designs from 3rd parties - the price/performance ratio has become better than I ever predicted it would be
It's short, but not that short. Pasted:

IT IS NOW well-known that, although covid-19 can strike even the very young, older folk face the greatest risk. In hard-hit rich countries, about 60% of all deaths from the disease are among people aged 80 and over. America, however, is an exception. Data released on June 16th by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) show that the country’s death toll skews significantly younger. There, people in their 80s account for less than half of all covid-19 deaths; people in their 40s, 50s and 60s, meanwhile, account for a significantly larger share of those who die. The median covid-19 sufferer in America is a 48-year-old; in Italy it is a 63-year-old.

Why is America such an outlier? Part of the explanation surely lies in the fact that America has a younger population than Europe does. America’s median age is just 38; Italy’s is 45. Another reason, perhaps, is that middle-aged Americans may be less healthy than their European peers, eg, because they tend to be more obese.

Whatever the cause, the relative youthfulness of America’s covid-19 victims means that the coronavirus is robbing Americans of more years of precious life. A recent study by a group of Scottish researchers estimated the number of years of life lost to covid-19 by age, taking account of the victims’ underlying health conditions. It found that in Italy, people who died in their 50s, 60s, and 70s typically lost 30, 21, and 12 years, respectively. Those in their 80s lost five years, on average.

Applying these estimates to the victims of America’s outbreak, a back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that covid-19 has so far shortened the lives of its American victims by 11 years, on average, compared with about nine years in the hardest-hit European countries. America may not yet have reached the same rate of covid-19 deaths as the likes of Britain, Spain and Italy. But the contagion in America is far from contained. Anthony Fauci, one of the experts in charge of America’s response, has warned of a “disturbing surge” in new infections in parts of the country. And when the age profile is factored in, there is even more reason for Americans to be disturbed.
FYI if you block this notification (it requires the script tag to load and you to click an I AGREE TO PAY PER GB bullshit thing), you can no longer do UDP traffic and your TCP connections start getting reset.

I found this out the hard way, because I browse nearly all HTTPS sites, and uBlock blocks the injected malware script on the few plaintext sites and never really noticed.

Your IP changes into a shared Comcast-run squid proxy one, all TCP ports are no longer available other than 80/443 filtered through squid, all UDP is no longer available.
I thought the 2019 YT boycott was driven by the fact that YT kept showing ads next to content where pedophiles were commenting.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/technology/youtube-pedoph...
Does changing your branch name fight inequality?
I meant I see the same behaviour as you :-) Can open those URLs just fine without any redirection.
The Ask HN is asking for advice, so I'll offer some. Although I understand you may be frustrated.

PIA client has tooling to change your DNS resolver, so there's an easier approach than I originally offered.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/androi...
> How can people like Peter Thiel et al not feel disgusting spending a fortune on personal longevity when there is still starvation and hunger killing children every day?

Probably because starvation is almost never an economic problem solvable with money.
It was kind of interesting at first when the answers were good and there were some "celeb" participants.

But seems pretty stale now with lots of lead gen answers.

They claim huge traffic numbers which could be possible given the pretty good Google placements.

I don't really get it.
So most of Europe isn’t sovereign then?
This says to me they've cleared the "but what about encrypted DNS in Firefox?" excuse from the boards so they can focus all their lobbying power fighting the only other encrypted DNS implementation (in Chromium.)

Comcast's anti-DoH argument doesn't work with Mozilla as an adversary. The basis of it is squarely anti-Google so having any other reputed organization backing DoH against them sinks that argument.

This is potentially a very evil move and Mozilla is not only complicit but actually aiding. Concerning.
the worst thing is doing a modal that calls a modal, that's the worst offender of them all
AFAIK, it is based on the word "mode", because what's supposed to happen is the rest of the page is disabled while you deal with the modal. You've switched modes from "normal usage" to "the popup".

If you can still interact with some other part of the page while it's open, it's not a modal, it's just a popup.
Why? It’s fine if you don’t derive value from their product, but clearly others do, and if they were to go under something else just as evil, if not more, would immediately take its place. Is it not more worthwhile to fix the issues with society that make Facebook unpleasant?
Finally corporate companies are becoming woke in an age of bias recruiting
Customers = users. Mozilla offers paid features in Pocket and Firefox Private Network, and are looking to offer more premium tiers of services. Specifically, the customers who use or pay for FPN have additional privacy protections that CloudFlare doesn't offer to its own customers, despite FPN running on their network.
Exposure Is Okay but with Caution
Increasingly, I just want a completely decentralized social networking toolchain, where people can subscribe to the moderation and filtration they like, and nothing can be universally censored.
FWIW we didn't make a separate extension, it uses the vscode-yaml extension from Red Hat, you just configure it to associate certain filetypes with our json-schema and custom tags. It is awesome for sure.

https://relay.sh/docs/setting-up-editor/
My phone's language and my native language are different. Oftentimes it'll recommend me an English wikipedia article while typing (which is fine). But whenever I select it, it fails, since an article with the same title as the English wikipedia doesn't exist in the phone's language. Why are the recommendations in the language I'm typing, but the links it follows through with defaulting to the phone's language? It's slightly bizarre.
Ask HN: Does anyone investigate open source packages before using in prod?
I'm curious to hear if anyone else does any due diligence before using open source packages in production? Not anything major - just checking for recent commits / activity, issue logs, etc.
>Moore said a local magistrate, a Black woman, "needed a bullet in her head," before the three discussed their feelings that a civil war was coming, for which all three claimed to be ready. "We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them fucking n------s. [I can’t wait. God I can’t wait]"
I’m guessing they’re referring to the fact that the CEO is very wealthy [1] and has self-funded the company, and suggesting that he’s not as concerned with the financials.

1: https://www.forbes.com/profile/adam-dangelo/#657861427cb4
Please elaborate on this nonsensical-sounding statement that perhaps is just easy to misunderstand. 'Miners' is not one person or organization with special authority, so what do you even mean by censorship?

Anyone can be a miner and the decision of what gets included in the next block is determined by a competition of hashing (computing) power.
He just parrots what he sees/hears and he spends a lot of time looking at far right content.
This is more free market capitalism than democracy per se. Facebook is not state run media and Verizon is deciding where to spend it’s money - or in this case, not. I’m not sure what “the people” really have to do with it, except that Verizon is presumably catering to some group of people with this move, or doing it out of some other form of self-interest.
There's no difference except size. Facebook and Google were small businesses once.
> I've never heard a good explanation for what a photon "is", or any particle for that matter. That's because physicists don't know either.

The aim of many/most physicists is to predict rather than to know. Biologists, Chemists, Engineers can agree all they want but their theories aren't tested to 5-sigma (I'm sure some are but that's not as good of a metaphor). We have extremely accurate and predictive models of how photons behave (Quantum Field Theory not solely Quantum Mechanics).

You're arguably right, we don't really know - however, we can only know what we can see with our eyes. There may be some all-encompassing structure hiding at any energy level we haven't yet reached but the explanation given is as good as it gets in terms of explainable what we have observed in nature.

As to Quantum Mechanics, the only place you'll find Physicists disagreeing about the "core concepts" is on the absolute fringes of what can be considered science. You will find Physicists arguing about the interpretation of those concepts but it's not like they don't work. As to that interpretation, there is disagreement but I think it is fair to say that very few physicists actually think about it - i.e. "Shut up and calculate" is a common outlook.
I haven't watched the video yet, but the article itself doesn't tell me much about how the companies that employ tech workers are hurting society.
Decentralized Video Production
Just because you cant see the connection doesnt mean its not there.

Adjective, (of a proposition) in which the predicate is affirmed of the subject with some qualification, or which involves the affirmation of possibility, impossibility, necessity, or contingency.

Its pretty plain to see how a confirm or error message is applied to that definition no?
it is not uncensorable in an absolute term, that is true.
But can come quite close.

Why? For mainly two reasons:

1) Main one:
Miners can censor. But miners are not elected. As more transactions are censored by a mojority of miners, the sum of transaction fees of these transactions add up and become a honeypot/incentive. A sum which a "brave" miner could additionally include in a block they would mine (that other miners censoring won't), making themselves MORE profitable by including those. And mining being a low margin business, this is relevant. And this gets more and more relevant the more fees people are ready to pay for such transactions. Nothing is really free in life. It would cost, but the more you are ready to pay a fee, the more uncensorable it gets (if you are not the only one, which is not likely in a long term view in a world with so many countries, minorities, use cases,... ).

The condition for this to work, is

a) being able to mine anonymously (or one day you'll get arrested) and

b) a protocol favoring decentralization (meaning you can have temporarily more centralization like these days, but as long as these more centr. miners behave well and follow the rules, it isn't an issue, and when they start behaving bad, things can get better again [1]).

That is why privacy + decentralization-focused bitcoin-software development is so important

2) The second reason is technically correct, but a bit far fetched I have to admit (!), but read to the end:

- You can become a miner. Ok, you would need to buy an ASIC or better a few, but with that you finally might get lucky and mine your block with those transactions.

- But then again communities could get together and mine together. Like a small town (somewhere hypothetically where some plant grows and producing healthy drugs that are forbidden by law but helping some people who want to pay for that) and thus getting connected to a world wide financial infrastructure to participate in world wide commerce. Or countless other communities are imaginable. It just needs imagination, human creativity and time to develop those scenarios.

[1] Example where it has already happened:

- Bitcoin had moments where one miner got or got near 51% POW, and miners did switch mininig-pools to stop that.

- possibly segwit2x (not entirely sure). Although Segwit2x was circumvented by a user activated softfork, an agreement of a big part of miners wanted to change the rules, but couldn't pull it of

edit 1: formatting

edit 2: some clarifications
I think he's partially right, and you're also partially right.

Learning to code is an extremely high barrier to wntry, but its also highly transferable. If you can write Python, there's tons of jobs you can get writing Python, and with a little extra work, you can pretty easily transition to another language with a whole other world of opportunity.

The problem with these "visual" languages, is its a lower barrier to entry, but its still takes a detail oriented person, and ends up being very specialized, so there's less opportunity to leverage that to another job. So if you're a person than can learn a visual language effectively, you might as well go the extra 30% and learn to code in a "real" language.
Ban all politics from Facebook then?