skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be happy with a README-first design that had a link to move the README below the code, and that remembered which one you want on top for each repository. (Along with a preference for logged-in users to decide what they want.)
Was it DC?
Somewhere Adam Savage is shedding a tear.
Yeah but it's only for files. No web search or other features.
I had the same experience. They are so much fun.

The tour I did in DC had 3 accidents in 75 minutes with ambulances called for two of them. It was wild.
...and as if that wasn't enough, he also wrote a JavaScript interpreter: https://bellard.org/quickjs/
I disagree. I think stories like this are important. They teach you to take a hypothetical scenario seriously. It teaches people to ask "what if X were true?" and to seriously consider the ramifications. This is a springboard into abstract thinking. Without people taking the hypothetical seriously they will want to deal with concrete things and will have trouble with abstract reasoning.

Imagine you were trying to have a discussion about racism with someone. You would tell them "How would you feel if one day you woke up black and people were biased against you due to your skin color?" They would tell you that it's the dumbest thing they've ever heard. Who have you ever known that woke up with a different skin color?[0] For someone to take an argument like this seriously they have to be willing to engage in a hypothetical scenario. Waking up with a different skin color is as fantastical as the stories you're talking about. This means that they won't engage with your hypothetical scenario.

[0] This is an argument made by James Flynn in his amazing TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI
The Czech Republic, here smack in the middle of Europe did something similar - pretty strict lockdown, hospitals cleared of non essential procedures to keep capacity, most shops closed & mandatory masks everywhere.

Seems to have worked fine, as the average number of cases has been around 50 daily for a couple of weeks, all that while most of the restrictions have been lifted.

So where is the difference ? I think in two aspects:
- all the neighboring countries did similar strict lockdown and achieved similar levels of success
- we closed our borders to everyone, including preventing residents from going out - the Prague international airport was deserted for month and a half, all international bus and train connections have been shut down & border crossing were guarded by police with army helping out, letting only trucks through

I think this really helped as each country could apply their lockdown separately for a limited period, without worrying about international travel bringing it right back in.

While from what I've read and even been told by people in the US - even is a single US state did a very strict lockdown with potentially huge economical cost - the neighboring state (or in some cases even the next city!) will do hardly anything at all. Combined with no state border lockdown, the strict state will get infections back in from the less responsible areas.

The Czech Republic border is no longer closed, buses and trains go over the borders again & local flights have been reestablished. Still, a version of the border lockdown is still going on, with the Czech Ministry of health maintaining a list of "red" countries, such as for example Sweden or Portugal, that you should not visit but if you do you should go to quarantine and get tested.
>I blocked several news sites and social media I habitually check in my hosts file, but somehow my browser still resolves the names. I need to fix that.

DNS over HTTPS maybe ?
Nope, that has never been and never will be a goal. Hell, there are still cases of Bubonic plague that occur.

The goal should be to minimize spread among the most vulnerable.
We are starting to see a lot more ebikes around here on the bike trail (Florida), but they are technically not allowed... yet they allow Segways.
> the workaround for this is to declare the local variables as parameters that are not passed (and separate them with four spaces) - cannot return array from a function.

Does anyone know the history of this? It sounds like something that's to crazy to have been designed and came about as a hack that got widely adopted. It would be nice if they added a local keyword or a prefix or something.
> The 'revolutionary' impact of the Segway might still come to pass.

The self balancing aspect was what segway bought to the table. There was nothing revolutionary about the battery and motor. They originally even used NIMH batteries.

It was lightweight high performance lithium batteries that pushed the electric alternative transport market.
My dream dating app has been banned by Apple
I mistakenly interpreted the headline as a battery with some kind of liquid electrolyte and outside air as a reactant. Kind of like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery . But nope, it's just the liquefaction of air, no chemical reactions involved.
Australian here: ebikes are crazy popular in both Sydney and Melbourne. I'm a regular cyclist and I get overtaken about 10 times per trip by ebikes.

If I didn't have such as short commute, I would jump on it!

We have above-average bike lanes (in some suburbs, anyway), so that's not a major issue. A major concern seems to be security. My neighbor had a battery stolen from his ebike while he was getting beer.
Contrary to popular belief, HN's demographic is not immune to knee-jerk hostility triggered by the notion of a concept merely existing, wherever one might come down when discussing it.
The iOS equivalent would be the app sandboxing mechanism, which very heavily restricts kernel access from most of Safari (most importantly the process that is JITing javascript). It’s structured differently than SELinux and has some complications like entitlements that have led to vulnerabilities in the past, but it largely allows iOS to apply the same sort of app-level access control.
It became worse for me since I upgraded to 20.04. Now central screen in 3 screen setup gets panned, which can only be fixed from Nvidia control panel + graphics manager restart. It breaks on the screen lock. Don't upgrade to 20.04 yet, if that's what you have.
This looks pretty cool. I've been looking for a to-do app with subtasks on Android. But in what format does Tasks.org export in? As in: Would I also be able to edit / modify the tasks on the terminal on my desktop?
How about The Original: 00000000
<the Swedish report indicates of infection fatality rate of 0.1%>

That's incorrect. The IFR in Stockholm (the epicenter for COVID-19) in Sweden is .6% currently [0]. Only if you exclude anyone above 70 do you get an IFR of .1%. According to [1] 20% of the population is 65 and older, roughly 2m people.

[0]https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/53c0dc391b...

[1]https://www.indexmundi.com/sweden/demographics_profile.html
I've been writing Haskell professionally for 5 years now and as a hobbyist even longer and this presentation just doesn't resonate with my experience and view towards the future.

That said I've taken my focus off working in it professionally. It's such a chore to have to constantly justify it to newly-externally-hired management and inevitably get a top-down directive to rewrite. I'm done relying on managers and corporations to drive Haskell.

My focus now is freedom & independence. I've got plenty of hugs and impactful personal projects & Haskell advancements I'd like to undertake in the next 5-15 years, and nothing even sniffs Haskell as a tool for me building without thinking or exerting energy. Maybe my issue is I love Haskell but I am abjectly not a community member.
To elaborate further on your comment, you can programmatically enable/disable/change/recompile nested rules from your master extension.

I wonder if half the reason the 50k rule limit exists is so developers don't end up with an append-only infinite rule list that takes 20 seconds to recompile. If you're stuck turning 200k rules into four lists of 50k rules, you can just recompile each one on its own thread and all of it will take a couple seconds max.
I wish the code panel was collapsed by default on the repo home page, so that you could see the README section front and center.

That's usually the first thing I read. Then I dive into one or two files to check things out.
Most of Oregon's neighbors had strict lockdowns. Idaho being the exception. Except I still went to Washington several times, because interstate travel was never restricted. It is a matter of debate (as someone mentioned in a different reply) if that would be legal in the USA.
Daily decisions about risk: What to do when there's no right answer
That’s your bias. Most consumers have mo clue what react native is
I felt that way too. I remember the first time I tried to make a lazy list of random numbers in Haskell. It didn't work because of course the random number generator is stateful which conflicts with laziness. It was a disappointing moment for sure.
> We have controversial topics that seemingly panders to this particular demographic's confirmation bias.

Race and gender are minor topics within SSC. You could say that the community has an undue emphasis on the culture wars, but it also has a unique way of addressing those debates which - to many participants - justifies that very emphasis. And if it's as uniformly right-wing ("conservative or reactionary") as you posit, it certainly goes to strenuous lengths to disguise this fact to the casual observer, specifically wrt. culture-wars discussion.
You can't really force that level of hype. It was a genuinely new form of transport that people wanted to think about. It was basically viral and eventually it wasn't cool anymore
If I'm targeting an individual/organization a watering hole attack requires that I can own a site the target visits regularly.

This seems a lot more complicated than just going to any unencrypted website via network redirection of some sort. Do most people routinely visit encrypted sites that are easily hacked to target an RCE on an individual?
H1B engineers are the coal that powers Qualcomm's furnace, and they're treated like coal as well.

They're underpaid for their positions, tremendously overworked, and when they don't win the H1B lottery for their renewal, they're simply swapped out with people who did. Tying one's ability to legally reside in a country to their employment is cruel at best, and damaging to the broader economy at worst. This doesn't benefit ANY workers - if these workers had some basic rights, or an actual decent pathway to legal residency (not tied to their employer), they'd be better able to demand market wages, and wouldn't depress the wages of their American peers.

The only people benefiting from this nonsensical immigration scheme are the shareholders of the companies who exploit it.
I don't understand the problem. I get microcode updates with apt and general firmware with fwupd (ready to install on next boot from UEFI). As far as I now that's the intended/supported procedure.
Good on them. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts would be the ones to understand and champion the value of pseudonymity.
Oculus Link + decent PC + Half Life Alyx.
That's the main reason that draws me to RoR.
There is an ethical issue at hand when people are unwilling to protect 30-40% of the population because they fear a miniscule risk of vaccination.
FWIW…

> You're stuck in Apple's app store which is equally as draconian as Chrome's and Firefox's but now you have to pay $99/year.

Safari extensions do have to be notarized (so $99/year), but notarized extensions don't have to be distributed via the Mac App Store.

> No IndexedDB.

Safari appears to support IndexedDB, with native support for IndexedDB 2.0 in Safari 10.1+. https://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb

> The extensions aren't usable on mobile.

Safari for iOS does support extensions, so I'd assume they'll use the same framework. https://www.idropnews.com/apps/11-best-safari-extensions-iph...
Don't be so judgemental. I could probably find a lot of things in your life which I would find "dorky". There is no universal definition of Dorkiness, it is a condescending term for things that people don't agree with, without any kind of justification. It is a matter of personal taste and opinion. Keep it to yourself please.
Stream API would be my first thought but I am not as familiar with Java. Maybe I should have said "ideas", I'm not sure there are any language level changes for Stream API.
I think it was the CEO not the founder
> Obviously, Scott didn’t expect the blog to be so big or his anonymity to be such and issue when he started using his real first and middle names

He definitely did. Slatestarcodex was started to replace his old blog which was not anonymous and was becoming too popular for him to be comfortable with that, especially with his career starting to take-off. The old blog linked to the new one briefly to allow current readership to migrate, and then cut ties. That's why I know his real name. Perhaps he didn't expect it to be quite that big, but it being too big to be linked to his real name was part of the equation when he chose to use his first and middle names.

First and middle names are hardly better for tracking someone down than than first names only, since middle names aren't really used anywhere except very official things. Unless you have access to some official database that contains addresses and middle names or something (hey, isn't this what phone books used to be?), the middle name doesn't really add much IMHO.
Maybe cost efficient?
> Higher performance per watt and less waste heat.

The thing is, I don't really see that in heir designs. You're not going to get "more than double the performance of the competition for less than half the power budget" even when you compare to Intel, and I doubt that you're going to beat AMD.

And yes, when you compare to other ARM cores the Thunder does well, but that's not it's competition in the laptop space. Intel and AMD are, and a Thunder core does not do well against a Zen 2 core.
We also have a much higher life expectancy than India. One of the theories as to why Africa has not been hit is that they have far fewer old people.

Hoisted by our own petard.
Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet Ginger:

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/steve-jobs-and-jeff-bezos-meet...

Sorry, that version of the story is paywalled. Other versions discuss Steve Jobs’ views on the early Segway:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2010/09/27/steve...

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-segway-technol...
The article tries to blame all sort of things for not selling well, but the real reason is super simple: They were too expensive.

Back when they came out I too was affected by the hype and wanted to get one - until I saw the price and said "never mind".

Drop the price to 1/10 of the amount, to $500, and it would still be expensive, but at least there's something to talk about there. At $5000 it was an easy decision not to get it.
Before the Segway was Dean Kamen’s iBot wheelchair.

It would rise up on two wheels and balance so the rider was eye level with standing people. And it would go up and down stairs. Truly amazing IMO.

https://msu.edu/~luckie/segway/iBOT/iBOT.html

Totally unrelated I am now 35 and feel completely unfulfilled in life when I look at everything Kamen does. I would love to work at a full time research institute experimenting and innovating.
I remember back when Dean Kamen managed an epic PR campaign: there were weeks of coverage speculating about what “It” was and how it would transform cities and daily life. At least for those of us on the early web, it was an Apple-scale PR event.

Then it actually launched and everyone had a disappointed “that's it?” I actually would not have predicted that it would take until 2020 to fold.
Just don't go near a cliff?
Prisma, Hasura, BEaaS, and low code may be faster options now. Depends on experience. It you don't know RoR, Prisma is probably faster to get going with
Generics, no? Philip Wadler, one of the designers of Haskell, was involved with the introduction of generics to Java.
Yes, and I provided you evidence. You claimed in an earlier post

> In so many of these police related threads on HN lately people make absurd claims and then are upset when asked about data or objectivity

And I provided you exactly what you wanted. Yet you seem to be dismissing said evidence out of...? Your feelings?
I'm judging your meta-judgmentalness
It is only supported by software because Apple convinced big software developers to port everything to Metal. Apple no doubt made assurances to these developers that this was Apple's big re-entry into the Pro market and that they were in it for the long term.

Now, it turns out that Apple wants to complete a transition in 2 years... they are not keeping x86 around for the Mac Pro longer than that. It's not credible that Apple can just scale up their CPU into a workstation part. So if you are making pro software then you have to come to the inescapable conclusion that Apple is, in fact, not serious about the Pro market, and it's probably best to avoid expending further development resources on the Mac.
This is a good point.

Looking back, it would have made more sense to do the lockdown in phases. Ask every company who can have their employees work from to do so. Track the numbers!

Ok, is it still spreading quickly? Well identify the next round of business that should shutter.

We basically did it all at once and like Oregon, CA was pretty adherent, but I just went for a walk this afternoon and it looks no different than per-Covid.

We basically went from on, to off, to on again.
To hire an H1B worker, you're required to prove that you've tried (and failed) to find a domestic worker to do the job.

I have a friends who work for Qualcomm, and it's widely acknowledged both inside and outside the company that they rely on a steady stream of underpaid H1B engineers.
My guess is that they're not, strictly speaking, "encrypted" any more than the first guys to use FM were "encrypting" their transmissions. They are receivable and decodable, you just need the right equipment.

I agree that these things should be kept off the air, but I don't think it's a "money talks" situation.
I give back by mentoring a FIRST Robotics high school team near me (another Dean Kamen project).
Very impressive, i think building your own (performant) database from scratch is one of the most impressive software engineering feats. Can you let me know a little bit of how an interested person with a cs background can approach this daunting topic?
It was also a time before social media, mass consumer internet, and all the high-tech things we take for granted today. It was a futuristic device that looked and sounded fantastic with no real competition. People were amazed by the balancing tech alone (and there was a similar wheelchair prototype).
What sort of trouble? I don't see that, though the only reason this system has Ubuntu and not Debian is that seemed necessary for hardware support initially, and I should move to that rather than Ubuntu 20. (In my experience it's brave to run a new Ubuntu within a few months of it coming out...)
Could you take a moment to comment on why one would choose to use QuestDB in lieu of Google's Bigtable or BigQuery? Furthermore, how does this compare to other proprietary and open source solutions currently available in the marketplace? In short, I'm struggling to understand where this technology fits and the over all value proposition.

Asked a different way: If I were a lead of IT, director-level executive, CTO, etc. how and why should I begin to evaluate the QuestDB service / solution?

Thank you for sharing, bluestreak and team, very interesting and exciting work!
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported

https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac8...
To me it always felt like "white americans who can't walk being lazy on a tour to a city in Europe".
It's not a good look to compare people to a virus.
What am I judging? The fact that it's condescending?
>And the Pop!_Shop will take over from there.

From installing my vpn app to games from gog I find I have to go to the terminal for a good percentage of my installations.

Even with simple utilities though, I find that the app store is FULL of garbage. Why are there multiple VLC entries in the store published by people other than VideoLAN?

There is a Gog galaxy client published by a random developer that is just a wine wrapper of the windows client (and also doesn't work). This is not a good experience and I don't think the average user is ready for that sort of thing.

> I can get 90%+ of my titles running this way.

I'll agree that a majority can come from the app store (for me its probably more like 70%) but it needs to be way higher imo to be ready for the average user.

Along similar lines I am currently having an issue with my ubuntu 20 install where i have to change the audio device every time I boot my computer, there doesn't seem to be a way to set the default device -again- without popping into terminal. It is frustrating to deal with all these idiosyncrasies which is why I prefer to work on MAC OS when I can.
The difference is here, without the graph, the message is much like, "you may have been infected, but, since you're showing no symptoms, probably not", whereas with the graph it's probably much more like, "you have been identified as a likely spreader of the virus". There's a subtle difference in the call to action.
So you're going to ignore all criticism when you make a huge redesign?

There are valid complaints about this. I rarely complain about website design, and this time I am compelled to criticize it.
Hiring and job prospects, the tech you know already, what people around you use (at work for example).

These can inform the decision to or not. What's the draw to RoR?
Yes, I think this is a good idea. If your blog/hobby/project is just a side-gig to your main employment, I’m not sure national media scrutiny is desirable. If you wanted to go full-time as a writer or pundit/speaker, perhaps like MMM or James Kunstler, and if you are media-savvy, then maybe it is worth playing the game.
If you get Quest you can just play any rift or vive game if you have the PC for it using Oculus Link cable.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/play-rift-content-on-quest-with-...
I find it much more difficult now to line up filename and last modified time in the file browser.

And I agree on the low density. Plus it now looks like a children's toy, not like a work tool. A while ago, there was an article on HN about kawaii cuteness culture sneaking into everything. It appears that has happened here.
I'm not sure this article is all that accurate.

"Segway" is a brand that has passed through several hands after Dean Kaman sold it a while back.

This sounds to me like the New Hampshire plant is no longer going to manufacture Segway units, rather than the technology being discontinued altogether.

Ninebot of China acquired Segway and uses the IP to defend their self-balancing inventions.

https://time.com/3822962/segway-ninebot-china/

It looks like ninebot still produces the Segway in China, and I don't imagine will stop soon.

https://www.segway.com/professionals
Yes. That usage of the acronym works when there are enough context clues. I think it will supplant the "audio/visual" meaning as autonomous vehicles become more salient. Here is text from an old job posting at Ford quoted on TechCrunch:

"We are seeking exceptional candidates to join our growing Autonomous Vehicle (AV) business team!"

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/ford-is-expanding-its-self...
Daily Covid-19 Deaths in the U.S. Have Fallen Dramatically Since April
Clicked the last link from your list, see this: The two were already struggling when Levias' friend, a 17-year-old, pushed the officer, and he responded by punching the friend in the face.

Is this the sort of thing you consider outrageous?