skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having to choose where to host it, what blog engine to use, write your own static site builder or go with something prebuilt, which analytics solution, what to name the site, how to SEO optimize your content, picking keywords, using keywords, how to create a newsletter, how to moderate comments and filter spam, what CDN to use, how to build a responsive design for mobile, put a GDPR disclaimer, write a privacy policy, how to display tasteful ads, where to display social media sharing icons, which affiliate campaign provider to go with, gzip or br encoding, jpeg or webp images, what url structure to use, what meta tags, how to title a page, test the rendering in different browsers, picking a font, finding a fast font provider, polyfills, minimize JS file size, picking stock images for articles, promoting your blog post on HN, gaming HN to get some upvotes, coming up with things to write about... fuck this.
It’s still very rare. Most of the time you can connect to VPNs.
Which is an interesting way to start a post with dozens of comments from 2013.
Hu,
I recently wrote an article about using a Yubikey and GPG after it was quite a saga to set up correctly. I hope this is useful to someone.

I'd appreciate corrections/feedback etc!

Callan
I'm an expat in the HCMC. I remember significant amount of skepticism by the beginning of the outbreak around COVID-19 related news, as both expats and locals suspected state censorship involved, like it happened in China about a month before. However, by the 2nd week of quarantine, even skeptics had to admit that outbreak has been handled with the same efficiency as in Taiwan or New Zealand.
By that moment borders are still closed, and it's hard to back to my home country, however, being able to walk without a mask and a constant fear to get infected really worth a lot. My sincere gratitude to Vietnamese health officials and medical workers who made it possible.

Of course, significant part of the success belongs to people who were following social distancing rules, wearing masks (which is almost a part of Asian culture), businesses that were closed on an early stage of outbreak - measures that other countries were very hesitant to do. And that successful handling of the pandemic has already brought significant benefits to the state, as international investors and manufacturers consider moving to Vietnam from China, something they were looking forward to, as China's biggest competitor in the region.
The MWI van violate Bell inequalities locally by using post-selection; that’s trivial to show.

When the universe splits at two distant measurements it isn’t until those outcomes are brought into contact that the matching of worlds needs to happen.
Is there a quick way to increase electricity demand in Kenya?
But if the goal is performance, why then not move to C++ or Rust
The mass limit depends on how fast it’s rotating, so they can simply slow down slightly and slurp, black hole.
> the polarized atmosphere in the U.S

That's smooth.

Almost as good as MS saying they're removing update settings to 'prevent confusion.'
Are you really really really doing mostly pipelines and command substitutions? Most of the time when opening a script with such claim there is maybe one pipe that makes sense and all the others are just things like cut, grep and awk to trim of any trailing newlines. Substitutions are usually from things like date. All of things that are easier to manipulate in a typed language.
Not really, if you download a fresh installation media from Microsoft
OmniWeb
like USC's

UCSF is University of California, San Francisco. USC is University of Southern California, a private school.
It seems like you are describing a scenario where Earth itself is a gigantic information processing device — a computer if you will.

What possible code could it be trying to execute? Possibly something as fundamental as seeking the answer to Life, The Universe, And Everything?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZLtcTZP2js

— The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: Deep Thought and ‘Earth’
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No, they don’t have that IRR if their investments were made at 2019 market prices. They have more than that IRR even with all those expenses if they bought at 1980 prices.

What’s unsustainable is the property prices of 2019 (and June 2020 because real estate asset prices are sticky). “Investment” is path dependent and is irrelevant to pricing for the market as a whole (it obviously does to a single player)
But we didn't have natural echo chambers of that sort and magnitude, because we didn't live in a global village.

I believe that the ideological self-segregation is mostly because you can choose who to interact with. That's also why it's primarily online, because you cannot choose to a similar degree offline, and the physical distance between you and your near-duplicates is too large for echo chambers to form, unless you make an intentional move to bring them together (e.g. sects moving to a certain location).
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UBI need to be high enough then.
This article is software centric.

Good luck getting VC in hardware without patents.
When talking about Python in 2020 i think most people imply you are running Mypy, which does a very good job at statically analyzing python almost to strongly typed language level. Plus, as others said, weak and dynamic are not same thing.
All that's special about it (and not that special) is that the president is there in person, there are lots of countries where comedians can roast the government all day long.
Mesmerising yt chan: vlad9vt, just pictures of artifacts and structures set to music https://youtu.be/EHFe10dp0L4
I think a major difference between most games and real problem solving at work is that the environment is massively simplified and a lot of wrinkles when dealing with the real world are ironed out. In most games you can just relax and not think too hard, I would say, and reap massive rewards, while in real life, rewards come in much more intangible forms after much harder struggling.

This could also explain why many would rather just play games than solve real-world problems when they come home from work. It requires a bit of discipline, desire and resolve I would say. But one should also realize that the rewards of actually going out to solve real-world problems and interact with real people are so much sweeter than the virtual rewards you earn in simplified and idealized games, in many aspects. I would also say that while many don't do it at home, there are still many people that do, and do an amazing job at it.
Just FYI this doesn't seem to work with MacOS's default Terminal app. I guess it doesn't support 256 colors or something.
I'd expect that UCSF is self-insuring.
No it’s not easy to realize. From a security perspective the idea is to always run the latest. Breaking backwards compatibility becomes a more difficult proposition. In reality you need to have an engineer test or analyze the updates. Some mature libraries maintain backwards compatibility (eg openssl) but if using something like npm it becomes almost impossible.
Quantum Game 2
I found a bunch of old cellphones, and the smaller form factor was really a delight (also the inherent sturdiness due to less complex design and less glass).

Good on them to try.

ps: also for the non young and average person, android is just a bit too deep
They used to be called "science journalists". I think the reason they disappeared may have something to do with the fact that we (largely) stopped forking over money for what they did.
> Free speech advocates

I hope you're one of those, too. Because otherwise HN wouldn't exist.
It blows my mind to think that shining a light on a black hole makes it grow.
My experience is that Chrome's JS dev tools are generally better (and faster) but CSS and the network inspector are better in FF.

The other day a junior teammate requested my help with something he couldn't understand: a file upload feature stopped working in his machine for no apparent reason.

It did not make any sense: the backend was receiving the file but somehow identifying it as zero-length (and hence rejecting it as an invalid file). Chrome said everything was just fine, with the network inspector showing the request but claiming it was CORS-blocked. When I tried copying the request (right-click -> copy -> as curl) and running that, the response was seemingly normal (and included the proper CORS directives).

After some time fiddling with this I decided to try with Firefox. First try, Firefox correctly displayed the request erroring with a "413 Request Entity too Large" code. This immediately prompted me to check nginx's configuration. Of course, the dev had updated his nginx container and it turned out the latest version only allows 1Mb max body size by default.

Tracing back our steps, I realized that for some fucked up reason Chrome was identifying the error properly, but not showing it in the inspector tools. Instead, it showed a made up request with an empty body payload (and that's what it copied for me to run/inspect through curl). I'm guessing it is not intentional that it works this way, but seriously: how hard is it to show the actual request the browser is making instead of a made-up one in the inspector tools? Why on earth would you show something different there?
This is also wrong and slightly English common law centric. A company name does not prevent someone to open a company in the same name in another state. In English common law, using a trade name gives you some protection, using a trademark gives you more protection. Trademarks are for classes. If you sell software under the name cherry cake, nobody is preventing someone to sell shoes or a car with this name since it is a different class.
> In 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested artifacts from France that could be used to adopt the metric system in the United States, and Joseph Dombey was sent from France with a standard kilogram. Before reaching the United States, Dombey's ship was blown off course by a storm and captured by pirates, and he died in captivity on Montserrat.

More seriously, blame the Reagan administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
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And if you don't see hyphenation in Chrome, probably you use Linux (or another unsupported platform). To feel how it should insert &shy;

var Hyphenopoly = {
require: {
"en-us": "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
},
setup: {
selectors: {
".story": {}
},
CORScredentials: "omit"
}
}
script = document.createElement('script')
script.src = 'https://unpkg.com/hyphenopoly@4.5.0/min/Hyphenopoly_Loader.js'
document.body.append(script)
That summary should be the first sentence of the story (or a subtitle). Instead of a "service" that rewrites badly written stories maybe we need journalists who can write.
I'd be interested if its battery wasn't so tiny.

Doubt it would last the entire work day on a single charge with casual usage (playing music, making some notes).

It feels like more of a companion than a phone replacement. I feel like it'd be just another gadget after a few days sitting in my drawer, never to be used again.
> the perfect seams of the joints in various Peruvian ruins

I remember the 1970s, when people concluded that the seams were so perfect they must have been done with alien technology.

Then an archaeologist showed how to make such a joint in about 30 minutes by banging a couple rocks together.
The first one was not great, the display specifically. Maybe that changed? I'd wait for a review on that.

That Android does not work well with a device that small should remains as an issue, but at least the gesture controls it has now could help a bit.
It’s because the media and polite company decided long ago that a lab release was a “conspiracy theory” and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Why this is the case is more mysterious. One plausible explanation from Bret Weinstein is that it makes the work of virologists look very dangerous; maybe even more dangerous then not studying viruses.
They were called "Chinese Gooseberries" in NZ before they were called "kiwifruit"
The Firefox tracking protection is blocking https://api.reddit.com classified as "may external ads, videos and other content with tracking code". Odd.
That's got more to do with the resurgence of Coronavirus cases than anything else.
Ian Morris has popularized using empirical evidence to compare historical civilizations [1]. Energy capture per capita is the dominant metric.

I’m not sure that speculating about civilizations older than 1 mya is anything but sensationalism.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_Civilization
I get those Forbidden Planet feelings often.
White Employees Are Heavily Over-Represented in Tech Leadership
I lived in the US for 20 years, it's home as much as NZ is.

It was their American marketing manager who changed the name
Useful Laws for Software Developers
Well, they weren't. But conspiracy theories are rarely about what things are or what happened and more about incredulity about what things aren't.
How about the diagnostic tool you can launch in Windows. It works away for 5 minutes then says it couldn't fix it.
This is more than offset by the lack of state income tax.
Alphabet Reportedly Buying North After ‘Minuscule’ Focals Smart Glasses Sales
It’s a complex subject. On the one hand you have someone normally healthy who contracts covid, tests positive, and goes in for breathing difficulties. On the other hand you have someone who has tested positive but gets in a car crash.

We used to pay people to take the raw facts and distil useful information. It was called journalism.

Clickbait and conspiracy pays more than actual journalism though.
I like it. Although I wouldn't use justified text for headlines. Makes it really difficult to read, at least for me.
It's weird that for a product whose main selling point is its size that you have to scroll way down the page to get a clear image that shows its scale relative to something recognizable, and even then it's not super clear.
The article does not seem to address, should one patent a method or algorithm that defines your product as a startup before launching the product?
Yeah most game engine physics systems tend to use semi-implicit Euler as it’s both extremely cheap and the results are good enough. Other integrators tend to be used in specific circumstances for example using velocity verlet for cloth sim.
That sounds interesting, do you have a link? But then again, how do you "bang" 20-50 ton rocks together?
Anyone who reads this, be aware, it's total nonsense. It's ridiculous fear mongering, "omg, if it's not from eating bats, it must be from a lab!!!".
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eBay’s Critics Faced an Extreme Case of an Old Silicon Valley Habit
I suspect that this is owed to the fact that the US is an empire, albeit not an explicit one where it's clear who is a province and who isn't.

I believe that people realize that American politics is much more important to their future than local politics, and that their countries will follow whatever way the US go, with some delay but little choice. The US political conflicts form the US, and that then forms it for everyone in the provinces.
Many. Clojure/Script applications tends to favor your own composition of libraries rather than a full-fledged framework. Golang is (at least used to) the same as well.
The jury is still out. A lot of these studies were re-assessed and found to be quite faulty - i.e. you cannot bang two rocks together and get a perfectly flat surface with <0.005mm deviation in flatness.

Also, there is a lot of unexplained melted rock all over Peru and Ecuador and so on. Somebody in the ancient world either had a light sabre, or .. it was aliens.
What the is the drawback of a Mediatek SoC?
Not 2013 as it references books published in 2018. This is an update to an older article. The first comment (dated 2013) cites a reference to "Javascript: The Good Parts," which isn't even mentioned in the article. I'm not sure how many times it has been updated, but the most recent update is five days ago, according to the date stamp at the top of the article.
Also, wtf is with your blatant misquote of even this biased article. It's 14 of the first 41 have no connection.
That's true, but we are actually reasonably good at identifying those causes, as the examples in the article show. For example the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum was also caused by a huge release of stored carbon, but over a 50,000 year period the per-year rate of release was tiny compared to our rate of output over the last few centuries. It is also associated with evidence of volcanism and geological uplift. Other causes would also leave other traces.

Nobody is saying that carbon release by itself just as a single undifferentiated data point proves anything. Of course there can be other explanations, those possible explanations are discussed in the paper. These criticisms are clearly well known to the authors, addressed in the paper and contextualised by the evidence. But it's only one dimension of evidence, and I don't think dismissing it is so easy or useful.
Yes. I can get a day and a half out of my XR easily with quite heavy usage. And the battery health is 90% after 18 months of ownership. Best phone I’ve ever had.
I'm a little disappointed the article didn't go into more detail.

For example, what signs could archaeologists in the far future find of our current civilization, and how far into the future?
Alt.wealey.crusher.die.die.die was an early example of cyberbullying. That group, and the people using the internet, used their power to really harm Wil Wheaton, and that was well before eternal September
Postmodernism: A Problem of the Left, or the Right?
Micronaut with Kotlin is much more productive than with Java. A must try
I know there's math that makes this seem real, but logical arguments make it sound silly.

Does the universe split every time the wave function collapses in any form, for all measurements of all atoms in the universe? Isn't that essentially infinite? And how would you prove it if any of this was real?
Seems plausible to me. I guess it would be pretty hard to maintain a TPD of about 200W for 80 3GHz ARM cores [1]. The bus traffic to synchronize 80 CPU caches can probably be significant.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15871/amperes-product-list-80...
Why do you think NumPy, SciPy, etc are so popular? Why don't people use C/C++/Fortran instead?

It's because LoC and readability and maintainability matters.

Teaching Linear Algebra using NumPy isn't equivalent to teaching people linear algebra + teaching people to optimize LoC. Flawed argument.
These 5 from 2020 all seem to be peer reviewed. I'm no expert though.

> (Zhou et al., 2020; Wrapp et al., 2020; Wan et al., 2020; Walls et al., 2020; Letko et al., 2020).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2012-7

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb2507

https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00127-20

https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.19.956581

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0688-y
The issue I see with that argument specifically is that the underlying system will always have people not in jobs.

From my reading, economists consider a 100% employment rate bad as it means there's no elasticity in the labour supply. If there's no elasticity in the labour supply, wages go up and the rich can't effectively extract surplus value. We will always have the unemployed, as it's a feature of the economic system we participate in.

If you want to fix the "problem" you need to abandon capitalism. I'm not sure anyone here wants to do that, myself included.
How does it compare to Spring or Micronaut?
> I know imperial was invented by the British, but it's largely just the US left using it

According to wikipedia, the US do not use the "Imperial System" but the "United States customary units" and they are not exactly equivalent, although they both derive from the "English units ".¹

Also, from the article: "The international foot is exactly 0.3048 of a meter". And it seems the international yard and pound are defined using the SI units as the reference.² (Edit: So by transitivity they also are defined using caesium-133 atom's radiation, light speed in vacuum and Planck constant.)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound
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It was clear to me and I consume exclusively western production. Your surprising revelation was not surprising to people who were interested in topic.
Is it just older people in the US who want to keep using customary units? Does the younger generation use metric and they'll switch over time?

I don't think I'd have the mental arithmetic required to calculate things in terms of sixteenths!
When looking at the website on mobile, the first two pictures compare it to a SIM card and a credit card, respectively
Gravitational waves reveal lightest black hole ever observed
Yeah, that's a bit glib. A lot of the joints and seams technology in Peruvian ruins is unexplainable - even with modern industrial processes, we would be very hard pressed to replicate the results of some of these structures. Like it'd be very, very hard to do it as well as the ancients did, even with our crazy construction technology...
I work for a company that provides BSS/OSS software to small ISPs in India. I'm so glad that the legal system in India is so weak that it is not possible for monopolies to enforce ownership of last mile infrastructure as smaller local players can just throw wires over buildings and give consumers the service at a low cost.

Our software is as cheap as 0.1 USD per user per month and has a large list of features and we're provisioning over a million connections all over India from villages to large cities like Mumbai.
Are you saying redis_mlc's comment is total nonsense, or the article is total nonsense, or both? Because redis_mlc's comment seems to agree with the article.
no (edit: yes, of course they own the rights to the name, otherwise they wouldn't be able to call it a Palm. As far as I know it's otherwise unrelated).
Thanks for that link! Seems to outline that there has been many attempts, some still ongoing, but not making a lot of progress.

Seems weird to fault all of these failed attempts to the Reagan administration, but I guess that's also an American thing to do, attribute issues to one group of people, not the one you're in, but "the other group".
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Both labs are corona labs. China's leading corona researchers work there full-time. The US paid those labs to upgrade their security because they were afraid of what they saw when visiting.

Those are all facts. Where is the fear-mongering?

Just because you don't know anything doesn't mean I don't.
That's actually the reality for a lot of Mesopotamian tablets, e.g "this cow was sold to the neighbor for 2 shekels of silver".
I thought it'd have been a joke, showing nothing, since we don't need smartphones, especially kids, minimalists and people doing exercises
Hmm, welcome from Unilever, the brand that promoted the "fair and lovely" creams in India and created a whole well-marketed industry of fair skin being better. In which itself promoted hatred of darker skinned people.
Same one. Should be like 3 years old, the original plan indeed was to make it work like an Apple Watch that share the number with your main phone.