skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ten years of the sun in one hour releases mesmerising space film
She says early in the copy text that she was in Antarctica in 2005. To me the article read like she was recounting her experiences and her return to civilisation as a mechanism to explore how others will come out of Covid lockdown, therefore the references to coronavirus did not seem out of place.
No other country has such laws. It's against even the basic magna carta principles.

I know about "victims" who lie about the accusitions in these cases, the local community knows that its a lie but people are still guilty until proven innocent.

I disagree with this, even though I faced such discrimination.

P.S That does not mean discrimination does not take place or that there are no genuine complaints.
Learn Data Structure and Algorithm in JavaScript – Part 02
Sorry for confusion, second marginal was mistake, I meant even marginal cost is zero, actual cost is not.

My main point is even marginal cost is zero, there is another cost ignored (saas service example)

If you are ok with to pay 0 when marginal cost is 0, you should be ok to pay X when marginal cost is X. Then this justifies for you to pay marginal cost only.

So if we move to physical world, I can say I paid for one iPhone, but if marginal cost of iPhone is half price, so If I bought one, I can steal one.
Wood can last a thousand of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years, in the ground under the right conditions (where it won't rot or mineralize into stone/petrified wood).
the libreoffice spreadsheet is very good. i think it's psychic sometimes, knowing what i want to do.
I definitely remember reading HN threads in January/early Feb about how we needed to take action immediately
I don't use vim, but this feature seems mostly useful for deleting things within marking characters, such as " and ', which I do surprisingly often. (But not often enough to learn a shortcut to do it)
The way I handle stuff like the ISIS example is to stop following the fear mongering sources and to simply scroll by those headlines.
Words banning is lot's of work when you don't have a centralised place to manage them and might lead me to misuse it.
Great article but I also really liked the website. Fast and simple but still aesthetically pleasing. It's got that charm of being hand written. Love it.
One of the benefits of a state is that it does not need to operate like a business. It can and should maintain these refuges and keep them stocked. Perishables get replaced and consumed in the valley. A state has the ability to stand above current whims.

At the very least, contingency plans don’t go stale.

The second aspect is us facing the pandemic. Playing it down, calling it a hoax, refusing to wear a mask. Stomping around with guns. Making it a partisan issue. War rhetoric. It’s utterly insane. A few calm generations in the flood valley don’t quite explain this.
entr is cross-platform and utilizes the best of the platforms it runs on.

Also, the docs are explaining the problems with inotify: http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Trolley Problem Discourse
I doubt 99% of casual listeners would recognize a VST in a song they like or even know what a VST is. I can kinda see where you're coming from, but I wouldn't go as far as to say the sound gets ruined (or even devalued) for those who paid, just because more users use a certain effect.
That's a disclaimer, someone may miss that 'some of us' part while reading and think I am saying that as an outsider.

You are the anti-brahmin hypocrite generalizing your experience with some of them to blame them. People like you are why there is still lot of SJW bullshit in India. A person with ½ of my competetive exam scores, and double the income easily gets a seat in NIT because reservation based on caste. The generalization that all upper caste people are oppressors and all lower caste people are oppressed is wrong.

You might have had some bad interactions in your life because of rampant discrimination, which are apparently there in many parts of India, and I feel sorry for you. But please don't generalize.

> Only a brahmin would point out that he is brahmin TWICE in his comment. We know that you are a brahmin and feel 'proud' of your caste.

Note that I also mentioned agriculturist community twice in the comment. Well I am proud (more appropriately grateful) that I grew in a remote rural area with only sufficient access to education and not much (there is some) politics like this.

Edit: I wrote 'ranking' but actually meant 'score'.
I suggest you to read a good book, maybe one that talk about something you personally like
Apple puts so much pressure on security, shouldn't it be possible to block ransomware somehow on the OS level, possibly on all platforms?

I mean not many apps need to modify millions of files on all drives including network drives and dongles... It should be fairly easy to spot, something like:

1. If xxx wants to modify more than 50 files in 24 hours go to 2.

2. If some of the files were modified more than a week ago or if the files are in directories across multiple drives go to 3.

3. If some of the files are images/documents it's a no go, prompt user to accept and list the affected files.

I'd love something like this for my Synology, it's connected to my Macbook as a network drive and I store my backups there, if anything modifies these files without my knowledge I'm doomed. I need to access some of my backups on daily basis so it's kinda hard to disconnect te drive all the time :/
Bundling needs to die. Let the channels sink or swim like every other consumer product. This "logic" is just industry PR that's been accepted and normalized.
It seems to me that the way to solve the encryption ransomware problem is to impose an immutable file system at the OS level + undo for X time and to ask for permission to write files outside a regular folder, just like microphone or screen share access.
More like it's not concrete engineers job to find concrete mix that fits every possible usage case.
Wouldn't that be a slow process?
The syntax criticism is a red herring in my opinion.

At least speaking personally from my opinion I see a lot of people claiming that lisp simple syntax and homoiconicity make it a simple language and in my opinion this misses completely the point of simplicity in a language.

I am not claiming that lisp is complex, just that that argument is faulty.
It is by no means "libertarian" if the current government has strengthened public food distribution systems and other policies like MNREGA.

That is not what libertarian means.
Only Test Through Public Interfaces
That is a POSIX standard and not something specific to zsh
"Greece" is called "Hellas" by Greeks themselves - and nobody cares. A name doesn't have to be the same as that used by the natives, as the point of the name is not to be accurate to what natives call it, but to provide a commonly understood reference.

In English names for places and things are quite often different to what it is called in other languages - that's fine. There's no central authority that mandates what syllables should be used to refer to things.
Considering the population to the time of great plagues, this one is pretty harmless in comparison and I don't think the reaction was particularly bad. I hope the long term effects aren't as pronounced as feared. The economic damage will be significant and we will see that in a few weeks probably.
> He would hold a spoon in his hand and rest it above a plate

I do a variation of that too. And my plate has cereal in it ... The moment I wake up I go: "oh hello, what's that ... breakfast!" - and instantly I'm in a good mood. It's like a form of meditation I call "bowlfullness"
Tactical nihilism

Great word, I have to write that down.
I can't talk about that specifically but something has changed at DuckDuckGo in the last 24 hours or so. That is DuckDuckGo has stopped working properly on browsers where JavaScript has been blocked (but it's still OK if JS is running).

Moreover, browsers such as PaleMoon without WebRTC seem to be more affected than others. What happens is that the homepage loads but the queries are no longer answered (properly submitted).

I'd add that I've had to switch to Startpage.com in the interim until I figured out what has happened (it works on all browsers without JS just as DuckDuckGo did a day or so ago).
Entrepreneurship runs deep in the Chearavanont family
I'm thinking that a project that starts out with 3 BDFLs (like yours, @albertzeyer) and works fine & builds sth people "love" — it'll continue working fine with those 3 BDFLs.

And a project that starts with just 1 BDFL, and works fine & builds sth people "love", it'll continue working fine with that 1 BDFL.

If, however, replacing one of those 3, or adding another BDLF to a one person project — I'd think that by default, that won't work.

... Unless the new person has worked next to the earlier BDFLs for years, so the previous BDFLs can be ok certain s/he is "the right one"?

Whatever works fine, works fine — the risky thing, is introducing a change (a new person)?
Write down & summarise everything you read. It doesn't have to be thorough and you don't even have to read it again, but somehow putting it down in words clears up any unknown confusions for me.
> Even in the much cleaner world of mathematics, basically all interesting work is done within the realm of formally provable statements.

More-or-less this. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to drop one of my favourite quotes, because I can't help it:

"The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles."

-- Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence
> Worse, the installer package was pointlessly distributed inside a disk image file.

Pirate torrent tracker forum rules often demand every single Mac app uploaded must be encapsulated in a DMG disk image file.
Writing a nice description will help but only slightly. It was written here the other day: GitLab used to receive 15,000 resumes per month. I think their job descriptions are pretty good and precise. People use scripts to apply to hundreds of jobs blindly.

"How to Apply to All Jobs on AngelList (Script)"

https://alejandrorioja.com/how-to-apply-to-a-lot-of-jobs-on-...
Who Needs an Architect? (2003) [pdf]
Published in: IEEE Software (Volume:20,Issue:5,Sept.-Oct.2003)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1231144
I have seen some Indians when they are peeing they will first pull the thread over their ears and then pee, after they wash their hands they will put back the thread under their shirt.
Brilliant example.

At the core, in a capitalist society, a company with no capital 'wasted' on distaster planning will out compete a company that has invested capital in disaster planning in the short term

And "short term" can mean quote long periods of time in practise. As a result we end up with this incredibly fragile system and society.
It'll probably come down to America's ad-hoc ASEAN+Ausie+UK alliance. Lord knows the EU won't be growing a spine anytime soon with Merkel trying to explain to everyone that the goal was to avoid becoming nazis not to avoid doing business with them.
It is related.

You can't easily run your own mail server because the hurdles you have to overcome to not land in gmails (outlook, etc.) spam folder - or even get delivered at all. DKIM, SPOF, a good IP range.

Then your server itself will be exposed to spam and might make it a lot less fun to use.

The big ones are not playing nice with smaller ones because of spam.
It's weird just how entitled people who want to send email are.
Viruses & malware is the price of software piracy. If you don't have money to pay for the soft, you need to be ready to be infected with all possible consequences. It was obvious decades ago when piracy become a business. I understood piracy 10-15 years ago when price of the soft was too high for Russia comparing to US. Right now most everything is subscription based and you pay only if you get enough from it, and usually regional prices are pretty sane.
> One unfortunate side effect of the pandemic is that my trust in the CDC went from absolute to non-existent.

Why is that effect unfortunate?
> why would you witness such extreme casteism?

Ok that wasn't much clear. Things like untouchability or fights between castes aren't there. And while in-caste marriage etc.. are a thing, that's not exactly discrimination thing. Eg: there are multiple sub groups in Brahmins based on origin and while they don't have 'lower' 'higher', the marriages are preferred to be within that sub groups because each of them have distinct cultures, language dialects etc..
Sure, but I'm not sure how much progress you're going to make in the 2-3 hours one would spend on a speculative take-home task (they've stated there is no guaranteed interview).

You're going to be judged on how well the end product works, so if we start with the following tasks, and you have 180 minutes.

1. 20 minutes: their stack's boilerplate/tooling

2. 10 minutes: unit testing boilerplate

3. 20 minutes: integrated testing boilerplate (browser automation is a fickle beast)

4. 20 minutes: basic database entity + database setup

5. 20 minutes: basic UI page + frontend setup

6. 20 minutes: replace default styling (their guide talks about UI "polish")

That's 110 minutes and nothing more than a pretty display from the database.

The task will almost certainly ask for more than one user action. I might be able to write an action in 20 minutes, but there is no way I can write good tests, seed test data for integrated testing, and keep each commit atomic and green.

So, do you choose to have a tidy commit history and complete test coverage, or do you choose to complete the task?
As someone who was born a lower caste hindu, I don't really mind the british caste system at all. Because the british caste system is fluid. If you are born to servant parents and study hard to become a doctor, you end up at the top of the caste system. Not in Hinduism. Even if you become a doctor, but were born a dalit(lowest caste), you will remain a dalit and so will your future generations. There is no escape from the inhuman hindu caste system.
Nowadays Vim isn't just Vim the text editor but rather a specification for text manipulation. All of the popular IDEs have Vim plugins and the benefits of learning both are perfectly additive.
Hindu upper caste are unnecessarily oppressed. the victim is not named. Let us consider this fair. Assume that the lawsuit is frivolous, then how is it fair to name the accused. Here accused would be the victim. California has not acted fairly.
I agree with everyone here that maths is the frontier of abstraction but here's my two cents: delving into a humanities or social studies discipline you are interested in. I'm a self taught programmer and studied a history major. I was pretty good at history and got to learn a lot in there, but the most important skill I learned there was to manage abstract thoughts and complexity through reading and writing history essays.

I can really see a difference here with my peers in the sense that it takes them a lot more to understand each other's lines of reasoning both in verbal and written speech, and it takes them a bit more to string together complex ideas when they are too far away from what they were taught (this last bit even affects the way
code is written).

I guess any discipline that cares for truthfulness or sound reasoning is useful for this. The most important thing is you enjoy studying it and it conveys complex thoughts. Some other areas besides maths and history I can think of are philosophy, political science, economy and even architecture.

Of course this is N=1, so I'd take this with a grain of salt.
Okay I'll take a stab at the TL;DR: The author posits that great startup ideas are like Godel's unprovable, but true statements. These startup ideas cannot be valued using the experience one has with valuing existing successful companies. They tend to look like bad ideas in any valuation, but are in fact good ones. The search for such a startup ideas also cannot be formalised into a procedure (like say 4 Four steps to epiphany, or the Lean startup) Finally, author posits that the space of great startup ideas is infinite, even as the technology landscape grows ever more complex. There is no end to innovation. Godel's theorem in this article is used as a metaphor, and no more.
Having worked with so many people from the Sub Continent - as many of us have - I find it really, really odd out none of this seems to escape the bubble. It's like the rest of us are very unaware of this deeply 'specific' and pervasive issue.

In some ways, it's our ignorance, in other ways, it's really quite mysterious.
I've another explanation:

different groups of people flags those for different reasons.

- some flag them because they want to keep all politics out of HN

- some just don't like people arguing

- some flag them because of that guy who invariably will bring out JD as an example that sexism goes the other way too (or to say that it mostly goes the other way even)

- some flag them because from their point of view it looks like women have an easier life in IT in men. (This is not generally correct, but to someone who realizes that there are serious KPIs, bonuses and pats on the back to be had for recruiting women in certain companies it might easily look that way. The flip side being they are often treated like decoration instead of like engineers.)

There are some really big issues to tackle in this space but so many people are so busy accusing the other side while simultaneously shutting their ears that I too will soon start flagging them. I'll also admit to having been part of this problem (the shouting part of it before.)

- someone who was always well liked with everyone but is slowly admitting that the other side had some valid points as well.
Ah, that. Thanks, I corrected the use of "libertarian" to "liberal" in my GP comment. I am sure that is not perfect either, but should be good enough to answer the original question ... "left" in India is more about economics than liberty.
Is that supposed to make someone angry? Because this seems like an okay solution to make back investments and still allow cheaper access for poorer nations.

Still if they can't keep up with demand and there are many lifes at stake, we should probably legislate a compensated invalidation of such a patent.
tl;dr I would not use that link as evidence to say risk compensation is debunked.

Interesting, I'd certainly say it applies to me - I dive more in volleyball if I have my kneepads; I tackle harder in football when wearing shin-guards, the moreso with ankle protection; drive far more cautiously on a motorbike than in the metal, crumpled-zoned protection of a car; etc. ...

That tweet leads to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136984781... "Bicycle helmets and risky behaviour: A systematic review" which concludes:

>"Although two out of the 23 studies were supportive of risk compensation, ten other studies found helmet wearing was associated with safer cycling behaviour." //

So, risk averse people wear helmets.

Some of the support in the review comes from results like helmet wearers obeying traffic laws: the issue seems much more nuanced and complicated than that.

FWIW, risk compensation doesn't require that the entire risk is negated (or even over-compensated) so statistics on accident occurrence and severity alone - for example - would not be sufficient to prove if the effect is real: take my car driving, no matter how much I exhibit riskier driving in a car - short of being a lunatic - it's not going to make it more dangerous than motorbike riding because of all the other people on the road.

[This post relies on part on past activities and experiences!]
I'm working on this http://github.com/manugill/eye. Not anywhere near ready for testing yet though, I'm aiming for end of this year for v0.1.
For over 2 millenia dalits were not even allowed to enter schools or gain education. Ambedkar was famously the only dalit student in his school.

If dalits and other lower castes were not allowed to enter schools for more than a thousand years , then doesn't that mean that brahmins and other upper castes had 100% reservation in education for more than a thousand years? Why complain about reservation now when it was you guys who started it?
> India has 1bn+ people, you can't generalize this.

Have you seen the matrimonial ads in India?

Why am I getting a feeling that you are a Brahmin and you are not happy that people from lower castes have their own quotas in govt jobs/education.
> How often do you really do things like this though?

All the time. Some examples:

* ct, : "change up to comma", useful for replacing a function argument.

* ya" : "yank around '"'", copy the string literal the cursor is currently inside.

* ci( : "change inside '('", useful for changing the condition in an "if" statement.

* da{ : "delete (i.e. cut) '{'-delimited block", useful when changing the structure of if/else blocks.

I agree that these commands may sound obscure, and many Vim users use the program for a long time without using them (I certainly did). But when you start using them, you find that these composable editing commands correspond really well to many of the logical editing actions you perform.
No, I get it, I also find a lot of people who put links in to say "see, this is the definitive proof", I am not one of them; I've only put the paper into the response simply to add a bit more context to the other person's claim (since it was devoid of any form of links or reading material to back up his/her claim). I won't really believe that the study is true until there are more studies done on top of it and been peer reviewed (heck, peer reviewers can even be political!).
Sneak peak at zecos – React form builder hope you guys like it
The job of Progressor[1] in the Strugatsky Brothers' Noon Universe undergoes a shift over the course of the series. In the initial stories pretty heavy intervention is seen as beneficial. By the final stories, even light intervention has its ambiguities.

(anyone else see a parallel between Надежда from Жук в муравейнике and reactions to coronavirus measures?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe#Description
I would suggest to hire no-code developers. Most of them are people who are non-technical, but are well versed in creating online technical tools via no-code tools, which can be handed over to you in a way that you can manage and scale it by yourself in future, without the need to have any technical knowledge, except what's the workflow of your product.
Sometimes astrologists make me smile

Nothing makes astronomers smile more than being called astrologists.
> larger problem

For a scientist doing a ML system to reconstruct pixelated faces, trained with white faces, why is he/she responsible for "insert larger problem" outside of her/his field?

Do he/she has to also care about the brutal Tantalum Wars because there are some in the electronics they use?

As far as I can see, ML is pretty new, and there is a lot of room for improvement. And I think people need to stop thinking the entire world is racist, or doesn't care or don't want to improve things. Changes take time, and won't happen today, or tomorrow or the next decade.

There is a constant, furious need to point fingers, followed by fear of telling or not telling just the right words on the right order to the right audience. This is not how we are going to solve anything.
California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on employee's caste