skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the Atlantic, and recently the BBC, want us to worry about some fringe group who've collectively done nothing (good or bad)"

Not quite.

"On May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California, were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city demonstrators marched peacefully to protest the killing of George Floyd. One of the guards, David Patrick Underwood, died as a result of the attack, and the other was wounded. For days, conservative news broadcasters pinned the blame on “antifa,” the loosely affiliated group of anti-fascist anarchists known to attack property and far-right demonstrators at protests. But the alleged culprit, apprehended a week later, turned out to be a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant named Steven Carrillo, the head of a squadron called the Phoenix Ravens, which guards military installations from terrorist attacks.

"According to prosecutors, Carrillo and an accomplice, 30-year-old Robert A. Justus Jr., were part of the “boogaloo” movement, a patchwork of right-leaning anti-government libertarians, Second Amendment advocates, and gun enthusiasts all preparing for another American civil war."[1]

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/ameri...
Actually, gemini://gus.guru is a great search engine in gemini. And there's another one, gemini://houston.coder.town.
The choice of the Windows 9x “My Computer” iconography for the sites is nice and appropriate, but there’s one thing missing. It just feels like they should require a double-click to launch!
Clapham is not remote at all, however, B4rn does serve more remote areas and farms. Also the network started in a village called Arkholme and the HQ based in Melling.
Could it be Ext.js? https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/7.2.0/examples/classic/des...
This title is entirely nonsensical.
COVID-19: Excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries
The four noble truths of Bhuddism:

All of life is sorrow.

Escape from sorrow exists.

Escape from sorrow is attainable.

Escape from sorrow is nirvana.
Given your previous comments, this looks like trolling. Please stop posting like this to HN.
> Sure, the Conspiracy program is cruel and demeaning, the cage is cramped and ugly and smells bad, but you can't get out and if you did get out you'd just want right back in again because the thing that is making the situation intolerable isn't in the situation, it's in your head.

NENSLO "hateword" http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/rants/X0022_Nenslo_...

FWIW, we have simple, easy solutions to all our physical problems. (Ask me about "aircrete".)
Researchers simulate a quadruped robot crossing a balance beam
is this done in webassembly?
It's almost always cheaper to overbuild renewables than to use seasonal storage. Seasonal storage is used once a year, so if you can store a Kwh of energy for $1 it still increases the cost of the stored electricity by 4-5 cents per Kwh. Let's look at a 1 Kw average output. Assume that you have 6 Kw of solar, along with 18 Kwh of batteries. This will work fine 7-8 months out of the year, but will not be sufficient for winter, so you will need seasonal storage. About 2000 Kwh should be sufficient to make up for the deficit. Alternatively, how much solar would you need to avoid seasonal storage? About 10-12 Kw would probably work. That would mean an additional $3,200 to $4,800 in capital costs, assuming 80 cents per watt of solar. In order for seasonal storage to compete it would need to cost less than about $2 per KWh. For hydrogen this would equate to about $40 per kg. That's on the low end of estimates I've seen for underground hydrogen storage, and doesn't even take into account the cost of generating the hydrogen. It also doesn't take into account revenue generated from selling excess electricity in summer. Even if you sold excess electricity for only 1 cent per Kwh you could still offset about half the cost of the extra solar capacity.

I think many people see excess capacity as a form of waste to be reduced, but it's like thinking that gigabit fiber is a waste because it's not used to it's full capacity. The value of oversupply is that it's always available when you need it. The fact that new industries can spawn from the super cheap rates for excess electricity or data is just a bonus.
Good idea, I was trying to use existing Twitter designs as much as possible but agree emphasis is lost. See the top image in the Follow-ups section where the mistake is represented atop the tweet for something more along what you're thinking.
I’ve been trying to have more 1-1 conversations with friends these days about some of the more controversial topics in the news when it comes up, basically an IRL version of a DM, and it’s been interesting to see how people’s opinions align against the Twitter opinion spectrum. About half have been much more moderate than anything I’ve seen online, but the other half actually do align with the more radical and loud voices shouting about whatever it is that’s trending on Twitter at that moment. I always thought that Twitter wasn’t really representative of what most people thought/believed but now I’m not so sure. Of course this is just based on personal anecdotes. And to be fair, all of the 1-1 conversations I’ve had have been productive and each time I’ve been able to walk away with some ideas that I haven’t had before.
Most of my team will be affected by this. We are considering changing location of our offices among other options. So, even though I and a few others are americans,Trump's insanity on this will affect us directly.

It's not like there are American workers lined up to do the job h1b workers do. America will lose the demand for skilled labor permanently with this along with a largr chunk of what little supporting skilled workforce exists.

I will be honest with you, I like living in america with all it's problems.

Do you guys suggest a better country for relocation? Canada is all I can think of but it's so cold!

I fully support giving h1b holders a green card once trump is gone.
NYC made masks law on April 15. Germany somewhere around a week later.

> I don't see how there's harm in the policy when it could mean literally saving millions of lives.

there is no harm. I wear my. Even though all the facts and math shows that it doesn't make any noticeable difference at this point.

>At best, your assumptions still means we need to accept just under a million deaths

accept or no accept, covid doesn't care. Anyway, we have already "accepted" it by letting it develop into the current scale. I think original Fauci deaths estimates - up to 250K - made under obvious political pressure to voice lower numbers than he'd do otherwise - is pretty close. From the current 20M+ we'd get 3-4x with death rate falling, thus we'd get into 250K-500K range. I don't see how masks or lockdowns, which haven't been able to stop us from the 10000x jump - tens/hundreds cases into tens of millions - are going to stop us from the 3-4x or even 10x (if the 10x were possible in the current situation which it isn't because the herd immunity threshold looks to be significantly lower)
It certainly won't work for all cases of conflict, but don't you think it would work for some? The goal was not a complete solution but a step towards changing community norms.
He released the UI library for it: https://github.com/AshKyd/ui95
What reforms do you advocate? Is there model legislation?

I've worked and lived along side immigrants my entire life. From what little I know, it's just nutty. (My childhood church helped refugees get resettled and established. Working in tech, a huge fraction of my coworkers were born elsewhere.)

While I'm very pro immigration, maybe even open borders, I understand it'd have to be thought out. But I have no idea what a better system would look like, what to fight for.
$25k USD monthly, is $300k a year.

Not bad, if it keeps running on autopilot for a few years.

Say, you can keep it running for 3 years. This is close to $1 million USD gross. This could easily pay your cost of living, while you work on the next product. But you must also factor in taxes.

But this is HN, so of course all this is obvious.

To quote the adjacent comment: “No sh*t Sherlock”
If it makes you feel any better, I'm from the US and the unit is kinda meaningless. It's not like I can visualize 42" (without converting to feet first), and because it's the diagonal length it makes it basically impossible to visualize - I have to have seen it to know anyway.
The constitution is the document that defines the existence of the United States and all of the rights, freedoms, and protections it provides and aspires to provide. It’s not perfect, but it is a heck of a lot better than blind adherence to the flag and whoever waves it.

Seeing as the constitution defines the United States, I think you get a lot closer to the truth when reflecting on it than you do when worshiping the flag or the military or whatever else it is that July 4th is supposed to be about.

It is also important to remember that the constitution is a living document, meant to grow and evolve over time. If there are problems - and there are - it is up to us to change it.
I don't think it's an original idea. I use Screely [1] for these purposes.

The Web Archive seems to imply that BrowserFrame is about a year older than Screely, though.

[1] https://www.screely.com/
The Pandemic’s Big Mystery: How Deadly Is the Coronavirus?
Abstinence only is an interesting meme. It's successful as a meme precisely because the advice does not work.
I find it really easy actually.

2 lines in a config file. Create key (one command). Put server pubkey on client.. Put client pubkey on server. Restart both. Done. The network handles distribution of other clients' pubkeys in case they need to mesh.

And it does this really well: I used to travel a lot in my last job. I'd stream movies from my server, and the first few secs it was stopping/starting and suddenly it would go smoothly. Eventually I became curious and did a wireshark. Guess what, it saw the high traffic and meshed both clients together even though they were both behind NAT! Really nice.

Edit: Oh yeah you also have the ifup/ifdown files but they're always exactly the same except the IP. Really I don't find it hard at all.

Having said all that I was looking at Zerotier, especially because the firewall rules you can set per tag. That's really nice. With tinc you have to handle that on each client. But I don't really like that the VL1 planet is always run by a third party. You can run your own Network Controller at VL2 level but not your own VL1 planet if I understand it correctly. I know, it can't do anything with that, but I just prefer having no dependencies on anyone.

Nevertheless I will give it a try.. I don't see it being as simple as tinc, config-wise though! It is more powerful but that also makes it more complex.
The Deleted Clause of the Declaration of Independence
Reminds me of an app I saw in the late 90's developed with Delphi. I never used Delphi, but apparently it had the ability to compile an app to an ActiveX plug-in and run a full desktop-like application in Internet Explorer. Of course, ActiveX had major security problems, but the UX was amazing.
A game theorist has emerged! :)

I loved that movie.
I'm not sure how - the misile strike happened before the passenger plane was shot down. You can't hide the timing after the event happened.
I'm curious to know how the integration with WhatsApp works? Is their business API now publically available?
The parent said "advanced mathematical notation," while in reality this is at most "mathematical notation," and at least "101-level notation."
> If people are concerned about it

Until more is learned about covid-19 people should be concerned. Where the disease is out of control, hospitals are filling up and many people in need of health care are suffering as a result.

BTW, at least in Canada, the number of deaths due to covid-19 has been concentrated most in long-term care homes. These are also places where deaths due to pneumonia and flu are common. We're learning now that the quality of care in these homes has been insufficient to deal with covid-19. All of the measures that are now in the works to improve the quality of care in those homes should have the side-effect of reducing deaths from other infectious diseases in the future.
Good old days
Pani Puri ATM Machine
Is this taking into account possible reinfection and mutation rates? There's a lot about the virus we don't know.
Thanks for that.

It does seem to be more liberal than the US. I suspect that the vast majority of offenders in either nation spend less than 4 years in jail, so that's not a bad thing.

I wonder if offenses committed before the rehab period is over are added to previous periods, or if the "clock is reset."

In the US, we also have the "3-time loser" sentencing in many states, which can make a third conviction into a life sentence.
Get multi-million dollar website redesign like I did for HTTPS://Gumroad.com
Ok, we've moved it closer in the title above.
I would say, unhealthy food must be taxed, so that healthy stuff is the cheaper choice too.
The nice thing about this proposal is precisely how it replaces the problematic "apology" dynamic with a neutral retraction. Apologies may or may not be rejected as insincere, but a retraction is simply a factual statement that the user no longer stands behind what they wrote, while preserving the content itself (unlike tweet deletion, which in practice tends to escalate reposts) for the sake of transparency.
"Kabuga’s trial, in contrast, promises to restore a modicum of accountability"

I hope so. A trial before the IRMCT would renew my hope in such institutions, even as the US plainly attacks the ICC with Trump's recent executive order (13928). For those interested in reading more: https://www.justsecurity.org/tag/executive-order-13928/.
I read this as "there is a public struct named Stream that takes one lifetime parameter and two type parameters. There are two members, a seed, and a next closure that takes a seed, and returns some iterator which gives a new seed and a value."

That doesn't fully describe all of it, and there's some inferences there, but that's how I hear it in my head. Some of it is experience, and some of it is context, too. Especially that "an iterator" part. I'd expect to see Iterator when talking about iterators, but the 'shape' for a lack of a better word looks like one to me.

Rust's syntax is pretty regular and modular. After some practice, the bits start to fit together, and the way to tackle more complex signatures is the same as how you tackle complex code: break it up into smaller bits, and then assemble your understanding of the bits.
This isn't exclusive to the Pigeon-hole Principle, either. Many named conjectures are pointlessly used, just because they're named, even when it makes the proof longer.

This isn't just exclusive to mathematics. It's similar to the reason people bring in single-line Node.JS packages; a fear of re-inventing the wheel when they don't actually need a wheel in the first place, or when the wheel is trivial to re-state in a more natural form for the proof / program.
I tried to make my personal website[1] look like an old PalmPilot --- but the look didn't completely translate, especially on the desktop. Alas.

[1] https://gowder.io
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/std/box.htm...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-02-traits.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-02-trait-objects.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/trait/dyn.h...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47640550/what-is-a-in-ru...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-00-generics.html
> I’m so proud of what we have built here.

> If life is a video game, and there’s 100 levels to it, I feel like we have finally crossed level 1.

Nice. Congrats. Most people don’t even get to Level 1.

It is really difficult to get from Level 0 to Level 1. Most people will try, and they will fail.

And now for you, it’s much easier to get to Level 2, then Level 3, then.. Level 100.

While everyone else will still be stuck on Level 0.

But, realize that Level 0 is wide, and you can still succeed in life on Level 0. By this scale, most people are on Level 0.5 to 0.9, or something of that nature.
Social Media is increasingly becoming a major source of power for political movements and political organization.

Both Obama and Trump campaigns were signified by a major online, social-media presence. I'd expect that many future Presidents will be determined by their command of Social Media.

Social Media is the new television, the new Radio. Its the new media that is most significantly consumed by the population.

By "not playing", you resign your power to others who take advantage of this new form of media.
Just wait for Starship. It promises all that, and the possibility of an eight-meter aperture.
> not that they had sophisticated cultures with history and ideas

The trouble is the lack of writing. Even when there is writing, there was mass illiteracy, people may not have written much, and what books and accounts that were written were lost.

This is true for about all civilizations up until the printing press. Consider how little we know about the Vikings, Arthurian England, etc.
Stream is a struct (a type with named fields). It has three parameters, the lifetime s, the type S and the type A. S must satisfy the Seed trait, and A must satisfy the Copy trait. Stream has two fields, next and seed. The type of next is a Box (basically an owned pointer into the heap) of a type that implements the Fn(S) -> Step<S, A> interface (that is, it can be called with an S as the single argument and produces something of the type Step parametrized with S and A) and does not outlive the s lifetime. The field seed is of the type S.

This chapter of the book is probably a good start:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-00-generics.html
> I've found it to be incredibly reliable and low overhead.

(I'm a bit confused which of tinc and zerotier in the parent post you're referring to....)

By "it", you mean tinc, correct?
Well, one thing's for sure - the USA will reach herd immunity more quickly than the rest of the world at the current rate.

The thing that bugs me about covid-19 is how we only try to optimize for reducing deaths of that one thing (covid-19), while letting other types of collateral damage resulting from said optimizations pile up unaccounted for as side effects. Experts are clearly very bad at predicting second and third order side effects resulting from covid-19 death reduction optimization.

To use a computer analogy, it's like going to extreme measures to refactor all programs so that Covid19Exception kills as few processes as possible, meanwhile processes left and right are dying at elevated rates due to HeartExceptions and BrainExceptions (and in a few months CancerExceptions) and the OOM Killer is on the prowl but nobody is noticing because they are hyperfocused on Covid19Exceptions.
The problem isn't just the people but the fact that social media platforms encourage outrage because it's how they make money. We can't fix "cancel culture" as long as it benefits the social media companies.
25 K/month x 2 years x(1/2 partners) = 150k

150k * 0.66 (extremely optimistic gross to net-income factor) = 100K

You and me have different notions of "set for life"

EDIT: I fudged a factor of 2 in the math, the final number is 200k, my point still stands.
We usually use fractions, but sometimes we're forced to use decimals, usually when related to computers, since the usual fractions don't translate well to decimal.
NASA Sunset Simulator: What they might look like on other worlds
Hancock does suggest a few cranky ideas, not all his own.

But he is quite, and unusually, careful to distinguish facts from speculation. Reading Graham, you always know which is which. You can safely read Hancock and quote out facts from it, even where you disagree with his conclusions, with no danger of propagating falsehoods.

There really are hundreds of miles of tunnels carved into the rock under eastern Turkish towns. The monuments really are 11,000 years old. The designs on them might represent constellations, and if they do, might be the ones he picked. (My guess is yes on one, no on two.)

The evidence for when the Sphinx and Giza pyramids were built really is a lot shakier than your tour guide will say. All we have reliable evidence for is that they are at least that old. Surface luminescence testing, what little has been done, puts bits of them 5000 years old, but not precisely enough to rule out the current guess of 4500 years.

We also don't have any idea when the Giza pyramids were started. It would be possible to test surface luminescence of an interior stone, but nobody has. Cheops expanding an existing monument is equally as plausible as his building it from scratch.

The Irish were building huge, astronomically oriented monuments at around the time the Egyptians may have done theirs. The Irish actually interred people in theirs, where nobody has found any hint that the Egyptians ever put a mummy in their own. (But there could be mummies anywhere under all that rock.)

The entire lack of wall decoration in the pyramids does point to the idea that dimensional clues were the point, considering how distinctive so many of such details turn out to be.

Meanwhile, the ancestors of Mayans were mining ochre at industrial scale deep underground at the same time as the Turks built their monuments, right at the end of the Younger Dryas cold spell 11,000 years ago. 2000 years later they were harvesting teosinte, ancestor to maize (Americans say "corn").

It is really true that huge swaths of what was coastal lowlands are now deep underwater, and if there were any cities or proto-cities there, they are there still, waiting to be found. It is true that anybody who lived there was obliged to move and, having moved, would bring along what they had developed, and have plenty of stories that would naturally have become legends of being flooded out.

It is really true that there is extensive stonework deep underwater off India, not far from the Harappan cities we know about, that fishermen snag their nets on.

It is really true that there is a thin layer of soot at many places all across North America, deposited at about the end of the Younger Dryas cold spell, suggesting a cataclysm of at least continental proportions.

You can guess what all these things mean, as Hancock does, but his guesses don't taint the facts. If you have better ideas, you are equally free to publish them, or not to.
by replacing a cable instead of taking apart your iphone and soldering the chip in the phone when an electrical spike comes through from your open contact getting water on it. but you're asking about throughput. the reason active cables exist is because the amount of interference in a cable varies - that little sheath of tin foil in a lightning cable does almost nothing. you need an axial cable for that - which is what ethernet uses for passive direct connection. it's as thick as the coax cable for your tv antenna. your idea I guess is to plug in that thick non-bendable cable into your phone? or is it to put that chip into every usb-A power source in the world? or is it to only use approved apple usb power supplies - instead of the millions of plugs out there at airports, hotels, laptops, existing ac/dc converters from hundreds of vendors? so which of these is your plan instead of the chip in the cable?

I know, I know, usb cables don't need a chip inside, why does lightning. because usb cables are a useless random mess. lightning cables are not - they run at the guaranteed speed, they charge at the guaranteed watts, and they have no issues with shorts despite having contacts exposed and reversible, unlike usb. and usb-C? well, there are active cables available for that, which tackle the issues described with a chip in the cable. just like lightning does.