skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving away from race a bit and totally anecdotally, but my wife was looking at my screen once while I was using the command line and she remarked how it seemed like all the commands were chosen by men: kill, terminate, spawn, mount, push etc. It may be subtle but words matter and they do attract or repel people. And then we complain why there are too few women in tech. Inclusion is not just about race.
A bit late on this. But from my experience, if the onboarding is pushed onto the user, not everyone is going to do it, there might be some errors, etc... I was just thinking if there was some way you could automatically get their info without requesting it from each person.
I think you could make an argument for the cost-effectiveness of transit and walkability compared to car culture. It lowers the base economic hurdle to be productive in society and is more environmentally friendly to boot.

I think it's fine to enjoy public roads and driving a car as a personal activity, but I think it gets too much public funding as "the default" in North America. I'd rather my tax dollars go to a train line than a highway lane.
What makes you the arbiter of it?
This is not going to be common. I have a lot of large commercial real estate clients, and they all see malls becoming distribution centers.

In the US, most malls are not in high-density, expensive areas. It's much more expensive to build 100 condos out of a mall than to just build condos. Where do you even get windows for most of the stores? A lot of space in a mall is away from anywhere that natural light can enter.

As distribution centers though, you have giant spaces, large bays for trucks to enter, and last-mile access to suburban customers.

Retailers expect to want the space, they just expect they'll want it for distribution of online sales instead of in-person sales.
> It's also confusing because many Linux systems are set up by default to launch vim whenever another application requests an editor, even if the user uses something they are more comfortable with otherwise.

export EDITOR=/my/fancy/editor
Everyone assumes that is the case yes. That doesn't make the title factually incorrect, though.
I'm actually not sure that is the case. What we are seeing in these ancient civilizations is only the portion that has survived. A great deal, most of it, has not survived at all. When you look at places like Macchi Picchu, it wasn't a city that regular people lived in. It was built as more of a palace or estate for the king.

If our civilization mostly disappeared, then things like large stone buildings, metal and stone statues would survive just the same and all of our disposable junk will have mostly disappeared leaving that skeleton of steel and stone.

I suspect we would even leave quite a bit more than civilizations past considering all of our roads, bridges, dams, and other enormous concrete and steel structures that we have created.
Works great if there’s a pressing need for office space. Many places with dying malls have plenty of abandoned retail real estate and not much in the way of new or growing office real estate needs.
Where are you getting that number from? Is it just your gut?
I agree, and I'm not sure why people are replying to you trying to help you. Your comment is a constructive critique on the link. By adding a bit more introduction, this tool could be made even more useful.
But it is worth the struggle. I can now create links to emails inside of my todos, or even better: capture mails with org-capture into todos.
The big difference here is that part of this "heritage" is a tradition of being a white supremacist.

Like, okay, sure, I guess the pointy white hood your grandfather wore when he was a Grand Wizard of the KKK is part of your heritage, but if you take it out and wear it around town, people are gonna be all "hey look at that racist jerkass", you know? And if I hung up a CSA flag outside my house in a big Southern city, all my neighbors would say the same thing no matter how much I tried to convince them it's just me celebrating my heritage.
Show HN: Publish flaring fast blogs with Gatsby and Ghost
I'm not american and don't know what do these words _mean_ for a lot of people. My sidestory that I only feel "bad" because as a non-native english speaker it's really hard sometimes to speak correctly PC-ish. For example my native tongue doesn't have gender pronouns. Grammatical gender doesn't exist at all. So third person singular doesn't make a difference between gender like english. It doesn't exist when I address that person. But when I go to Twitter or check people's profile they more and more ask how they should be addressed or what pronoun to use. Just interesting how the language can affect your way of thinking about the world.
FYI: we're about to learn that Remdesivir "doesn't work" either. The Trump administration bought half a million doses of it in case it does work. So now watch for the "studies" to come out that say you'd be better off dying.
Why do hosts even get to reject people or see their picture or even name before making the decision? I don't see any legitimate use, only illegitimate use like denying based on race. Let hosts set a minimum stay length and such if they want but that should be it.
Because people like me with a lifetime of mental health problems really appreciate this extra consideration. Thanks!

Oh, hold on... despite that, actually I'm not some fragile snowflake that melts in the blaze other's insensitivity so they can stop being so fucking precious about my mental state. I can take 'sanity checks' just fine. I can take it a whole lot better than being treated like some wilting flower without being asked what I actually want. Wankerism is spreading faster than bloody covid.
At least you tried to do some basic math unlike 99% percent of the people on HN.
Some malls have adapted to the situation by adapting to changing demographics and tastes: here's an article about malls being adapted into Hispanic-centered malls: https://adage.com/article/the-big-tent/malls-pitched-hispani...

The major issue that a traditional mall has is that the segment of the market served by Sears, Macy's, and JC Penny does not really compete well with online equivalents that involve less fuss. You need some type of differentiation, whether or not that is upscale exclusivity or niches like catering to specific ethnic needs.
Using a Neural Network to Draw “Doom Guy” in High-Res
> This is like telling a football player they should have a kinematics textbook in their pocket

That's as ridiculous a strawman as saying "The Olympics mustn't have any rules about performance enhancing drugs, otherwise athletes would have to carry bio-chemistry textbooks in their pockets".
Just never use official apps (for anything; not only Reddit); instead use something like Slide or RedReader.
Instead of How To Solve It, which is organized dictionary–style with short sections on particular named problem solving topics, and is somewhat hard to interpret for novices without guidance, let me recommend Polya’s other two books (each 2 volumes), Mathematical Discovery and Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning.
Quite the hypothetical you got there.

You've made a lot of assumptions, like going to a bar guarantees infection.

I _do_ take preventative measures when I go out. I wear a mask. I wash my hands. I keep distance as possible.

There is little evidence of transmission within stores where people are wearing masks and keeping distance. I have coworkers who are nervous, and I do accommodate them by taking the prescribed precautions.

Someone is in contact with me who doesn't know my recent history can wear a mask, and can keep their distance. They have every freedom in that regard, yet I don't have freedom to sit with a friend at a bar?

You should be aware that asymptomatic spread is likely not very common: https://time.com/5850256/who-asymptomatic-spread/

> The highest estimate was a transmission rate of 2.2%, suggesting “asymptomatic spread is unlikely to be a major driver of clusters or community transmission of infection.”

It's good to be aware of _high-risk_ situations - such as shouting in a mob (you assume Texas spike was due to bars opening).

You've yet to address my point... We all take risks every day.

What's your goal? to keep everyone perfectly safe all the time? Padded rooms for everyone!
The Cultural Olympiad 2020: some childrens drawings of sports tucked in a corner of Narita Airport.
It's hard to imagine having a medals table for arts in this era.
I think rewriting a project is an endless curse.
"Confidence check" is insensitive toward individuals with low self-esteem.
Sounds perfectly reasonable. Apple only cares about the data in aggregate. They don’t need to track individual users. An advertiser, on the other hand, wants to know your age, sex, location and what you hard for breakfast.
> Most nuclear reactors today operate well below 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit

I have a background in chemical engineering and still had no clue that nuclear reactors operate at the temperature of a pizza oven. That's wild.
> Porting those MS-DOS samples into a browser canvas.

I feel obligated to point out that https://copy.sh/v86/ has been able to do this for quite a while now. Of course, having a more native option is an extremely welcome improvement.
Tech Talent for 21st century Government [pdf]
I've been in tech for the past 14 years in roles ranging from DevOps, Software Development, Solution architecting, Data Science and now Sales. Been working in startups for 6 years.

The covid crisis has generally made me bearish about the economy in general and got me thinking about improving government services using tech but have always been skeptical of joining government because of certain latent fears:

1. That people with tenure would block necessary change.
2. Dealing with young & restless engineers bickering about a most optimal tech stack that ends up creating hodge-podge spaghetti and not serve desired outcomes.
3. Designers who over-impose aesthetics and create super smooth swipes that sacrifice function.

I came across this document that identifies 10 competencies for government to attract tech talent:

What do you think?

1. Tech-informed decision-making
2. Security
3. Data governance and use
4. Human-centered design
5. Product management
6. DevOps and site reliability engineering
7. Modern stack software development
8. Technology procurement
9. Institutional innovation and change management
10. Emerging technologies
Do you have a collection of your wallpapers somewhere?
Discovering New Data
> Why not eating fries or hot dogs?

Yeah, why not?

I'm sure competitive eating genuinely does involve training, skill and determination. What are the criteria of the olypmic games, anyway?
Is it? Someone displaying a political symbol because it was fed to them without context in a popular media seems like the exact definition of an unwitting vehicle of propaganda.
Attention, Austerity, Freedom
Holy crap that was a comprehensive article. Much more of this stuff, please.

I haven't power-read anything so dense in a long while. And I'm not even a Star Wars fan (other than having been 9 years old when A New Hope (as it's apparently called now) came out in theatres, and therefore having absorbed it all by cultural osmosis ever since.)

Doesn't matter if one is a Star Wars fan... the Millenium Falcon evokes instant nostalgia and smiles in most anyone over 40. And yes, it was fast enough for this old man, anyway.
Meanwhile, tiny Lesotho (a landlocked enclave entirely within, and distinctly less affluent than, South Africa) has a passionately active OSM community uniting locals on the ground and international mappers who use satellite imagery. Last year it was officially declared[1] the first country to be "completely mapped" in OSM -- a moving target obviously, but impressive nonetheless.

[1] https://maplesotho.wordpress.com/
There are lots of books, papers, blogs, etc out there that offer refutations of people like Hancock. The SAA Archaeological Record dedicated an entire section to one of his books (http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?m=16146&i=634462&p...). Jared Diamond's books have prompted more than one seminar and rebuttal book, e.g. Questioning Collapse.

Unfortunately, people are busy, have real research to do, and don't have time to deal with every crank out there. Some are even state sponsored, which opens up a whole world of problems. It's not fair to expect people to do extensive rebuttals of every crank out there. It's the academic version of Brandolini's law.
> Essentially a good chunk of people do care so little about discrimination, that it's difficult for them to believe that others actually even care about it.

Some of us care somewhat (i.e. I'm proud to have convinced my boss to hire that female IT technician from another country who was mopping our floors. It took some convincing but he gave in. She got paid as much as us and got a career here in the west (I know because she later married a friend of mine). I've also tried elsewhere to help others to a career in IT, not sure how far I have succeeded in other cases, but in at least on case I gave away my well paid but boring job to make sure another less privileged man got a fighting chance. I visited him last year and he had usef his opportunity well. Oh, and I helped my neighbor down the street to a better job and tried to help his girlfriend. In the end she got a good job through other channels but I tried and I tried so in a way that was appreciated, not in a creepy way.)

All that said: that doesn't mean I won't say virtue signalling when something like this happens.

Oh. And the irony of me virtue signalling so heavily to get my point through :-) At least my identity is only known to me and Dan, so I can't cash out on any stupid internet points I get.
I guess it’s important to see the guest profile/history, you wouldn’t want to let people who have previously had problems into your home?
Question for anyone who's tried this: Do you use your normal org file directory for org-roam or is it better to start from a fresh directory?
> Guietta is just a thin wrapper over QT.

So, any pro'n'cons in comparison to PyQt?
"Significant undercapacity" means that people don't leave when they can't immediately find a parking space (modulo maybe right before Christmas). Yes, I'm sure it's analyzed. Also adding space retroactively (especially in the form of parking garages that a lot of people don't really like) can be expensive.
Really the only sane way of parsing hn is hckrnews.com. That way you can not only quickly go past threads you don't like but also see those popular threads which were killed or punished on the HN frontpage.
This is your privilege.

Here's a really great article that helped me notice my own privilege - https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
Only way to attract gen Z to anything.
we don't even need a standard, that's what DNT is

we need a law enforcing the standard to have teeth. otherwise it's just yet another standard not doing anything.
Haha one of my uncles said cruise ships are like sleeping in the mall... but I like this idea... Have shops, restaurants, entertainment/activities office buildings and residential. I think I'd love to live somewhere where I could walk to grab a bite of eat, to the gym or some office space... A pool too. Co-working spaces be nice too if you work from home and want a separate spot to work. I kinda been interested in moving to downtown Austin since the most walkable city in Texas, but still not prefect from what I've read.

As someone who's always been in the suburbs, always kinda been jealous that most apartments seem to have pools haha. but idk if i'd like apartment life, I'd be worried about hearing other people or being too loud if I wanted to listen to music or watch tv... I guess depends on if the walls are paper thin.
You could spin any bullshit story around any device. If you do not have some degree of discipline with your meatspace domain, there's no hope for the hardware domain either. Even the most secure devices on earth can eventually be compromised if you allow all policy to fall away and just let the hardware fend for itself.

The police can and should be held to a higher standard regarding evidence and chain of custody. The tools are only half of this picture. It is a synergistic approach.
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> The story used to be "they are making money on hardware", then when that peaked it became "they are making money on services",

The story is still that they're making money on hardware; over 80% of their revenue (and potentially more of their profits; profit margin on the music stuff in particular can't be great).
Function flexibility considered harmful
Idiomatic Nullable in JS is better than Maybe/Option
And there's the potential risk of being mediocre on many fields and become less competitive in each area. My opinion is it really needs to be the field you love (biology, science etc) to be worth the effort.
> since Bloomberg is behind a paywall (after a couple of reads) why is this at the top?

That part I can help with: HN has a policy that paywalled content is okay as long as it's a soft paywall and there's a way to bypass it. AFAIK that's what the "web" button is there for, even if in my case it has not worked even once.
There's gotta be some Biblical passage about this.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. (On the other hand, just because you can't doesn't mean you shouldn't, and neither does just because you can. They're orthogonal things basically.)
Don't you know? Trump's responsible for the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs.
Always important to mention the alternative, a "Strangler Fig Application", also known as the strangler pattern.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html
> Zettlr is powered by Electron,

Uh, I would prefer VNote editor + Viki instead.

[0] https://github.com/tamlok/vnote

[1] https://github.com/tamlok/viki
Holy crap, Toms Hardware (tomshardware.com), the well known IT hardware review site is one of the offenders. :(
In most municipalities, zoning will restrict the ability of developers to make changes of use like this.
Software that detects crimes in real time
I saw this, and was wondering if there is any startup / company that is working on a video monitoring solution? I would like to work on a solution that monitors videos, generates an alarm and alerts police:
Video shows NYC thief choke and rob 64 year old
https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/hkm95m/video_shows_nyc_thief_choke_and_rob_64_year_old/
There's nothing wrong with saying something like that. Trademark is more concerned with brand names, logos and slogans. The purpose of which is prevent consumer confusion about the source of a product.
> by playing the culture war we make ourselves feel good without stopping anything.

Thank god I'm not alone.
I only started using it today so may be missing something, but how/why is it locked into GitHub? I can’t see anything specific to GitHub (and I used the full recommended extension set).

Not only that but I can’t see anything to stop you setting it up in a more typical cloud file syncing service (e.g. Dropbox) directory and having everything happen effortlessly in the background?
According to this thread, it is not a true jagged array because each row has the same number of columns and each column the same number of rows. You can initialize it as a jagged array but it will still allocate it like a matrix.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1083658/do-jagged-arrays...

> the array will still have the shape [2][3]. If you want a true jagged array, you will have to create it dynamically.
this has always been the problem with advertising.

the old chestnut goes, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half”.
From a consume-on-TV perspective it's the athleticism which makes it compelling, not random misfortunes with the snow conditions.

Appreciate experienced skiiers might see more nuance to how skiiers approach subtle changes to the piste, but still doubt they'd find button clicking in the face of uncertain conditions equally compelling (or even more compelling than watching real skiiers on a suitably large raked and climate-controlled slope)
Diego, this is really amazing.

The one gif where you throw a block into a stack reminds of some interesting property of the laws of classical mechanics: they are reversible. That is, the high entropy state after the block hit the stack, if you reverse the momentum of all bodies, will eventually evolve to the low-entropy state consisting of the stack and the block - which would look very improbable (like an egg unbreaking), but possible, nevertheless.

But, because of numerical approximation in computer code, if you actually try to do it (reverse the momentum), you'll notice the simulation won't quite go back to the state it was before.

So, here's a challenge for you: can you come up with a simulation that is deterministically reversible?
And those stores also did not compete well with Walmart which AFAIK has never taken the anchor store strategy approach, although of course it is in strip malls.
Star Wars concept artists Joe Johnson says they literally lifted the famous Walker designs directly from Syd Mead's US Steel "futurism" portfolio - http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Sid_Mid_Syd_Mead_Retro_Fut... (1)

And the imperial probe drone is a nearly analog copy of one of Jean Giraud (Moebius) sketches in his "Long Tomorrow" work(2)

The Star Wars team unabashedly stole, scraped, and inspired their way into the most vivid and impactful scifi universe created - as good artists do!

(1) https://www.starwars.com/news/empire-at-40-battle-of-hoth-or...

(2) https://kitbashed.com/blog/moebius
Because the article isn't clear: no, this isn't about pebble bed reactors. This is about a type of fuel where a little bit of uranium has been encased in a number of protective layers, such that the fuel will remain safely contained in its tiny packaging even at very high temperatures. You take a bunch of these poppy-seed-sized things and embed them in graphite rods or pellets, which both keeps them in place and acts as a moderator for the reaction. These can then be used in a variety of reactors, including (but not limited to) pebble bed reactors.
Definitely by design. "Introduce friction to prevent customer support tickets in the future? Ha!"
> in sites separated by thousands of miles, with no possibility of communication between them

Human walking speed is about 3.1mph. Walking 8 hours a day, it takes 40 days to cross a thousand miles. Communication's slow, but not that slow – especially if you've got horses. My working theory is that people walked.
Unfortunately it's not that simple. High-quality individuals frequently get into low-quality interactions, especially online.
Yeah I am aware of it, that was my point. :)
I like Cartograph Maps 2, it supports OSM among other layers, and works on all the platforms.