skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to see this app mentioned on HN.

If you have Swift experience please check the issues of the repo. Need assistance with the identical monitors issue, it’s there for two years already.
No young bulgarian-australians would go home permanently, based on the experience of the one who did, tried to helm a Rom, wound up on a stabbing murder charge, and has been held against high court judgements he should be allowed to go home, all because the dead person was the son or relative of a senior Bulgarian minister. Revenge politics writ large.

If they want to reverse a demographic decline, they will need to respect fundamental rule of law.
Adoption by "normal" users instead of Telegram/Whatsapp/whatever.
As far as I know, he's described himself as the "Grim Reaper" for progressive policies [0]. Now, I'm no expert but as the majority leader, he

> schedules the daily legislative program and fashions the unanimous consent agreements that govern the time for debate [1]

and

> has the right to be called upon first if several senators are seeking recognition by the presiding officer, which enables him to offer motions or amendments before any other senator [1]

- [0]: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/440041-mcconnell-pledges...

- [1]: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing...
China as a civilization takes the notion of a merit based on examinations very seriously. They pioneered this system hundreds of years before anywhere else in the world.

Cheating may exist but in terms of valuing meritocracy China has it as deeply ingrained as the west.
The above comments are about people in Congress constantly pushing farther right. Congress could've legalized those at any time but didn't. Courts did.
As someone who is constantly (it seems) looking for new ways to take notes / todos this is a very cool solution.

Using a get request to write the one-line notes is really nice - though do you handle any sort of auth with this? Can FF be configured to handle that with the shortcuts?

I love the idea of running this at home and being able to access it from anywhere - and it being a simple webpage.

Edit: I just took a look at the source and no, no auth - though for home-network constrained things this could still be cool.

I like the novel approach to it :)
None of the financial instruments did that. That person didn't even have actual debt, just one leg assigned on a spread that would have been resolved by the end of the weekend.
I had a few drives die in rapid succession, but then I realized I wasn't cooling the system properly. That was around 12 years ago, and I'm still using the drives I bought after that today.

Maybe you have a similar problem?
It wouldn't be political, but medical: a vaccine.

Even if everything got relaxed, with the virus still around, the paranoid will still avoid gatherings, etc, and the economy will not return to normal. Maybe a draconian takeover of the world by a government that then suppresses information and says "We solved the virus!" convincingly enough would be such an event.

Meanwhile at least 1 "leader" is saying the above sentence, but he's only convincing a dwindling number of die-hard supporters.

As Orwell said:

> We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
Here's a section of Michael Redmond's (9-dan professional Go player) commentary on the Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo matches: https://youtu.be/yCALyQRN3hw?t=3031

It's really fun to watch his commentary because he relentlessly plays "variations" — possible next moves and sequences — while waiting for the players, explaining the tradeoffs between moves and the consequences they lead to a few steps ahead in the game.

I don't know what to call "variations" but a tree search with heuristics. He does it slowly to explain it to the audience, but I have no doubt the same process runs much faster in his mind.
> rather than 'oh, that server... you need the SSH key, I think it's this one

I really hope that's just a mistake in how you were typing it up and not reality, because if so then whatever organization or people are doing that are using SSH key pairs entirely incorrectly. The whole point of public and private keys is that you never have to share the private key.

You add the public key of the person who needs access's private, individual, not to be shared key to the account in question. There are systems to manage pushing public keys to remote systems and accounts, or someone can write their own in a couple hours in most languages. It's not a complicated process to automate.

> Then jump hosts are a colossal pain to set up and maintain, since you have to configure a jump to A through B, then to C through A, then to D through C, and you end up with multiple layers of configuration, which you have to configure manually for each host or group of hosts.

I'll just say that if you expect some centralized management system to save you from the extra bureaucracy of ill thought out security layering and systems (vpn to a network so you can access a host so you can vpn to another network? Seriously?), I imagine you'll find the outcome leaves a lot to be desired, no matter the promises.
I work for a public research institution, so I can't tell you about private companies. My guess is that, because everybody does the same, the don't feel any pressure to improve.
Right, but the implication was that tribes had each decided on a minimum blood quantum, but not all of them use blood quantum at all.
Recent discussion of Concorde-2 discusses the fuel improvements which would have come with adding spools and turbofan to the motor, and wing changes, and larger fueltanks.

Concorde didn't get to move beyond its first model. This boom jet is leveraging decades and decades of post-concorde engineering.
Which lets us know we should be taking the results of such so called studies with large grains of salt
25 years ago it was already old news. I remember in my childhood even further back than that, the grownups would make comments about affirmative action hires.

If you think about it this is just one more layer of discrimination people face. If you are in one of those categories, no matter how smart, competent, and worthy you are, many people will assume you didn't get there on merit, and that you took the job from someone better. We ought to reject this.
A programmer is a creative professional. But now I'm just splitting hairs lol. I get your point but I'm annoyed at the "real professionals" bit there. :)
> Suppose you are a reporter writing about an unusual accident where a shipping container full of canned tomatoes fell off a ship. Would you quote the value lost as

You'd look for an answer in a press release. If there is no press release, you'd ask the question at a press conference or interview, and then you'd cite the figure you were told without caring about how it was actually calculated. You'd likely only question the value if it sounded obviously wrong.

> Suppose you are a reporter writing about a drug seizure. Would you quote the total street price of the drugs, or --- how could you possibly be that familiar with the supply chain to quote any other price?

Does your average reporter actually know what the average street price of various illegal drugs currently is? Especially given the price varies from drug to drug, time to time, and place to place. I think usually reporters just quote the street value given in the law enforcement press release or news conference, rather than attempting to work out a figure for themselves.

> That's a tax writeoff. Accountants who book the first loss get fired and replaced by accountants who book the second.

Until someone gets charged with tax evasion.
Boating?

But that's kinda the GP's point, that the state WANTS you to be able to travel. Travel encourages trade, which generates more tax revenue. Of course the govt will support any sufficiently large mode of travel.
Show HN: X12 EDI Parser and Generator Written in Rust
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Or maybe the military has technology we don't know about yet?
type "scott alexander slate star codex" into google and his real name, plus several pictures of him are on the first page of the image results.

Alternatively, given that he's made his profession as well as place of residence known, looking for psychiatrists named scott alexander in that region also returns an official result.

If it took you days to figure that out I'm sorry to say you don't have a future as a private eye.
Dang, that utility looks insanely good
Boating? NOAA, Coast Guard, charting work, navigation buoys, harbor masters, etc.
Think when I get to retirement age, plan is to travel the world, by bike. The Americas will take a while; once done with that, I'll maybe hop on a boat.
In what country is flying taboo?
Right behind you! Listen to Greta. Listen to the science. Stop driving. Don't fly.
Haha. I just mean it wouldn't have been as immediately interesting. No one would know who "Scott Alexander _______" was. I could be wrong, but knowing the rest of a sequence is more interesting than the name behind a code name (which I'll forget, probably).
I'd been hearing rumors (possibly spread by the mfgs to scare enterprises away from cheap IDE drives) about it during the late 90's and early 2000's.

Then bfitz proved in in 2005, and it turns out SCSI drives sometimes do it too:
https://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html
“peaceful protest” is an oxymoron
I don't disagree, but this could incentivize spammers to just upload tons of videos then 'manually' appeal them all.

Maybe some threshold around subscriber count or views would help.
China is not a democracy. However the notion that Chinese culture is okay with despotism and tyranny is again a limited one.

The Mandate of Heaven is what gives a ruler in China the right to rule. This is not an inherent and automatic right like the divine right of kings.

If a ruler is unable to deliver prosperity and justice it’s completely justified for the ruler to be overthrown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven

Western democracy is really being torn at the seams with Trump and Brexit. Both are policies which any sane outside observer will conclude are extremely harmful in the long term. However because of brainwashing a large portion of the citizenry are okay with it anyway.

Large sections are manipulated via social media by forces both external and internal dipping society into chaos even in the midst of existential threats like covid.

This is like saying yes we invaded a country and unleashed mass death but we also protest against it and make poignant films about how our soldiers felt really bad doing it so it’s all okay and it makes us better than those who don’t. The point is to not do it.

As we speak Iranians are dying in droves in the middle of a pandemic made worse by cruel sanctions imposed by the very people claiming to be enlightened. Imposing sanctions in the middle of a pandemic is nothing short of a crime against humanity.
The interest rate (.2%) is very, very small.

I'm currently getting 2% from a non-FDIC insured institution, but there are many examples of FDIC-insured accounts with far greater returns.

Axos - 1.09%
https://www.axosbank.com/Personal/Savings/High-Yield-Savings

CIT - .95%
https://www.cit.com/cit-bank/bank/savings/savings-builder-ac...

T-Mobile Money - 4% (up to $3,000)
https://www.t-mobilemoney.com/en/home.html

I'm a large fan of behavioral finance (read Misbehaving, in Thinking Fast & Slow), etc. -- but this feels like a huge disadvantage to be giving people. Unless you have math that says the average winnings people will get will make up for the .7-8% difference you see other institutions giving?
https://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html

some enterprise SCSI drives too. This was all back in the late 90's/early 2000's, no idea if it still happens with SATA or SAS drives...
This is my first "Show HN" submission here. This is an ANSI X12 EDI parser and generator for Rust. It has been already used commercially for multiple EDI pipelines and is able to handle any X12 document which is specification-compliant. It can both parse and output valid EDI documents while maintaining versatility to cover the entire spec. There is also a `loose_parse` mode which is less strict on the spec, in case the incoming data is slightly malformed.

I hope this crate helps some companies stuck with antiquated EDI pipelines eliminate some old tech cruft.
True for trademarks since by definition it’s a claim on some unique usage of a word or mark. Not the case (anymore, as of 1976) for copyright, at least in the US.
Cash advance on credit card and you can gamble on whatever you want. The cash advance on the credit card is the dangerous part.

You could even cash advance on a credit card, buy a car, and wreck it and be in the same financial situation as you would if you gambled it away on robinhood.
> important the point still is that Android should totally switch to openjdk, end of story

Not "end of story" at all - why should Android switch? You mentioned ZGC & Shenandoah, but why do you think that would be a benefit? Have you actually tried benchmarking your app in ART vs. OpenJDK? Do you have any clue at all if ZGC would even be an improvement in your workloads, or the workloads of a typical Android app for that matter? There's a lot of really cool work going on in that space, but for example ZGC's NUMA awareness won't do diddly shit for your Android app, so things like that are pretty moot.

Meanwhile ART has optimizations that OpenJDK doesn't, like importing profiles to AOT compile parts of an app that's never been run locally before: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/04/improving-...

Similarly OpenJDK's startup time & memory usage is historically quite bad, because it's just not a primary use case for them in the same way it is for ART. OpenJDK finally got some improvements in those areas very very recently ( https://cl4es.github.io/2019/11/20/OpenJDK-Startup-Update.ht... ), but it's still not good and far from being obviously superior on all metrics to ART. And ART isn't standing still, either, with new improvements like even faster incredibly fast FFI support: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/art/+/132... Which is important for achieving things like 120hz 2D UI rendering while also running on incredibly slow in-order non-speculating power saving little cores. Which is a use case & scenario OpenJDK has never been asked to deal with nor optimized to handle.

OpenJDK isn't the end-all be-all excellent-at-everything pinnacle here. After all, nobody ever accused a Java desktop application of being fast & responsive.
But running their code, presumably, would get their result on their data, unless it was a fraud or weird misconfiguration. We’re not talking about fraud, we’re talking about reproducibility supporting a theory.

You suspected the result was wrong, so your interest was in debugging their code to contradict their result. That has value but also is not a reproduction of the study.
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I hope you retire very fit and healthy!
I don’t especially get the supersonic flight love especially from people who will never pay the $10k or whatever to take a transatlantic supersonic flight. I don’t love long economy flights. But honestly there’s not a lot wrong with modern lie flat business. A few hours of my time is not that big a deal.
Pushing for diversity in the world of early stage startups
It should be a priority for them, lots of creators are switching off of YT due to how easily their videos are taken down and demonetized.

This will cause other platforms to win eventually but Google might be too large to care.
> It‘s generally faster than the app model where you need to wait for the driver to go to the restaurant to pick up the food

That's not how it works. I order a lot and the driver is always there to pick it up as soon as it's ready. The driver obviously gets notified about the delivery as soon as the restaurant confirms the order.
per passenger-mile, flying is much less polluting than driving a car, even after you account for the fact that pollution in the stratosphere is more damaging. If getting rid of air travel results in more people driving across the country, that makes the greenhouse worse.

In terms of absolute consumption, yes it would be great if people stopped spending so much on things that are damaging the environment... but it would be FAR better to instead spend money on renewable energy and electric cars, which are by far the most effective ways to reduce CO2.
I mean, it's a part of globalization, but I would argue that being able to skip most of the parts of the globe you don't want to deal with by traveling many miles above it isn't really helping with having an understanding of the world. It's another topic altogether what you do once you get there, but if it's just to vacation, then: :shrug:.
Ballistic flights make no sense at all. Consider how finicky rocket launches are about weather. So you need to go to the spaceport for your launch, hope that you don't get scrubbed by the weather and save a few hours? Hard to see how that makes any sort of business sense.
He's more than welcome to voice his desire to have them surveiled. Just as I can voice that he would make an awful public official or officer with that attitude.
Actions that prevent fair and free exercise of civil rights are against the law. The designation of the groups under the law is not relevant to the actions of the KKK already being illegal if they interfere with the above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act
it’s more of a "surveillance for thee, not for me" sort of deal on HN.
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The risk that sidewalks won't recover is just as low.
The traditional solution was to only allow supersonic flights on the coasts where the jet could fly out over the ocean for the boom.
Not related to marriage rights but it’s pretty obvious that trans rights is the next big issue that’s being pushed nowadays. There was also that whole forcing businesses to make cakes for gay weddings thing (don’t remember the details but it was a whole controversy about rights of businesses to refuse service vs constraints due to discrimination laws).
How about he takes that money and makes Twitter less of a shithole for most people?
That is a good question.

Looking at some of Citizen Lab’s excellent reporting on FinFisher shows that victims were redirected to regular unencrypted http downloads when the malware was installed.

One of the examples given was when a user tried to download Avast antivirus from a well-known software hosting site and the download was done over http.

There are several security sites that have downloadable packet captures of malware infections where you can see in Wireshark that redirects are commonly used.
I haven't written anything up (maybe I should) but it's easy enough.

In Thunderbird, go to Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Directory.

That opens your profile directory. In there is a file global-messages-db.sqlite that holds all your messages. Treat that as read-only. If it does get messed up for some reason, you can delete it. It's an index that will get rebuilt.

If you close Thunderbird, you can open the db in sqlitebrowser to view the tables. Some tables I've used for queries:

folderLocations - tells you the id of each email folder

messages - metadata for each message

messagesText_content - subject, recipients, body of each email message

conversations - info about your email threads that can be matched with data in messages to retrieve full email threads
In my opinion, this goes because just surveilling a legal protest. These protests were specifically against the police's abuse of their power. This resulted in a police response that was much more adversarial than a traditional legal protest would face. Aiding the police in surveilling protesters allows police to further abuse their power and target protesters for retribution. Providing this monitoring isn't that different than providing them with tear gas or rubber bullets. It is actively contributing to violence against people simply using their constitutional rights.
At some point, the EU has to see a pattern of degradation and corruption, and start engaging actively with the people of the countries, instead of just expecting places such as Bulgaria and Romania to wake up and decide to be rich and developed out of nowhere.
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MuZero doesn't do a search over explicit board states, MCTS (where are the playouts at the leaf nodes? where is the simulator state?) or otherwise: it does search over internal-abstract-reward-predictive-states/action pairs, much like a human does, who thinks through possible actions using an internal representation sometimes backtracking as they decide a move is bad and evaluating a different one which feels better. It's search over a tree of possible actions, sure, but this is not MCTS, even if they loosely use the phrase in places (similarly, the tree search Zero does for gameplay is not MCTS, even if people sometimes describe it that way or conflate it with the training).
The best part about the app is able to see where the driver is on the map. I hate being in the unknown and not knowing what's going on with my delivery.
We just launched our video series where we share the stories of amazing entrepreneurs pushing for diversity in tech.

In my day to day life, I am consulting for many seed and series a startups in SV and I have to say that early stage startups are not diverse at all, how can we make this better ?
You're the one that wrote, "It's not just direct voting." I'm just asking for an example other than direct voting. I'm legitimately trying to understand your point but so far I still don't see the link between democracy and collective bargaining.
I understand statutes of limitations are about blocking prosecution of past infringement, not granting a legal right to continuous infringement.
Interesting little nugget. Always wanted this to understand how my notification copy will help convert my users!
Organzational Proliferation Is Not the Problem You Think It Is
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Wow, didn't expect to see my free book on HN. I'm the author.
I downloaded it first "without honor", puzzled why he wanted my email. Then I tried entering my details sans email, and was rewarded with compliments to my character – it seems email is not required.

It would be better for the author's information collection, and friendlier to readers, to indicate that email is not a required field – otherwise people will assume giving email is necessary, as in a zillion similar forms online. And/or explain why email is wanted.
my answer was an attempt to get to this point because the OP said "get some cement and sprinkle it on your garden and see what happens" and the whole point was "thats not what people are doing in the farm sector here, they're not using pre-moistened cement dust, they are using post-pour concrete dust, the chemistry is different"

altering the PH can be desirable or harmful depending. thats where the 'get a soil agronomist into the convo' comes in.

from memory, there can be a significant non-bound component of
concrete, and it can persist for years. so I accept there is a continuing risk of aggregation of the dust, because it doesn't completely process in immediate time-frame of the pour (I am told that the hoover dam continued to bake off for years afterward)
Or maybe we want to keep the peace induced through learning about different cultures via cheap travel. Maybe building dams is cheaper than recovering from a world war three.