skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought a $150 crappy guitar (Squire Bullet Stratocaster) and it's honestly pretty excellent. It stays in tune, there are no playability issues, and it sounds good once you have your amp settings dialed in. Electric guitars are really simple and undemanding instruments and it doesn't take a lot to make them well. The particular model I bought was manufactured in Indonesia.

It's true that I don't think you could find a decent acoustic guitar for anywhere near that price. I recently paid $500 for my first acoustic because I saw a clear difference in quality between the one I selected (Taylor GS Mini) and the competition in the $200-$400 price range.
The Wikipedia article is incomplete on the topic. The act applies to Chinese owned properties as well.
Just do it the high tech way by using Cardiac Coherence apps like Inner Balance. Scientists studying Heart Rate Variablity (HRV) looked at all the highly skilled groups of mediators in the world and found basically the same thing - they all breathe at their resonance frequency and that puts their HRV in synch with their breathing and spectral analysis shows a pattern of electrical activity in the heart with a very narrow band around 0.1 hertz.

Cardiac Coherence apps basically hook you up to a sensor capable of detecting this and then allow you to pace your breathing at your resonance frequency to enter a state of cardiac coherence. Apparently it works wonders.

I'm going to take it up very soon.
I have to say he was spot on about user privacy 10 years ago and it shows in the platforms today. Starts at around 1:10.

> We do a lot of things like that to ensure that people understand what these apps are doing

> Privacy means people know what they are signing up for in plain English and repeatedly.

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps
The IFR for the 1918 pandemic was substantially higher than 2.5%.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n...

> It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

That'd be a 10% IFR.
I have a "full cave" card and about 100 post-certification cave dives. I have been actively ocean diving and even doing wreck diving, which are overhead environments, but I haven't been in a cave in 10 years. I still likely take a refresher/checkout course to polish my skills with an instructor just to be safe if I wanted to cave dive again. Your instincts are what can kill you in a cave diving.

But it's worth it, you visit places that few people have seen with their own eye and it's safe if you follow the rules.
Paraglider and hang glider pilots can also soar for hundreds of miles without power or flapping. Soaring birds like condors, turkey vultures, hawks, etc. use the same technique of turning in tight circles in rising air to increase altitude. Once cloud base is reached and the rising air stops, they glide significant distances to the next hillside with rising air. Whenever you see birds in the sky circling around the same spot together, it's because they're in rising air and using it to stay aloft.
That’s a very simple and inaccurate interpretation.
It's probably fairly common among people who want to be able to access content freely while preserving an internal sense of ethical behavior.

That's basically what I did with a certain popular TV series. I'd torrent the individual episodes, then buy the DVD box sets at the end of the season to pay for it. When it became clear that the writers didn't actually have any idea what they were doing (which was a topic of no small debate at the time), I stopped buying the box sets.

Whether I stopped torrenting it is neither here nor there, but let's just say that the peer comment ("The last season wasn't something I enjoyed, it was something that happened to me") really rung a bell with me. Later, the same story repeated itself with another popular show on a different network, at which point I just disengaged with TV for good.
I have not said any such thing. I said GP had argued it. It is absurd because there was no such “we” at the time.
It really depends a lot on what you want to see. There is simply nothing quite comparable to Reddit ATM with so many niches in on place and with such a community feeling. I've searched a lot, too (I'm a fellow ex-redditor).

Rather than focussing on a single replacement, your best bet is probably to go out to a specific niche. That's why I'm on HN, for example. But there's more. Like mechanical keyboards? Visit deskthority, where it all started. Are you a car modder? Try searching up the forum for your car model or brand!

These niche forums can be surprisingly active and they also tend to have more general off-topic discussions, so you'll get that too. And, at last, you might want to take the chance and reduce your social media consumption a bit - these smaller forums don't drag you in as much, take the time and follow your hobbies. It's worth it :)
If we could somehow force the property market to list Maximum Internet connection speed as mandatory, thereby creating an incentive for property owner to get Fibre installed.
>A bunch of rich people and state congresspeople's kids being forced to go to "shitty public schools" sounds like a great way to force the issue.

This sounds suspiciously close to "hold other peoples' children hostage until they give me what I want"
Well, from the outside that "stop and think" part looks a lot like slacking off and going home on time.
Wow. The author of this book calls himself an arhat. That is, shall I say, presumptuous? Not what I think I would look for in a Buddhist teacher (though, full disclosure, I practice Buddhism with a school I am very happy with so already have some opinions on the subject).
and i know this is technically fully legal. but conceptually, it seems like fraud. I mean, they're just creating money at will and buying up assets. if anyone else did that, they'd be in jail.
Even provably correct cryptography is easily broken with a waterboard (or worse), so again... when dealing with dystopian authoritarian regimes, obscurity (not getting caught) is 10x more important than the cryptography part.
Really? I struggle to imagine a case for claiming that C is friendlier.
In this thread, lots of people who've never heard of OPGW fiber...

https://www.aflglobal.com/Products/Fiber-Optic-Cable/Aerial/...

One of the problems with this new thing is that in the event of a fiber cut, restoration times will be VERY long.

For everybody who's saying "This will be great for fiber to the home!". Sorry, no. From an ISP perspective this is possibly useful for intercity fiber and medium to long haul DWDM applications. You're not going to be breaking in/out of it to add or drop circuits. It'll go point to point from electrical substation to electrical substation, at each end there will be something like a 10' cube shaped telecom equipment shelter with the optical line terminal equipment in it.
And this is just state surveillance. There’s a guy who’s building a private surveillance network in San Francisco, with the buy in of the District Attorney and local police departments, and a goal of complete surveillance of city streets.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.c...
> Seems like this also produces a lot of waste over time if you wrap a power line, then have to re-do the work 30 years later (or sooner).

I have no specific expertise in this area. A quick Google search shows MV power lines have a life of 20-30 years, and aerial fiber lines designed for ~25 years. Facebook's goal is to get people online.

Ideally you'd be wrapping younger power lines and decommission everything at the end of its useful life. It may be viable to get people reliable high-speed internet now, and in 20 years the area is developed enough it can support even better infrastructure that they fund themselves.

Internet now might allow a merchant can list a product for sale online and post a picture, notably increasing sales. Internet in 20 years might be 1,000x as fast as it is today, and doing things we can't even imagine at the moment.

Hopefully innovation like this helps minimize the disparity in opportunity between rural and urban areas, and rich and poor countries.
I find the title surprisingly annoying. What the heck is "surprisingly good"? As compared to what? (I know, I know; reading the article would've clarified). And what the fuck is a "server language"? The title made me want to not read the article just to come to know of yet another new developer come in contact with something they haven't used before and make obvious or irrelevant pronouncements like they discovered something new. Or maybe I am just growing old :-).
Philosophical line in the sand.

Media companies have abused laws and rights that are supposed to encourage and enrich society not diminish and stifle it.

They're beyond redemption at this point. The whole industry can burn at the stake for all I care. Netflix included. (Why does it matter what country I live in again? Why do you remove access to certain shows st random?)

The only media I pay for willingly is books and that is purely because amazon did such a great job of rejecting the authors guild and creating an atleast seemingly competitive market.

If media companies want my money they need to stop suing their largest customers.

They need to stop lobbying my government to enforce their governments rules.

They need to respect fair use.

They need to understand that it no longer costs anything to produce a copy and they are more than capable of finding a business model that works through the use of product placement. Hell they could run ads on their self listed torrents and I wouldnt bother reripping or looking for one without the ads.

Theyre way too focused on producing profits and protectionism than where they should be focused. Creating great entertainment and enriching society.
LibAgar: Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit
100% this. I work in vintage guitars and this is a huge part of it. This why a 62 strat costs way more than a 62 jaguar.
The problem with egalitarian societies is that there will be no progress. Progress necessarily insists upon societal hierarchy. Faustian bargain. What would you choose?
I ran Flash (for ESPN streaming) on a 2010 HTC and yeah, it chewed through battery pretty quickly.

It was also a pretty shitty user experience, forcing inflexible web-optimized flash into the phone form factor.

Those problems could've been overcome, but it's definitely not like Flash on day 1 would've been good for any users.
> What is the mortality rate of one of the more severe stains of the common cold or the flu?

One of the more severe strains of the flu? 10% globally (1918 H1N1 pandemic flu, estimated 500 million infected, 50 million killed), about 2% in the US.

> I'm sure we've had one of those that got to 0.5% or more in recent history?

No, and certainly not one that also was a global pandemic. I mean, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic swine flu had, in the US, about 0.02% mortality. Typical seasonal flu has a 0.1% mortality rate. The common cold is a syndrome caused by a variety of viruses (mostly rhinoviruses, but I think the next most common are coronaviruses.) If we had a relative of one of those that produced serious health impacts with any frequency, we wouldn't call it the common cold, but, e.g., COVID-19.

> Does that mean 0.5% is too low to shut everything down?

The mortality rate alone is not the measure. You need to consider the health system burden per infection (because if you saturate that system, mortality goes up, and not just for the infection causing the above-normal saturation.) And you need to consider how infectious the disease is, and what the transmission vectors are. And you need to consider the incidence of severe-but-nonfatal effects.
Not much a how-to. It's just talking about Python packaging, which you can use for many purposes.
... how did that work out for you?! Did you get fired? Did that exchange actually happen?
“The opposite of a fact is a falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.” – Niels Bohr
KDE Neon on my laptop.

Debian or Ubuntu or AMI on servers.

KDE Neon is Ubuntu a sane (yeah, I know, not everyone agrees on that) and configurable UI.
ESPN3 on YouTube TV is no more
Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out (2012)
Silicon Valley Italian Hub
Sure it does.
If you work with people who don't automate then every time you finish a piece of automation you can slow down your pace a little and still be faster than the people doing stuff manually.
The top image in that article has a drawing or maybe engraving with the weapons on the left, and on the right is ... a wand with a hand at one end and a fish in the center? Why? What is this and how did it relate to the gun?
I think 2-2.5% frequently cited is the estimated IFR in the US.
So VPNs nowadays are meant to protect from this, but how can someone trust a VPN not to sell the details of what you've been downloading? Is it really worthwhile to use one when the VPN provider may actually in some cases be more likely to sell this data?
A GUI for Local DynamoDB– dynamodb-admin
> - finally we come to the bread vs rice - once rice leaves a farm, it is storable and needs no further professional processing - you just cook it. But wheat needs grinding and usually baking was a specialty procession. This actually argues a bit against the collectivism thread I think - it it could go either way. But to my mind it's a weak force in culture setting.

Efficient milling isn't just a specialized skill. It's also a bunch of specialized equipment and often required specialized construction and siting. Controlling the local mill meant controlling the local economy and food supply.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a bunch of Europeans leveraged this into political power and multigenerational wealth.
A few years ago there was a legal firm that specialized in tracking down people from their IP on porn torrents on the assumption that they wouldn't want their name in the public record and would settle for 5 figures. The law firm doing it was so shady they ended up losing the suits and having a judge tell them to knock it off.
I have also known, and seen first-hand, companies that neglect their code bases for a long time, and then have to let go entire teams once the quality bar is raised, or once they fail to adopt a proactive attitude towards defects.

Startups are not small companies. Startups are companies created with exponential growth in mind, and if your product is not prepared for that kind of growth, you do not need startup scale funding. You could do fine with small business funding. Unless you can find some chump that will buy your small company at a startup price, usually by inflating the payroll with a lot of redundant employees right before selling.

It turns out building scalable software most of the time is not about making the kind of investments you talked about. It's about designing each feature with scale in mind. Then, unless the startups you talk bought multiple geographically distributed datacenters and deployed their own submarine cables, they were not working at that scale. Don't exagerate.
Can't believe people still question the shutdowns as if there would be a scenario without. The people in power could choose between enforced but somewhat controlled shutdowns or the chaos shutdown. No shutdown was never an option. Most people would have long done their own "shutdown" completely voluntary. It would just be more chaotic and less effective and it would have needed way more people to die first.
heh, US as an example of upholding international laws, why not
That's only for Windows, you would need to change the MAC address on the router WAN port for the ISP to notice.
no real progress because every time a country propose or implements a major switch from the dollar, coincidentally they get invaded and drawn into a war.

switching to another currency standard is a major threat to value of the USD, and would collapse the economy more than any nuclear weapons or politics would... but that's a rabbit hole for another day.
Do you believe banks are a net negative to society? Or more about institutions that partake in trading and the like?
Agreed, CO has an awesome site. The source is at the bottom of the OP site and is not coming directly from CO. One thing I've noticed is that we had a couple of days recently with Zero deaths! Woohoo, but this data does not show that fact

https://covid19.colorado.gov/data/case-data
Several countries like Sweden and Japan and Korea proved that there are other options.
It would be awesome if someone with some Rust knowledge could make an extension to create a compressed string type like Antirez Smaz [1].

I know Postgres compresses TEXT types by default, but only when the data exceeds TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD (default 2 kB)

Some examples on the project page [1] show reduction of size between 10% and more than 50% for some small strings (less than 100 bytes).

[1] https://github.com/antirez/smaz
Police charge Muslim man connected to parking garage shooting – Newsradio WGAN
Moz: //Gfx Newsletter #53
Because cable has improved enough that no consumers really needs fiber to their homes. You can get 300-1000 Mbps cable internet now in most places and it is far more than anyone really needs. Upload bandwidth is the main limitation of cable internet but that's not a major factor for most people.

If cable internet was still stuck at 25 Mbps or similar, the pressure for fiber internet would be a lot stronger.

But cable internet got good.

The backwards and scandalous aspect of modern American internet is that the ISPs managed to roll out 1 TB data caps without being blocked by lawmakers.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to ask the reverse and what you might be missing given any number of people do like her?
The emerging connections between income distribution and regulation
How about the 2gbit comcast fiber option? From what ive seen install costs are not high. It does cost about $200/month although
$80 for a 1 gram coin

https://www.apmex.com/product/201564/2020-1-gram-gold-maple-...
You should read my comment more carefully: I was specifically referring to the whitelist / blacklist usage where there is no common usage reversing the relationship of the terms. I have no objection to finance using it because it’s positive and doesn’t resemble past racist usage.
I paid for a dedicated server with an unmetered 100mbit connection back in the day. (More than a decade ago, now that I think about it) I wasn't using it for much, so I decided to be a good citizen and run a Tor exit node on it. No filters, every port, why not? What could go wrong?

Well, it turns out you can run bittorrent over Tor. Got dozens of DMCA emails, host took the server down within 24 hours. Taught me a lesson on being nice.
The author got his math wrong.
It's based on IP addresses. If your ISP recycles yours, it could very well be another customer that got your current IP days ago.
Yes, but malware isn’t limited to windows executables. Note that the article doesn’t call out methods of ingress—these tend to vary a lot depending on who or what an attacker is targeting.
From the link I provided it shows the time scales. When the fiber transmission rate is 10-25Tb/s, these timescales represent non-trivial service disruptions.

From the page 4 of the link below you can see that Africa has the highest density of lightning strikes.

https://www.ofcconference.org/getattachment/d0ec1565-ce81-48...
Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong
In NYC, the shutdown was happened after rates of infection had already plummetted. Ill admit the data is really bad and hard to draw firm conclusions from; but in NYC - the only difference between now and when the shutdown happened is we have a lot of outdoor seating. Stores were requiring masks, limiting the number of concurrent shoppers, etc... They could have just closed indoor dining instead of shutting everything down.
Ask HN: Which line of code you have written will be executed the most?
The other day I was trying to determine which line of code I have written will get run the most?

I think for me it would be a for loop in a cron job I run on work's servers - not very exciting! I am sure HN has many more interesting examples.

maybe you have written code:

- deep in an OS that handles memory management?

- that is deeply distributed?

- that is in every JS lib? ~~cough cough left pad cough~~

- maybe it is an accidental infinite loop you once wrote?
> If the majority of victims are over retirement age

No, it's not an election where the majority is the only thing that counts. And if younger people that are seriously ill are spending months debilitated (much of that hospitalized) where older people would die because they couldn't withstand the combination of the disease and the necessary supportive measures, taking more resources while losing more productivity for each young person that gets seriously ill, the fact that more old people are dying is even less relevant to the economic impact
I don't know how I feel about these types of threads... the airpods are something of a technological miracle, I frankly can't believe how reliable they are despite the shortcomings (I have the Pros and have experienced occasional rattling issues, as well as connectivity issues, but still less issues than on similar devices from other manufacturers I had previously)

I kinda feel like overly nitpicking these types of extremely advanced pieces of technology risks discouraging Apple and other companies from experimenting on cool new technology.

Can't we just all agree that the Airpods Pro give an awesome experience to 95% of people, and be happy with how great that is? :)
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23816640
Luck is the Opposite of Efficiency
In Japan, liqour is sold in milk cartons. Why doesn't the rest of the world do so?

https://i.imgur.com/dD0NB1A.jpg
Seems like a nice PR piece. Porsche is using 3d printing to drive tooling development to cut new shapes on pistons. Awesome for r&d but 3d printing metallurgy has a long way to go before it’s production ready.

> and feature an integrated and closed cooling duct in the piston crown that's apparently unable to be reproduced using traditional manufacturing methods
That doesn't mean those stops aren't base on intel gained via legal warrants. It's more likely the police are trying to protect a source, either a person or technical means that is providing them greater information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law
Sweden appears to bear out the parent comment's point, that the end result is still lockdown, just voluntary and less well organized:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-c...

> This is what has happened: Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Sweden’s economy has fared little better. “They literally gained nothing,” said Jacob F. Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. “It’s a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains.”
>Sloppy language indicates a sloppy mind.

No, that's a 19th century schoolmaster idea.

Many great hackers are messy with grammar and spelling, and even dyslexic.
The fictional character “Dollar Bill” from the show Billions comes to mind.
According to the results, they know what a housemate of mine downloaded... I don't think I'll bring it up in conversation.
Some liquor is sold in milk cartons.

Having been to Japan, I saw plenty of glass bottles in the liquor stores/7/11s.