skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have read comments on journalism sites? It looks like CNN got rid of it a while ago but it’s still there on Fox News. It’s a cess pool. Even on ArsTechnica which skews towards a more educated audience the comments are often mindless trash.

It’s not about outrage or any kind of drama. It’s achieving or supporting agreement and like-mindedness, which is a mob. Any outrage present is a secondary consideration of potential challenges to the agreement at present.

So long as people are coalescing into groups out of mental laziness others people will be there to manipulate the mob for some selfish reason. The problem isn’t big players or media. The problem is foolish people.
I used it to see what causes good and bad sleep. It's mostly useless after that.
Why GitHub and not GitLab or Gitea.
i'm excited that FB develops and shares their research and simultaneously terrified of what they will do with it given past behavior

its very disconcerting - i feel this way everytime i use pytorch - which i love
MariaDB Temporal Data Tables
They gave a good summary, and links to the video, which is really interesting. What do you want more? Not everyone has 1hr to spend to watch the whole thing.
Wow. As soon as I gave it my location it plotted my favourite local return hike, very cool!
Looks like some real actual rise to me:

https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/global-sea-le...
Ask HN: What I can do to protect freedom of internet?
Government keeps banning websites/apps. It threatens users who contradicts it's views or policies.

What can I do to help and protect freedom of internet and speech?
"If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption."
Which it has been known to do....
Had no idea until recently that MariaDB supported this out of the box. Does anyone have experience using this? How does it compare to https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal ?
If you get into an accident and need repairs, be prepared to wait months. My wife damaged the rim on the bottom of the ca near the front door, and the entire car had to be disassembled. I saw pictures and it was crazy how much had to be taken to get to the one small panel at the bottom of the car. Even the back and front seats had to be removed. And then it cost $13,000. Luckily it was covered by insurance but it’s still a ridiculous amount.

Tesla’s are good, not great. They are fun to drive and not having to fill up is great but if you have any problems expect a lot of pain.
> some of whom will no doubt be super rich

Surely the super rich already have Cyprus passports? This doesn’t really seem like a meaningful offer for the rich, they’d have no trouble with immigration anyway.
> how does Git figure out when you've renamed a file. If you don't grok it, don't list it.

How does git figure it out?
China would inevitably claim that it's part of China since it was granted to Hong Kongers exclusively, and Hong Kong is part of China.

It'd be like Crimea all over again, except China could have a legal argument that it's theirs instead of just claiming soldiers are vacationing there.
> Ten years from now no one will even remember or care that master/slave was a term in computing.

I don't think it will take them that long to regret this change. Now that everyone knows linux will just roll over, they'll push for greater changes to the "Code of Conduct." Then developers will get deplatformed at an alarming rate. And I'll have my popcorn ready. It'll be quite the show.
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Actually, yeah, recently I have too.
Why do we have hacker news? Real nerds read the whole internet every day.
Parent obviously cares about the truth, evidenced by their references. It is amazing to me how so many freely thinking individuals can completely disregard the importance of free speech. How many of your references would be visible to a Chinese citizen? Doesn't the fact that we can discuss the US government's misdeeds on their own soil mean anything to you?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_...
> Legislative means were not used. China had no legal authority to do what they did

You are in disagreement with the BBC on this point:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838

> The Basic Law says Chinese laws can't be applied in Hong Kong unless they are listed in a section called Annex III - there are already a few listed there, mostly uncontroversial and around foreign policy.
These laws can be introduced by decree - which means they bypass the city's parliament. Critics say the introduction of the law this way amounts to a breach of the "one country, two systems" principle, which is so important to Hong Kong - but clearly it is technically possible to do this.
> This was shortly after the end of the cold war, after all, which demonstrated that such change is possible, if not inevitable.

In 1997 most people wouldn't have thought it would be possible (or at least likely) for China to both be such a powerful country and be such an authoritarian country.
This reminds me of something I heard on a Woodwrights Shop episode I was watching. He mentioned that since 2x12s require such a big cross-section of a tree, you can usually rip them down and end up with really nice quarter sawn lumber from the two ends of the board. He was making a desk with the wood I think.
You have two premises here, one explicit, one implicit:

(1) [explicit]: a higher level language is practically always the better choice.

(2) [implicit]: Rust is not high level (or at least not compared to Python).

Our biggest disagreement is with (2). Rust is actually higher level and more expressive than Python in many ways. Of course, it also exposes some lower level concepts like lifetimes and ownership that Python hides.

Your comparison doesn’t apply because there isn’t a simple hierarchy into which Rust and Python fall. Each language is both higher- and lower-level than the other in a number of ways.
Pretty sure it has to be a public repo with a README.md in it
I bought a fishing rod and lures/hooks/bait and a fishing license. Going fishing once a week has been a pretty nice break from working at home and the activity itself enforces 6ft distancing pretty well so I can have a friend meet me at a fishing spot. The other fishers at each spot are really friendly too and happy to share what is working for them.

I used to fish when I was really young, but I dropped it at high school to focus on grades. Now that I'm a working adult with a fun income and my own car, I'm having a blast exploring my own city and the outskirts looking for fishing spots, and finding new fish.

So far I've caught a few largemouth bass and a crappie!
Sorry but after watching the organized demonstrators against the CCP regime, I strongly disagree. And Miami itself is an interesting example you chose. Miami is made up of largely Cuban immigrants and their descendants who fled communism in Cuba only to succeed by and large in capitalist USA. They created a thriving ethnic community in South Florida and were given opportunities they would never have been able to achieve under the thumb of Castro.
Because GH just released a feature that shows github.com/username/username/readme.md on your profile page.
US states' Covid-19 infection rates over the last 30 days – States above 1
It creates the branch immediately for your last commit on your current branch. Therefore you have just named an undo point you could use later.
This looks great, thanks! I'm going to switch from fathom to this.
Millions, no. Thousands, yes.

Keep in mind that those 80s interpreted languages still have less overhead than the HLLs of today.
Can't we leverage this lesson then? If smaller groups can be integrated into the larger one with enough time, then the answer is straightforward. You can have very large internet forums, but new users need to be slowly integrated into the 'culture' piecemeal.

Create a good culture, then break it out and parallelize it. New users get slotted into larger groups to learn the culture, then they can be sent on their way into the larger culture.

Twitter Training Wheels?
In the last 40 years more than 2 million Chinese have moved to the US. As of 2018, China is the biggest source of immigrants into the US.
I’m not OP but, I run a Gitea instance for myself but still use GitHub because of things like both collaborating with others on their stuff and for others to be able to discover my stuff.

Besides, I don’t know that either GitLab nor Gitea has the kind of feature with profile README that is mentioned in the submitted link.
npm should not be a model to be imitated. npm modules make security audits impossible.
Previous employer transitioned time tracking (and all other hr things) to this giant all in one SAP thing. It took so many clicks to do anything. Took 3 clicks to just save your hours.
This is the way to do it. Done well, a 5-year deep dive can make you a world-class expert in most things. Do that, and then move onto the next thing, bringing that skillset along.

It goes faster every time too. It turns out there are lots of overlaps. Linear algebra and differential equations are (roughly) the same in electronic engineering, quantum mechanics, or mechanical engineering, and where they're not is where you often bring in unique insights.

The people who struggle are the ones who go shallow. A half-dozen HN articles a day.
I imagine Priti will throw her hat in the ring too, although God forbid it comes to pass. I think Sunak would be a strong choice, where Javid doesn’t have the charisma.
There is a difference. You can make fun of Trump/McConnel all day long, and no one cares because it is our free speech. Try putting a Xi Jinping blimp up in Beijing and see how fast you get arrested.

Try being a minority religion in China too...
Well, you use a lot more than one bean to make a cup of coffee. Drip would be on the low end, but even so some oil/fat makes it into the cup. 2 calories worth of fat is only about 200mg.
Dropbox’ desktop App
At a company where people work on whatever they want, there’s probably a lot of reasons why projects might not be “finished.”
I live in the mountains of Central Arizona. I was able to see the comet a little while ago. It was pure luck: I went out front and with the setting sun the light was just right to see a tiny white point with a tiny line coming out of it. I ran inside and grabbed the good binoculars my son in law gave me for Christmas, and for just about 1 minute it was beautifully visible/good detail with the binoculars. Then the light changed and it was gone from view.

I think I missed seeing the last comet.
> Invades, then turns Philippines into a sovereign nation.

Yes, tell me more about what the US did in the Philippines.
Looks neat on Desktop version of GitHub. Looks less neat on mobile version of GitHub. Still cool though.
I assume you're referring to ditching the communist system, right? which under Mao was responsible for 20-46 million deaths from starvation (that # is from wikipedia).

Unfortunately, while they've ditched the economic part of communism, they've retained the dictatorial part, while moving towards the vision in 1984--a vision that seemed absurdly impractical when I read the book back in the 60s. But AI is now making it possible for the Chinese overloads to implement.

Yeah, Xi double-plus good. And I'm sure Winnie will increase the chocolate ration next week.
The secret trick is to create a new public repository and name it your 'username'. That should do it.

Also nice to see this new hack using GitHub actions to keep the current updated. Here is my profile README (kept it simple), love to see others as well: https://github.com/suyashjoshi
This video touts air bearings, but it says nothing about how the pistons rings (or equivalent seals) work without lubrication.
One example would be analytics libraries that require precise calculations and background in math as opposed to the UI that displays the bar chart with results. The former is what I consider to be "fundamental" where the latter is much higher level and close to the end user (UI).

Other examples: audio / video codecs vs. media player app; game engine vs. intro screen and menu stuff, etc...
These garbage attempts resurface periodically. Some just never learn.
The software I run every day on my laptop is ok (Firefox, thunderbird, emacs, terminal, Ubuntu in general) so it must be something on my phone. Probably the OS because the phone is as good as my previous laptop but Google limits what it can do, more and more with each release. And yet any alternative I can think about is worse. Example: iOS is even more locked up and a Linux phone won't run some apps I must have so I'll end up with two phones.

Aha! I was about to submit the comment and it came to me that my laptop's nvidia proprietary device + linux kernel combo is (let's be kind) under optimal (still better than the open source driver.) The main point: 40 Hz refresh rate with Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. It was 60 Hz with 16.04 and earlier.
These threads always are filled with first stab approaches and few people bringing up research or actual information about the problem.

Social media discussions are near the blind spot for HN folk.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018/11/12/views-of-the-u...

And those places have a quite positive views of America.

> In 2018, two-thirds (67%) see the U.S. positively, up 10 percentage points from 2017.

> But the Japanese public has less esteem for America than do Filipinos (83%) and South Koreans (80%).
While it wouldn't be exactly like HK, being a semi-autonomous territory of the US would allow the new goverment/economy to be in a unique position. Imagine, for example, if New-HK was allowed to set their own tariffs and taxes for goods coming into/out of their ports, while maintaining 100% free trade with the continental US.
How will we know when we're in the middle, and how long will that take?
I also thought about another point recently. Many companies hand out Apple laptops with pre-installed software to their employees. It's not entirely unrealistic to imagine that some of the pre-installed software is intended to spy on the employees to make sure they don't use company hardware to do anything weird and takes screenshots and camera shots occasionally.

In this kind of situations you'll see the LED and you'll know what's happening and you'd much prefer to have a physical cover on your webcam.
The word "expose" is doing a lot of work there.

I've written a lot of Python (thankfully not so much anymore), and Rust is part of my day job. I am struggling to think of a circumstance in which something would be easier to write in Rust than in Python, factoring out "performance" --- just comparing the languages themselves. Maybe, you can provide examples, and we can see if we're working from the same premises.
Probably SAP apps at my employer
I’ve been here for quite a while, and I’ve learned more from this community (which included developers across the planet) than I’ve learned from any other community online.

I’ve known PG’s biases and dogwhistles for a while ("What you can’t say" is a FOGHORN of a dogwhistle), but the political landscape has changed.

When PG is expressing open regret for opening this forum, despite dang doing most of the work, he’s signaling that the discussion of this forum isn’t going in the direction he wants. This has been the most civil forum on the surface web for a long time. And that says a lot.
Ask HN: Difference Between '/' and '/News'?
Can anyone explain to me the difference between the homepage and the /news page of hackernews? Thank you in advanced.
Sorry, I kept editing, probably after you had already posted. And I should be clear that I don't have a strong opinion on whether this particular article is actually appropriate for discussion here. I do think it's an example, though, of how certain topics are "off limits" because a small group does not want them to be discussed. For me, it exacerbates my long standing worries that abuse of flagging (or the counter-reaction thereto) may be the eventual downfall of HN.
Honestly? Yes. I judge a country first and foremost by How it treats its own citizens.
Could they turn in a PDF, exported from LibreOffice? Or were animation effects a requirement?
> The word "expose" is doing a lot of work there.

I do not believe this is a statement that I can reply to in a meaningful way. You definitely believe Rust is much harder or more complicated than I think it is, and that’s basically where we disagree.
While it's true the trump administration is very anti immigrant at, it is also very anti ccp.
I would just follow how Google Maps works. I think that's how my brain was expecting Trail Router to work, since it visually and functionally is very similar to using the "Directions" feature of GMaps.
Translation to recruiters: "Building a LinkedIn-like Developer profile on GitHub"

Next stop for Microsoft: Add your real LinkedIn profile. What could possibly go wrong?
Great read. I've always loved Feynman - but the word "ego" might apply. "I was working on problems close to the gods", and his list of solved (and to be fair, unsolved) investigations remind me of his "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman". Clearly the most brilliant man, and also clearly with a healthy regard for himself. One has to look out at the world and, taking in the successful and unsuccessful, conclude that some ego about oneself might be more or less required for success.

I think we all want to believe that success can "go to your head", but I am beginning to believe the opposite: it's those with temerity and a certain precise lack of hubris who go on to do great things and do not "remain nameless" to the human race. Too many engineers eschew ego as much as possible, but (as Feynman points out) sometimes it's important to congratulate yourself.
>> as worthless as Disneyland.

Why is disneyland worthless? It employs lots of people. It makes kids happy. It is also old enough, by north american standards, that its iconic buildings could probably qualify for some sort of heritage status.

>> tourists have been thrown off the island for such uncultured behaviour.

Such things happen at Disneyland every day.
Use privacy protecting software like Tor, and decentralization technology like IPFS (and Tor).
Nowadays, it seems like gVisor is doing something fairly similar to UML but a good deal more lightweight.
Where do you people live that you need ear muffs capable of deafening gun shots just to sleep??
Most people believe there was no choice. Most of the territory was on a lease that was expiring and would have legally returned to China in 1997, splitting the city in two.

What the Brits should have done was to push reforms for democratic governance before they left.
They could have allowed a fully democratic local government that would have survived the handover and been enshrined in the Basic Law.
Instead, all promises of letting HK some democratic autonomy have been broken and stepped on, leading to the current situation.

China didn't like this idea of introducing democratic reforms in HK before the handover but the Brits are still at fault. A colony is a dictature, the British had no interest in having any type of self-governance framework for HK.

In the past 10 years -until the events of last year- there was little outspoken hate for China in HK. Most people were OK with the notion of being Chinese and part of China as long as their rights and freedoms were still honoured.

China could/should have used HK as an experiment to show that its overall control didn't fear some level of local democratic process.
Instead the CCP just showed the opposite: how fragile and fearful the it is of any potential dissent.

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You aren't really supposed to be using the AWS Console... the whole point of AWS is automation, not bespoke one-off configuration via a GUI: when they launched it it didn't even have a UI, and the command line tooling was more of a demo set of wrappers for the API to help you debug calls and do some simple shell script automation.
China also wouldn’t have taken this step if a certain other world power hadn’t gone AWOL the last few years.

There’s a reason they decided to ratchet up the pressure on HK the last few years. They figured that in the worst case slapping a specific brand on a few hotels in a few major Chinese cities is a cheap price to pay.
No one wants to live in planned cities. Virtually all of them are failures. What's to stop any of them simply getting on a bus to Seattle or San Diego? Are you going to put the army around this territory?

It's quite amusing the hypothetical lengths people will go to "caring" but still straight up open about not letting foreigners into their actual country.
Why I Learnt How to Code (As a Non-Technical Founder of My First Startup)
Anywhere noisy? When used around guns that don't (nearly) deafen them, just bring them down to non-damage causing levels.
> Jolly good show by the Brits to standby the people of Hong Kong

Having a new source of immigration when you have just screwed yourself over in attracting European immigrantes due to Brexit is common sense rather than altruism.
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> Well service depends on where you live.

Tell me about it. I have to drive about 100 miles to the nearest Audi dealership to get my Audi fixed. The nearest Tesla service center is 180 miles away. I really want a Tesla, but I'd pretty much have to do all of the servicing myself.
Americans are the most isolated, ahistorical and heavily propagandized humans on earth. Post-imperial Brits can't feed themselves. So says Brit philosopher John Gray, one of the architects of Thatcherism. I personally helped destroy the Apartheid govt South African govt, from Harvard, working for/with Unitarians, and met Desmond Tutu in the process. I fully expect horrifying and unspeakable Karmic retributions to befall the spawn of post-Imperial racist Brits and their pretenders. The Chinese enjoy a post-colonial unity we colonial peoples (who are not a people) cannot imagine, with more historical neighbors than any other country and a longer continuous written history than any other peoples. Americans suffer Stockholm Syndrome and widespread infantilism. Anticipate their exponential sufferings.
It's a fun exercise, my Amex Platinum concierge has been good enough in doing organizing for me, presenting me options for hard to get arrangements.

Both airline and hotels were mostly free using points and status.

I would only be booking for myself and only maybe a companion as the reality is that I have likely another companion in the destination. No kids, by design. The luxury wore off pretty quick and hostels were inherently more social, so the fixed dollar cost again dropped by an order of magnitude, with decompressing - and the improved possibility of privacy with a companion I may have met earlier in the week - happening at hotels on the weekend.

This is the first year that $10mm in a 30 year bond would only yield $133,000. Last year the record low rates would yield $300,000. I would probably speculate with some of it, hoping for a 10-bagger or 20-bagger. If not, oh well, wait for the next coupon!
Isn't that Venmo?
It's here for the daily HN China circlejerk, being dated doesn't matter in the slightest.