skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think exploring the idea of a crowd-sourced website listing these reasons and proposed solutions would be quite valuable.

100% agree...a crowd-sourced website that does this and a whole bunch of other things is desperately needed.

I believe with strong certainty that the current state of affairs (in Western countries at least) is that our political, corporate, and media structures, combined with the "collective consciousness" of our population, have basically brought us to a point from which these same organizations haven't a hope in hell of undoing the mess they've put us in. I think something outside the current system, a completely new grassroots approach to decision and sense making is required to get us back onto a sustainable path.

How might we get such an initiative underway?
Correct, and they didn’t say where they were going or what they were charged with.

At least one person had their hat pulled down so they couldn’t see anything.

He only found out he had been to the local court house after he had been dumped in a random part of the city

Despite document (and recording) his “arrest” law enforcement said there was no record of his being picked up at all.

There have been multiple articles covering this.
There is no science behind the lockdowns. There is no logic in keeping Walmart open but closing Sears for safety. Yes I believe it is absurd the level to which we have locked down the country.

Some of the states that had the strictest lockdowns, NY, NJ, also had the worst outcomes.

The purpose was never to stop the virus but to slow it.

Growing cases does not concern me. Death rate has blipped up a little but no where near in proportion to the cases.

This is no Tuberculosis, or even Measles.

Time to cautiously carry on and stop cowering.
> How does that work? How does anyone even approve it if it isn't going to be used?

How do you know it won't be used if it isn't put in in the first place?
Thank you for collecting that list, I stand corrected. I've heard that original statement echoed several times in the RC community -- But I think sometimes people are separating out incidents from gas RC aircraft, RC helicopters, commercial operation etc. in a way that might be a little disingenuous.
Another one worth a mention is StimulusReflex https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/

Real-time stimulus + rails.
Yeah, Guttenberg and Von der Leyen are definitely on my "bad people"-list.

Guttenberg was even the main candidate to direct some sort of "Internet security/ethics" department (don't remember anymore exactly what it was)? What kind of joke is that?

Von der Leyen was involved in the story about spending a lot of $ for external contracting companies & other stuff, then she got "promoted" to the EU-level => another joke, for me.
We found the basic models in Slack, Teams and Zulip too rigid. In all such clones of the Slack design, the members of channels (and threads) are static. You are either a participant in the entire channel or you arent. But it doesnt work like that in the real world.

For starters, a thread is a personal idea. (I think this is what you mean by opt-in). My idea of a thread is probably not your idea of a thread. So the concept of shared thread (channel) is hard to fathom. Second, my thread is made of activities I need to complete for the task at hand. In the process, I will interact with as many people or as few as I see fit, all in the pursuit of my goal.

Not all the people I interact with (thread participants) are necessarily members of my team. This is where the rigidity is a real problem with the aforementioned products. I cannot know all the participants at the time of channel creation. And once involve a non-team-member user in the thread, they become unwitting recipients of noise, and they cant do a damn thing about it.

There's gotta be a better way.
He’s announced he’s not running for re-election
> It’s the only way to tell

It's inconceivable that extraterrestrial life would be indistinguishable from terrestrial.

It's also clear we've seen exactly zero signs of any sort of off-Earth life in the solar system. Nothing.
> There's no reason to believe that HN is "incredibly xenophobic" except insofar as human beings in general may be.

While he said what he said and you refuted, I think the thought behind what he said was influenced by the rise in anti-Chinese xenophobia of late, and to my mind that is a real phenomenon both on HN and off of it. It is accompanied by, it must be said, a sharp increase in xenophobia in China as well.

I "agree" with the general xenophobia, meaning the lack of progress and backsliding toward China aligning with western democratic and individualistic ideals that I hold dear is very disappointing, but I can also see that indulging in one's xenophobic feelings might not lead to a desired outcome either.

I just say that because, counter to your last statement, there is reason to believe that HN has become incredibly xenophobic (compared to where it was a few years ago), which similar to what you also said, is accompanied by a qualifier.
iCloud backups are end to end encrypted if 2 factor authentication is turned on according to your link.
In the case of Flash, there is no world where Adobe could get Flash working well on an iPhone in 2007 with 128MB RAM/400Mhz CPU when it could barely run on a 1GB RAM/1Ghz CPU Android in 2010.
It can't just be something that works inside the cache. When an item is newly introduced, such that the cache has no traces of it, the very first fetch has to already validate that it's the right article.
At the start of the pandemic, there were hospitals that explicitly forbid doctors from wearing masks, going so far as to fire them. There was one just up I-5 from me which did just that.

When an idiot with authority decides to flex their bureaucratic muscles, the cruelty is the point.
Perhaps law firms could invite people with smaller cases to cooperate as follows: everyone contributes some amount of money to a pool and gives the description of their proposed case. Then the law firm chooses the best action to pursue using the pooled money. Then if they win, the proceeds are shared by the firm, and everyone in the pool evenly.
I just defaulted on a lawsuit because the plaintiff did not want to settle, and going through with litigation would have been prohibitively expensive for me (which the plaintiff knew). So now I'm awaiting judgement and terrified of what will happen. The plaintiff is very rich and he doesn't care about the costs, I'm likely going broke and be ruined.

It is incredibly scary and frustrating dealing with the legal system when you don't have the money to do it and the other party has a lot of money. In this sense, there really is no justice, only an unfair legal system that works for those who have the resources to exploit it.
I completely agree that it is poorly named. One of the reasons I never even considered that I had ADD/ADHD was that I was never really exhibited hyperactivity and during certain activities -reading an amazing book or playing my favourite games- I can focus for hours on end. I think it would be great for the scientific/psychiatric community to seriously consider a new name.
Matt Levine is still worth reading.
You might enjoy DDP Yoga - https://youtu.be/aB5ys1zsz-o - it's yoga from the professional wrestlers perspective.
It really would be a shame if terrestrial life "invaded" lifeless rocks like Mars.
All three are true, you are denying science. I am very tired of this anti-science crowd peddling fear.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Yeah, I completely get that. Was talking to a core dev today and he mentioned the limited tooling/ecosystem. It doesn't help when you're a competitor of either very well-established languages or ones that are backed by big corporations (e.g. Go)
Thanks. This made me look up where I got it from. It seems from the orbituary in the LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-walt...
> Whilst I would personally prefer videos with no ads, is this not stealing?

The usual response you'll get is "is it stealing if I go to the bathroom during a TV ad break?" or "that's why content creators have in-video paid sponsorship blurbs"

I personally think those are flimsy justifications though. I think it's stealing to bypass ads when the company hosting the service has a clear avenue for paid ad-free viewing.

It would be like creating an app that streams the free-tier of Crunchyroll ad-free while still using Crunchyroll's bandwidth. Dishonest.
I was actually curious at first and then I was like ah shit here we go again "NiM : the python killer", it for real is not by any means gonna be able to replace python given the stark difference in usage atm in addition to Nim's inadequete marketing and advocacy present right now. Just doesn't add up.
These "it was a hoax until happened to me" stories are super commonly hoaxes in the US, as well: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/did-the-times-print-an...
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Nobody on the internet but you knows about the contrapositive; but you can fix that!
Apple uses LibreSSL as I understand.
Exactly. Creativity is incommensurable with developing best practices in an MBA program, going both ways - there are strong priors about the weights of factors in a model of performance, and creativity is basically impossible to measure.
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In thermodynamics there are two other formulations of entropy: the Clausius one in terms of temperature and heat, and the Boltzmann one. The latter defines entropy as the log of the number of microstates a system could be in a particular macrostate.

The Shannon definition is equivalent to the Boltzmann def only in the case that the micro state consists of infinitely many identical subsystems. If there are only finitely many, for instance, the log of the quantity does not correspond to the same "-p log p".

The Clausius def can be derived from the Boltzmann one, but they are nevertheless also distinct formulations.
the UK used to have this - "legal aid". Some lawyers charged only enough to have their entire bill covered by legal aid, so effectively providing free-to-the-user legal assistance. It was dropped by the Thatcher government as too expensive.

There is a certain type of person that goes to the NHS even when they're well (or only have a minor ailment), because they're lonely and it's free. There'll be a certain type of person who will take everyone to court because they're angry at the world and it's free.

Making it cost something is probably more efficient, but will still exclude some people at society's margins.
> Vue can be used without build tooling if you choose to use the Vue lib with the compiler included but we use the pre-compiled way for max performance and smaller Vue runtime (without compiler).

+1. And likewise, you can use React without a build step too, though of course it is slower. [1]

[1] https://shinglyu.com/web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without...
My nephews kids are homeschooled. They have a rigorous curriculum, specific goals, etc. They also have regular socialization activity with other homeschoolers. They just choose to not settle for the mediocrity, nor accept the indoctrination pushed by the education system.
There is a reason that Google pays Apple 8 Billion+ a year to be the default search engine....
I don't think it's meant to solve a concrete problem. Just to provide fixed definitions to make some IETF quarrels less painful, by providing semiauthoritative definitions of some words.

Which is good. That lets people quarrel about the substance of something instead of digressing into quarreling about what terms mean.
Yes, and then the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a revised statement that included:

"Returning to school is important for the healthy development and well-being of children, but we must pursue re-opening in a way that is safe for all students, teachers and staff. Science should drive decision-making on safely reopening schools. Public health agencies must make recommendations based on evidence, not politics. We should leave it to health experts to tell us when the time is best to open up school buildings, and listen to educators and administrators to shape how we do it."

Bottom line IMO is that these decisions need to be made locally. There is no one-size-fits-all for schools across the country. And sadly there will also be other significant negative consequences for some kids who can't go back to school yet. We should be attacking these issues on multiple fronts with multiple strategies, using strong leadership, increased funding, and careful planning instead of rushing into a situation we are unprepared for.
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More legible formats:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8799.html

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8799
I have seen suggestions that the early Hebrew kings are re-branded pharaohs: Akhenaten and Nefertiti as (sequence-displaced) mono-theistic Adam and Eve, Solomon's gold as southern Egyptian tribute, Song of Solomon cribbed from an Egyptian prayer, maybe even a pyramid as Ararat. Nothing conclusive that I know of, but intriguing hints.
Ethan also writes about machine learning at https://honestyisbest.com/kernels-of-truth each week -- his most recent piece there (https://honestyisbest.com/kernels-of-truth/2020/Jul/14/facia...) has a neat explanation of how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) work.
I would hope we can find a way for apps like this to exist while still paying youtube and content creators. Something like and API subscription for a third party algorithm tool like this that pay youtube part of the subscription.
Your frustration is understandable, but so too is why they never were -- HTML was never intended to be a programming language or component-based.

HTML was originally meant to be page-based. And pretty much everything added to it (CSS, JavaScript) is scoped to the page. (Some data storage like cookies is scoped to the domain.)

So shoehorning a "component" model to what is fundamentally page-based is essentially an impossible task to do elegantly. Either you wall components off in sandboxes and break the entire premise of the page having control ("why can't I modify the style of my component anymore with the page's CSS?!"), or your components are extremely leaky and accidentally stop working because of page-level CSS and JavaScript interfering.

So we have a ton of different component models that use different tradeoffs.

Obviously if HTML/CSS/JavaScript were being built from scratch today as a platform for apps, it would probably be designed extremely differently, very much around contained components. But that's not what it grew out of historically.
This story is fascinating (you really should read the whole book). But using her as example is completely misleading. She is a genius (I think). Very similar to the movie "Good Will Hunting". She got accepted into Cambridge with little to no education whatsoever. Even if you are a genius, this is not easy, since you just have to understand the system to some extend, no matter how smart you are, to be accepted into it.

Suffices to say, millions would fail under similar conditions, where she succeeded. Odds in normal education are much better than that.
What's wrong with the only value being an agency? Do you not approve of B2B generally speaking?

If teachers didn't have a service like this to use, they would each have to find their own way to attract the attention of potential students.
I don't believe there are any states currently issuing stay at home (which is different than SIP) orders.

It also has 100% not been an overreaction. It saved countless lives by preventing spread. That whole flattening the curve thing and how well countries that have actually followed through and did not open early should show you how effective it has been.
I honestly don't think that this solves anything that was a real problem in PHP. Super easy boilerplate to abstract away (like you did). But I don't think your way is much more pleasing to the eye than filter_var... Maybe I am being over critical because the amount of emojis gave me a minor aneurysm.
And yet you are the one who misinterpreted the sarcasm here. Look at your sibling comment.
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It directs you to a link on YouTube where you can download your subscriptions (in XML I believe), and then it allows you to import that file. Pretty neat workaround.
I'm surprised anyone would default to trusting arXiv papers, or even browse new additions, without first checking up on the credentials and experience of the authors.

If the problem is finding new papers, then you really should be using sources other than arXiv.
(In case this isn't changed to the official AWS blog link)

"There are two other patches that impact the performance of the WordPress-NGINX benchmark, and both have been applied to master and PHP-7.4 branch:"

A patch to disable the use of huge pages in memory allocator fixed a 10% performance regression: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/928c42211f737640e4dc3c...

The patch to enable the Zend Optimizer on ARM64 accounts for about 5% of better performance on M6g instances https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/4d7df449d0ab389b01b45f...
Clinton isn’t incompetent with a long list of failures behind her name. I despise her but to think that she wouldn’t have been better at handling the pandemic response than Trump is delusional.
This.
If your problem are ads, background-playing and download - then just go with premium.

I do understand that some apps provide extra features etc. but premium removes ads cross-platform... and since GoogleMusic is included, it replaces Spotify as well(yes, it's different..).
My mom works as an administrator in a public school. She is one year away from being eligible for medicaid, which is when she planned on retiring. She said as of right now, she plans to go back, because getting private insurance with her pre-existing conditions for the next year isn't feasible. I'm seriously considering seeing if my siblings and I can fund it for her for a year so she can just retire now and not have to worry about her as much.

A few other school districts around us have cancelled their in-person plans, at least for a few months, so hopefully her district does the same.
A CSS Snippet That Makes Any HTML Page Look Good
I totally agree. A good book that introduces CSS in a methodical perspective is a must. I personally cut my teeth on CSS with the book Web Design in a Nutshell, a 2006 book. I remember having written CSS in a haphazard try-and-see fashion before that, which utterly confused me, and then reading an actual book made everything clear. This is an investment worth making. Many years later I'm still almost always "the guy" on my team to go to when there's a weird CSS issue.
It has no jurisdiction, but certainly has influence using strongarm financial tactics.
This explains the recent Star Wars movies then. Well, possibly except one.

Belt tightening like that is usually the sign that the MBAs took over. This is fine up to a point except when they start running a financial services enterprise instead of ... whatever you'd call they had before. Animation media entertainment company?

I wonder when the rot set in. The creativity out of Disney is now matching Hollywood baseline and that has been dropping significantly. They're buying major franchies rather than creating them. I think this strategy is biting them. Too much financial analysis. They are losing the sharp creative edge.

Or is this my view, not based on insider knowledge, and completely inaccurate?
We’re not a “country.” We’re 50 different states with a federal government, which doesn’t have public health as one of its assigned roles.

This isn’t an ideological point, it’s a bare recitation of fact. Somehow, other federal republics like Germany managed to engage in an effective pandemic response while leaving most of the work to the states. For example, while Germany eventually had a mask order everywhere, the states all implemented them at different times. School reopening was all done on different schedules with different procedures. Merkel didn’t issue a national mask order, for the same reason Trump didn’t: she wasn’t legally allowed to.

This was not a surprise. Nobody thought pandemic response was mainly a federal responsibility. States, particularly New York, were just completely unprepared for a job they knew was theirs.

So I agree ideologies are the problem, but this is a problematic ideology too. Why would people use a pandemic to try and relitigate the basic structure of our government? Why can’t we just work within the system to solve problems?
NYC law makes a first-degree charge a little more difficult even with premeditation. You need aggravating factors such as murder in the process of another crime (robbery, kidnapping, arson, rape, ...) or if the victim is a cop, judge, witness, etc.

Details here: https://statelaws.findlaw.com/new-york-law/new-york-first-de...
Pennsylvania is considering putting the funding with the kids, rather than through the system/administration. The average spending per student in the US is about $15k/yr. If that money went with the student, instead of to administration, etc. a teacher could take on 10 students and make $150k/yr revenue. A mainstream online curriculum for those students costs less than $30/mo. I'm not saying that's exactly the solution, I don't want to get caught up in the details on the HN forum, but I hope we can head in that vague direction.
> we won't be sure if it's from us or not.

Yeah, we would with 100% certainty. Life on Earth is based on the sum of an incredible number of random events. (See "butterfly effect".) The chances of coming up with the same, or even remotely related, result elsewhere are zero.

It's less than the chance there's a doppelganger of you here on Earth with the same DNA (and he's not the twin your mom lost).
OpenBSD also changed it's malloc implementation from sbrk to mmap, the net effect being that free returned memory to the OS far more often. It broke a lot of interesting stuff.
> The teachers are going to have to help bear the load, just as we all are.

Judging by how this pandemic has unfolded in America, we certainly aren't sharing the load equally.
>No, we’re not using an antiquated form of slang from the ’90s.

like, whatever dude. hella gnarly.
Not sure if you've advertised it as such to these potential employers, but you should not reveal your hand (that you're willing to accept a lower comp than what you currently earn)
Nim is my "scripting" language of choice for any quick tools I write. Just today I needed to do some data exploration on a 1 million line CSV file. No formal data analysis, just needed to understand the shape of the data and answer a few questions. Writing the script was easy thanks to Nim's nice syntax and big standard library. My most complex query finished in a minute, most of my queries took less than 20 seconds to complete. This is all unoptimized code using the garbage collector and idiomatic language features. Nim isnt without its faults, but it is a seriously underrated language.
The world and its policies exist before they are documented on Wikipedia. What is your point?
Herbalife still is a 'real' business. Ackman would like you to think otherwise but it still is. The whole thing might be a point against short sellers.