skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversation threading is huge. I've had to use a few tools that keep getting broke to try to manually capture replies and threads to tweets for academic use. (https://www.exquisitetweets.com/ and https://treeverse.app/ which seems broken now)If a tool comes out that can do this easily (I'm no programmer so command line stuff if a little beyond me) then I will be very happy.
> When this forum dumps on Reddit, it walks away with an impression of superiority that could not be further from the truth. Observe my sibling. All forums have their problems and HN is not blessed with immunity.

At the same time, I would rather HN have a false sense of superiority that sometimes keeps it from descending to the depths as people at least make the attempt sometimes to keep it better than that, rather than just accept that it's often no different, and thus excuse that behavior when it happens.

That is, having the perception of superiority is helpful in as much as it allows comments like yours to have weight. Your comment on Reddit might be met with "well, duh, it's Reddit." Hopefully here some people are instead thinking about what they want this forum to be and whether they helped or hindered that. That's a bit pretentious of me to say, but I also think it's true.
Thank You!! I love this.

Since SIP orders, I have been working out at home with YouTube videos. I have been bookmarking some of my favorite videos and categorizing them (arms, upper body, cardio, etc). I think you can easily build a clone of this for other forms of workouts too.
Most riots seem to be sparked by counter-protestors (the police). They could do with more training in de-escalation instead of the "warrior" training too many of them get.

Behind the Bastards did an episode on it.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
The real illness is on a different level - it's the way the main culture in the US sees and understands the world. It makes some spectacularly wrong assumptions there. But those assumptions were never seriously challenged (no enemies nearby, dominance after WW2), so then why change, right?

Now those assumptions are being challenged. And of course a lot of people, rather than change and give up their cherished "identity", would plow ahead blindly, consequences be damned. Everyone who is protesting masks, I am looking at you and your beliefs.

This has happened many times in history. Societies get their beliefs challenged by reality. Some adapt, fix their stuff, and go on. Some don't.

There is still time to change. But not much.
Yes, "negatively correlated" is more widely used (the iron law of nitpicking strikes again).
1. FF 77 on Arch, with ublock origin enabled. I'd still say almost-opaque is a bad idea for text-over-text. Were it an image, an opacity: 0.5+ value would be fine, but text is very distracting even at opacity: 0.8 or so.

2. Maybe that could work. A red underline is fine but the error at the bottom is the biggest thing. Instead of switching between neutral/error state, why don't you experiment with working/neutral state? If the code is fine, show a green tick at the bottom, else just show the error with grey color and a grey icon so it's visible but not attention grabbing. On the other hand, you'd get the advantage of getting people hooked with getting the code back to green. Positive reinforcement.

2.
2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001964

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098262

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695319

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021430

It's a fine thing to submit but the cutoff for dupes is about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Edit: scratch that, we'll make an exception since it's the first new release in several years. See discussion in subthread below.
Yep. misspelled it.

ph is a logarithmic scale so the difference between ph ~0 and ph 3 is of 3 orders of magnitude (or something like that. My maths is rubbish...). it can dissolve noble metals so I doubt anything living can survive it. But once diluted, some extremophiles may be live off it. while googling found this interesting article

https://onezero.medium.com/a-new-zealand-startup-is-using-mi...

so yeah, the challenge is halfway broken. science is amazing. :D
Is that in an urban setting or rural? I'm seeing the change in rural.
Other people's masks protect us, our masks protect other people.

Someone on Reddit gave the analogy of people peeing themselves with or without clothes on. If you're clothed and someone else pees in your direction, you're gonna get at least a little wet. If they're clothed, you don't get wet at all.

If someone developed a comfortable mask that gave the wearer near-100% protection and was widely available, I wouldn't worry about what others do.
Blown away by how much they're collecting? Please. We've known about Facebook's fetish for collecting everything they possibly can for years.

What should be shocking is how many people dismiss such information because "I have nothing to hide," or "but Facebook connects me with friends and family."

Saying that drugs make you feel good doesn't make it less bad that the pushers want you to get addicted.
Not mentioned: The high likelihood that .cm domains may at a glance look like .com domains, and will be used for phishing...
Yes, and if they start identifying Google accounts that share the IP of a device violating YouTube TOS and disabling those accounts, some people will be very sad.

They should at least consider the possibility. Go in with open eyes, so to say.

This story comes to mind:

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/239728-google-suspends-ac...
I don't think that NewPipe even allows logging in... I think it is an alternative to that because it allows one to subscribe to channels without an account.

What he probably meant is that people who are logged into the Google Services with their google account got im trouble for using NewPipe, which to me seems unlikely. I doubt that Google got away with something like that!
This is another solid example of adapting to the constraints, a particularly chilling one.
But they build very good privacy and security into their products. And they structure their UI and defaults in such a way that the average user benefits with no effort or specialized knowledge.

Sometimes they do, and I agree that they're much better than a lot of big tech companies.

Still, their insistence on tying almost everything to iCloud and then not encrypting iCloud properly is a major black mark against them, which severely reduces the usefulness of their devices and associated services if you value privacy and security.
Worst abuse of the C preprocessor (IOCCC winner, 1986)
That is where I first ran into this app. Unfortunately the f-droid version is 0.15.1 while the current git release is 0.19.6.
I'm not looking to convince people. I am implementing this right now in my household. I'm trying to find ways to reach family and neighbors. The low hanging fruit are people who already have an inkling for this stuff.

Writing on here helps me clarify my thoughts, and I get a lot of good feedback from it. But again: I came to the conclusion, I don't need to save the whole world. I just need to focus on what is within my circle of influence... and there is quite a bit I can do even if it does not cover the whole population. I do what I can with CO2 sequestering, food resiliency, regenerative and restorative agriculture. I'm taking steps towards a future where many people do this ... but I will also have a much greater chance of surviving if there is a collapse of civilization because people are not doing these things.

The question for you though, is if you are willing to change your way of life. I'm ok if you decide that you are, or if you decide you are not. If you do decide you are, there are a lot of resources out there to help you get started. And if you are not, then at least you now know what your options are. You're welcomed to try later if you ever change your mind. Or not. That's the beauty of this kind of permissionless, decentralized solutions. There are things you yourself can do, and you don't need to wait for half of the US population to do it with you. It really is in your hands and your choice, your freedom to pursue this or reject it. Or come up with something better.
The same argument is deployed against gun control too and it's still only partially true. If the system is simple enough every flight controller manufacturer will eventually implement it and the bar to run one without a beacon gets much higher. It means catching anyone without it is suddenly in trouble. Finally it reduces the pool of potential miscreants to people intentionally setting out to be troublesome and raises some technical hurdles presuming the system is deeply integrated.

Speed limits don't stop bad actors either but that doesn't me we get rid of them.
The rest of the world is not united. And China has definitely learned from the Soviet lessons.
Huh, that's actually pretty neat.
The federal government is doing this on purpose to kill public schools.
i lived in germany before coming to the US, and i must say that one of the biggest differences that i noticed was what a pleasant experience shopping was in the US.

people were always polite, friendly and helpful.
You sound resigned to your fate. When did Americans become accustomed to accepting utter incompetence that costs hundreds of thousands of lives from their leadership? Is the political process down there completely broken?
Thank you - my site has been suspended for 24 hours after too many hits at once.
> you can always refuse to cooperate with the investigation later

I wish we had an option for restorative justice. This is exactly what the victim would have wanted.
Ultimately, "long-sighted" shareholders should be able to outperform the short-sited ones, as long as they can retain control of the company. I wonder if there's any way to form a sort of shareholders union to maintain the control of an organization by shareholders who plain to keep stock for a long time.
"here I am, at the end of the maze, telling people at the beginning how straight forward it is" is basically all I'm getting here - and you call my eval problematic.

Multiple accounts of people not in your position telling you a problem exists. Ok, great, you worked through it. Doesn't mean it's as good as it should be.
if the kid has no symptoms, and tests positive, it is a case to self isolate (the kid as well as the whole family) - so they don't transmit it to other kids and teachers who might be vulnerable. And in this case, it might very well be fatal to the teachers who are in close contact with the kid.

Why is this so hard to grasp? Being a disease carrier is a problem even if the kid doesn't show symptoms, especially it's been established that covid is transmissible with no symptoms.
Some states have eliminated the religious exemption for the requirement that kids need to be vaccinated to attend school. I imagine that vaccination and mask requirements would be based on a similar legal basis, so "yes".
At the risk of sounding obvious, it is always a good idea to get labs drawn first and then consider supplements if needed. Blindly taking supplements can cause issues in the opposite direction.

Most of us taste our food before deciding whether to add salt, same should go with supplements.
Yes. Can’t you be both grumpy and positive ? You are not satisfied with reality then you are positive because you are seeking change. However forced positivity needs attention. When you are in a bad situation and feeling stressed out is it more important to keep a smiling, or admit that you are stressed out and focus on solution ?
the fact there were multiple sightings in rural areas and not one was destroyed by buckshot should mean something.

I grew up in the country, I don't see any teen/young adult spotting one of these over their farm/ranch and resisting the urge to grab a 12 gauge and take a shot.
Counterpoint: 3D Realms. They made so much money off of Duke Nukem 3D that they never learned how to manage their business and burned all their money trying to make "the perfect sequel".
An Opinel #7 would be fine. Carbon steel, or stainless. A Victorinox Tinker would also be fine. Some people like serrated blades. A Leatherman would be great. Basically anything Spyderco/Benchmade is way more than sufficient.

I would get a completely separate knife for food (one to open the marshmallow bag, another to make the stick pointy).
Thinking about having a kid. There's no way I would ever have a kid in my current US state. Not saying anyone has done it well vs rest of the world, but there are clearly states (and counties/cities) that have done a much better job at protecting human life than others.

As someone who has lived in the US South for most of my childhood and adult life, I truly don't think it's responsible to have children here if you have another choice. I know a lot of people don't, but I do and I'm out of here.
This is ridiculous fear mongering.

There are 5.1 million people working in hospitals.

https://datausa.io/profile/naics/hospitals

800/5100000 = .00016

They are therefore three times less likely to die from Covid than the general population.

Schools across Europe have opened. Children rarely spread the disease. Doctors recommend schools open.

Twenty times as many children died of the flu last year than from COVID.

Death rates are not surging in proportion to cases.

The CFR of this disease does not meet the threshold for a pandemic, nor does it merit the level of fear engendered by the press.

It is utterly ridiculous.
Who says they are all in on it?

And media has held back articles several times due to govt request - maybe this one just got through.

Not saying I'm right - only saying it's possible.
Re: sodastream I do agree, and I don't particularly like their product. The profit margins of selling canned soda water are incredibly high. Sodastream has managed a virtual monopoly because they appear to have undercut that margin substantially (in that it is much cheaper to do yourself at home than buy soda) and have a very wide distribution network. There's a spot to swap canisters in the small hardware store down the block.

If you were to create a competitor, what would your differentiator be? Cheaper? Good luck, it's already pretty cheap. They're just not worth competing with, it seems.
Once this feature is released and verified live, this is a big reason for me to potentially move back to iPhone.

I just hope Apple follows through on their promises and not backout of it like they did with some of the end to end encryption stuff with iCloud.
I've researched the several ways to do this and found that a combination of the following usually works for me:

- Samsung Note device using an S-Pen to either draw diagrams, rough sketches, or jot notes and then later convert them to saved image files.

- Fountain pens and individual notebooks for meeting notes, book excerpts, quotes, etc. I find that writing down things and having no structure just leads to confusion and a mess of notes that's more time consuming to find when needed. Having sections or just dedicated pages for topics makes it manageable.

- Jotlin app for extensive note taking on a particular topic/interest that wouldn't fit neatly into a couple of handwritten pages.

- Apple Notes/Google Keep rarely but it does serve its purpose if there's nothing else available.

- I type faster than I write and when taking notes or highlighting captures from a book, Google Books has a very useful way of creating a doc file from everything highlighted: book page, page number, relevant highlighted section.

I've tried the whole Bullet Journal techniques and found that it's just an obsessive methodology of note taking with a steep learning curve, it didn't serve my purposes though and I don't knock it if others find it valuable.
I tried that using <template> <style> blocks, a few years ago.

my biggest problem was simply that I still had to add all my templates to a single long html file. And that really feels suboptimal. I had a scaffolded page structure at top. and then dozens of template sections following it.
and then as some templates are supposed to call other templates (form inside page section) there was a clear hierarchy but my html file was flat and it was getting harder to reason about the structure of my app the more templates I added. I finally threw it all away and just did a vanillajs spa.

I really wanted to be able to breakup my html file into smaller composable ones without having to do that in JS. but there is no current solution for html importing other html files, and the spec discussion around html import are pretty much dead in the water (and have been since 2013)
R1C1 addressing?

3. Windowing: could this potentially be used as a frontend to a huge database of, say, millions of rows?
To me, it feels like saying computers will never beat humans at _______ game to claim that computers will never be able to manipulate human decision making.

Marketers have already done this without targeted advertising for decades and gotten extremely good at it. Now they have the equivalent of nuclear weapons (individual profiles and data) and you still think it's going to turn out ok for the people?
I think you've buried the lead here. Walmart isn't altruistic; all they care about is increasing sales. Sincere pleasantness is nice to encounter, but such sincerity doesn't come from company policy.
There's a Kings College study under review that says the same thing. Antibodies seem to wane rapidly:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/With-coronavirus-...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429v...

Likewise, asymptomatic cases appear to have limited immune duration and development:

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/138759#ABS

And meaningful immunity might depend on how much of the virus one is exposed to:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6

I linked to the Vox article because it covers a lot of bases in disputing the spurious narratives that have circulated in places like the US, where the disease is out of control, pandemic response is poor, and various forms of denialism are used to excuse all of this. I don't think its an apocalyptic scenario for humanity writ large, but certainly a dangerous one for many countries, especially if an ongoing, effective public health response is required.

>While it is impossible to directly demonstrate that immunity for a disease discovered X months ago lasts longer than X months, it is reasonable to expect that in this case.

Instead of attributing motives to other people, perhaps interrogate your own need to insist on statements like this, absent any evidence, as well as the tone of your broader rebuttal. I have no intention of sowing panic or engaging in "noble lies," but nor will I embrace evidence-free narratives to soothe myself or others.

If the US intervened early or effectively with measures like those in Taiwan or South Korea, we would likely have the situation under control. It's still possible that we could do this and I hope that we do.
I have 0 confidence that public schools have the same care w.r.t. ventilation and plumbing that hospitals do.
Please don't do flamebait or name-calling here. It degrades discussion and evokes worse from others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Right, good point. I'm relying on my memory here, but when the advanced protection program was first launched, I recall that one of the benefits of it for journalists and high-risk individuals was that changing recovery options (email address, phone number) would have always required a manual review and a confirmation round by someone at Google.

I do think that Google should subject passwords for accounts in the program to HIBP checks. By this point every major browser provides at least some kind of password manager functionality. It'll probably never be the same quality as a stand-alone, fully focused password manager product, but it must be an improvement over forcing to memorise passwords.
Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories
You're misinterpreting my comment. Riots haven't swept the nation any more than a hurricane moving up the gulf coast "sweeps the nation". It's just that's the form of disaster that tends to strike cities and I don't think people should be acting like it's unexpected.
I use this extensively for mixing/recording video streams, although I think that Muaz library is great, but browsers support for WebRTC recording is far from being production ready.

Some issues off the top of my head :
- Non seekable videos in Chrome
- Video/audio lags and de-synchronization
- Loss of audio streams in Chrome
Any chance you can publish some details on what your workflow looks like to generate these fonts?

I'd be interested in generating some bitmap conversions of some classic non-VGA fonts, like Apple's bitmap fonts (some of which were never converted to TrueType!) and some X11 standards like fixed13.
What you learn is that when they are simply given a budget and told "build" they thrive.

Or they end up with dozens of failed initiatives including three or four messenger apps being developed in parallel....

There are a lot of “smart people” (tm) when left to their own devices can’t create a product that anyone wants to save their lives.

When the CEO just says "We're going to spend X% on research, here is the budget" then they thrive again.

Or you end up with the Apple Technology Group that brought the world great products like OpenDoc, QuickDraw GX, Squeak, etc
That date is just when the wikipedia sentence was written, probably becuase it tracks with exactly this controversy about police violence. The facts its cites about support within the medical community certainly aren't new.

I don't know why this seems so surprising to some here. The police use loopholes like everyone else does. If this gets them off the hook for borderline use of violence, of course they'll use it. If it's used inappropriately, they should stop.
Biggest question in my mind is why state bureaucrats are given the latitude to think it's a good idea to build their own one-off solutions. There are 50+ markets for these sorts of systems. It makes absolutely zero sense for them each to build & maintain their own software products. Of course big consulting firms are going to _leap_ at the opportunity to bill $50M per state and then throw together products as cheaply as possible.

States need to start working together on these platforms with in-house technical teams that can actually own the systems long-term. Or we need to make it far easier for them to purchase SaaS products like any sane private market.
Keep in mind I live downtown. A 1000 sq/ft apartment costs about a million dollars in downtown Portland so let’s not let our imaginations get the best of here.

And how many people have been murdered as a result of the protests? Please stop fear mongering.
> When this forum dumps on Reddit, it walks away with an
> impression of superiority that could not be further
> from the truth.

It could be further from the truth.
Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
are they wearing any other agency/organization patches?
co-author of the blog post here.
Thank you @kjhughes for sharing our work here :pray:
I don't know you but I love you already :heart: :)

I'm trying to comment where I have something to bring.
If you have questions or maybe a list of things that you would like to see in the next update, please shoot at me!

Many thanks
Related thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659
or enough evidence pointing wrong way.