skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure: I used to work at one of Priscilla and Mark's charitable organizations, many years ago. I left for a number of reasons, chief among them was the realization that Facebook is not run in an ethical manner, and that it has a negative effect on its users.

Here in 2020, there should be absolutely nobody who's deluded about how Facebook does business and makes money. So, if you're a scientist or doctor and you're just now speaking up because something something Trump, that means you were fine taking dirty money, as long as it's not dirty in one particular way. I suggest you do what I did: either take Priscilla and Mark's money and keep quiet, or go work somewhere else.
Off-topic but slightly related, so I'll just post it here in comments.

I've recently discovered pretty cool telnet server. Map in telnet: telnet mapscii.me
Hey HN!

Creator of LambdaXL here. Sharing a side project that I have been working on for the past couple of months now. LambdaXL is a no code platform that lets you upload an Excel spreadsheet and it will turn it into a web calculator that you can embed into your website or you can share a link to it directly.

It uses Excel under the hood to ensure full compatibility (formulas, cross sheet references, even charts) , unlike some of the other solutions online that converts your spreadsheet into PHP/JavaScript/Python/etc.

It also saves every request so you can see what your users are doing.

Here is an example of a calculator that gets generated: https://lambdaxl.com/query/embed/b3b05024-eac5-4443-a67d-52a...
University Network Enlight to Become “European University”
I’d rather accept that literally everything else was silly so nice try.
Apologies if the article came off as deceptive, my intentions were not to try and mislead anyone. While the result may not have practical implications, I don't think that the "debunked" part of the story is incorrect.

To reiterate a point I made in an earlier response: In the paper, we actually present a large number of other papers in the literature (even some recent as 2019) that actually still incorrectly refer to Bloom's expression as an exact bound, so I do think that this is important and somewhat justifies the debunked narrative.
Well to be fair. If more population were concerned an actively participating in democracy, by at the least get out and go to vote, some thing would change, for sure.

USA has the lowest participation on any democracy I know.

Universal obligatory vote is something that does wonders and produce actual change.
This has been standardised in: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C

So double quotes, angle brackets or whitespace are conforming/acceptable separators.

I have known about this RFC for a long time and hence I have been practically applying it in the wild. Most software deals with the standard separators correctly, and the problem of unwanted trailing punctuation is mitigated.
> Trump was trying to silence the press through his rhetoric about "fake news"

Trump wasn't trying to "silence the press" - this was left-wing media rhetoric. He was simply calling them out for their sloppy journalism, and it worked to his favour.

Remember, the term "fake news" was conjured by left-wing media in response to Trump's election victory, referring to up and coming media companies which were eating away at their numbers (there were some obvious fake ones, but not with any significance to sway an election). Those on the left were unable to imagine from their bubbles, how people would vote for Trump, despite all of their efforts to put Hillary in the White House. It was a shock, and "fake news" was their reaction to it.

Trump managed to take their term, aimed at him, and aim it back at them. Now when people hear "fake news", they think of CNN.

> Very few are left to actually stand up for the principle of granting freedoms

Freedoms aren't granted, they exist. They can only be taken away. The State is usually the one taking them away, so anyone arguing for "more state" is really shooting themselves in the foot. We need less state, not more.
And why would someone want to do that? To dissuade people from looking into fuzzing? That seems self-defeating (people usually want as many other people working on the tools they use as possible), but maybe I’m being naive and this is a clever long-lead-time cyberwar gambit or something.
How about a grow light like this?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0744GY7TP
I never thought I’d be advocating for the 2A, but...
I did contact the bank to chargeback, still waiting on their answer.

After seeing how good customers are treated when their processes go wrong, I'm definitely never going to buy anything from them again
It's really hard to make good games without your primary purpose being that they're fun. When you make a game and it's main purpose is educational, it won't be fun and nobody will want to play it.
> Is America really such a police state now that you are just supposed to submit to anyone in a uniform?

Yes. It has been since Sept 11th 2001. (And every single day since, that we stand idly as a nation and refuse to look further into that day)

To make it worse, your only tool for fighting it is the court system, which for every day infractions committed by the system, is usually not financially (yes i am using this word) viable.
The Caselaw link posted by masklinn provides a legal summary of the kidnapping and torture of Green by Skinner and Cole.

However, in contrast, I found the This Land article "Subterranean Psychonaut" by Mason, Sandel, and Chapman to be a fascinating and in-depth read. It's replete with endnotes and provides information about Cole's actions after the police picked up Green.
The inception of every novel idea begins without a source; to enforce such a restriction is to ban the creation of ideas.
I think you are confusing schools like Harvard with your run of the mill state university. The latter rarely has much of an endowment to fund itself with.
In such a case, shouldn't this be a good application for facial recognition software?

These federal police should show up in databases confirming their identities, whether that's a federal db or a relatives FB page.

Maybe we should be using ClearView AI to keep the police honest.
'Trump owes us an apology.’ Scientist at the center of Covid-19 origin theories
I think it's safe to say that political discourse and the possibility of any societal-level discussion (and agreement) has failed. It's the same crap that plagues software development when modelling complex business problems. Political or decision makers never ask explicit questions (like yours), make decisions (laws) on them and then follow through without hesitation.

Here we are in 2020 and we've got camps trying to justify how violent protests are a "civil rights" or "free speech" issue instead of just agreeing and everyone saying "yeah - anyone can protest because we agree it's a right, but police can arrest anyone that does violence". We're forever complicating and conflating issues, adding layer upon layer of complexity, instead of simplifying. I think the analogy to software development is quite profound.
> k8s will be the go-to for single-node homelabs as well. What do you think?

Not gonna happen because it takes 3 master nodes to have a quorum and 1 separate worker node. The requirements are also pretty high with 2GB of memory per virtual machine. Don't think people have 4 extra machines or 10 GB of free memory to run VMs.
I think FIT is actually a (somewhat) documented format that's used by a number of non-Garmin devices as well, mostly GPS cycle computers. It's not really any more non-standard than the Garmin extension to GPX being used for heart rate after conversion. Probably a little harder to implement though, given that it's a terse space-optimized binary format. (Though maybe not, since XML namespaces seem to be involved.)
Are there not three variants / strains of COVID 19 too ? .

It is still too early now to say for sure , it is probable that second time may not come or be as severe but it is not certain
> Funding criminals and terrorists is surely worthy of punishment, do you not agree?

Greater society does. Unless, or course, those criminals and terrorists are the wealthy leadership of large private businesses and the crimes are committed either overseas upon marginalized people, or over a long enough timescale so as to be virtually "unprovable".
@0xC45: as a fellow OpenBSD user you might find my Ansible roles useful.

I also run OpenBSD HA firewall clusters with trunking (aggr), VLANs at home and work:

- https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-bsd/tree/master/host... # interface configuration

- https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-bsd/tree/master/open... # firewall configuration
While I agree that this plays a part, as it's what made it so popular to begin with, drugs 'directly' derived from plants are quite easy to make, too.
He painted each one 3 times (3 per show).

Bob Ross Inc. has a lot. Stored in less than optimal conditions.

The video here is pretty good (Where are Bob Ross's paintings):
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/bob-ross-paintings-m...

the video is the main, but the text part ends with this:

'In 1994, the talk show host Phil Donahue asked Mr. Ross to “say out loud your work will never hang in a museum.”

“Well, maybe it will,” Mr. Ross replied. “But probably not the Smithsonian.”'
Privacy issues aside (it’ll only take so long for any pile of PII to leak), this looks like an effective and quick to implement make-shift solution (smartphones are widespread enough and venue employees can enforce the scan), though I’m not sure of how much benefit these QR codes are in Korea.

In Seoul—among highest in the country in terms of new infection cases—coffeeshops, study cafes and restaurants are routinely really crowded. I have been working or eating out in one of such places here every day past two months, and I have never have been asked to scan a QR code or noticed one. I’ve only learned about it thanks to your comment.

(That said, I haven’t gone to karaoke, clubs or jjimjilbangs, and I can’t speak Korean well.)

I think restaurants and cafes are a highly underestimated vector of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Korea especially, since many of the customers aren’t wearing masks (because they’re eating) and often speak quite loudly (perhaps to drown out the inescapable loud music or from being drunk on a semi-mandatory after-work party). Usually bothersome just to me, now it’s objectively problematic—as some doctor pointed out in an interview about a choir group infection, literally the louder you are the more of your potentially-infected saliva is flying around.
I did not get blocked this time so I cannot confirm it works properly on medium but this is a wonderful extension for unblocking many paywalls.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
a side note, but a dimple but effective strategy I use for getting of time consuming websites is to just use a password manager for all my accounts on those sites. logging out of those accounts, and having the password only be accessible via another long and complicated password (to access the password vault) is usually enough of a barrier in the moment
I'm not a pilot but I have a lot of experience with carburetors in cars and motorcycles.

Carburetors are fiddly analog devices that require tuning by way of changing port sizes, needle valve sizes, float levels, mixture adjusters, throttle position adjusters, and more. Most of these require disassembly, and they clog and distort as the carburetor ages. Carburetors are highly sensitive to temperature and altitude. Tuning them is "more art than science".

Modern fuel injection systems have digital control and feedback loops using a variety of sensors. They provide optimal fueling in pretty much any condition. They may be more complicated, but (at least in vehicles) they're rock solid reliable compared to carburetors. They also have more graceful failure modes - if the O2 sensor craps out, the computer defaults to running rich and puts a warning light on the dash.

I'm pretty sure that if the carburetor was invented today, it would never be allowed to carry human traffic.
The one time I worked in an environment where the work was split up like this, it honestly worked out great. The size of the team (2 FE, 2 BE engineers, PM, designer) must have suited it well. The API boundary was a natural place to divide work. PM and designer would come up with some sketches, we'd all get together in a room, FEs and BEs would say "yep we can build that" or "no that's not gonna work because..." to each feature/page. Then the engineers would collaborate on a shared document to define the API. Once it was fully negotiated, each side could operate pretty independently, and barring a couple complications, it just worked in the end when each side's work was done.

It was a pretty good system, I honestly miss it a lot.
> I literally couldn't find out how to send someone a link

The usual work-around is to encode the offending character(s). In this example, `!` becomes `%21`.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_the_Super-Rich_Can_Save_U...

> HN also refuses to recognise it.

The HN software is RFC ignorant. Could you please send an email to the Web master so the bug can get fixed?
All true. But I’d expect an exceptional justification for the optimization in the article, balanced against readability and maintainability.
> Their tableware would not look too outlandish sitting at a place setting in a modern context today -- or at least as suitable flower vases.

Don't underestimate the gaudy tortured glass of an Italian nonna. It's a tale as old as time.
The author supposedly has a BS, MA and PhD from Yale. I think it's likely just poor editing, whether by himself or from a lack of appreciation of proper editors in publications.
> When was the last time you researched all the gas stations in your area and looked for the one that you felt served your interests above all the others? Nobody shops for gas this way.

I do. I own a classic(ish) car that both requires high octane gas and no ethanol. There's one gas station chain around that can be relied on to have it (in addition to every other fuel option imaginable). But I'm a relatively price-insensitive customer; I'd probably still buy from them at $5/gallon when others are at $2.50. Part of that is because of being happy with the chain, and part of it is anger at other chains for dropping non-ethanol options.
That is really neat, thanks for the share. I am amazed at how much detail they managed to include as you zoom in.
Thank you for being honest. Even the much touted N95 mask can only protect against particles 3.0 microns or larger. Corona viruses are 0.080 - 0.125 microns. Ie 25 - 40 smaller than N95 can filter. That's comperable to stopping flies with a chain link fence. Science be damned. Obey Obey Obey.
Ask HN: What do you think of my business? VP of Eng turned technical recruiter
Hiring in tech is so messed up, I left my job as VP of Engineering to build a real recruiting agency. One with actual technical recruiters, starting with me. I hope to work with startups and hire top talent without all the traditional recruiting nonsense.

https://www.ericgong.com/

AMA, share ideas of how I can make recruiting better, or give constructive feedback. Thank you!
Ugh. Your post is a perfect example of a valid argument, and yet a bunch of people downvote you instead of just having a conversation.

Two sheets is at least a few hundred tabs and that is definitely within the realm of possession with intent to sell, legally speaking.

And your conclusion wasn't even harsh like "they earned 20" or anything. You clearly said the punishment was harsh for the crime.

Jeez people, learn to communicate without the arrows.
Thanks for the link. Haven't listen to that podcast in many years, but am excited for this. It's funny that his style of thinking and writing is clearly kind of similar to Nick Sand, if you've listened to the previous episodes with him.
Because we believe it is the way to maximize individual happiness and that individuals are inherently valuable. To take an individual’s liberty is to violate something sacred that the person has just by being alive. You have to have a very strong justification, with a high bar.

This does come with tradeoffs, but I don’t think the masks and beach are part of that tradeoff. People can and will voluntarily take on inconvenience for the good of others, but they have to be convinced. Our dysfunctional president has actively fought against creating a consensus that we should move as one against this virus. When the US decides to do something together, especially in the modern era, we do it incredibly well mostly without sacrificing human rights (with some obvious historical injustices we have to remedy). What is happening here is a failure of leadership, not a failure of liberty.
LSD is not associated with major organized crime groups like cartels. It tends to be manufactured domestically in the Pacific Northwest and in semi-rural locations across the US.
Now that you mention your iMac, I think it was also a 32 MB iMac (2nd gen, blueberry) that I first tried …
Your friend in China cannot say that the crisis isn’t contained, or he will be detained. That is why the West is obsessed with freedom.
And Raspberry Pi fame also - which has similar philosophy to the original BBC micro ecosystem that Archimedes emerged from.
> This prowess in sport was then attributed to their massive buildout of soccer pitches in every area, coaches for ages 5-10 to develop fundamentals

A key detail of the above is that most of the money spent was at the youth level and not, crucially, for highly paid coaches and administrators. In other words, you could be your full time job to be a youth soccer coach in Iceland whereas in many other countries it's a volunteer position e.g. Little League in the US.

I always think of this story when applying improvements to technology processes or infrastructure. Specifically, which solutions involve "one big thing changing" vs "getting everyone to do a few small things".
You're conflating the time you can use for work and the time you must use for leisure. I have about 5 very productive hours in the day, plus maybe another 5 less productive ones. I must replenish my energy in the remaining hours.

Now, if you like cooking, perhaps it is like leisure, perhaps it actually replenishes you. Otherwise, you might as well put a dollar value on it, because you are effectively working overtime.

Another way to look at it is that you're really using dollars as a way to better manage your time. Let's say you work 8 hours a day, but you put in another 2 hours into learning something new, maybe a side business, anything that isn't just leisure. Of course that doesn't translate directly into a salary, but the expected value is not zero dollars.
This is awesome!
I'd go through the code as well in a bit, but the twitter bots are really amazing.
There currently isn't, but it is intended for small amounts of data. Today or tomorrow I'll probably put a cap at 500Kb or so, which is still a heckload of data.
Funny that you say they can’t be unified, just yesterday I wrote an article about how you can write backend JS within your front end project, without even thinking about the stuff going on behind the scenes.

I think things might get closer and closer together. At least in the JS community. Performance critical work will be done in Rust / wasm and we will always have people who specialize instead of generalize across all these technologies. But that doesn’t mean some projects can’t be unified more!

https://zach.codes/es6-import-nodejs-on-the-frontend/
Yes, it works reliably and comes with a guarantee that "If anything goes wrong with the switch, as soon as we are told, we will refund any interest (paid or lost) and charges made on either your old or new current accounts as a result of this failure."

https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx

https://www.currentaccountswitch.co.uk/SiteCollectionDocumen...
I think the general idea is good, in that teams should be vertically integrated. But it misses the mark. If you don't appreciate that there is specialty in developing beautiful, responsive, cross-browser modern web-apps, you're not paying attention to the very quickly evolving state of web development.

There is an emerging trend towards "full stack frontend", where we have someone who can design UX, and also wire together backing services like flux, webpack, and APIs.

As a DevOps guy, you can definitely spend a serious effort to pipelining your fronted testing, deployment, and monitoring. Setting up development environments, Sentry, optimizing webpack builds, securing CDN distributions, incorporating Analytics, etc.. these are "Frontend DevOps" kinds of tasks. Hence, vertical integration is important. The frontend can be developed as an independent service in of itself.

On the server-side, there is still a UX. We have API design, documentation, and discoverablility as the "UX" of a "backend", now more appropriately described as a "backing API", but a complete service in itself.

So i think this article is ignoring the emergence of JAM-stack and Edge compute. I think it forgoes the robustness, and ability to quickly deliver business value that these new platform paradigms can enable.
You should read a basic Astronomy book and dont make a fool of yourself here
> at a split of 18/6 for IF

Could you please explain what this means, for the uninitiated?
That’s why Khan Academy et al are so expensive, huh?
Ban the police crowd is the weirdest thing.

No police means maximum freedom quickly followed by complete Anarchy. Then back to some sort of restrictive government.
On the other hand if you have a migraine while tripping, it's not great. Taking triptanes is, well, risky as their interaction has not been thoroughly researched (i wonder why) and they both do stuff to HT receptors - so it's probably safer to endure the trip and take drugs afterwards. Good thing is that on LSD it is not "you"that suffers, just someones' body ;)
If anything, that gives the federal police more power, to come in and fill the void “to ensure domestic tranquility”.
To be fair, impeached limits it to two living presidents.
FYI, throwaway accounts are highly discouraged on HN.
The particular sentence in the article is only slightly uncommon in terms of difficulty, so I don't really see how I've implied that my English is 'great'. Passable, maybe. We might have different standards.

Nice high-brow segue from "you're obviously a Trump supporter" to "civilisation is in decline due to anti-intellectualism", though. Hint: I'm British. Talk about ethnocentrism.

I'm not really sure how I can constructively help you with the sentence in question without literally parsing the tokens for you and identifying the parts of speech, objects, subjects, etc. Seems like that would be a waste of time, given you've already arrived at your own immutable conclusions.
What it does take is time. Lots of time.

I agree, but more than that, it's also about what you're doing with that time. The distinction between having ten years of experience or one year of experience ten times very much applies here.

Some types of work naturally have a long, steep learning curve: the lone technical founder in a software startup, or perhaps a freelancer or software house employee who might work on several different projects for several different clients each year. You're potentially going to learn far more in a situation like that than someone working in one role on one project for one employer with colleagues to refer to if they can't figure something out for themselves, over the same period of time.

Multiply that difference in the rate of gaining experience by several years, and yes, you certainly can have someone with a skill set that is both broad and deep.
Very weird, can you raise an issue with some logs, I'd love to take a look at them and see what went wrong. Thanks for looking into the tool.
If you're sitting on an endowment big enough to fund operations for decades then discounts are easy.
When Strength Becomes Weakness