skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like it doesn't last all that long. They have a keep-alive program running during, and then get back to work once the connection is restored:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/video/mars-in-a-minute-wh...
Well I wonder if the mods actually did read the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I guess this rule might as well be removed, given the noticeable increase of political HN posts these days.
This is a community of learners. No question is stupid. Don't assume laziness. By taking this attitude as a default, you stifle the curiosity of others. Healthy discussion shouldn't be discouraged.
"Haskell elephant" is such a missed portmanteau opportunity.
Pelosi's term is up in January as well. best analysis I've seen is by LegalEagle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQLbNekBU1A
I'm not so sure... just, like, maybe put one single thought into organizing it?

I still hold PHP documentation as a golden standard even though I haven't used the language in like 10 years. Everything is spelled out, and what's still unclear, there's usually a comment or two at the bottom of the page asking to clarify just that.

Contrast that with Python, my current main language... not only is it badly organized as a whole (where do I find documentation for `str`? Surely there's a page... no! it's all bundled up together in "Built-in types!"), the individual pages _also_ have no sensible structure and not even a good TOC! Python's jumping between versions and deliberate refusal to back-port features doesn't help either, but that's a different topic...
And -always- minimum two hours.
> A lot of the problems in academia, I believe, come from incompetence

Indeed, but:

1. We are all - well, almost all of us - incompetent in many aspects of our lives, and competent only in some.

2. The incompetent are often not willing to simply cede their place and let the competent do what (arguably) needs to be done.

3. Proving and verifying competence is quite difficult unless you are yourself competent and close to their field competence in which is in question...
My landlord knows my salary as I needed to provide it on the application. My takehome pay is more than what I pay in rent.

Why didn't my landlord say to me "You know instead of paying $X, I see you can afford to pay more so I'm going to ask you to pay $Y"?
Vim effectively does that with its splash screen:

VIM - Vi IMproved

version 8.2.814
by Bram Moolenaar et al.
Vim is open source and freely distributable

Help poor children in Uganda!
type :help iccf<Enter> for information

type :q<Enter> to exit
type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help
type :help version8<Enter> for version info

The problem is that a total noob will still be overwhelmed, Vim's UI is simply too different from modern UI conventions.

That's why I think it makes total sense for nano to be the default editor in this day and age, even it if means that I'll have to remember to set EDITOR properly if I want to use vi(m).
This controversy is not dumb, it is actively harmful to the prosperity of the United States and Western civilisation

It is dividing the country by delegitimizing the election

If senior republican leaders don't tell him to fuck off today, it will be disaster
Is Chef Watson still a thing? Their original site/app seems to be dead.
Most people can read "unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector" as everything except bitcoin. A minority of people will read it as "all crypto", and if you're reading it as "only shitcoins" you're probably a little unsavoury yourself.
Even if the election were delayed or cancelled, he was still elected to a 4 year term. The term doesn't extend indefinitely just because there wasn't an election. Directly from the Constitution, "The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January". It's actually very specific about when the term ends.
Matches up with the quality of every other idea of this president.
Maybe it’s about the metaphorical ed whom is neither an elephant nor responsible for crypto’s thirst....
Here's a link from dang.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18152047

> HN's software puts a floor of -4 on downvoted comments.
Tech people aren’t smart
> 2)I think that x64 hardware of similar specs outperforms arm64 in performance.[Personal observance]

Can you elaborate on this a bit? What devices are you comparing (on both sides of the comparison)?
Ask HN: Favourite long-form technology and crime stories?
I just read an article from the New Yorker that I believe was posted here a few days ago:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire

I really enjoyed it and it reminded me of another fantastic long-form piece “Mastermind”:

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

Although very different stories they both feature enigmatic idealists fluent in technology that ultimately make poor decisions.

What other similar stories are out there involving crime and technology? I’d love to read more stories like these.
Arizona does it, and it’s turned into a total shit show in Maricopa County full of missed ballots, delays, uncounted votes, and generally an air of malfeasance around the whole process.

It was so bad in our 2018 elections, I’m voting in person this election just to remove one variable.
Which conversely means that supermassive black holes allow you to pass through the event horizon unharmed.
Why express hatred for such a petty reason?
Where do you get the UBI from? Taxing reach people and companies? Which ones? Can they avoid it, even with a complex sequences of numerous administrative steps, clever legal interpretations and social engineering? ...

Now suppose you have UBI, it means some (formerly) poor people receive some money, in exchange of no work from their part, to spend on things they "desire" ("need" would be better here): so you end up having fake prices on those things, precisely what you wanted to avoid. And who can benefit from UBI? Could some not really poor people apply to it, even with a complex sequences of numerous...?

The only way is to have complete globalisation of finance while keeping localism for (most of) production and political decisions. Transitioning to that model won't be fun.
Suggestion: with costs of cloud providers being a problem these days and hard to track, any automation tool like Revolv could ended up being blamed for a huge bill and it's not fair with the tool so maybe in the "Review my architecture" screen you could calculate the monthly total costs and present it to the user beforehand, like "this automation flow may cost around X per month".
I think you're missing the point. Nobody thinks the election will actually be delayed. What he appears to be doing is laying the groundwork to dispute the results of the election. That alone is what's disturbing, and what we should be discussing.
Land is in fixed supply and everyone needs land to work, sleep, and exist upon.

Density of land use isn't fixed. We can build in three dimensions.

Also there's tons of land that's hardly used at all in the form of golf courses. We should build cheap housing on them.
56% of all workers participate in a workplace retirement plan.

In the public sector, 83% of workers participate in a workplace retirement plan.

The median earner doesn't own "1 stock", they indirectly hold stock through 401(k)s, IRAs, company-provided pensions, or government-provided pensions. The vast majority of your pension plans are managed and administered by institutional investors.

If you are a median earner, and your defined contribution plan tanks, you will absolutely be worse off than the multi-hundred millionaire whose net worth still remains in the millions even if their ownership in the stock market falls by 90%.

http://www.pensionrights.org/publications/statistic/how-many...
Not sure if you are thinking of Scandinavian countries? If so, I think you're exaggerating the wealth of your average citizen a tad, even if the point still stands.

But in Scandinavian countries it seems to be mainly immigrants that do the sucky jobs, even if they are better compensated than elsewhere (although of course everything is more expensive, food, housing, etc).
I never downvote anything anywhere ever. I don't understand how can downvoting make any constructive sense. You are meant to flag whatever is spam, offense or blatant misinformation anyway.

I also believe many people would feel very bad if you downvote them so you should better have a serious reason. The fact you disagree or don't like them (let alone don't consider what they wrote interesting/useful for you) is not enough.
The real answer is that UBI isn't just money. Basic housing is free. Basic foodstuffs are free. In addition to everything else being sold, you can just get milk. Or rice, or cheese. Or lots of things I haven't mentioned or thought of. No questions asked.

It would be difficult to have predatory pricing if there's a suitable, free alternative.
Would aluminum pods leach micro plastics?
I think you've misread the comment you're replying to; otherwise, I'm not sure I understand how your comment applies.

He's saying the post claiming that Apple kept the 30% was fishy (and false). I don't know about a cult, but in this case, the criticism was unfounded.

Ironically, your comment is an example of a cult of the anti-cult - always looking out for signs of that other cult.
But you're making a straight-up Maoist argument here. You are arguing that the rent-seeker class (quite literally) are so uncontrollably avaricious that there is no way to moderate them: logically, they must be destroyed and we must go with communism because there is NO possible balance to be struck between rent-seekers and proletariat.

I'm pretty lefty but I sure wouldn't go so far as that. Tell them not to bleed the tenants totally dry. Try making rules. Try enforcing rules. If that doesn't work, THEN we can talk along 'kill all the landlords' lines, but I am just not convinced it's that simple.

I think there is room in a liberal market capitalist system with social supports (such as UBI, which is nothing more than a lower overhead social welfare system) to allow people to have property and stuff without it automatically going to Mao's worst nightmares. Yes, people are greedy, but that's not the only thing in the system.
Taking no partisan side (I’m not even American!), it may be a good idea.

Poland held an election during the pandemic, and frankly it was a shitshow. The problem was kind of opposite actually: legally it should have been delayed, but powers that be wanted it to happen.

Getting remote voting ready in time didn’t happen, many people struggled to vote in person, campaigns were affected, accusations of electoral fraud are rife, among other problems.

Maybe best solve one problem at a time.
That you are being downvoted to oblivion is another indication that something is wrong.

Slashdot had a better moderation system ca. 20 years ago - you needed a reason along with the downvote and people would think twice about downvoting for "comment says something that may be factually right but somehow hurts my feelings or aligns with orange man". Meta-moderation also helped.

The moderator here is doing a good job, but perhaps he's being overwhelmed lately by the polarization and extreme groupthink on many issues.
IMO, the first non-human intelligence we find will probably be the AI we create. Might also be the last intelligence we find.
I wrote this blog post as I'm often asked for a safe cycle route somewhere - hopefully you find this useful :D
Why is this flagged? It is news distributed by one of the most trustworthy media available today!
Yes! It's in the pipeline :)!

In the meantime, you could read our introductory blog post:

https://medium.com/revolv2/im-building-revolv-to-automate-cl...

Hope that helps!
I'm not an expert and I don't do value judgments, but I think he's talking about something called 'smart contracts'.
Haskell would make it easier to verify smart contracts.
I thought he was talking about use cases like those as Cardano and with "some of the very founding contributors" he meant Philip Wadler (amongst others).

EDIT: didn't want to imply that Cardano is a shady company.
Since when has legality been a concern for this administration?
> the money won't magically spawn on the table

LOL, yes it will.
I agree with you. How do we get back to a place where political discourse is de-escalated and we're not trying to out-shout each other?
Substack (YC W18) is hiring to build a better business model for writing
Hence the need for humility and an understanding that science is about trying to figure stuff out, not about just following rules?
> very little haskell-specific clarifications

This is about Haskell-the-ecosystem, not Haskell-the-technology. In that way I think it's a valuable contribution.

Stephen is a well known and respected part of the Haskell ecosystem, and has written many popular blog posts about the language and ecosystem.
Beyond that, even when you order directly from the manufacturer's website, that doesn't mean they, personally, are handling the sale. All the logistics that go with fulfilling orders and customer service around that I'm sure is outsourced frequently (to Amazon or someone else)
I prefer upvoting good comments to downvoting mediocre ones. I keep my downvotes for trolls/insults and reddit-tier "meme" comments for which I apparently have a higher tolerance threshold than you because I don't find them all that common. Maybe we just tend to read different stories though.
I always assume it will fail. I ask what I can learn/gain even if it fails.
Error Detection: Parity Checking
Stream Torrent from the Browser
I create a web app that you can stream torrents movies from your browser.
Be sure to use a updated browser, since it need some new browser API to work
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in Node.js core code
So, out of curiosity: Why do you care if you get downvoted?
Are there negative repercussions when using the site?

But you know, making sure your post is factual correct, nicely worded and thought out seems to be a good consequence. Reading that I actually wish I was afraid of downvotes so I put more effort into some of mine.
It really shouldn't. It's just meant to inflame. There's no legal basis for postponing an election. As others have pointed out, it'd require acts of congress, and possibly also changes to the constitution. It's pretty silly at this point.

Trump infuriates everyone with bombastic statements, that he often can't even implement legally, that sometimes grab members of his base.

On top of that, other presidents have made crazier statements, but with him they're turned up to 11.

There was talk of "Continuance of Government" with the Bush/Cheney era and fear he'd try to stay in past two terms. Nothing ever happened though. This is pure fluff.

I don't hate Trump or Trump supporters like a lot of people, but he just needs to shut up. He does nothing to calm the America people, he just gives everyone fuel to scream and more than anything, this is a big nothing burger. It's not tech news. It's not even good pol news. I will probably drop off the HN front page in an hour or less.
There are things more important than HN guidelines, and even HN moderates tend to be reasonable in that regard.
This is what everyone's been saying, but they're trying to counter with written rules to a President that really doesn't respect them. Enforcement matters here.

Until you see Pelosi with enforcement backing her and willing to remove Trump from office on Jan 20th, the result is uncertain.
From ransom to death threats, the Dangerous Work of Saving Monarch butterflies
Wait, so are you in favor of rounding up people in buses and sending them, against their will, in "institutions" for "their own good"?
I have an idea that's been floating around in my head for a while, and I don't know how I feel about it. So I'll float it here with a note that I am not strenuously advocating for the position I'm about to express, and instead wish to have it discussed.

I have the feeling that our modern medical obsession with keeping the body alive for so long is leading to negative outcomes. The rate of Alzheimer's diagnoses increases dramatically after about age 70[1]. In the US, we began to see the average life expectancy increase past 70 in the 1950s, and is now approaching 80[2]. As a result, I think the current crop of people who are alive are among the first to see the effects of truly advanced age. Prior to the 1950s, longer life was always seen as a good thing: you had more time to enjoy relative good health. Since few people lived into their 70s and beyond, we didn't see the "bad things" coming. Now that people are living into their 70s and beyond, we start to see the horrible effects of advanced age. So the question, which again I don't put forward with much conviction: is continuing to put forward the preservation of life worth it given the extreme decline in quality of life that we see past the age of 70? The gut answer is "obviously yes," but I think we are the first people to have to truly grapple with this question, as we watch our elders mentally fall to pieces while their bodies chug along. Is that gut answer just the result of centuries of trying to get past year 70? Now that we're past it, should we re-evaluate? I have a very close relative in his late 60s going through Alzheimer's right now. Would it truly be worse if he had passed away a couple years ago?

I don't know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's#Epidemiology

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...
To get a little off topic, a huge benefit I see is poor people would be less at the mercy of abuse.

Currently, women can be stuck in abusive relationships which are challenging to escape. Having a reliable stream of incoming money can help then run away.
The article covers leagues all across Europe not just England
I'm confused. Are you arguing government shouldn't take action, because the public can? Or the other way around? Honest question.

Also (and forgive me if this is a a result of misunderstanding your comment) in a small-d democratic system the government is a representative of the public. IMHO the government is our "adult pants" because it is our system of managing law, albeit an imperfect one.
To answer my own question, the currently unfolding story of Anthony Levandowski might be one, although I don’t imagine there is a definitive article or piece about it yet.

Another must be the story of Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht.
I downvote for the following reasons:

1. Outright abusive language, personal attack on someone, sarcasm or obvious self promotion.

2. Irrelevant to the actual discussion even if it is otherwise well written. Some examples: humor/joke without any other valuable discussion, talking about a totally different topic.

I never downvote even if I disagree with someone as long as they are not in one of the 2 categories above.I also don't downvote if someone makes an honest mistake or is wrong about something.
No but they may have to declare that they have nothing to declare or those who do need certain kinds of operatimg licences that your company doesn't.
Obviously they know who's running refineries, paper mills and things like that.
Why does it matter though? Beyond the 500 points required for unlocking the downvote functionality there is no difference in the site whatever points we have .

it shouldn’t really influence your behaviour?

You are right that quality of the response is rewarded .

It is lot more about timing if you contribute late to a thread or post it is less likely you will get any points .

I usually find myself doing that frequently , the lack of upvote/ downvote only bothers me when there are no replies, you don’t know whether people read it, not so much whether people agreed with it.
> We should be doing a lot more research into this disease.

Trying to actually pin down hard numbers is difficult (searches invariably lead you to the cost of Alzheimer's disease rather than the cost of Alzheimer's research), but it looks like we're already at several billion dollars a year on Alzheimer's research. If it hasn't cost more than the Apollo project already, it likely will by the end of this decade.
This is like asking the baker to help make candles because there's a candle shortage.

People need to do what they are efficient at.

...especially in this case since China is producing the most CO2 and hasn't even agreed to slow down their CO2 production _growth_ until maybe 2030!
Three times in the past year, I've had packages marked as "Delivered at/in mailbox" that weren't actually delivered until 2-3 days later. The most recent was particularly worrying, since it contained my new passport (which I'd already been waiting on for 5 months since passport processing had mostly been shut down due to COVID). This was at different addresses, with different local USPS destination facilities.

It seems they're aware that it's an issue, since it says in their FAQ "package may show as 'delivered' but could take additional 24 hours". I assume it happens when they get behind somehow and just mark a lot of stuff delivered to meet their metrics.
How about yoga?
Generally stuff that violates the commenting guidelines (which unfortunately can found in abundance each day now).

I still think it would be an interesting experiment to remove voting from comments altogether. I actually dont see much value in voting comments in general, since the provide such a wealth signal, especially as highly political articles find acceptance on HN.
Promising people a never ending supply of money that they didn't earn will render people children dependent on mommy and daddy(government) to provide for them. This will stunt the growth and potential of many people.

Read the finnish experiment. All that happened is that people relxed and chilled on other's people money. They had no incentive to be productive so they weren't.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/nordic-welfare-news/heikki-h...

This UBI movement is another form of mass hysteria which if passed will hurt the US and our economy.
Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
Presumably not, unless there was a plastic coating of some sort. The Nespresso pods in the article mentioned a silicon coating on their metal pods. I don’t have an idea if that would leach or not.

Since the recycling process for those metal pods is such a pain, I can see them acting pretty much the same as plastic when it comes to an environmental impact, other then possible leaching. (Not to mention to recycle them they need to be shipped to a special facility)
> People must work. That is fundamental.

it's for all intents and purposes a religious belief. your word choice of 'fundamental' hints at it. it also disqualifies people with crippling disabilities from... what exactly? right to live? i hope not!

people must eat, drink and sleep. that is fundamental (actually a hard biological requirement). it doesn't follow that work equals food, water and shelter, though it was true for most of humanity's existence up until the invention of civilization.
Ask HN: What strong belief of yours has changed since the pandemic started?
I know a woman who did this but to credit collection agencies. One day the police showed up at work and arrested her for fraud. Obviously not the same thing as you had no contractual obligation to them, but telling everyone you’re dead is generally a bad practice.