skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, Dillon at Venu here!

I'll try to answer in order:

- WebRTC for video/voice and Websockets for chat (built on Phoenix LiveView)

- Yes, people can setup sessions to allow for up to 17 simultaneous presenters from all over

- Still haven't settled on price points. We are going to be using the beta to help decide. For now we're footing the bills ourselves so all tiers are currently free.

- 17 simultaneous presenters, no hard limits on number of attendees it is up for the organizer to decide how many tickets they want available!

- Organizers who are streaming are able to share their screens / application windows / webcam.

- We go back and forth, open to feedback. We use online meetups/experiences/events internally. Since we're all developers our content probably isn't the best at the moment!
What is a “not low dose” of vitamin D? Would 5000iU a day still be low? 10,000iu?

Is it really possible to have enough vitamin d exposure just from diet for someone who lives in a northern state which doesn’t get nearly as many sunny days as a place like florida or california?
Not an African ship, Russian/Ukrainian owned through a shell company in Cyprus, exporting ammonium nitrate from Georgia to a destination in Mozambique. Shipping company went belly up and stranded the crew and ship in Beirut in 2014, the crew eventually went home and left the ship behind for the Lebanese government to deal with.
Is vitamin K safe to supplement? Or does it mess with the blood clotting?

People recommend really quite doses: K2-MK7 at 100 to 200mcg, or alternatively K2-MK4 15 to 45 mg (not mcg).
The ships might not have been there.

It is interesting that the grain silo seems to have shielded a building further away but not directly behind the blast.
Warning signs about the trustworthiness of this site's reporting:

- Top banner says "News that impacts your health that other sites may censor!" -- a common claim of pseudoscience / conspiracy theory sites
- The bottom banners are anti-vaccine FUD, like a preposterous claim that "all vaccines cause harm"
- The "Peace with God" site link in the top banner leads to a site with COVID and modern-medicine-is-Satanic conspiracy theories
- When they attribute claims to specific people, they either link to Wikipedia pages of the people (proving the person exists, but not proving they said what the article claims), or to other conspiracy sites or videos.
Their advertisement network is only one and the browser gives them some leverage, but there is nothing stopping someone else to create a similar alternative. Brave already has been forked (Dissenter Browser) that remove the BAT side of things. Outside of the potential mooning of the token which would make them rich, I don't really see anything they have that gives them such a dangerous moat.

Hell, a competitor could even decide to have an advertisement network that also operates with the BAT supply that has been taken out of the exchanges. If for some reason the company starts doing anything user-hostile, they will lose the business to someone else.

The only important thing is that anything is better than the status quo. If you are weary of Brave, you can go for something like flattr, or you can start looking into crypto as a way to pay directly for those you want to support (and still keep your privacy). Whatever you decide, just please realize that "I don't like ads, but I don't see any good alternative" is not a valid statement anymore.
I think the lift in conversions is because Intercom bubbles aren't live chat typically, they are a "Contact Us" form or an automated bot (not true "live chat"), so people are starting to ignore them. They changed their message at the top to say "Live Chat" so people click on that more because they are expecting real live chat.
probably an algo making that decision
If curious see also

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15586064

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072960
I mean, if you go to it it will invariably tag you as being unique, which might be true, but if you look at how it breaks those down it really makes no sense at all. Browse it on an iOS device, for example: the one in x browsers have this is just way off, because every iOS device will have the exact same data for many those metrics so it doesn't make sense–for example, there is no way on in 20 browsers show the same list of fonts as a stock iOS device.
That's true, but stocks are also at all time highs now, so its not a completely unfavorable position for stocks. This is the reason why I said it will likely out perform over that window for a few years.

The problem is, someone who is working and saving money away doesnt get to choose the window they are in.

I wouldn't buy gold here, but if gold ever drops around the range of 1500, I am not going to miss that chance again at having some of it in my portfolio.
FYI, that is the wife/doctor's account you replied to.
Nope, there has been multiple confirmations that reddit admins run the algo and curate which ones to make trending.

It's how reddit stops obvious hate subreddits from hitting the trending page.
I use Lua(JIT) extensively.

cons:

- 1-based indexing

- you basically always want a local but you have to ask for one, it's a bit noisy. 'strict mode' is easily applied to the global environment, and catches most outright errors here.

- there is an adequate amount of library and extension code, but less than you'd expect coming from Ruby or Python. The lack of a blessed object system sometimes means taking more effort to understand what other people's code does.

pros:

- variadic functions and multiple return values make for a truly dynamic language

- first class functions which are fast and work well: everything is a closure, a whole file is just an anonymous function called a chunk

- the table as a single compound data structure works very well, and metatables are a unique and excellent solution to extending behavior. Array portions are required to be compact (non-nil from 1 to #tab), which can be worked around on the few occasions when it's inappropriate.

- asymmetric coroutines.

- first class environments, which are just, yep, tables. this allows for a few really nice things.

- fast. LuaJIT is very fast. Both Lua runtimes fit in a typical L1 cache, and it uses a register VM, which is a good fit for real processors vs. stacks. No global interpreter lock, all C level Lua functions receive a Lua_state as the first argument and are fully reentrant.

- in general the emphasis on minimalism means the whole language "fits in head", and the tools provided are more than adequate to get jobs done.

- the LuaJIT FFI, which parses C declarations directly, is simply a pleasure to use, and is the only one of which I'm aware where you pay an absolutely minimal penalty to use it. There's just nothing like it. More languages need to have this.

miscellaneous:

Semicolon insertion is simply a non-issue, unlike JS it was implemented properly. I have well under one semicolon per file, less than one per project, even. It's very, very occasionally nice to write more than one statement per line; that's what the semicolon does.

It's a nice language.
Why don't you think gpt 4 will be as impressive.
Punish people that don't care and have no control over whether or not their ISP supports IPv6?

IPv6 affects everyday internet users exactly 0%. It's rational for them not to care about it.
Typically ammonium nitrate needs some type of fuel to detonate. In the Texas City explosion there was ample hydrocarbons in direct contact with the AN to support the reaction. I’m curious if there is any speculation what provided the fuel in this case. Maybe they were coated prills?
How can the hacking work since the Microsoft Office apps are "sandboxed" on Mac OS?

This is unlike the Mac native apps such as "Pages" which is not sandboxed.
> There were a few devices that were pretty old and poorly maintained,
> if these lost power for some reason and then failed[... we'd] purchase replacements.

And the sysadmin let that opportunity pass??
The much bigger problem for me is I can't really go to any news site without the full page being hijacked blocking the content until I turn off my adblocker.

I feel like adblockers are becoming less and less useful overall, even as they become more widespread and more advanced, because I have to turn them off to see anything on the internet.

Am I the only one with that issue?
why store it in a piece of metal though?

> Compared to other "real" things, gold can be liquidated into dollars VERY quickly if you need to make a transaction, and since it's a real thing, it cant disappear.

What happens when someone sticks you up and takes your gold away?

> Also, often gold is stored by the company you bought it from on your behalf, so you can sell it back instantly online. So no need to have to have a home safe.

Isn't that how the dollar got started and here we are.
Well, yes, though a nuke would not detonate at ground level which would make it more destructive for most purposes (apart from bunker destruction). Plus 1kt is very very small for a nuke.
https://github.com/karrick/godirwalk
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:term really changed the game for me. being able to run commands and then work with the output in other modes is so convenient. pair with neovim-remote[0], and it's pretty magical.

i stopped using tmux because now all i need to do is open a terminal buffer in a new split to multiplex. i rarely used it for sessions, but use abduco[1] for that now when i find the need.

[0]: https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote

[1]: https://github.com/martanne/abduco
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Personality is the force majeure of the internet
> while their new generation reactors have had all the same cost and schedule overruns as elsewhere

Reactor, singular. They've only tried to build one new reactor this century, Flamanville #3. Civaux reactors were finished in 1997. As in the U.S., it's clear the cost issue is primarily related to public sentiment, not fundamentals. France's existing nuclear energy infrastructure was built at a time when France was very pro-nuclear, and nuclear was a matter of national pride, thus the gall to sink the Rainbow Warrior. Times have changed, for better (less investment in nuclear weapons, appetite for murdering civilians) and worse (less support for nuclear energy).

> China too stopped building new reactors in favor of more renewables.

"China will build six to eight nuclear reactors a year between 2020 and 2025 and raise total capacity to 70 gigawatts (GW), up 43.5% compared to the end of May, the official China Daily said on Thursday, citing the country’s nuclear association." https://in.reuters.com/article/china-nuclearpower/china-to-b...

Since 2011, over 30 reactors have come online, 3 of which began construction after Fukushima: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#China
Not OP, but with vitamin D the dosage is actually something you can figure out empirically by testing vitamin D levels and taking supplements.

No one who talks about supplementation seems to think a level of 8000 over a long period is necessary to obtain adequate levels.

I think by the same token the recommended supplement level of 600 IU is inadequate to reach a sufficient level. But the paper in question didn’t test their result empirically.
A bit myopic. Programmers have many different needs and as with almost anything - it depends. "zero productivity benefit" is blatenly false for many people. Now for you, in your current needs, sure. But why attempt to paint the entire developer world your favarite color?
Why would they care, or firstly how would they know if it's just for personal use?
Purely from a physics/explosives effectiveness standpoint, the destruction would have been much greater if it had occurred at 200-300m above ground level. This is one of the reasons why air drop freefall nuclear bombs (10-20 kiloton class) were designed with radar fuses to explode at a certain height above the target, and not at ground level. Except when intended to destroy a bunker.

Because the explosion occurred at ground level at least some of its energy was directed into excavating a crater and not destructive shockwave traveling outwards.
Yes but ullage thrusters would have to fire continuousky for the duration of the transfer. That is a significant burn time. If they are going to be draining the fuel using only the ullage thrust, it will take more than a slight nudge.
I wish this was helpful, but amiunique.org calls out the values for canvas, fonts, etc. as unique when running the blockers. Maybe this is because it's randomizing every time, but it makes the amiunique test pretty flawed...
Better yet, create a "Help Center," that has 1,900 articles that all have a link that says, "Need more help?" and then that link goes to another of the 1,900 articles that also has a link that says, "Need more help?" And that link goes to another article, which has a popup that reads: Call 1-800-ABCDEFG. Then they call that number and get an automated system that says, "Thank you for calling. How can I help you today? You can say things like, 'I need help,' and 'I need different help.'" And then they have to speak all the menu choices. And the 0 button doesn't take them to a representative, only back to the first prompt.

This is too much fun to brainstorm.
Paper currency is backed by the fact that you have to pay taxes in it. On tax day when the tax collector comes around with his security escort, you better have something ready if you don't want to end up in jail and your property confiscated. In the old days you paid taxes with a part of your harvest or with gold you got from selling your harvest at the market. Somewhere along the way governments figured they could play all sorts of economic games if they collected taxes using fiat paper instead. They print paper and pay their soldiers with it, you sell your harvest to the soldiers, and the soldiers come around once a year to collect the paper.

Notice how this entire system depends on the government's monopoly on violence. The real modern delusion is the many layers of indirection that insulate us from the real source of power in the natural world. Whether the thing that has value is gold, silver, paper, or bottlecaps doesn't matter. What matters is that the one holding the guns says it has value.
See the Reddit for an alternative to FileInfo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/hv976o/qa_iofs_draf...
FileInfo is an interface, isn't it? You could populate fields other than "name" lazily, right?
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Go already has en entire namespace devoted to making things easier for "pretty common use cases:" ioutil. That's exactly where this version of Readdir belongs.

Otherwise, you'd better be 110% sure of this:

> Even when you know that you're dealing with a small number of files, and performance isn't critical?

Because if you turn out to be wrong down the line, your only option is now to rewrite the whole thing in a less-stupid language. Might as well just save yourself the trouble and do that from the beginning.
I see blobs of points with a negative line drawn through it. Not sure a simple linear regression shows much here. Seems there might be a missing factor or two.
> Can't say that the subjects are chosen very precisely either

The explanation of how they were chosen starts on page 80.
How would that be helpful? A context deadline is a fixed point in time. You really want the context (and its deadline) to be specified at the operation scope, not at the file or at the entire filesystem level. And you might have a deadline on a read but be willing to wait forever for a close, so you don't really want the deadline to be attached to the file handle, either.
Good catch! The coherent structure was what got me excited. If the structure turns out to be the product of human selection -- and now that you point out the plural on "responses" I think that's likely -- then these results are much more in line with my expectations.
I find it hard to believe that Reddit effectively replaced BBS. The Reddit interface is woeful for exploring the comments on any given thread. I don't know how Reddit so popular...
Don't forget HELF (https://i.imgur.com/hQAT2Go.png).
Reminds me of a story someone told me, about her grandparents who were both deaf. They had an alarm clock that had a string attached to their wrist, and would tug when they needed to wake up.
At that point, you can use Spacemacs.
Very slick method for comparing two images, but maybe the UX is a little obscure. I have to admit I thought it was two images side by side, and wondered why they were different proportions, until I noticed the handle.

The explosion is of course very similar to the 1947 Port Texas disaster (581 dead) But it also reminded me of the Halifax explosion of 1917 (2,000 dead).

In Halifax, the train dispatcher on the pier stayed at his post to send one last message to keep the next passenger train from entering town.

“Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys”
Reinforced walls, no windows, angled inwards in a truncated pyramid to deflect energy up. Maybe covering it with material that's expected to be blown away by an explosion is a good idea as well. If it's grassy it may even help to keep the building cool.
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For a bomb that size the kill radius from prompt neutrons is several times that of the blast. Buildings across the street were intact even though we saw bits of their facades coming off as the blast it. Probably most people across the street survived but probably wouldn't if it was a nuke.

If it were a nuke it would have gotten bright very quickly, but it quickly would be obscured by clouds and dust.
The ship on its side to the north of the blast -- I wonder what kind of damage was able to cause that? (i.e. the ship not be able to roll back upright? Seeing footage elsewhere, rolling even to the point of ~45-60 deg is not fatal to an oceangoing container ship)

Windows blown out, then force of the overpressure rolling it on its side, then filling with water? Or unsecured load (being in port) shifting and sinking?

Separately, about the chemicals -- at some point, over 6 years, doesn't someone just say, I'm moving this life threatening shit out of here, go ahead and arrest me? After the Tianjin disaster, wouldn't someone have thought of that, you would think?
how much money do you make as an amazon affiliate? i heard they can be pretty nasty about randomly taking you down for no reason
> Our brains like novelty, and so when we see a different shape from what was there yesterday we instinctively prefer it

How do you reconcile this with people complaining about redesigns? I tend to hate them, personally.
Do they offer an RSS feed of new releases? I personally would set it on my torrent server to automatically download and seed new releases automatically.
What you're saying about LeBron as a high-school prospect isn't consistent at all with the consensus at the time. 2003 wasn't that long ago - you can find draft prospect reports that show this. You can also compare his reports to the other top prospects and the difference is palpable. For example here is an excerpt from scout.com

"Simply one of the best high school players in the last decade. Whatever you have heard about him is true. He’s so gifted it’s scary. As a scorer, his range extends to 3-point land. He’s a terrific passer and is quite unselfish. Simply put: his talents are on another level. We can list schools with him until we are blue in the face, but in the end this is the best high school-to-NBA prospect since it became chic to make the jump. LeBron James is a special basketball player, good enough to don the cover of Sports Illustrated as a junior in high school."

Fron nbadraft.net

" He has met and surpassed the hype every step of the way. The game just comes so easily to him, he’s the epitome of a hoops prodigy. He has changed the face of highschool athletics with Nationally televised games being carried by ESPN. He has lived up to the hype and then some every step of the way. Carmelo Anthony has a better jumpshot than LeBron, and a NCAA title under his belt. But LeBron has far superior upside.[...] No one has ever had to overcome this kind of hype as a highschool player."

Here's an article from SI in his junior year - https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/18/ahead-of-his-class-ohi...

Quotes:

"OHIO HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR LEBRON JAMES IS SO GOOD THAT HE'S ALREADY BEING MENTIONED AS THE HEIR TO AIR JORDAN"

"There are only four or five players in the NBA that I wouldn't trade to get LeBron right now," says former Phoenix Suns coach Danny Ainge."

(Also, I think that article illustrates that LeBron didn't have much luck in his life other than his talent)
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Also, IIRC air burst nuclear weapons produce less fallout.
Anyone else think Facebook launching this might stop Microsoft from buying TikTok now? Depending upon how much money they need, I think Microsoft not having any past social media presence might scare them taking on Facebook as a competitor.
Note that the before/after images were taken two months apart.
> Note: our garbage collector optimizations are still in progress, so this section doesn’t document them.

It will be interesting to see whether they make any major changes to Lua's garbage collector, which is an incremental tracing GC.

Several gaming-focused scripting languages use reference counting instead of tracing GC, even though throughput is lower. This is because RC (almost?) eliminates the need for stop-the-world pauses, making it easier to maintain a consistent frame rate.
My personal opinion:

> You don't need to download any programs

I don't mind downloading good programs that I will use repeatedly.

> you would be able to access your databases from every browser

That sounds more like a security issue than a feature. I'd rather take my laptop with me if I need access from anywhere.

What I would pay a reasonable amount of money for, however, is a version of SequelPro that works for other databases, at least for postresql. SequelPro is probably the best lightweight database app ever made, but sadly it only supports MySQL.

It is open source and MIT-licensed though, so you could contribute postgresql support to the project or maybe even take the source and build a private source multi-database app from it. But that wouldn't be a web app.
And that's minuscule compared to the active arsenal held by United States and Russia. Their weapons are in the 400-1200kt range, and both nations have thousands of them.

Imagine several million of the Beirut explosions happening simultaneously in densely populated cities, and look at the men who hold the launch codes for these weapons.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists maintains a "Doomsday Clock" which is currently closer than ever to midnight — and they started in 1947.
Good point.

I was amazed that the silos were still standing after. Obviously well built - the explosion was right up against it.
Are you referring to Facebook as a company or Facebook - the product? I do think the Facebook product itself is dying. But their other ventures like IG, WhatsApp etc are doing very well.
Is there any reason a nuke could not detonate at ground level? Or are you saying to inflict the most damage, you "would not/should not" detonate a nuke at ground level.
Collabora Online is based on LibreOffice.

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/

It also available as a module for NextCloud.
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Except how is a blacklist "bad" and a whitelist "good" ? I've never thought of it this way; I dont think many people have but I could he wrong.

If there was some race related history to the words I could understand, but I thought they were called this way purely because the colours black and white are opposites, like how a blacklist is the opposite to a whitelist and vice versa.
Its absolutely not true that there is no alternative to tracking for captcha "hardness".

https://privacypass.github.io/