skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's going on on this page?

When I'm scrolling then section titles like 'Weekly performance triage' have green border for a like 0.5sec.
People watching a German farmer at work on Twitch
But what happens if someone else independently invents the same things and protects them in a patent? Does SpaceX lose their technology?
The BBC is not a state media company. According to Wikipedia, “The BBC is a statutory corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen from April 2017 by the BBC Board and regulated by Ofcom.”

This is clearly visible given that politicians keep arguing that it is biased towards the other side.
That brings back some memories. I recall that a lot of folks were upset at ESR for showing off, or for speaking so disrespectfully to Linus like that. I'm glad Linus was able to change his mind; Git is working out pretty well.
I was recently thinking about writing something about fixed point vs floating point.

The numbers that you can represent with floating point are exponentially distributed. Floating point is well-behaved when you multiply things, and it maintains a good relative error. Addition works best when you add similar numbers. Overflow is almost impossible, but it's easy to get loss of significance.

The numbers that you can represent with fixed point are uniformly distributed. Fixed point is well-behaved when you add things, and it maintains a good absolute error. Loss of significance doesn't happen, but it's easy to get an overflow.

In both systems it's possible to accumulate error, but under normal circumstances the approximation error should average out. Fixed point makes it easier to reason about the error, floating point is a bit harder, but usually works well in practice (with some exceptions -- for example, if you add a huge array of small values you will run into trouble due to the loss of significance).
Ammonium nitrate, and ANFO is one of the safest non-military explosives.

And following this, it is one of the most casually, and carelessly treated.
This seems unlikely.

Officially, they had 2750 tones of ammonium nitrate on that dock. Even if it were properly mixed with fuel oil to make ANFO, that would give you 2200 tones of tnt equivalent. It is quite unlikely that it was mixed to the perfect proportions, so we’d expect actual yield to be below theoretical max

So unless if something else was involved (or the official amount of ammonium nitrate was wrong) I would expect the final blast to be under 2kt.
The interesting part about the explosion in the video is that there's two clouds: first the rapidly expanding almost perfectly spherical white puff, and then the slower dark black mushroom cloud. I vaguely recall the first is mostly water vapor that suddenly condenses out of the air because of the massive shockwave, while the second is the 'actual' explosion and its byproducts being shot up into the air. Any physicists out there care to set me straight?
Could you share some of those insights?
I can't remember the last time I upgraded the memory/disk in one of my computers. It really is a non-issue for the majority. There are other issues that are much more important to me.
Forgot to add that head posture can also cause peripheral numbness. I find that using 2 pillows (to help with acid reflux) overextends my neck and sometimes results in numb fingers in the morning depending on sleeping position.
It's mixed with diesel and used as a quarrying explosive.
Why is white collar crime punished with such light sentences? I could have got that sentence for house breaking, or shoplifting to the value of $5k. I could get a lot more for dealing drugs to a few friends. Steal $100m and get 18 months, starting when the world is a nicer place. The world really is set up for rich people.
Why is that sad? Go with what works.

The QWERTY keyboard has been around for 150 years. Whatever its failings, there's no denying that it works pretty well so there's no big problem sticking with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
The flip-side of this truism is that this point of view is probably healthier for the individual than seeing themselves as helpless victims.

Both views are flawed, of course.
The first usage I remember of walled garden in an online sense was about AOL and their refusal to use common internet protocols - you literally could not email from outside AOL and if I remember not view websites outside AOL. There was a wall around their garden. IIRC it became a common description in tech columns of papers.

I still see the walled garden analogy to be more useful

If people are confusing their definition of a metaphor and mine (I don't think Orwell mentioned that but maybe it's low down the list of stylistic errors) then that can cause problems. But I struggle to see how Facebook / twitter "protects" creators from the harsh winds of the outside.
Good news for Australia. I once flew from Sydney to Tokyo and the person sitting next to me turned out to be the negotiator for coal prices and volumes from Australia to Japan. He was a government employee and it made for a very interesting flight.

If they build these new powerplants in the right location, they can externalize polution. Would be nice if costs of such polution had to be paid by the same country/region, to disincentivize new coal use.
They cloaked versions look like different people to me (except for the last). I’m more surprised by nobody mentioning this! They look like relatives, but not the same person.
There is nothing correct in those observations.

>These are all nice ideas that don't work very well in practice

Cmon people, stop repeating this nonsense. You have both in powershell.

> and the object nature of IO often just gets in the way.

??!

Object nature of pipeline is one Out-String away from arcane way.
Nice Post
Is this the same change that Chrome recently introduced? Or will we have to go through a lot of changes and uncertainties again?
This has been debunked, look it up.
If someone came up to an American abroad and demanded they attest for the detention centers on the border people would call that ridiculous. The idea this person is entertaining the idea of doing the same for Chinese people who work with them is just as much so.
I don't have a negative attitude towards the concept of monads nor one informed by its funny name (where did you even get that notion? Programming is filled with jargon).

I do have a bit of a negative attitude towards evangelists who expect people to be impressed by ideas whose significance they routinely fail to communicate. Functional programming enthusiasts seem to really want the rest of us to care about monads but never quite get around to telling us why, and that's on them.

I get that, say, Result types and List types both can wrap objects and both compose with themselves in some nice ways when they do. And as a mathematically curious person, I think this is a fun observation. But since there is very little overlap in their practical use cases I don't understand why having a formal model for that commonality is so important.

Since you said it comes up often, do you have an example of a time where you reached a solution faster by recognizing that it should be monad-shaped?
This is worth pointing out; a lot of the lands used for grazing simply aren't viable for much else, and thus we couldn't really plant anything else there.

I suspect on average, we will eat less meat in the future, but that we won't get rid of meat totally simply because it's the only way to get food from some areas.
They might see their own past.

It seems likely that all species that make it to space might have similar pressures because they have a similar environment.

See convergent evolution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

That is, if they exist at all. Maybe we all converge to the great filter.
Well they wouldn't be the world's best self driving engineers in that case would they?
Hezbollah use Ammonium Nitrate

Hezbollah also uses Toyota trucks, but not every fatal Toyota accident in Lebanon is a targeted attack. Millions of tons of ammonium nitrate are produced every year. It has several nonmilitary uses in explosives and fertilizer.

If you want a source,
the President of the United States said

The current President of the United States is not a reliable source of information.

Equally arson or a fire due to lack of security
and maintenance due to coronavirus stress.

It seems counterproductive to speculate about this on the internet, given what little we know.
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Curious, what does the author mean here:

When It’s ‘Just’ an API Server: Rails has less to offer an API server that speaks JSON over the wire. A lot of its HTTP security doesn’t matter for that case (e.g. SQL injection safeguards, XSS prevention.)

It seems to me that SQL injection safeguards would still be needed in an API service. OFC XSS isn't relevant though.

(I word it like this to be charitable in case I misunderstand what the author was trying to say, but if they are trying to say what I think they are, I think they are wrong.)
Gmail is probably the example that I hold up as an SPA gone awry — on a new machine & T1 broadband you can still get _very_ slow loading times to open the site at all.

& what it's serving you in the end doesn't feel like it's heavy lifting in this day & age — a subject line & preview of your first N emails — I think the site could be much more responsive if they had a JS enhanced page (e.g. using it for their predictive text) rather than an SPA.
You make a good point. I did not say that we should solve all problems via immigration. There are classes of problems that immigrants can’t solve. I’m just saying we should prioritize those problems above such problems. Examples include, researching cures for incurable illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, prosthetics to solve blindness, deafness, artificial limbs, etc. I feel automation can benefit various problem classes without generating mass unemployment.
NLP Research Paper Explained
Neat! I like how it's lightweight, not enough lightweight stuff on the web nowadays (except for HN). Allowing the option to set human readable permalinks might be useful.
Google Music shutdown starts this month
You could tell it wasn’t a military explosive by the noise. Military explosives tend to be of the high speed type, and tend to make a sharper snap. This looked and sounded more like what you’d see in mining, which is pretty close since ANFO (made with ammonium nitrate) is indeed a mining explosive.
This is something people researched for a long time. Either way, you definitely need more than a single counterexample to wholesale claim that there is little relationship between funding and performance. I've linked a couple of studies below; one is a direct rebuttal to a previously done study claiming what you are.[1] Both sides are a little dated, so I've linked a 2016 Rutgers study which directly states in the conclusion that "The idea that 'money doesn't matter' is no longer defensible." [2] I'm sure you can look for additional primary sources in that paper's references.

I'd also like to know where the union was, although I suspect they were working on it or were fighting for other things. As I mentioned before, recovery to even pre-Recession levels has taken a long time even with educator union action, and even then has been uneven across the country[3]. If you're actually interested, I can reach out to those people in my life for more specifics, but it may be a few days before I hear back.

I disagree about the actions that a school administration would take. To me, it's more likely they'd just say "nope, that didn't work" and use them for in-class-only activities for a few years until the machines gave up, rather than spend money on replacements. Because it's a hypothetical, I don't see much of a way forward here, besides just agreeing to disagree.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/003465430660033... (may need to use SciHub, etc. for access)

[2] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED596199.pdf

[3] https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/3-6-19s...
I think it’s perfectly normal in companies to share news and whatnot in various group chats. We often share news related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong, the virus, BLM, Trump, etc. We don’t all share the same political views, but we’re all adults.
Why not introduce a model where one who has lost their MFA keys pays something like, say, 50 $ to make up for the time the support team spends on the ticket?

Such a decision is something that would make me either leave the service, not trust it with anything important or not enable MFA.

(Side note, this is also valid for Google, Twitter, Facebook, AWS and other services that take pride in letting AI manage everything with no avenue of contacting a human with authority to override the AI)
That sounds great!

>slowdowns due to inline asm and sillyness in LLVM

I just hope that isn't a Chesterton's fence
>Phony, sensationalisy calculations like you'd expect from a tabloid.

I don't think it's so bad - it definitely gives some sense of scale. The UK is just one country - even if you spread replacement over 15 years, there's still the rest of the world to consider. It also infers a second point, that is, there will be nothing left (unless mineral extraction is massively increased) to construct the various renewable energy systems needed to make this "sustainable", or in fact, make anything else at all but EVs.

(I put "sustainable" in quotes, because in my opinion, there is absolutely nothing sustainable about dedicating the entire world's mineral production for many years to personal transport).
For those that are curious about the fix that hog speaks of:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/031714/how-forex...
There is a non-trivial number of people who believe the very concept of private property is theft. Quite a few of them post comments on HN.
> No need to believe state media companies like BBC that never questioned the narrative in the "free" world.

While not so much as, say, the Guardian, I remember the BBC questioning the US/UK government narrative, and indeed outright refuting it on a number of points. It's been quite a while, ISTR it was the BBC was one of the earlier (at least of the large number of news sources I was then following) carried the detailed breakdown of how the supposed WMD trailers were, and were known by both the British and American governments to be, systems for inflating and deploying weather balloons that had been sold to Iraq by the British government in the 1980s.

> China will win hearts, propaganda will lose.

The two statements are incompatible. You probably mean to replace the second with “Chinese propaganda will win.”

> No major Muslim country says anything about China

A lot of them are looking to China to counterbalance other regional threats, and others (notably Malaysia) have overtly expressed concern about China's actions towards the Uighurs but also explicitly said they can't take a stand on the issue because of the risk of provoking China.

> Should make you question everything the mainstream "free" world narrative says about China.

Why should the “free world” saying the same thing as Muslim countries that aren’t trying to seek Chinese support for geopolitical reasons, but louder because they aren't under meaningful immediate threat by China, make me question what they are saying?
Absolutely. The "unsustainable" part of car ownership is not where the energy comes from.
Linear vs. Binary Search Algorithms
Yeah, I can't think of anything i'd need a video for, but still made one just to see if it works as well as the intro makes it look. And it really does work that well!

One small issue and a small feature request, tho:

- Undo of resizing images should restore it to the size that it was before you started dragging, currently it restores it to a lot of sizes during dragging.

- It would be great if you could switch between different kinds of text effects without having to remove the entire effect and re-enter your text.

[EDIT: found some more small bugs]

- Copy & paste hex colors for text doesn't work b/c it will paste the text element instead

- One time the download link for the video didn't work, it just closed the modal and i had to render it again. Worked fine the next time

All in all very well done! Will definitely be spreading the word about this one!
It is too bad that muslins are being mistreated in China, but at least they're not being bombarded to death on imperial wars to steal their oil, like it is being done by western countries. BBC should note this.
Atlassian products seem to use a really great code-splitting-like tech: 4MB js bundles are dynamically generated from a list of which modules should be included in the bundle which is dynamically generated by some other js on the page. So you're essentially guaranteed to get the same modules into your cache a dozen times in slightly different 4MB js bundles.
The management of Chinese prisons is not as chaotic as in the United States.
Actually with the lag it changes everything, because you can earn interest/dividends on the amounts. You can die in the meantime so its someone elses. The variations are endless. When someone discusses it as being zero-sum there is always just a scenario you can describe where it isn't, and if even just $1 can't be accounted for the whole argument breaks apart.

It is never really instantaneous and can take more than months, years. You would have thought printing 6 trillion would have changed something but not really.
> does not support the claim that it is a false narrative that they are unoccupied.

no the false narrative was that they will remain unoccupied and is just built as a form of economic stimulus.
Transformation of Customer Service with Robotic Process Automation – Kualitatem
This is a very niche case. Why can't you recieve sms abroad? Do you leave your phone behind when you travel? Why can't you give Google your current phone number?
> Apparently there is a new book (beta stage) dedicated on Go for CLI tools and applications [1].

I own that book, and I have two considerations:

1. I've found Golang simple enough not to need particular education on building simple tools; the book itself is well-written though, for people who like to be accompanied or motivated in learning a subject.

2. they've labelled "beta 2" (!!) a book where 40% of the content hasn't been written; in the software world, this would be (rightfully) ridiculed.
There are many seemingly mundane things people watch on Twitch. Farming, Truck Driving, etc. It's not really any more strange than the majority of the 'Just Chatting' section.
Looks like his "Way of the Future" church website is also no longer his: https://www.wayofthefuture.church/
The last time it was online with the original content was in March 2020.
Seems to be the same change.

"This is an industry-wide change for browsers and is not something Mozilla is undertaking alone. Google has been rolling this change out to Chrome users since February 2020, with SameSite=Lax being the default for a certain (unpublished) percentage of all their channels (release, beta, canary)."
Just another critical article without substance to steer up rails community and get some readers.

That API part in particular is dead wrong. Gives the feeling Rails is not good for anything.
I had the same issue, especially w/ syncing a large amount of small files, and switched from nextcloud to seafile which works way better on the same hardware.
To be fair--and I say this as a Rust fan--the pages of inscrutable error messages caused by a misplaced parenthesis in a template are pretty much over. Clang spearheaded this change to the point where some companies would use clang for development and gcc for production builds.

This isn't to say that template errors are problem-free but the situation is much better than it was 5 years ago.
http://washingtonindependent.com/large-explosion-in-beirut-l...

Many angles here as well
Disaster recovery is simpler with 1P (if you lose your computer and your phone). You just need your 1P credentials instead of your Dropbox credentials and KeePass secret key.
The algorithm described in the paper is outlined as follows (just for my curiosity):

"The algorithm starts with a generic XPath locator that returns
all nodes (‘//*’) and then it iteratively refines the locator until only the element of interest is selected. In such iterative refinement, ROBULA+ applies seven refinement transformations, according to a set of heuristic XPath specialization steps."

The algorithm seems to be a specialized heuristics for XPath generation.
Well I'm Chinese and have positive personal experiences in China, so I'm pro-China.

If you're going to base your questions on the premises that I do not agree with, and do not give your reasonings, then there is no way to engage in productive conversation.
Moral Machines with Rebecca Raper Ep.44
You'll get more feedback if you submit the link as a "Show HN" post. Looks great though
> am Chinese living in China, sitting in a Communist Party building and doing my job

Fixed for you.
i just blocked everything that is not site content related.
The current bottom end is $1099 and that's the last model with a low-dpi screen. I'd be surprised to see the price drop much below that when it gets renewed.
You can use GitHub since it’s one of the few platforms (if not the only) that won’t be blocked in China and Microsoft is very unlikely to censor your repository.

WeChat and other social media will of course shadowban messages containing a link to your repo (assuming it become popular enough to be noticed) but you can find creative ways to bypass the blacklisting (e.g. share link in a picture, with spaces in the link, forking the repo and sharing the forked one, etc.)
This feels backward, I don’t get how CI/CD is dependant on agile.

CI/CD can enable some agile practices for sure, but CI/CD provides a lot of value without implementing any of the agile methodologies. But having CI makes it easier to practice TDD and enforce coding standards. And having a test environment running the latest code should tighten the feedback loop between developer and stakeholder. These are good things no matter how you organise your work. So start with a CI/CD pipeline and then go from there. You may or may not want to adopted ideas from the agile toolbox.

Ps. This isn’t directed at you Maria_micro, more at the implied agile methodologies. “I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by [grooming meetings]”.
> The flip-side of this truism is that this point of view is probably healthier for the individual than seeing themselves as helpless victims.

That's not the flip side of that view, because the socialist view of an exploited proletariat in an advanced industrial democracy is not one of “helpless victims”, but of a powerful force that has the power to reverse the power structure once they realize it exists and act in solidarity against it.
As an American, as terrible as the Chinese actions against the Uighurs in Xinjiang are I still feel we should prioritize ending our nearly twenty year long war in neighboring Afghanistan.

We've created millions of refugees, caused over a hundred thousand people to die, and committed numerous human rights violations. Yet the press coverage it gets mostly centers around how we dropped the "mother of all bombs" on them or how disgusting it is to hold peace talks with the Taliban in September.

And for all the calls of "whataboutism" this is likely to raise, if we are unable to fix our own problems our attempts to fix China's are unlikely to benefit anyone.
Tip: you don't need to be pro-CCP to be pro-China.

I'm pro-my country? Yes. I'm pro-my country's government? Absolutely not.