skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of, nice looking website! I think you could add some pictures so people can get a better image on what is a beercrawl.

What's your go-to market strategy? Do you intend to start beercrawl around Europe major cities?
I’m replying to you on a iPhone 5S (2013 model) running iOS 12 (the last supported version), and it runs perfectly fine for me.. Maybe it’s slow as hell comparing to the latest model, but it allows me to do everything I need it to do for me..
Because Apple computers don't use nVidia cards, and nVidia no longer makes their own Mac drivers (as they did until recently). Porting the Linux driver would be a massive amount of effort, even if nVidia was more open.

If you have a slightly older nVidia GPU (1000 series or older), it will work in High Sierra via nVidia's in-house drivers. But you will never be able to upgrade past High Sierra.
It uses https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#ReadDirent and https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#ParseDirent to incrementally read them.
I wonder how soon we'll see ARM64 based Hackintosh builds. Like on a Raspberry Pi 4 or one of those ThunderX2 workstations.
IIRC Techcrunch is owned by Verizon Media, same as advertising.com.

Probably the overlords mandating tighter integration.
This is the exact reason why my next phone will be a Pinephone (just waiting for it to ship now). I'm expecting it to last a good 10 years just like any decent Linux laptop.
It used to be terrible due to long parsing time but over the past 5 years or so, things have really improved, even more so in v8 recently [1]. Nowadays it's safe to just focus on the overall package size. And once it goes over a certain size budget (that's over 150KB gzipped as my personal preference) split it up and ideally use the PRPL pattern.

[1]: https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019
Why I have not been buying their stock over the last 15-ish years, I'll never know. My buying habits have certainly (fractionally) contributed to their success.
Fidelity’s Best Investors Are Dead
Do you mind linking the study? My google scholar searches didn't turn up anything
Obama did it with more flair. Trump does it with more bluster. GW Bush did it with more stumbling. Clinton did it with interns [0]. Fact is it's a monotonic increasing function you can trace back as far as Roosevelt, maybe even Lincoln.

[0] This may have veered off-topic.
Don't houses in Germany, and western Europe, have blinds ? I only had this night light issue when living in the US
Can we not have our DNA information deleted on demand. At least within the EU it comes under GDPR.

Any leaks make ancestory responsible, that can be huge.
It's called fraud.

Or an aggressive business model that is fair only to the top 10% of customers who are not concerned with spending $250 per month in effective charges to have a wireless handheld computer with 4G.
What if you had 30 different restaurants at the same place ?
This is an amazing engine design!
Well I'm certainly not telling you my salary. :P

But I cook for myself because food prep/delivery simply isn't nutritious enough. There's just no way to get enough high-quality protein and high-quality veggies. (Like, I order a salad, and it has 3 cherry tomatoes in it when I want 20. Or the salmon filet is 3 oz when I need 10.) Delivery is either way too high on carbs, or way too low on calories.

And here's the secret: if you do all your prep work and actual cooking in huge batches and then freeze, it takes remarkably little time. I'll cook two pork shoulders, or ten pounds of chicken thighs, or twelve eggplants, at a time. I've got probably 200 Rubbermaid freezer containers of various sizes.

Then when it comes to mealtime, it's just assembly that takes 5 minutes. Microwaving protein, assembling a salad, toasting some bread. An easy breakfast burrito in a pan with some fresh eggs. That kind of thing. And of course I throw everything in the dishwasher afterwards, and it definitely takes less than a minute to wipe down my counter and stove afterwards.

I shop once a week for milk, eggs, fresh produce, etc. It takes a grand total of a half an hour.

Granted I have a lot of culinary experience. But honestly, the total time spent cooking+shopping is minimal. Plus I enjoy it anyways.

I mean, if you're making complicated recipes every night cooking can easily consume all your free time. But if you plan, prep, freeze, and never use recipes because you know how to cook from experience, the time spent just isn't significant in your life.
It reminds me more of a genetic algorithm
Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts foreign language learning
https://petapixel.com/2015/02/19/a-laser-can-turn-off-street...
The basic answer is that humans are an evolved system, and any simple unambiguously helpful change in the context of the environment of early humans spread fairly quickly throughout the entire population. If there was an infectious disease that improved sense of smell through any simple mechanism, it's almost certain that either some human somewhere had a mutation that did the same thing, or that "infectious disease" will become a symbiote (see gut bacteria for example).

So the basic answer is "you don't see them because you'd only notice them in the time between first being seen and being present in everyone in the population, which is a very short time compared to the time before they first occurred and the time after they reach 100% of the population".
Show HN: Bigroom.video – better video social events
great but it has nothing to do with disabling a physical server
Crashing Firefox
I assume fireflies are declining from the loss of habitat, along with so many other insect species. The speculation about light being a cause seems logical, but is unproven. Indeed, even the population variations of fireflies is unproven -- the wiki citation in the other link uses as its authority a cite that merely notes that they recall more when they were kids. It is an extremely poor quality citation (but it will play well on HN).

"Doom!" is a very seductive narrative that we fall to regarding virtually every change in our environment. Sometimes reasonably, as with AGW, but other times just taking natural variations and screaming end times...then just going quiet when they recover again as we move to the next cause.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of BRIN Indexes in Postgres
Talking about dimming lights: Life tip: At night after dinner, turn off all the lights of your house. Use only weak led lights. You'll sleep much better, feel better and save on energy bills.
IIUC, dark-skinned people have higher covid19 mortality rates, and physicians usually(?) use this kind of oxymeter in their decision-making. I wonder if there's a connection.
That's not just an idea. Order No. 270 ordered to shoot any deserters (or anybody who's not 'organizing resistance') on the spot and promised imprisonment for families of those who surrendered to the Germans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_No._270
Yeah. Almost every site uses it now.

Check whether you can be tracked here - https://hinternesch.com/page1

Visit the site. Then clear cookies and history (don't touch cache) . Then return and you will get the same ID, provided you are not using any extension that removes the E-Tags.

I learnt about the possibilities of Etags from here - https://privacy-formula.com/reader/no-cookies-no-problem-usi...
Uh I do not think it was sarcasm.
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6
Hello Hackernews!

Over the last couple of months I have been working on a new way to have social events over video (https://bigroom.video).

As with the rest of the world, my last company transitioned to being completely remote with the rise of covid. We tried to emulate our old lunchroom and bar happy-hour dynamic over Zoom, but found that we could really only have one person speak at a time. With a 20 person Zoom lunch, this turns into each person telling a story one-by-one, people stepping on each others' toes, and a loss of the small dynamic conversations that would normally happen at any social event.

Bigroom has two major features that help bring the dynamism back to socializing.

Dynamic channels let you break off into a separate conversation with one click. At any social event I've been to, people are always separated into groups of 3-6 and individuals bounce between those groups. Dynamic channels allow this behavior without the rigidity of Zoom breakout rooms.

Whispering temporarily mutes your audio to everyone except one person. Click-and-hold on someone's video to start whispering, and let go of your mouse to stop. It's possible for two people to have a complete 1-on-1 conversation within a large group of people by whispering to each other.

Bigroom works on desktop Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, with mobile support planned. On the technical side, Bigroom consists of a web client and a websocket server, both written entirely in rust. I used the elm-like yew framework compiled to wasm for the frontend and async-tungstenite for the websocket backend. The entire client app compiles down to <1MB.

All video and audio is transmitted over peer-to-peer WebRTC connections. This puts a natural limit to how many people can be actively using video in a single channel (depending on the computer I find it is between 10 and 20), although I am considering a client-server architecture in the future to make it scale similarly to zoom.

Bigroom is in free open beta and doesn't even require an account to use.

Looking forward to your feedback!

-Kevin
Eh... I'll have to try it but wont' be easy to give up Linux.
As election looms, a network of automated news outlets nearly triples in size
Old lawns (1950s) had clover by design. Even the lawn seed had clover seed already in it. Clover produces nitrogen which grass consumes, so it is a nice synergy. Clover eventually fell out of style because kids stepping on bees isn't desirable, and fertilizer and herbicides made an all grass lawn feasible.
I've been in a similar position at my current job. I was not excited at all to dive into PHP code simply because of how I perceived it externally. But once I started I was pleasantly surprised by how much "just works".
Richard Turner does it with patter, casual motions, and while being blind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Turner_(magician)
Bumblebees like the clover too.
This is absolutely contrary to the evidence. Sucrose is rare in plants in nature (save in tiny quantities.) We aren't evolved to absorb it gradually, it just floods in to the bloodstream; it behaves very differently than either of it's components, or fructose or other vegetable and fruit sugars. It's so evolutionarily weird that even bacteria and fungi generally aren't able to eat it. Therefore, if you're on a FODMAP diet you are allowed to drink Mexican Coca-Cola (has sucrose) but not American Coca-Cola (has liquid invert sugar.) Sucrose won't cause SIBO yeast and bacteria growth because yeast and bacteria haven't evolved to cope with it either.

Tests on athletes (some now decades old) show even moderate sucrose consumption reduces athletic performance and health.
Oppo, Vivo, Realme, and Oneplus after are owned by BKK.
> it turns out that Hydro is actually worse than all fossil fuels in terms of GHGs

That's a bad comparison. You can't simply compare them without any context.

Hydro has a one-time high carbon cost, while fossil fuels have a small ongoing cost. You can't simply state that one is better than the other, you need at minimum to restrict the comparison into a time-frame.

(By the way, nobody does a large hydro project without first cleaning out the previous vegetation nowadays. Historical data isn't good either.)
Can this be used locally for datasets with non-transferable PII? Thinking about this for non-profit work.
> MacOS feels like a mature operating system that Apple have created with restraint and control - where to me Windows feels like a piece of legacy enterprise software with a shiny UI.

Quibble, I don't think this has to do with being a walled garden—or at least, I think you may be using the term in a different way than I generally think of it. Apple could have much better legacy support and an equally well designed OS.

Some older applications might look out of place, but that's preferable to not letting them run at all—you can still choose to stick with newer software and have the same experience. Alternately, Apple could stop overhauling the OS's visual design for no reason every seven years...
People who hand over their DNA won’t care in the slightest. For the rest of us this confirms our understanding.
well it shouldn't be a rant. for my company java would've been fast enough. however we invested heavily in dotnet core, since it's easier to scale people in our region with dotnet.

we are basically struggeling to find people in the java domain, the amount of people with c# knowledge in my area is so much bigger.

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however I'm personally a heavy java user (or scala should I say) unfortunatly the more things I did in c# the more I missed stuff especially in plain java.
I thing the oracle takeover of java held the language back a bit for a few years. I mean if I look at the releases, they started to catch up with their new model, etc. which is good.

and I think what java these days are missing is a project like django/ror or aspnet.core which drives the web forward with a fully integrated web framework that does not suck. don't get me wrong spring looks promising, but it tries to fullfil every role by being "flexible" which it probably shouldn't be.
enforce something. give us a nice little ORM that is not enterprise, look at linq. and especially don't be so enterprisy.
> The states of California and Alaska each individually have more wild forest lands than the entire European continent.

But that's not b/c of actions of local residents.

> The US created the concept of state-protected wilderness reserves and national parks.

That's quite incorrect, e.g. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest

The forest was declared a hunting reserve in 1541 to protect bison. In 1557, the forest charter was issued, under which a special board was established to examine forest usage. In 1639, King Vladislaus IV issued the "Białowieża royal forest decree" (Ordynacja Puszczy J.K. Mości leśnictwa Białowieskiego). The document freed all peasants living in the forest in exchange for their service as osocznicy, or royal foresters. They were also freed of taxes in exchange for taking care of the forest. The forest was divided onto 12 triangular areas (straże) with a centre in Białowieża.
I prefer fingerprint too, but just want to point out it's also imperfect. If your hands are at all damp, or sweaty, or cold, the success rate drops to well below 50% (at least for me). It often takes 3-4 tries to unlock if not under perfect conditions, so it's not uncommon that I have to give up and enter the PIN even with my fingerprint-capable Pixel 3.
Yandex 1-hour autonomous drive in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Total Household Debt Decreased in Q2 2020, Marking First Decline Since 2014
Haven't used grails, but back in 2012, JRuby used to generate so many in-memory classes, the class space would run out and we didn't really have a garbage collector for that. It came a few years later. Things might be better with JRuby 9000 and java 1.8+ these days. I presume Grails didn't suffer such problems.

Note: I see that torquebox was discontinued. It was a simple way of getting your rails project to work with JBoss and had many nice utilities like infinispan and stomp. Good old days.
Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears
Show HN: Pincone – A Bookmarking Tool for Teams
If people stopped catering to non-evergreen browsers, do you know how fast people would start adopting evergreen browsers?
The Last of the Zoroastrians
This isn't true. I've worked at Google for 13 years and have rarely seen someone fired for performance; it's certainly not automatic based on being at the bottom of a stack rank. Other companies have or had such a system [1] but Google never has.

The sliver of truth is that Google's once-or-twice-yearly performance evaluation system asks colleagues to stack rank folks they are reviewing. I wish they'd get rid of it, but it's not used for much. It's only a partial order of folks they're reviewing, nothing really enforces that people actually do it, I suspect some people just rank all the people trying for promo this cycle above the people who aren't, and the many reviewers' stack ranks are never reconciled into one authoritative stack rank of the folks in a group. I don't know why it's still around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
Several other european countries already have introduced similar laws. E.g. slovenia, croatia, czechia.

https://artificiallightatnight.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/0/5/37...
https://www.darksky.org/croatian-light-pollution-law/
https://english.radio.cz/lower-house-passes-dark-sky-law-805...
Was wondering the same.

Not sure what is the point of having .org website here.

>> The Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by Copyright Law and international treaty provision
Just finished reading Sheldrake's book. It's truly a spectacular read. Engaging use of language, clear but not condescending expertise, and a great sense of humor to boot. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to extend their (metaphorical) mycorrhizal tips.
If the genomics community is really so big, they should just make their own file format (.gcvs or something) and make an Excel plugin that treats it as literal text cells.
Cars are actually more aerodynamically shaped nowadays. But riding a motorcycle will give you the same result today as 20 years ago. To which I must say: yes, the insects seem to be back in larger numbers this year. At least in Germany.

But not everywhere: the less farm land, the more insects. Like, from literally none on farm land to "I have to completely clean my helmet because of all that yellow goo" in larger forests.
Ironically, the avif demo image they use in this write-up is larger then the failover jpg (137kb vs 110kb).

https://reachlightspeed.com/img/blog/post-using-avif-images-...

https://reachlightspeed.com/img/blog/post-using-avif-images-...
You may be putting out the fire with gasoline.

Some problems don't benefit from direct argument. There are better ways to address it.
What are the pains when treating prefix as directories?

I am not familiar with S3.
Wonder if the fabs being developed in China are or will be competitive to Intel in the ~near future?
Construction (planning), b2b, customer requires it support IE11. It's a web application. For some critical stuff, IE actually has less bugs. :-)
Technically anarchy doesn’t mean the absence of rules or organization, just the absence of hierarchies that place one person/group in a strictly superior position to others.
You give your phone to someone, then he just opens the app and sends the QR code screenshot to himself. He has the codes forever.

Without it, he has 30 seconds to login and put the code by just opening the app and looking at the code.

Not much of a feature, but might help some users
Congrats on adding Auth! Auth + observable data changes + real-time syncing with row level security in something self-hosted is awesome. Is there a concept in Supabase of offline data creation, or is it online only? The offline support of Firebase is really great for a lot of apps where users create the data (or for example, collecting gps coordinates of a truck). Anything that doesn’t require an external validator or datasource.

I feel this is a drastically underserved market. I wouldn’t ever use Firebase and delegate all hosting and scaling of my application to a 3rd party with a tight coupling all the way down to the front end, without some type of escape hatch. The way Supabase is a composition of OSS components is really brilliant!
As someone who sold Bitcoin on LocalBitcoins, and have 4 friends in federal prison (or detention), plus friends with millions in tainted BitCoin, this is not true.

Almost all illegal bitcoin stolen by hackers and ransomware is cashed out in countries with limited or no AML/KYC.
> A similar mobilization will be necessary for the US to decarbonize its economy fast enough to avert the worst of climate change.

The US can't even mobilize enough to stop itinerant students from destroying downtown cores. What makes anyone think that this kind of mobilization is even remotely possible without drastic political changes?

To make these kinds of changes you'd need the strongman to end all strongmen. Unless there's someone waiting in the wings for such a role that we can all get behind, it ain't gonna happen. This article is wishful thinking in the extreme.
Hi Hnrobert42, thanks for your advice but I am not certain about limiting my options to small startups. I already attract small startups to a high degree and for better or for worse, they never want to hire me as W2. So I don't get sign-in bonuses, nor a 401K nor health benefits.

What I don't know is what is so different about the approach to getting hired as full-time employee compared to a freelancer that makes it so difficult for me to pass. In what ways should one behave differently at a full-time job interview compared to a contractor's interview.

Right now I'm on YouTube looking for winning tech interviews in order to see how I should speak and things to say. It's the closest you could be to a fly on the wall eavesdropping on an interview. Because when it comes to social cues, I learn better by observing than by intuition.
> We just look for the 94-100% range and would only take action if we get a reading around 87% or lower

I'm not very familiar, so I'm not sure how to interpret this. Does this describe the normal procedure for when you can rely on a pulse oximeter, or does it describe the modified procedure for when you can't?
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This appears to be incorrect - https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-stack-rank-its-employe...

I think you may be confusing the stack ranking at google, that doesn't result in dismissal (Google were in fact, right up until Covid, still on a hiring spree with a shortage of engineers); with what Microsoft historically did (and stopped doing in 2013).
"Blackstone is buying Ancestry.com from private equity firms Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity and Permira."

That cat was already out of the bag.
I highly recommend The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan) which dives even deeper on this thought across a variety of relationships in nature.
I also have a work iPhone and a Pixel 2 personal phone. I haven't encountered the same thing as you in terms of performance, they seem to be aging pretty similarly to me.

Google's attitude to customer support and brand loyalty, on the other hand, is a different story...

My girlfriend's Pixel 4 screen cracked and was a huge PITA to fix even though we paid a ton for extra warranty. Trying to get that fixed was far more painful than any experience I've had with other brands.

Worse than that, there is a software bug that can / will irreversibly brick your Pixel 2 rear camera. You can find a ton of info on it by searching. It doesn't seem to affect everyone, but I was unlucky enough to hit it last week, presumably from a recent update. Google has been absolutely silent on this issue. Unethical at best, and probably worse.

There was a time where I would have scoffed at paying a premium for Apple or other brands that sell an experience more than just a device. That's completely changed now. I don't have the patience or energy in my life to deal with what I perceive to be Google's cold / impersonal / numbers oriented approach to customers. It's just not worth the stress. If anything, I'm willing to pay a pretty big premium for the opposite. If that means switching our household to Apple products, so be it and good riddance.
Why the blood-brain barrier is really a filter
Poison ivy is an acceptable use case for glyphosphate in my opinion. Get rid of that stuff asap.
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