skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it’s the same story as Apple and the Mac. Consumers ask their pro/techie friend what they use, and do that. People buy MacBook Pros, people use Chrome. When pros say “I won’t use Firefox because this little feature doesn’t work exactly like Chrome”, their mom doesn’t either.
Perhaps true for society depending on your views, but the point of a city is simply somewhere many people want to live together. A sign of a healthy city is steady growth, this could be from the opportunities available or the attractiveness of the quality of life of the city. For Sf, the opportunity aspect is strong enough so people are willing to overlook the widespread homelessness.
There’s a homeless shelter 2 blocks away from me, and I’m perfectly fine with it. The residents are great people as far as I can tell; I smile and wave when I see them, and I don’t begrudge the occasional panhandler or guy mumbling to himself.

I mention all that to be very clear about what I mean when I say, I wouldn’t agree to live near a San Francisco homeless shelter either. I just can’t tolerate people screaming at me all the time or scattering used needles on the sidewalk outside, and definitely couldn’t ask friends or family to tolerate it.
Ive long thought programming languages need a "localizable string" (Aka user-facing string) type, different from regular utf8 strings. Something like what gettext and other i18n libraries fake for you, but native to the language.

Behaviour like this is definitely a good reason why: sorting, changing case, etc should be consistent when dealing with strings used as constants and identifiers, but Python's .lower() behaviour makes sense in a localizable string context.
Clickbaity title aside (seriously, that’s the original press release title), pretty damning results. Basically a higher BMI means a higher probability to get an alzheimer’s disease.
Correct, but this is so rare that can be ignored.
Totally agree. This is why I included the second of the Web's original sins in lack of native payments. We really need cryptocurrencies to succeed here. However I fear that that whole sector has been totally swamped by get rich quick and libertarian wackos with no interest as something as pedestrian as Web Bucks
These inventory levels are comparable to 2009 and below 2010, both years in which the population of San Francisco increased. They are also, as the article obliquely indicates, still half the proportional levels of New York.
The appropriate comparison to judge the treatment is not "suicide rate in trans people vs in the general population" but "suicide rate in trans people vs in people who experience dysphoria but do not transition".
https://garygregory.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/java-lowercase-...

In the Turkish locale, the Unicode LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I becomes a LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I. That’s not a lowercase “i”.
I am in a happy mode. Thank you for consolidating our human efforts and avoiding reinventing the gear. :)
Further context:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I

Did not know Istanbul is actually İstanbul.
I'd like to see the FDA move away from approvals like this and just focus on lightweight approvals that "the test seems not fraudulent for presenting the false positive rate and false negative rates of the test, and it is indeed better than ransom".

Tests should not return "positive" or "negative", rather something like "3 in 4 chance of infection" of positive and "1 in 200 chance of infection" if negative (something like that). This is both more true and helps people understand statistics/how these tests work, instead of hiding it.

I don't see a safety risk for a test if it has some predictive value unless it is fraud.

There could be a separate threshold for "reimbursability" for insurance reasons.
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Discrete GPUs break all the time, customers are just used to it. Maybe it’s improving since GTX1xxx/RX4xx era but they were extremely unreliable when Apple was using them/industry was switching to RoHS compliant Pb free solders.
A study like this would probably account for that by comparing people of similar activity levels.

I assume like with most things athletic individuals would have less risk anyway.
Really, then why are there plausible competitors for Wal-Mart (Target, Costco, etc) but no other Amazons for general purpose online shopping?
Ask HN: What are world-class retention D1/D7/D30 numbers for mobile apps?
What do top retention numbers look like in 2020 for top mobile apps?
I'm skeptical of this under Microsoft's control and stewardship.
If it is purely for speed, then there is no need for a new browser. Simply disabling JS makes websites crazy fast. I run a documentation site for my framework. It is already pretty lean, but disabling JS makes it super fast, even though my server is cheap. Unfortunately, most modern websites display a blank page without JS, so what we really need is a change in developer attitude, not a new browser (again, assuming that you are only concerned about speed).
In C (POSIX.1-2008, specifically), there's tolower_l() and the rest of the _l functions for this use case, which take a locale as an argument. That let's you ask for the English (or even "C locale") lowercase versions of these English words, even when your process's current locale is Turkish.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/tolower_l.3.html
I don't know, when I saw Caligula, I thought "Wow, that's exactly how I imagined he would look", like he had that same immature-yet-assholish look of Joffrey in Game of Thrones.
The point on video is missing the real problem: relying on ads as the default funding model. It’s never been easier to serve high-quality video but many places use YouTube or Facebook instead because they don’t want to get an unexpected bill for bandwidth and search remains a problem in some applications.
I wrote and open sourced something very similar recently: https://github.com/kunalb/panopticon. I don't think it's as sophisticated as function trace, but it generates chrome/catapult compatible traces instead and has some additions for async coroutines/generators.

Firefox's profiler looks pretty cool, I wish it could also accept catapult traces as is -- it doesn't seem to be the case. Now I know of:

- chrome://tracing
- Firefox's profiler
- Perfetto: https://ui.perfetto.dev/#!/
- Speedscope: https://www.speedscope.app/
- Brendan Gregg's flamegraph generator

to help visualize traces. Are there other good ones?
They'd have to cooperate with Microsoft, which hosts email for a large number of companies.
>I think it’s safe to say that Google’s AdWords is the dominant advertising platform on the open Web, which means it holds a commanding position in the Web’s finances.

That's a very interesting observation. Google will thus prevent a native payment option at all costs, which leaves a huge opening for Brave or another payment provider. (Which is enhanced by content providers being threatened by AMP.)

I don't see Google in a very secure position. Their employees nowadays don't seem to care which will become a huge problem once Google has to actually react to a changing market. Amazon is getting product searches and Facebook can take over everything else whenever they want because Google's results don't come from analysing the web but from showing the pages that other people with the same queries are visiting.

Additionally, Huawei is forced to setup their own app store. If they have the better TikTok app, and online payment with wechat, the next generation of users will switch. China has so much more developers that a Chinese app store will become the more interesting place for new apps. With Zoom and TikTok, they have shown that they can create competitive apps.
The media has almost entirely ignored how the majority of young people who died of Covid were obese. Two days ago the NYT finally acknowledged this as a risk factor despite it being obvious to anyone paying attention https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/health/covid-19-obesity.h...

Being fat is an enormous risk factor for dying of Covid, but instead of a giant “Get Out and Jog” campaign we are just supposed to hunker down inside and pray for a vaccine.

Being fat is a sign of generally poor health. It hurts your immune system. It reduces your quality of life. It has ripple effects to the rest of your body.

The fat positivity movement is one of the worst movements ever to exist. There is nothing positive about being fat. It is only negative.
Effective regulation != Taking large equity stakes
As Alzheimer's and most other neural degenerative diseases progress body weight decreases rapidly.

I would also think, based on some people with eating disorders I've observed where the weight decreased, that a very low body weight also might have an alarming impact on brain function - not sure how surprising it would be and if really a cause and not a correlation. Probably just a correlation.
In Poland, there's minimum wage for contractors as well... That's because hiring contractors was a popular way to get around minimum wage for employees (along with some benefits). So, the lawmakers decided to make the law ridiculous instead of focusing on punishing the companies which hire employees as contractors to evade law.
The lowest number I can find for "low-latency Apt-X" is 32 ms end-to-end over Bluetooth. Opus frames default to 20 ms wide but can be configured as small as 2.5 ms, so I don't think it's going to slow things down very much.
Those activities are also restricted and limited during COVID - either explicitly via state and local ordinances or via social pressures to not spread the virus.

Basically, the optimal solution right now is to not go anywhere or see anyone unless you absolutely have to. Which if all someone should be doing is sitting at home or getting groceries, they could do that for a lot less than SF prices.
Wasn't it that the creators of Netscape wanted to put some kind of payment protocol similar to crypto in the original browser but ran into trouble with the government, can't remember anymore. 402 error was famously reserved for money trouble.
> I'm still hoping he'll eventually have a trans person on (that's not Debbie Hayton, Blair White or Buck Angel).

why not one of them?
My understanding is that amp forces pages to stop doing the things they’ve been doing for years that made their pages bloated and slow to load.

It’s too bad the sites just couldn’t do that on their own and avoid the need for amp.
HN is one website with a very small audience of people who understand how it fits into the broader internet. A FB group is what a much, much larger set of less experienced users have been taught is "how you communicate with your tribe". That's not only very different but chillingly scary, IMO
Huh what? Any high muscle athletic person would hit this.
It's a generational thing.

Younger software engineers who grew up doing everything on their phones see this as something worth solving, because it would vastly improve access, end voter suppression, and people wouldn't have to take time off work to vote anymore. Universal mail-in ballots do address many of those points, but also have downsides (signature verification is tricky).

Older engineers on the other hand don't seem to want this to be solved.
Indeed. I'm not saying there were no issues driving AMP. But there are many possible solutions that did not require Google hijacking your urls.
> We Alpha-Centaurians have have the worst neighbors in the known universe.

Just wait until they see what we're like when we get there.
> FunctionHigher BMI is linked to decreased cerebral blood flow

Most people equate weight=high BMI, so the title is probably accurate for a casual audience but it's important to note the study is actually looking at BMI.
I think that system is pretty similar everywhere, probably only in the US you have some weird mechanical machine to cast your vote.
Totally false. Changing the tax rate will definitely change the rent. A property tax increase will increase the floor that tenants (edit: meant landlords) would be willing to rent their places out across the entire city as they look to protect their profit margins. You don't think that a landlord will see a property tax increase and think "oh well, I guess I'm going to make less money from now on". Rent is definitely not a simple supply/demand situation as there are many hands in on the equation (taxes, rent control, zoning).
Proven wrong so you just adjust the goalposts?
This particular case seems odd to me because INFO is an English word, and ınfo is not.
Should You Stop Trying to Make Your Content One of a Kind?
Blockchain is important, but perhaps equally as important is the ability for every user of the system to be able to audit every other user, that is, vote/voter exact information transparency...
Probably don’t have same blood flow issues being muscular as being fat.
I don't know about the UK, but in Australia it's attended by the candidates' representatives, called "scrutineers". The counting is done at the polling place, so the candidates can't be multiple places at once.

I've scrutineered before, and it all seemed to work well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrutineer
what employment do these people have, given the theory of an increasingly technical workforce?
Most european countries simply don't have any problems with pen and paper voting. Turnout is typically much larger than in the US with its crazy mix of electronic/mail-in/in-person voting. Probably this is due to automatic voter registration for all citizens, having the elections on Sunday or on a holiday, and (in some cases) not having a first-past-the-post system where a large fraction of votes don't matter anyway.
Dumb question, if you really need the exact string “info” in a given context, why not hard code it? What does .lower() or even a map liked the linked one actually buy you?
Astronomy is done using FITS files[1]. Dedicated astronomical imaging instruments natively produce FITS files.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
8% difference from normal to obese seems expected, not alarming. I don’t see anything in the study that factors for exercise though it is the health advice provided in the article.

‘Regular exercise linked to higher blood flow in brain’ seems a more appropriate, not dramatized headline. Thank you Captain Obvious.
I don't know if that's true compared to a lot of other places on the internet. That was one of the reasons I came when I stayed. People, while still subject to their political bias, are much more likely to debate by actual facts rather than allegiance here.
+1 for local mails. I love it when I can open it offline and fast to read / write some long emails.
Shout out to davmail, an IMAP proxy that sits between mutt (or any other IMAP client) and Outlook365.

Davmail handles Outlook’s Modern Authentication, and launches a browser when a 2FA challenge/response is required. The latest version of davmail can cache authentication keys meaning you only have to go through 2FA once.

It’s been a real joy to return to mutt, in my latest job where Outlook is deployed, after years of using Gmail.

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
> The only exception is for crypto mining, for some reason.

I think this is because they were outcompeted by AMD in the GPU crypto days, so they didn't want to get in the way of that (nor were they likely to succeed in blocking this use).
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The number you're proposing has about 1.4 billion digits in it. It has more digits than just listing a number for everyone who votes and contains the same information.
ObTurkeyTest: http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey-...
Along the lines of this?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.globaliza...
I’m ... not sure. There’s a limit to how complicated emails are in 99% of non-spam HTML emails, right? You’re working with a limited subset of HTML meant to be reflowed to small screens pretty easily, and the task here is to extract text content into a form that can then be shown in a terminal.

I would — at the very least — think it was worth giving a go
This was an idea floated recently in a backlash against the President looking to pardon Paul Manafort. ...but it is unclear if it holds any legal water.

The reality is that it is legally untested, and there's a good chance that Double Jeopardy will protect someone who's pardoned Federally, and then brought up on State charges for the same offense.

I might be wrong, but I don't believe there's ever been a case of a State prosecute even attempting to charge someone at the State level with an crime they've already been pardoned of by the President.
Posted it as Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177786
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It's the equivalent of people who always used the phone, and didnt give a toss about the internet. I 'm not sure why it's alarming
Tons interested in using them - if they're "easy" and don't "get in my way"!
To be clear, they are calling out the number that indexes the papers, not a name of a person or a name of a candidate. 一號, 二號, 三號….

正 is the tally mark https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A3

I have like a 1-2 year old's level of Mandarin at this point, sigh, but I don't think there is a detail I'm missing once the process gets going. This is a good, accessible voting system.
Presumably it's for normalising input. Following the principle that you ought to be permissive in what data you accept, and strict in what data you give out.
> It's near impossible to rig or suppress a physical election without a lot of effort

No, sadly, it's not [1][2][3]. As some of the texts note, the premise that fraud happens or not is highly politicized. People on one side believe it happens/happened. On the other side, they believe it to be impossible.

Though, curiously, those who believe it to be impossible also strongly believe in voter suppression, which would be a form of election fraud. See the Georgia US governor race from 2018 as an example of this dichotomy. Can't have suppression without fraud[4]. Can have fraud without suppression, as this would be one potential form of fraud. Suppression requires fraud. Arguments to the contrary aren't logical.

Right now the one I am most concerned with is the vote harvesting operations, which appear to be completely legal in California, despite the rather significant perception of impropriety that handing ones ballot to a non-election person has. I'd be much happier if all these people were non-partisan deputized election workers/officials, oath bound under pain of criminal code to serve the same function. Instead, we have a single party set of "volunteers" to collect votes, with a huge chain of control issue, that is apparently acceptable in one state.

Here in MI, I voted by "mail". I got my ballot, marked it, sealed and signed it, then dropped it off in the specific election drop box on the side of city hall. I would not ever hand it to a third party for any reason.

For blockchain, I think its been a solution in search of a problem. And I think that this might actually be a reasonable problem to solve, and this one might work.

For those worried about DDoS, this would simply require releasing ballots early, returning up to and including the official due date. By mail, electronic, in person via a phone app or similar. You can change your vote up to the end of election day. Only the final vote counts. No conditional ballots counted. Send official election people around to addresses that don't have votes on file starting a month before election day.

And it would (if designed/built correctly) enable chain of control, identity/citizen confirmation, etc. That is, it could provide better, more accurate, more complete, more engagement.

Or we can retain the mess we have now, with completely inconsistent voting across the states and territories, which is overtly suspect in a number of states, and in some ways, rigged.

This is a step in the right direction. It need not be perfect, and we need to take it.

[edit: fixed a mis-wording, and deleted a poorly worded sentence]

[1] https://www.salon.com/2016/02/14/election_fraud_chicago_styl...

[2] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_mil...

[3] https://www.kuow.org/stories/it-s-easy-to-commit-election-fr...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud
I started off in Austin, TX but took a job just outside of Los Angeles about 6 years ago. When the pandemic hit I couldn’t move back to Austin fast enough! CA just wasn’t for me...
Relative to the speed of Light. Because that is constant irrespective of the frame of reference
>I have to trust the authorities who did that.

Poll workers who do the count aren't "authorities" who lord over us. They are us. I volunteer to be a poll worker. You can too. Anyone who's an eligible voter can be part of the counting process and see how it's done. In my precinct, it's exactly what people see when they vote: they feed the machine their completed ballots and the machine spits out the count at the end of the night. If there's a problem, all the ballots are kept in sealed boxes and can be re-tallied independent of the scanner software/hardware.

If you think there's monkey business going on in your precinct, you're free to participate in the process and verify it for yourself.
If the scale is too big for Amazon to handle then Amazons business model has failed and they should be shut down until they get a handle on it. I don’t understand why common sense and the law went out the window just because we changed the medium?
Another option would be a Ethernet-Localtalk bridge box (which were commonly used for Apple printers). These used to be dirt cheap on ebay, but I guess people are into this stuff and they're now over $100.
Maybe the search itself will die to this monopolization. You go to Wikipedia for basic stuff, Hacker News for drama and shame you don't know Lisp, Khan Academy for math, Facebook/IG, Twitter, et cetera...
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I am new to HN and I didn't knew about the tag.
The phone was a public utility, somewhat regulated in the public interest.
Worth noting that the first author is CEO of this clinic [0]: https://www.amenclinics.com

> At Amen Clinics, it all starts with you. We look at your biological, psychological, social and spiritual influences to get a complete picture of who you are as a person. With life coaching, nutritional guidance and personalized therapy, we provide the tools you need to feel confident, complete and hopeful for the future. We are dedicated to helping you find the answer to you.

0: https://www.j-alz.com/manuscript-disclosures/20-0655r2
There's no point in buying a Teleco today, with 5G any of the FAANGs can create one with the money they have. Infact Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have proven experience in web scale, so 5G will be right up their alley
While you might be right, I dislike the style of Erlang docs.
I desperately want to use Firefox nightly or beta... But the mobile experience is a disaster. They were on track to roll it out to Firefox stable, but I guess now that the team's gone, I won't have that forced down my throat...
The problem is that he also exposed a lot of not-illegal material. Things that were entirely legal, yet classified.

I don't think there's any legal way Snowden wouldn't face a conviction if he was returned to the US, even if you exclude all the "illegal" activity he exposed from evidence against him.