skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I don't think a contemporary PL person would think of Java as a prime exemplar of the value that the research community brings to the world.

For someone focused on the language itself, I agree. But consider the JVM: an enormous amount of research has been done on, and applied to, the JVM. Garbage collection and just-in-time compilation are two particular fields that the JVM has benefited from enormously.
I love the valve index controllers - top of class imo.
Amusing how liquor stores were deemed essential service, at least here in Canada
Ruqqus is generally better as an alternative and has been doing a better job navigating the line between free speech and not letting neo nazis invade every sub.

Like old school reddit, people do say inflammatory things to get reactions but usually get downvoted. There are also good tools for muting people.
Backups you've never tested are not a backup

(backups encrypted with a key no one has access to are not a backup)
I actually emphatically support the decisions of local public health authorities, OP just asked for some idea of what the people going to gyms were thinking.

Empathy =/= agreement.
Yeah, referring to the initial release of core.async (Clojure implementation of CSP) which seems to have been in late 2013 (https://github.com/clojure/core.async). Clojure usually ships new features as libraries rather than changing the core language, so both a feature and a library I guess.
Why does HN prevent replies sometimes?
I tried searching for this but the results were full of people stating they couldn't reply but I did not see any explanation as to why.
I think that varies by customer. I wouldn’t call my experience customer centric or even close.

I had a 2015 MacBook Pro that had died recently and like you Apple Care had expired. This is my work laptop and was not be able to earn anymore income until it was operational again. I did all the basic troubleshooting myself resetting PRAM, etc and nothing helped. I contacted Apple support and they had me do the same tests and some additional ones without success. This all happened two weeks ago and due to Covid-19 the area I’m in has no in person support available. The only solution offered was to wait until Apple stores open or buy a new one.

I tried to find third party to help with no luck. I decided to take a crack at repairing myself by buying individual parts from Amazon. I soon realized this isn’t as simple as it should be. I had to buy Apple specific tools to open the MacBook case and then realized even the SSD on a 2015 MacBook Pro is a proprietary version so I had to buy a specific over priced version to replace the drive. I felt like the last thing they wanted was for the customer to try and repair the laptop.

Nothing ended up working. So, I had to buy a new one. I thought I could at least use this current MacBook Pro to get some trade in discount. Nope, they offered zero trade in since it didn’t turn on even though it was in excellent physical condition. I ended up buying a new one from Amazon and restored data from a previous timeline backup.

IMO, The least a company this wealthy could have done is offer a small discount considering the times we are in. I was very disheartened with my experience.
A new entrant in TikTok race?
Show HN: Editor Blending Markdown, Blocks and Wysiwyg
FBI NIBRS crime data now available in Dolt format
I love using browserless. The docker version headless makes things a breeze to automate and scale. Thanks for your work!
The Advantage Buying Facebook Business Reviews – Smmbiz
Practical Data Ethics
That's a funny way to spell "months"
It is not that simple. Ad industry has a lot of money and I personally find nothing wrong with ads as such. We can argue about targeting but that's a different topic. StackOverflow does ads and they seem to really go well with the page. Even Apple tried coming into the market with iAd.

After all, ads earn them revenue. You can have product differentiation where your devices don't have to necessarily earn by ads. A very good example of this is Amazon. They have two versions of Kindle, with the ad free version costing more.
I suspect that chess will hone your ability to analyze, categorize and prioritize the cases occurring in a complex situation that has many possibilities. Poor case analysis in chess leads to easy defeat.
That's roughly equivalent to asking "if someone drives drunk, will they kill someone else or not?" Many times, they won't hurt anyone, but I hope it's not controversial that driving drunk is still extremely dangerous.
> “I have a special assignment for you. Your boss doesn’t know about it. You’ll help two engineers from the US Department of Energy build a special iPod. Report only to me.

So how does this work in weekly on-on-one meetings with his boss?
Share buy backs raise the share price, but not market cap. so if you have 101 shares of Apple. And Apple buys 1 of those shares back from you, not much has changed as far as who has more value.
Doesn't crop insurance exist? Why the need to constantly subsidize?
I loved the Makelele story in the intro. I hardly remember him, and didn't recognize that Real was so much worse without him. Linalg really is the most underappreciated technique.
Caving to marketing designed to make children nag their parents.
Manufacturing company founder here - you are exactly right.

I buy automation equipment.

What I'm looking for is stuff that is relatively easy to program by my team (I do not have the money for tons of engineers to sit around programming arcane stuff), can attain a reasonably good speed, and has the reach and weight capacity I need. And I want economic cost with reasonably good reliability.

Two-handed human-like arms don't interest me. Robots with human-like eyes don't interest me. Safety systems that are too sophisticated/cute/fancy aren't that interesting to me - usually cages or more recently torque sensitive movement is good enough to keep people safe around the robot.

Often the trickiest part is the design of the end of arm tool, not the robot, and I feel this is where most innovation could happen that would benefit my operations.

By the way, the above is why Rethink Robotics failed and Universal Robots (which got way less press coverage, and raised less money, and had a non-celebrity founder) was wildly successful. Universal built a co-bot with a single arm that was fast (enough) and could carry enough weight. It didn't look human at all. Rethink had an LCD panel with eyes on it and two arms and a sonar person presence detector and its animated eyes would look at nearby people to indicate it was aware of them. But it was slow and not as accurate. Universal Robots made the product manufacturers actually wanted.
Eventually someone's going to launch an orbital data center to cut down on round trip latency. You think AWS bandwidth is expensive now lol.
> We are now on month 7 of being told to not socialize...

"Keep your distance, wear a mask, and stick to small groups" is not the same as "do not socialize".
> We could just as easily say that the taxpayer won't be responsible for the cost.

I thought Covid made it obvious that there is no insular, zero-externality health of individuals. Public health is a public commons, and we will be responsible for the cost whether through taxes and preventive action or through other channels in a reactive manner.

Being obese has tons of externalities other than healthcare costs. Higher levels of sickness and absence from work reduces productivity, being out of employment due to disability completely demolishes it. Premature mortality means the national output is reduced because we are losing the societal investment on grown, skilled, experienced adults to death. Some businesses bear higher operating costs; e.g. larger seats or more fuel for aircrafts. Deteriorating mental health is not only a healthcare cost, you and your kids interact with people daily, you make collective decisions (e.g. vote in elections) with them. In short, wellbeing of your fellow humans is never a zero-externality phenomenon and it can't really be distinguished from smoking or pollution because you can't opt out of the consequences of a lower GDP or mentally unwell peers.
Just one filter is very nearly as effective (if not more so by increased airflow) at reduced cost and more supplies for others.

Taping the filter to the intake side helps form a better seal -> more effective filtration.
Or... how about we provide treatment for people who are abusing alcohol, drugs, etc? There are billions of people who can responsibly use alcohol. Banning it doesn't make any sense for those who aren't addicts.
I host my stuff on Oracle cloud.Free 10TB monthly traffic and price per GB 1/10 of other clouds. S3 compatible API
> I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.

Maybe because nobody successfully proved to these people (me included) that this sacrifice is useful.

You can't tell to people, you have no risk of dying (0.5% death rate for population, much much lower for healthy and young people), people who are at risk of dying can protect themselves even around sick people (wearing a mask, staying at home, washing hands, ...) so this is not your fault if they catch it but you need to stop living your life. That can't work.

And above all, what is the long term strategy, we stop everything for the rest of our lives ? (a vaccine doesn't always work, example the flu vaccine, which works approximately).

It is not that people don't want to sacrifice, it is just that scarifying is the worst solution for everyone
The author says he finds drawing to be very difficult, and I hear a lot of folks say this. Someone who sits down at the piano occasionally would likely say that they find the instrument difficult, or that they're "no good at piano". The difference from my perspective is that culturally we tend to accept that most people can become reasonably proficient at the piano with practice (even without innate musical ability). Playing the piano is a mechanical process. You hit the right notes at the right times, and it works. The same people that accept the piano as something learnable often think drawing is something you have to be innately good at, and I don't think this is true at all. Almost everyone has the necessary muscle control (if you're using the right parts of your hand/arm). If that weren't the case, people would not be good at tracing over images and rendering them true to the original. Once you accept that fact, the other primary requirement is building up objects from primitives. You can render a human standing in almost any posture just using ovals, rectangles, trapezoids, etc. The point I'm trying to make is that drawing is a learned skill, and almost anyone can draw whatever they want if they practice properly and consistently (focus on drawing ONE thing well before you move on to the next). It's not magical, and it doesn't require some innate talent to reach an acceptable level of competency. That said, there is a huge divide between "masters" and mere mortals, but the same could be said about programming, music, or any other discipline.
I'm pretty sure that, much like with Prohibition, the moral baggage is the entire point. The idea is that for this disease - and only this disease - we have the absolute moral obligation to minimize the number of deaths no matter what, and that anyone who suggests there are tradeoffs is a monster who literally wants to sacrifice people.
> And slightly realated, quarantines don't work when people aren't actually quarantined.

Which is an excellent point, which may make some wonder if it was realistic to try in the first place. It's like imagine if the US govt forced everyone to lose weight and then was shocked that people were hoarding ding dongs in the underground market. "How dare those illegal ding dong hoarders break the law!"

If we're going to make laws that are fundamentally against human nature (see also drug prohibition laws, which is also has parallels to TFA), we shouldn't be surprised that some people don't follow these rules.
Never eat a grapefruit in front of a computer screen.
there are open source options for creating markdown wikis, that support (almost?) all platforms, and filesystem-storage as well.

I'm a happy user of Boostnote.
I'd add that a huge factor behind their luxury good becoming mass market is the finance/payment plans that Apple and the cell carriers offer.

I'm willing to bet the adoption of smartphones and regular upgrades wouldn't be happening at nearly this scale if all customers had to pay $600+ up front.
>ingredients like vegetable oils (which cause health problems of their own due to their chemical structure) also contain a lot of calories (fat contains more calories per gram than sugar).

Which are present in home cooked baked goods too.

I know it's not as simple as just "sugar=fat" but the difference between home cooked junk food and industrially cooked junk food is vanishingly small.
It's a parenting issue then, because saying 'no' to a nagging child is basic parenting, always has been.
>Humanity isn't going to go extinct from climate change

Seems like the most likely way right now.

>Causes of climate change are fossil fuels

Yes, and fossil fuels are used in livestock production.

Through use of petrochemicals to produce feed and deforestation. 18% of GHG emissions are estimated to be from livestock and dairy production.

This article covers a lot of the usage: http://www.docbrownscience.com/uploads/4/8/7/2/4872895/food_....
Buy a smart TV, but don't connect it to your wifi.
Is there a write-up of this somewhere? I'm interested to learn more.
Cholesterol levels are utterly irrelevant in predicting 10 year mortality rate. Oxidized LDL and CAC score are the metrics to optimize for and indicate whether your lifestyle is successful.
That's not a logical reason. Rules in society are supposed to exist to the benefit of everyone.

We can have a discussion about whether this particular rule really does benefit everyone, but clearly the ones that do should be respected, otherwise what's the point?
> I know kids who exclusively drink soda.

Their parents probably do too.

Also worth noting, there are places in Mexico where it's easier and cheaper to get a bottle of Coca-Cola than one of potable water. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/americas/mexico-coc...
Really, is every man who works out considered a "bro" now in America? That word is used six times in the article.

I go to a gym with a lot of bodybuilders, and I often forget how much of the world sees them as mindless thugs. And yet among us are at least two real-estate executives, a famous death-metal singer, a handful of computer nerds, a very famous (regionally) pop singer, a former Ambassador, at least one former Olympian, and a bunch of Hollywood stars when they happened to be in town. Plus, you know, ordinary men, women, boys, and girls who like to be fit, or are trying to get fit. Some are large, some are not. The oldest is 75.

Evelyn should swing by the Bay Club and do a bro count, see how that goes. Might offend a judge or two, especially if they're swole.
It's a great idea in in theory, in practice I'm highly skeptical it will do anything but give police a new way to extract fines (bribes) from shopkeepers.
Working out in a mask is very tough. It is a difficulty enhancement. I dance in a mask at a pace similar to jogging and that is hard enough. I wouldn't want to try to do a full workout that way. That would be the first order to get ignored.

Is there a way to work out safely? Complete air replacement and surface disinfection. That can realistically only be done outdoors.

As a club kid who refuses to grow up, I bring my professional club lights and a mobile DJ speaker to the park to dance with a friend. She has a much harder time coping with isolation and it helps her. It is a system for events of 50-100 people, so it is loud enough to mimic the experience. I would actually be OK with us both wearing Bluetooth headphones like my JBL BT Reflect Mini, which are robust enough to wear while dancing and doing crazy head moves, but a club speaker sounds different because of the reverb from the surrounding environment.

We still wear masks despite not touching and being completely outdoors. We do not need to according to laws of physics, but not doing so would contribute to the attitude that masks are optional. They are not optional. As much as I trust my friend and she trusts me, there is no way to know with certainty we can not infect each other after a day of interaction with other people.

One way to setup a safe workout would be to use the gym's parking lot and set it up with gym flooring and 10x10' canopies. Portable patio heaters would keep the person warm when warm weather ends. They are expensive, but one way to solve that would be to setup a solar array and use electric heaters.

Another friend who is a Zumba instructor is hosting classes in a park's parking lot. That works for her and her students and it is safe.
Careful with that argument though, some of this is based on US propaganda.
Clojure Governance and How It Got That Way (2012)
So building Chromium becomes even more complex. Understanding the build system alone is a major achievement; I even had to build a tool for that: https://github.com/rochus-keller/gntools/. Unfortunately that's only half of the rent; it also needs hundereds of Python scripts; and now also crates will be added.
I'm not an Apple hardware guy. I hear a lot of people complaining about their recent laptops, which makes me wonder if they're losing their edge.
According to karmic religions him having screwed someone over doesn't let you off the hook for the bad karma you're accruing when you screw them.
Within a certain range on the lower end, definitely. Above that range, I disagree strongly. People generally know when there's "a bad cold/flu going around" or "a stomach bug" or w/e. There's some good intuitive reasoning there, but I'd agree that they aren't very good at it within a regime where it's prevalent enough to matter, but not quite prevalent enough to see/feel out intuitively.
not so simple. If you want to "spoiler" the solution, you can find the mr. puzzle video on youtube[0].

btw: the are 4 similar jigsaw solved by mr. puzzle, you can find here[1], here[2] and here[3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPearqSivSc

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7xJePIvYbA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-clIQ0NS6o

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Hl0zMMwLw
Webpack 5 adds module federation, which to some extend solves our problems with “too many people /teams depend on each other”.
Doesn’t solve component communication, but provides support for shared libs management.

Super popular currently.

Best is to start here I think:
https://medium.com/@ScriptedAlchemy/webpack-5-module-federat...

And the “official” doc:
https://webpack.js.org/concepts/module-federation/
Zoom Expands to Smart Displays at Home
"People disgard laws. Whats the point of laws? Laws are for police making money."

The problem is the law enforcement, not the laws.
How about we ship you to a deserted island, or you can confine yourself to your house indefinitely. The rest of society can carry on enjoying their life.
For unhappy couples, there might be more differences and stronger opinions remaining unresolved. So could be different from individual to individual, and for different couples and environments.
Some couples are a good fit, and others might never reconcile their differences. Most long-lasting couples go through a phase of rejection and reconciliation.
I would imagine the "OS" doesn't have a lot of graphical routines, just to draw text/menues, scroll bar (to indicate song progress) and some library to display images (for album covers). And that it boots straight into this player app, and it has no idea of how to load other apps...
There's already a lot of discussions re: other aspects of screen time here, so I'd just like to touch on exactly what is on this study -- ability to search for things faster after "screen training". (like faster reflexes)

Before anyone takes this study and says "so screen time has positive influence" and gives it to their 1 year-old, I'd like to give an anecdote from my own experience. I grew up in the 80s and my family was one of the earliest to own an NES. According to my parents, I started playing the NES when I was 4 or 5. I have some of the fastest reflexes (when it comes to video games or similar activities) of any friends I know; and I played in fighting games tournaments in college. This is a genre of competitive games where millisecond-reflexes can determine the outcome of the game. (of course, I was a low tier tournament player and there are tons of world class players way better and faster than me)

I'd say my takeaway is that sure, maybe that kind of "screen training" helps with reflexes and attention, but you don't have to start that early. If you start at 5 years old instead of 1 year old, you might just get as much of the benefits, without the down sides of vision problems etc. that comes with having screen time too early.
I briefly worked at a Canadian company which had access to yearly data from hundreds of US counties (including DMV and voter data). The company makes software for parts of the US government. I think we had records on >10 million US citizens. Different counties would vary based on how much data they would give, but many would include things like SSN and license plate (including counties in California). I had free access to all this data, no password even needed.

IIRC we never dealt with the DMV directly. The parts of the government we worked with would send us the DMV and voting data. So even if you somehow get the DMV to stop selling your data, other parts of the government will probably keep giving it away to companies. We weren't using the data for anything nefarious, but I'm sure there are many other less-trustworthy companies with access to the same data.
It's one of the books that I didn't get around to reading, so I don't have a solid opinion about it :)
it's also a peculiar time in human history.. technological convergence like that don't happen often and Apple took the first seat at the right time.
Five of the Most Insanely Unfair Puzzles in Adventure Games
The docs are on GitHub:

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-docs-engine

By "off-GitHub" do you mean you'd prefer there were some other way to edit the docs directly? Mind if I ask why?
No.

First of all, we’re a representative democracy. We do not elect people to implement our exact will, we elect people who we expect to use their best judgement to use the powers vested in them. If the expectation was that elected members do exactly what their constituents wanted, we would be a direct democracy instead.

Second, I find the notion that “the price of freedom is the risk of just not bothering to solve a pandemic” to be a serious insult to democracy. I question the legitimacy of any democratic system that would just ... not bother to protect citizens.

And finally, calls to return to normal represent a narrow minority of the population. In fact a majority of Americans are worried about the virus, a majority wants schools to remain closed, and a majority think we opened back up too soon. If we’re talking about “popular will”, then we would be talking about extending shut downs, not ending them.
Have you got any sources on covid causing vascular disease? I haven't heard about that.
We've changed the URL to that now, from https://kottke.org/20/08/researchers-can-duplicate-keys-from....
I wonder how costly it is to fill your walls entirely with water pipes.

Also, one currently ensures there is a stud or lack of electrical when putting nails in a wall. I guess you gotta hang things up differently.
Histography (2015)
So soon enough, we'll see the TikTok logo on the back of a Facebook sign? Sniff...