skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Georgia's Ex-President Explains How He Abolished Police and Brought Down Crime
Same here. Some dancing man keeps telling me he's never going to give me up.
How to Grow Your Social Media Followers Organically
Absolutely. This could be another Million Dollar Homepage idea.
Do not constrain yourself to today, but rather to what is to come. For instance, Iot apps running in Edge and cloud datacenters.
That's what the kind of book it came to my mind when I read the title. No, they differ though there is slight overlap and yes, someone should read them both. OfS first, OSC next.

Specifically. OfS is an introductory OCaml book (first half) which has example usage of interest to scientists (second half). OSC though it has some introductory text per section is mostly concerned in showing Owl, which is what you'll end up using.
The Right to install Software I like
While Apple pundits are critizing Apple's rules, they don't question Apple's rule over what software is allowed. Here's why we should debate that.
Yeah, that one took me a quite while to realize as well. As far as I now understand, Lobachevsky was a truly great mathematician and any accusations of plagiarism absolutely unfounded. Lehrer simply chose him because the name went well with the Danny Kaye song "Stanislawsky" which he was paraphrasing. Apparently Lobachevsky's relatives were, understandably, not at all happy with the implications.

It's the one occasion I can think of where I feel Tom Lehrer's satire was truly misdirected. One of many reasons I appreciate him so much is otherwise that when the sharp wit was at someone's expense, they had earned it (and this in contrast to the practice with most contemporary purported comedians, at least in my country).
Michael Levitt has been arguing covid-19 never experiences the apocalyptic exponential growth that most people/media seem to think is going on.

With a Gompertz curve, we start out with very high growth in the beginning but the growth constantly declines from the outset.

Even the idea of network-based analysis and heterogeneity was something he talked about back in March or thereabouts IIRC.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.20140814v...
quack.
Your weight compresses most of the insulation beneath you, and the hammock itself provides less than no insulation. If you aren't, you should put the blanket on the outside of the bottom of the hammock (suspended beneath it), so it has more volume and thus insulation.
> and this bought a completely new interface too.

The new interface is almost universally hated if the store comments are any indication.
Ok, so is this the 500th scam?
The interesting question is whether it was a mistake. Just because it was eventually rolled back, doesn't mean it wasn't worth it to win the large customer.
Those who understand rocket engineering can’t just be asked to switch to something else, though. In any case, there has been a lot of evidence that humans’ foray into space has led to a lot of innovation of technologies that we’ve used here on Earth.

We also should have a plan B as a species.

I’m of the camp that believes we should go to space and also focused on saving the Earth.
Just-Right Personas: How to Choose the Scope of Your Personas
Actually "pointing out a conflict of interest" IS an ad hominem

https://fallacyinlogic.com/ad-hominem-fallacy/
This has always been obvious to me. I have actually struggled with the opposite, where I have at times struggled to pursue what I want at cost to others, not understood how to set boundaries, or failed to hold people accountable to even their own principles.

It's funny that people can have such different backgrounds and life experiences, and that, as it turns out, end up in similar places because maturity results in finding a balance. At least in my opinion.
While the majority of French people would probably have been somewhat anti-semitic, I'm not sure that it's fair to say that the majority of French people were hoping that the Nazis would get on with deporting the Jews, already. That letter really is pretty bad.
Here are the direct links to the 3 indictments:

https://torrentfreak.com/images/1-20-cr-00018-US-v-George-Br...
https://torrentfreak.com/images/1-20-cr-00018-US-v-Umar-Ahma...
https://torrentfreak.com/images/1-20-cr-00018-US-v-Jonatan-C...
Bravo ! Making the world a better place one y at a time !
Ahh, thanks for clarifing. I've told the other team members.
Is OfS available anywhere? Not that I advocate for piracy, but the site seems abandoned and the payment link is dead.
I think that's a good point.

My parents bought reasonable sturdy hardwood furniture (In the early 70s I think) and apart from a few replacements it's still in use, having survived moving twice. I'm glad I was never told to not just "live" there, using it.

My own flat is very different, we bought most of the furniture while I was still a student and my wife was starting her first job, so of course there's a lot of IKEA and other not so expensive stuff, but to be honest... even after 10 years now I don't feel the need to replace a lot, my desk doesn't look too good but everything else looks pretty ok or even brand new, so maybe disposable stuff is sturdy enough for a good chunk of people? We haven't moved and I heard IKEA stuff often won't survive a 2nd move, so that might be another thing.
Are you compiling C or Rust to WASM? In my experience their LLVM backend is the best developed.

WASM shines for numeric computation like encoding, decoding, encryption.

In the benchmarks I've seen, image encoding is 10-20X faster in WASM. Crypto is about the same speed as WebCrypto which isn't available in all browsers and runs native code.

There's an unmistakable performance advantage for compute heavy workloads.
How does a retimer deal with spread spectrum clocking?

Would it achieve a lock at its internal receiver, then apply the spread spectrum on the retransmitted clock?
Women in Tech: Stephanie Morillo
This is not true. What if for example you want to make a change to the dictionary feature because you imagine that it’s not useful and should be less prominently accessible. How would you measure if this is a good idea or not without tracking its use? This has nothing to do with business and everything to do with making the product better.
https://www.the-automator.com/excel-autohotkey/
I wonder how Svelte/lit-html and others without vdom would have compared.
> search your logs of sshd for "Received disconnect from", "Did not receive identification string from" ...

This is not reliable advice; many SSH port monitoring solutions (including where I work) will do half-connects like this to determine network availability, leaving these log entries by the thousands.
> Doing it is evil and makes you evil.

Whoa: hold on just a second there. I don't necessarily disagree with your wider point but we need to step away from this inflammatory and accusatory language.

You said that you used to guilt-trip people constantly when you were younger, and then you stopped when you realised how sick it was. Doing it didn't make you evil: it made you immature, and then you grew out of it.

Except that - and I sort of hate that I'm pointing this out - you haven't entirely grown out of it because you recommend people not do it but then brand them evil if they do. That's guilt-tripping, and it's manipulative and inflammatory. (Still, we all have our off days and revert to type from time to time, so please don't see this as a personal attack.)

Anyway, my wider point is this: part of maturing is developing better and more effective social skills. Hence many people change a lot between their late teens and mid-20s.

Not everybody does though. If guilt-tripping and similar kinds of manipulative behaviour become the pattern someone follows throughout their life (i.e., they don't choose to grow out of these behaviours) that might make them evil, but let's try to avoid almost literally demonizing vast numbers of people who are probably just immature.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200826105527/https://ndb.techn...
VLC’s UI is horrible.
How to Become a UX Designer in 2020
You should check out the travel documentary 'around the world in 80 days' by Michael Palin.
How to Write Better TypeScript
> Purdue Pharma extensively misrepresented how to prescribe OxyContin to make more money, in a way that left people dependent. That's a far bigger reason for the opioid epidemic than illegal drug sales. The rise in illegal opioid use is a consequence, not a cause.

Additionally, it's not "just" Purdue and others (like the pill mills) at fault, they are just enablers following a demand.

There would be no supply without massive massive demand and let's be honest the majority of addicts didn't start out in hospitals with legit pain management. They search self-medication for issues caused by a lack of mental health care, physical health care and basic social safety networks.

A lot of the issues the US faces at the moment boils down to this as a root cause (and to condense it more, one ends up at systemic historical racism and massive wealth inequalities). Nothing can be solved alone, the US needs sweeping general reforms across the board.
There's not much that any one of us can do alone. Refusing to make excuses for an unjust system, and finding ways to make the shitty bargains required for survival that at least minimize the extent to which we support it, is the best sort of start I can suggest. We may be forced by circumstance, especially those of us who have given hostages to fortune, to be complicit. But we can recover some agency at least over the extent of that complicity.

I'd like to be able to suggest some group or movement here, but I've never been much of a joiner. The BLM folks I've heard from seem to have good heads on their shoulders, though. You could do a lot worse than to consider their suggestions on the question of "how do I help?"

I definitely do understand feeling powerless. But remember also that, as a middle-class white person, especially if you're male and the head of a conventional family household, that puts you pretty close to America's own idea of what America is. Believe it or not, there's a subtle kind of power in that. Things that might likely be ignored when said by - oh, someone like me, for example, who while also middle-class-ish white is a weird queer redneck loner and always has been - often are taken more seriously when said by someone who presents a gestalt of commonplace American normalcy, simply because of the sort of person who's saying them.

That really is a power all its own. If your social and professional circles are anything like mine, you can often enough find opportunities there to wield that power - gently, of course, and with real care for those with whom you're talking; to be, or to be seen as, a humorless woke thought editor, is to fail - in a way that might help redress injustice in a small way simply by convincing someone else to think about whether they should see the world a little differently from how they have before.

It's a small thing, for sure. And it can on occasion be a risk; if nothing else, to speak honestly from the heart on any subject constitutes a degree of vulnerability, and people don't always treat that kindly. But little in my experience worth doing is entirely unattended by risk, and little in my experience does more to ameliorate a sense of powerlessness than to hear someone say "you've given me a lot to think about", and then to see over time that they have thought about it.

It's subtle, as I said. It's a small thing, and it doesn't always work. But it is something. And even when you fail - which you will, sometimes at least - at least you will have tried, and even in that there's a kind of consolation to be found.
People are simple and need a single figure to worship. Gates is an example of that.
> For them the gap between the public space and private is very narrow.

I found this very insightful. Thanks for sharing.
Anecdotal, but in Detroit we don't have recycling pick up. One of our recycling centers started making recycling an event, you show up, organize everything by it's proper number and you get a free concert, and then they also throw pretty awesome parties (pre-covid, for everything) for the full moon and Detroit specific events. It's not perfect, but it was exciting to see people recycling for fun
What if that feature costs 30% of dev time? Without being able to measure you wouldn’t be able to make a good judgement. Imagine how science would work without experiments?
I meant regarding to this point from above

"No invasion or bombing of any country is going to affect the facilitation of terrorist funding anywhere near the action of restricting trade for companies that have these byzantine ownership structures that shield the actual owners and profiteers from identification"
How about asking them to design and build a basic version of react/ redux/ react-redux/ react-router etc
They gained a lot of that wealth by fucking over the rest of the world with superior military power. I'm British, and the British empire was literally 1/3rd of the world at one point. A lot of the infrastructure in Britain which enables to compete favourably against other countries in competitive markets was built off the back of trade in goods that we forced the populations of other countries to produce then took the profits of for ourselves.
That seems to be a narrow interpretation of what OP originally meant as "post 911 world". While direct consequences of that event are localized and ripple effects definitely affected way more than 10% of the world.

Think the direct impact on allied countries who had to send troops to Afganistan. Think airtravel security (theatre). Think financial regulation. Darn.. think the following Middle East interventions by Western Allies. You could say that Syrian civil war today with millions of refugees had direct impact of 911 and subsequent western (and not so western) intervention in Middle East.
One of my favorite movies, really a piece of art if you like the humor. But I didn't actually notice the reference although it is really obvious thinking about it. Even the red cap.
>Precision Microwave Spectroscopy of the Positronium n=2 Fine Structure

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
Hey selling insurance in Texas is hard enough. A guy said "You're telling a guy, buy this and your wife can live in your house and drive your car with another guy after you're dead". Hard sell.
Experience as another commenter suggested. There are probably a few good formal sources as well, but really, a lot of this knowledge is tactile and remains uncodified.

I worked more on the infrastructure / backend side, and I've found the book Designing Data Intensive Applications really useful. Amazing mix of practice and theory, super applicable to people working on distributed systems. Not sure if there is any equivalent for frontend / product engineering.
> I would prefer if journalist learned to provide something more factual and informative in their stories

It is deeper than that (no pun intended); many journalists seem to be lacking the critical thinking skills required to judge whether a story passes a basic sniff test when it comes to science and technology.

The Proteus project is not the ISS of the Sea, it is a vanity project. Clickbait from cnet is par for the course but I guess I expect more from a publication with "Smithsonian" on the masthead.

The previous HN thread Proteus: Underwater research lab worthy of a Bond villain [1] points out that this is not just a questionable idea but a really bad one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985772
UI in the browser isn't the right frame to think about webassembly.

The right frame is wherever you can benefit from running a piece of potentially untrusted code within a sandbox. This is important for platform vendors who have to run cuatomer code that they can't trust. It is also important to run what would otherwise be unsafe code in the browser (ex: I use it for audio encoding/decoding and processing). It can serve as a "plugin" mechanism for host applications that need high performance for the plugins along with safety (ex: image proc, NN models). Environments where you need extreme granular control over what's permitted for the module (hence WASI and CloudABI).
Physicists pin down the pay off between speed and entropy
Thank you torrent freak for putting the legal documents directly linked at the bottom. I'm not sure why some news outlets don't do this.
Thanks for the read ! I didn't know svelt and it seems like it has solid motivations. I should definitely check it out.

I'm actually more of a preact fan and the community Jason Miller has created, their work have inspired me a lot in concern of front-end and javascript dev.

ctrl-f hook is effectively something that has to be considered when implementing such feature.

I'd argue that the list & search feature it self is hard, not as something to put on and program and get working, but as a user-experience and design perspective (I'd like to thank you about pointing that out by the way, I will definitely spend some time making sure it's there for my app)

The reason I can think of, is that we do actually take control over parts of the applications in a way that was not imagined when browsers implemented search function.

It almost feels like the "With big power comes big responsibility", but i don't like the word "power" in our case, so I'd change it to something alike to "With features that have extra consequences we need to have an equal amount of extra care to even considering them." as if it was hidden and we needed to understand the tool better to have it properly done.

I guess front-end dev is easy to get in and understand, but hard to master, and that could be why we end up with these rampant "half-done" apps that do not take those extra steps.

In the end, the rushed dev will probably just look to have it's app working and will not check these kind of "bugs" that have been caused by his decisions,

Tbh, without this discussion i'd probably have missed it too
You want to pander to hackernews and other gamerbois? Say something edgy like its bad to do good things.
Ask HN: Why Zapier doesn't have its own API?
I was looking for the Zapier API, but I've to not found any.

It sounds counter-intuitive, or worst, that a company like Zapier, doesn't offer its API! Especially considering it's a big API business company..

Well, it's not 100% true, I've found a "Partner" API, but it's only for application's publisher :(.. in other words it doesn't let you control your account, Zaps etc.

Did I miss something? I'll happily reverse-engineer their private API but dealing with the authentication is going to be painful over time. If only they had an OAuth flow..

Does anyone here work at Zapier and can offer some comments?
Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook
I totally get it, that was just a gut reaction, not a valid point of my part.
Capitalism? That's what you're describing.

Is the 'forced' a stretch? Or was it based on slavery. I don't know.
Perpetual motion technology in need of scalable website
Well, the article doesn't mention the hardware. Only one machine for 5 TB a day which doesn't add up as far as I am concerned.

If they were storing everything in S3, it's possible to do something similar with ElasticSearch for the same order of costs (maybe three times?), the money going to EBS storage instead. ElasticSearch allows to query and visualize logs, which plain S3 storage doesn't, it's worth a bit more IMO.
The interesting corollary is that, while individual change may be positive, that's not what gets into the media. Just look at the news. What sells and gets clicks is violence, protest, and conflict. Only the occasional baby panda story makes its way through.

There was a story on HN recently about how protestors for the Micheal Brown case made headlines while the Eric Garner case did not, and it was because the Brown case had shades of grey, while the Garnet case was open and shut. Similarly, college rape cases with evidence don't make the headlines, while unsubstantiated accusations get picked up by feminist organizations and promoted. Another example, PETA makes waves with irritating campaigns that turn people off from the movement, while other animals rights organizations quietly do good.

But all those movements have a purpose. Even if they do not convince any individuals, while only preaching to the choir, they get important messages out there, expand the moral Overton window, and make their peer organizations' positive messages more likely to be heard and accepted.
Oh, I've actually never read that, I wrongly assumed that != Amazon == good guys.
By the way, it doesn't (yet) run on mobile browsers. Watch this space :)
Yeah well I fell for it. Well done. :)
Chromium 85
On Tutanota your email are encrypted at rest and only you have the key. This is not supported by SMTP.

It's a trade-off for theoretically better privacy.
Cloudflare and Human Rights: Joining the Global Network Initiative (GNI)
Over 2'000 years to resolve an open question (Elements, ca. -300 → On the Origin of Geometry, 1829) is a considerable time.

http://www.claymath.org/euclid/index/book-1-postulates
(the image is clickable, but it's all greek to me)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_postulate#History

I think Lehrer was counting on both the Danny Kaye reference and his prosody statement to hint at where this song stands with respect to Poe's Law:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281288
There's a tradeoff, a high inital cognitive load for people learning the language vs the long term pay off of less bugs in production.

There are plenty of people who have spent time learning rust but haven't had a chance to use it on a production project. I would start looking there.
Motoko: A programming language for building directly on the internet
So the use of C# dooms my startup? I feel really out of touch having never used python or ruby.
Wow, that's a whole lot of work put into this, and I don't understand why... What do these scene members have to gain?

If anything, they're doing the media companies a service, free viral campaigns. Without pirated content, a lot of people would never hear or care about their movies, TV shows, music. If they can't afford it, they won't buy it anyway.

Microsoft and Adobe seem to have realized this, and now they're making things accessible to most people, so many ex-pirates used to their products are buying them. Not so for the media companies. Why does Netflix USA/UK/etc have different content? Why do games have region locks and ridiculous DRM?

All for the risk of being accused of fraud, causing "massive losses", and prison time. I guess sticking it to the MAFIAA feels nice, but is it worth the risk?
People don't like it when things change.

Change means things will break.

Change means your way of doing things won't work anymore, and you'll have to waste time and money figuring out why.

Change means that your fixes for when things go wrong won't work anymore.

Change means months of hitting new edge cases.

Change is scary.

Once you have a solution that works well enough for your use case to succeed, your motivation to adopt change goes through the floor. The bigger the organization, the worse the worst case scenario, and the lower the appetite for change.
It's always a complicated to make a choice what type of app will give you the best results in the future. I found one valuable long read aimed to help smooth this process, it reveals all pros and cons of all popular frameworks and kinds of apps https://litslink.com/blog/mobile-applications-development-na...
You don't actually use the bar that often, so having it at the bottom doesn't improve much. In fact, it will mostly be in the way.

Bookmarks on the other hand are used often and the new updates requires 3 clicks to get to them (previously 1).

So this is a classic case of UX designer not knowing how people use his software and just doing changes he thinks are cool.