skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend showed me the news that the war was over. He had a news poster (the paper flyer kind) in his room. At that moment I could not properly express my disgusted reaction.

How can we celebrate that something ended through sheer attrition?

Why didn’t we do anything when it was on our doorstep?

Why do we celebrate this war’s end when we ignore countless other wars all over the globe?

It was shown in the headlines of newspapers like it was WW2 ending and like we had a hand in it ending and it was over through some great struggle on our part, when in reality Europe watched in a “bring more popcorn” fashion.

AT THE VERY LEAST the siege should have been broken (through force) and a humanitarian corridor opened.

This was right after the Cold War, the Western powers, including my native Sweden were still armed to the teeth.
Protection of housing from wildfires is somewhat a solved problem thanks to the pioneering research of Jack Cohen, and this excellent episode of the 99% Invisible podcast is well worth a listen:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/

There's plenty of youtube vidoes featuring his research too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_syp1ZScM

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+cohen+wild...

Perhaps a good way to encourage the work to be done is through the offering of lower insurance premiums for housing so protected.
DiceKeys: Security keys you create by rolling dice
Electron is a full instance of chromium. Running an electron app is essentially running a browser, which is a heavy application. All that heft translates to inefficiency.
From the article: 'after an organism has been dead for 60,000 years, so little carbon-14 is left that accurate dating cannot be established.'
Not just crops and power. I know a guy whose startup is using transparent solar panels in Germany on eco-friendly buildings with grass on roofs, to get power and eco-cooling, as well as Oxygen production - at least that is how he explained it. The concept is called green-roofs. Unfortunately I don't remember his startup's name.

A link with details about the concept, minus the use of transparent solar panels:
https://buildingradar.com/construction-blog/green-roofs/
Found this out in the house we are renting with solar panels installed by landlord. Bright sunny day, someone hits a pole nearby, power goes out.

There are two kinds of solar: one that adds to the existing signal from the mains, or one that is self-contained. The second kind is more complicated and therefore expensive. I wasn't aware of the distinction before, but I definitely am now.
In South Korea more than a third of women get plastic surgery. And it seems to work out well for them.
Isn't weird, readily-accepted, severe adherence to arbitrary draconian rules like indefinite house confinement, and the social shaming for any infraction, a form of sociopathy?

It's like a cult - people love the moral superiority they get from following rules(whether they're based in reality or not) and the permission it gives them to berate and abuse other people, who even so little as question the rules, and they categorize these people as agents of evil.

Social shaming for not following the pack in their agoraphobia? Isn't that sociopathy?
That's also true of its "explicit is better than implicit" rule.
Where can I learn de-escalatory calming techniques?
GUIDs are globally unique, but substrings of GUIDs aren't
But if you do that, you also have to handle file opening from the native local server side too (because browser file browser will not tell you actual file path). And of course, that dialog won't be a modal of the browser.

This is getting weird very quickly (not to mention that Ctrl-S in browser windows saving file without confirmation is a UX I wouldn't want to use)
I think you misunderstood.

You're racist because a racist said so. We're all equal.

https://youtu.be/5qArvBdHkJA
> In my senior-level meetings, roughly 95 percent of the participants were white, 90 percent men. If you believe diversity of experience and perspective improves decision making, this should worry you.

At my last startup, the local "accelerator" sent in a diversity consultant. Because the CEO didn't want to deal with it, I was stuck with him.

After 10 minutes of me describing how our team of six represented 3 continents including 13 citizenships; we spoke 13 languages; ranged in age from 24 to 48; ranged in education from 3 days of college to dual PhDs; included Christians, a devout Hindu, an atheist, and agnostics; single, married, and even arranged marriage; and our company dinners consisted of us bringing our families together (along with our angel investors and their families) and sharing traditional dishes, the consultant complained that we "weren't diverse" and complained for 20+ minutes on two things:

- our team only had one woman

- our team didn't have any LGBT representation

I threw him out.

If you're so closed-minded and ignorant, I don't want you around my team.
So this technique reduces the sunlight the plants receive by about 57% but only reduces biomass growth by about 30%. It's very interesting. I imagine you could enclose the sides with glass or plastic and make a greenhouse from it. That makes me wonder if the reduction in growth wouldn't be offset by the ability to extend the growing season.
True. Lazarus/Delphi are the "APEX predators" for UI building. Their only caveat is their lack of resources (Lazarus) and weird costly licensing (Delphi).
This article doesn’t mention the months of protests in Mali which culminated in a coup d'état on the 18th forcing the president to resign. Yes, it’s a cool construction, it likely does serve Operation Barkhane but I think there are some unmentioned colonial interests.
> Sometimes parents just want to take the easy path and consider all nudity as out of bounds for their kids.

Sometimes parents consider vaccinations to be out of bounds for their kids, too.
Tell HN: I'm Selling Programming.io
Long story short, I had big plans for developing Programming.io into a cruft-free social bookmarking service for developers, but other projects are making that impossible.

It could obviously be made into anything related to programming (tutorials, mentoring or freelance marketplace, Q&A format forum, etc.)

If you're interested, you can check out the auction here (ends in 2 days): https://flippa.com/10635953-programming-io
Racists exist. They hate people.
We're also all very quick to forget not only do they profit off the developer license tiers, but also the selling of hardware. The cheapest brand new Mac you can get is a Mac Mini, used to be $100 cheaper, that alone is per developer so the true costs are much higher.
Yep, the price published for Finland feels really weird. The operators are nowadays selling even even unlimited data prepaids for 20-30 euros or 1 eur per day. This of course makes gigabyte price comparison a bit hard as it depends how much you download.
While there are decades of studies to back it, I hardly need them. Also the link is to a James Madison quote where he writes to the effect that the Senate should be a firewall against democratic effort to reshape society from aristocratic rule to democratic. Is the mind of the man who wrote the Constitution enough evidence?

Notice as unemployment grew so has time for protests. They have no income to lose, no future. Lacking distraction of chasing a rent payment, people are shouting for the defunding of racist policing systems, able to jump into mass protests against dismantling USPS and more.

It’s a simple mathematical fact: chasing financial survival distracted from putting agency into publicly valuable political reforms.

Constant fear of job loss is a well known tool for insuring compliance: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

When jobs can’t be... there’s no compliance.

Edit: that isn’t say I agree with shallow job culture. “Providing” a shallow grift like bartender or oil changer for decades is authoritarian in my mind. It lets many off the hook to think critically, and emboldens powerful people which resources to measure and attempt to manage public ignorance to hide their Griggs.

Adam Smith warned explicitly that extreme division of labor would make humans the stupidest creatures on the planet. Our President, ladies and gentlemen, lifted up by ignorant day laborers.
If it happens once that's once too many.
I used to be a T-shirt guy. I actively sabotaged any valuation people might make of me based on appearance to force evaluation only of my technical skills. That worked fine for a couple decades.

Now I work hard to maximize the value of the connections I make and the overall value I can provide to others, which is not always entirely technical.

I wear a suit and tie to all meetings now. I wear the same to every occasion when I am actually in an office and even sometimes over Zoom. It sets me apart and shows my interlocutor that I value the meeting and respect his or her time. It sets a tone and I find it is well worth the effort.

Amusingly, I spent those first two decades working for the DoD and there is definitely a dress code and an aversion to wearing suits for some civilians.
It’s quite fun & Alexander Armstrong has great fun hamming it up a little as Sinclair.
Assuming you meant some SFW images are mistakenly blocked, it is an easier situation than with true negative.

Once an image tested positive with your first model, you could run a second more CPU intensive model (but also more accurate) on it.
And find a registrar that offers a privacy option, hide your contact info from Whois.
California wasn't hit very hard early. In terms of total reported cases, they're only just now starting to catch up with New York (21 per thousand for the state vs 17 per thousand for California) - and as we catch up we've had a pretty sharp improvement from the peak in July.

The theory is that California flattened the curve in the original sense, delaying the peak in order to ensure it's moderately lower and protect the capacity of the healthcare system.
Link: https://flippa.com/10635953-programming-io
Build Your Own FPGA (2012)
> in case the company doesn’t have a proper way to deal with cancellations

This is where a credit card becomes useful, any credit card company worth its salt will seize charges to you immediately. I wouldn't even ever use a debit card online, it's far too risky.
"Yes this is commmonly known as a K-Hole. It's worse than a bad trip from what I've heard."

No, it doesn't have to be bad at all if it's not used in a bad setting and most people enjoy the effects. It wouldn't be a common drug otherwise. See https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/d3dxzq/we-asked-people-ab...
The Python 3 executable has the “-I” (isolated mode) option to mitigate this kind of thing.
This is more a statement on the informality typical in many modern (US?) workplaces than a declaration of any hard-fought labor victory.

Military, law enforcement, medical, and educational institutions still reinforce the ideas of titular address, but its fallen by the wayside in many places.
Could Germany's Covid concert experiment help arenas hold large events again?
> It doesn't tell you about the circumstances - like, was it one of the people at that eyeball-licking party? Or someone in the next car in a traffic jam?

For most people I suspect that this wouldn't really make much difference.

In my state, approximately 1% of the population is known to have had COVID. That's over the whole course of the pandemic so far. I haven't seen the numbers for number of active cases, but looking at the total case curve, I'd estimate active cases are at least an order of magnitude less.

My chances of actually encountering anyone with COVID are pretty low when I'm out, and I try to minimize the number of times I go out. Even if everyone in my state were using an automated contact tracing app, I'd probably only be getting an alert once a month or so, and that's probably overestimating it.

So, once a month or so I'd need to get a test, and then stay at home for a day waiting for results. Since periodic testing is actually a good anyway, this would not be very disruptive at all. The only real disruption for me would be that for a test in response to an alert, I should stay at home until I get the result. For a test done as part of general periodic testing, there would be no specific need to stay home waiting for the result.

But with alerts only happening every month or so, it would not be a big deal even if most of the alerts are from traffic instead of eyeball-licking parties.

And that's assuming I respond to each alert by getting tested and staying home a day. Instead, I could think about what I did the last two weeks. If I've only encountered people 2 meters away, in passing, with both of us wearing masks (which is in fact true for most two week periods for me), except for people in other cars on the road, then I could ignore the alert.

Edit: I looked up the data for my county. We have 70 active cases in a population of 276000, so about 0.03%. There have been 923 total cases, so about 0.3%.
The problem then is that more complex programs are harder break down, and people will tend to write their entire program in a single file. What does happen a lot with Perl.
Hi Vishnu,

Repeat founder here. But I always have same co-founder. Startup is an emotional experience so my suggestion will be get someone passionate (not money minded).

Can you pls also suggest starting guide for Naval's meditation challenge.
Oh, I didn't say no one would find it enjoyable. It's quite the opposite, actually: videos optimized for engagement tend to be more enjoyable for most people. You don't get to 2.4 million subscribers by making videos that no one likes to watch, after all.
Vector Arithmetic and Cosine Proximity Ranking in Native Postgres
Cross platform "native APIs" I hope?

Also whats "in it" for Google and Microsoft to promote PWAs, ie what would make them withdraw their support to PWAs?
> cpp main.c

Nobody does this with a downloaded file. It’d just be ./install from the unpacked directory.

But I don’t think it’s at all a stretch to imagine someone invoking python in the way the article describes.
Does the added technology really increase productivity that much? Powerpoint slides on a screen aren't really any better than printed. Is having wifi in the office really that much of a productivity gain over a wired connection? I guess you can't move around the office like in SV, but you already can't in most places anyway. Not having cell service in the office is probably a productivity gain.

Also, I'm sure the Chinese military is absolutely terrified of our insurmountable diversity advantage.
Yes, I have. "Microsoft React Native" aka React Native for Windows is not that great for the public yet. There are basic layout bugs that need to be addressed before it's good enough that I'd recommend it. But if you are feeling experimental, you would eventually get good iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS support all in 1 app.
Rooftop photovoltaic is currently more expensive, less efficient, and surprisingly dangerous to install. Solar thermal designs actually benefit from being on rooftops.

As to dust, economies of scale make a huge difference. It’s rarely worth it, but using a farm truck to spray water across miles of panels is much more efficient than tens of thousands of homeowners doing the same.
> email, drive, calendar, docs and sheets all in one place.

Try iCloud.com

I think you can only sign up from an Apple device but otherwise it's all free (except for extra storage) and doesn't spread your data around.
I bet this kind of mess is exactly what Zuck was trying to avoid when he didn't want to implement free speech restrictions or fact checking, because there's no solution to be found here - if you don't mark anti climate change material as false, your fact checkers are worthless and you're kowtowing to political/moneyed elements that are against it; and if you do, those elements will declare you biased, claim censorship, and seek political action. Of course, the other side will eventually seek political action in the first case as well, so there's no winning.

It's been entertaining to watch him gradually tightening the screws on speech over the years though, as if this kind of end result was ever in doubt. Outrage is stronger than principle, and the same thing can be seen on reddit at smaller scale (in the last decade reddit has banned, more or less in order - pedo-adjacent, hate, violence, harassment/doxing, gore and illegal commerce communities). I don't think there's any way for a social media giant to avoid these kinds of restrictions - communities will spring up around any kind of material, other people will find them and the news will write about them (with the amusing side effect that you'll get a Streisand effect if you don't shut it down due to the increased attention).

Facebook has it worse it seems - they're actively taking money from some of the groups they're restricting/fact-checking, which is all kinds of messy and filled with conflicts of interest. It seems the money is winning out, which is about what I'd expect. It'll be interesting to see how they resolve these issues in the coming years.
Hi Vishnu,

Repeat founder here. I always do with same co-founder. Startup is an emotional exp. My recommendation is to get a co-founder who is passionate and not in for money.

Also, can you pls post Naval's meditations starting guide?

Thanks
I lived in Oakland for about 10 years and frequented the library and occasionally stopped at Caliban. I am amazed that they are still open! It’s incredible they were able to get away with it for so long, and even more so the lenience if the punishment. The library guy will feel the pain more since he is an older felon with no experience other than the library job. Caliban could survive or rebrand. I guess the fact there aren’t many rare bookstores will be their saving grace.
There's several laws of that kind.

Israel (a US law, but most map providers are based in the US) https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/03/israel-cant-hide-eviden...

China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...

In Germany Microsoft/Bing Maps pixelated military installation but used outdated data. In my city a tourist destination was pixelated 60 years after it served as military office building.
This is a link shortener, which then links to a covid19 article.
I hope someone challenges this in court.
A lot of work to build all that to put a white flag atop it!
I would generally put Schindlers List onto the "not-so-family-friendly"-list. It’s educational I guess but I wouldn’t want to show it to anyone below 16. And after that the nudity should be fine.
A tad off topic but it fits nicely, installgentoo wiki had a very nice article about private trackers: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Private_trackers
Policemen do one of the toughest jobs in society, especially in places where crime is high. Society owes them a great debt for enforcing the law because there are some hard criminals out there who would run amok if a weak and ineffective police force were the norm.

Armchair criticism of the police with zero consideration for their point of view is not helpful to anyone, most of all victims of crimes.
Too bad neither party shows any signs of reigning in this kind of overreach by CBP. Doesn't seem like this can be fixed by voting.
Hello Vishnu, I see that you are from Kerala! We have a very active online maker community in Kerala which regularly launches products in HN, PH. Some of them has been accepted to YC as well. I think you should defintely join it! You can DM @keralaph in Twitter for adding you to the WhatsApp group.
Square Capital?
The whole point of the hierarchy is that it attracts people who climb hierarchies, and there are plenty of those. Plenty of people would like to be called sir, get credit for their subordinates' ideas, and literally wear their level on their sleeve.
> 2) Don't use Electon. Your users WILL notice and complain about performance. Instead, use the native WebBrowser control in .NET for Windows and WebView using macOS to display your UI. Disable right clicking and highlighting using HTML/JS. To the user, it'll feel like any other native app. Add this meta tag to the HTML file to ensure the WebBrowser control knows to use new versions of IE to render the UI: <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> (and/or look up how to add the FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION registry key)

Going to heavily disagree here. Whether or not your user's will notice is debatable in itself, but you shouldn't really factor that into your decision making.

Instead you should ask if your users would care that it uses Electron, and more whether they would be sufficiently put off to look for alternatives. And in a vast majority of cases the response to that question is going to be 'No'.

But the second part of this comment, I disagree with even further. DO NOT USE A NATIVE WEBBROWSER CONTROL FOR YOUR DESKTOP APP's UI.

Sorry for yelling, but that really is that terrible an idea. Most native webview components lag behind the embedded chromium instance Electron uses by a lot. Basic things that would work in IE10 are known to break on desktop webviews. Primary reason for this is that these webviews are only updated with OS updates.

End result is you will have to bend over backwards to get your UI working as expected on all these native webviews. This is just too much work and will end up diverting attention from developing core features of your app to fixing rendering bugs instead.
I've seen a bouncer inject something into a guy thrown out of a bar in Seattle, many years back. Not sure if its used by bouncers too.
EFF or ACLU, I hope.
Asians should not forget their roots. I love to see docs and READMEs in more than one language!
If this is the case, I’ll leave the country with basically naked devices which I’ll restore on the other side of the checkpoint.
As nice as it would be, seroprevalence studies have ruled out the "basically everyone in New York caught it" theory.
In the last few days of January and two weeks in early February in Manhattan, I (26M) got quite sick. The first few days were pretty bad and I had 102F fever. I had lots of difficulty breathing and a dry cough for around 2 weeks after. A friend/co-worker who sits next to me at work had essentially identical symptoms 12 hours before me lasting for similar amount of time. I think his breathing problems were less bad than mine.

The worst hit me on the weekend and I returned to work on Monday with the cough.

Around 1 week prior I attended a company holiday party at a large museum with (probably?) one thousand attendees from all over the world. They mostly came from the EU, but at least some from APAC as well.

I have no evidence that this was COVID-19, but in retrospect the symptoms matched reasonably well and I haven't been sick since.
World of Private Torrent Trackers
That's a great way to give China all of your source code
Pentagon culture is a subculture of the military, an influential one, but hardly as dominant as portrayed.

Wifi, cell service and laptops are mostly distractions in an acquisition environment. Being on a source selection is like being on a jury- you're not allowed to do your own research, you have to choose based on the evidence presented. These are rules Congress passes to make sure everything is 'fair', if you want to reform the acquisition process you have to go higher than the poor military stuck implementing the system.

The rest of the article is spot on, though the diversity argument is flimsy.
> It sets me apart and shows my interlocutor that I value the meeting and respect his or her time.

That sentiment should come from your language and the content of your discussion, not from your appearance...
They'll just consider that suspicious and confiscate the devices ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not sure what you think is a 'cultural uprising' or 'counter-cultural' about Bratz dolls? They're mainstream dolls. The article talks about how they were different to the mainstream Barbie... twenty years ago. They were novel before some parents today were born, let alone the children.
Louisiana, then?