skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to the Download page and hit the "Get Nyxt for GNU/Linux!" button, but it hit a 404 page.

Also, just a minor suggestion, but you should style the "Download for macOS", "Download for GNU/Linux (x86-64)", and "Download Source" headers as buttons or links. It looks like they are just text headers with nothing underneath them until you click on them. The cursor doesn't even change when hovering.
Why is Vice always flagged on HN?
No one makes station wagons anymore, except luxury european makers :(
My initial reaction to this was that this was dumb because Kickstarter gives you something very important: a large userbase.

But Craigstarter makes a good point -
> if you already have a community built up, and have communication channels in place (via a newsletter, for example), and already run an online shop, then Kickstarter can be unnecessarily cumbersome.

I'm sure there are lots who meet that criteria. Now I just need to build my newletter mailing list...
Well yes and no, GitHub is increasingly powered by Azure (GitHub Actions and CodeSpaces as obvious examples), but like I said I've got the feeling that "Azure DevOps" is more likelier to be retired as a brand/product line than GitHub will.

You can tell that Microsoft absolutely respects GitHub as a brand and just based on raw public changelogs and available roadmaps there seems to be a lot more investment in labor and "spirit" in GitHub than Azure DevOps right now.

Again, there are nothing more than rumors at this point. Yet there was always something of an impression that when Microsoft's bharry retired the lights might go out on Microsoft's TFS/VSO/Azure DevOps legacy, and the timing of the GitHub purchase coincides with that idea that GitHub is a full replacement.

I've even heard some of how strongly Microsoft sales people are trying to encourage on-premises server installs to move to GitHub Enterprise (and away from legacy TFS products).

Many signs seem to be pointing to GitHub will be the last product standing (powered by Azure).
In 2008, the government bailed out big banks. In 2020, the government bailed out big corporations. Nobody gives a shit about precedents and principles anymore. Why should anyone give a shit about TikTok? Shut them down, lock them up! Nothing the government can do today is hypocritical, nothing compared to what they've already done!

I think the government should lock them up, simply because that would show elites the nonsensical reality which everyone else is subjected to! There are no principles. Whoever has the money and the most political connections can do whatever they want and everyone else can shut the hell up.

It's about time the elite neoliberals actually participated in their own system on a 'level playing field' (as in, the rigged-game field which everyone else is forced to play on)... There is no free market, hasn't been one for over a decade.

The government should ban TikTok because that would send a powerful message to technocratic neoliberals; let them know what unrestrained capitalism is really about.

Our corporate masters think that employees should bow down to them, but they will not bow down to their own masters (Trump).
It's about time they find out what happens when you don't bow down to your master. Welcome to neoliberal capitalism.
>> you can render the scene from the perspective of the light source as if light were emitted by the camera

A slide projector. A 35mm slide is exposed from one side, in a camera, to create the image. Then it is lit from the other side, in a projector, to render the scene. Do this with polaroid-type film and one device could be both camera and projector, possibly with only one or two moving parts.
They're free in term of money, but the cost is that the provider can sell your privacy to the highest bidder.
Whenever I see a story pop up like this, and given the amount of advocacy I see on other topics discussed here on HN, I think it's fair to point out some charitable organizations that have been fighting this fight where it matters: in the courts.

The Institute for Justice has long long fought against unjust takings such as described here:
https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

The Pacific Legal Foundation is also involved in this fight:
https://pacificlegal.org/civil-asset-forfeiture-resist-refor...

Of the charitable giving that I do, these organizations are at the top of my list. If you're in the U.S., I would urge you to consider contributing as well.
FTA: 'The name Novichok means "newcomer" in Russian'

No it doesn't. Novichok means "amateur, noob". Sigh.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent

“ These agents were designed to achieve four objectives:[21][22]

to be undetectable using standard 1970s and 1980s NATO chemical detection equipment;
to defeat NATO chemical protective gear;
to be safer to handle; and
to circumvent the Chemical Weapons Convention list of controlled precursors, classes of chemical and physical form.[23]”
In fairness, "systemic" is not well-defined, and it's routinely used as a weasel word. For example, if we're talking about police shootings of Black Americans, and I invoke "systemic racism" to imply that police are prejudice against blacks in their killings and thus America is a racist ethnostate, you could point out that police kill whites and blacks at comparable rates when accounting for crime rates, at which point I would retreat to "'systematic' refers to whatever system is causing blacks to commit crimes at elevated rates, i.e., legacy of slavery and racism" which is probably correct but supports an opposite set of moral implications and solutions.

In my experience, people who are willing to be honest, precise, and consistent in their terminology tend to have more reasonable and productive debates. They can often agree on many things with the people who are supposed to be their enemies and the disagreements are more understandable. Notably, most Americans probably agree that this law is heinously unjust.

EDIT: People are fixating on the example and assuming that crime rate disparities are manufactured or a result of law-enforcement bias, but that doesn't hold up to the criminology literature, which controls for LEO bias in a number of ways, including by comparing data sources against victim surveys. So while it's fair to argue that criminologists are failing to account for something, we're not talking about ignorant people making stupid extrapolations. If we're going to go off-topic, then let's at least make it a productive, enlightening digression.
Jio unfortunately blatantly copies western apps and adds a 'Made in India' tag. Therefore people think it is patriotic to use it.

They copied Whatsapp but removed the end to end encryption.
They copied Zoom and removed the decent security.
They copied amazon and started JioMart, whose apps look exactly the same.

Am waiting for them to start Jioogle, as an alternative search engine.
Well, someone in this comment tree linked stats, but I think those stats and the stats most people that visit this site come up with via observation understate how many boring jobs there are in e.g. fortune 5000 companies doing Windows-centric work.
Shakespeare also. He lifted almost all his plots from other sources.
DSLX seems like a nightmare. Does it support arbitrary C++?
This is a core point of Hegelian dialectic, too.
Technically, Puerto Rico and Guam were already invaded by Spain before it was handed over to the US in 1898. With Texas, I believe it won its war of independence against Mexico and later annexed by the US (1835). If you're going to go back that far they US "invasions" is probably fairly tame compared to other countries of that time period.
The article says that the DUI prosecution has been indefinitely delayed due to COVID. The case has not been heard, and there has not been a conviction, acquittal Or had the charges withdrawn.
Or, a highly unpopular translation/spin: Company uses public platform to collect metrics on user satisfaction in order to improve platform and services.

This goes way back to Henry Ford and Walter Reuther. None of this is new.
Other UNIX platforms have had and followed file system hierarchy standards before FHS. The challenge with things like binaries in /etc is usually one of backwards compatibility -- decisions made from expediency or just technological limitations (like where to put things on 5MB hard disks, say) cast a long shadow.
Here's another one I've noticed. Only ever posts links to his own website articles. Sometimes multiple times a day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=iafrikan
So much this.

The population of commenters seems to be dominated by those whose goal is to argue and win, rather than to understand and learn. So many times I see comments that make no attempt to take context into account, and instead conflate all sorts of things, making it impossible to comment productively. (Basic example: Top comment has not replied to the thesis of the article, but to something else.) When one of these types of comments is at the top of the comments list I just hide the whole story, because there’s literally nothing to see but people talking past each other.
From the details given, it sounds like she should bear some responsibility. But the story is lacking in details.

Perhaps her coworker claimed to be sober and had not been visibly drinking at the work party. Perhaps she pleaded with him to slow down.

Regardless, she clearly made an error in judgement when she decided to allow this person to drive her car. Should she lose her car over it? No, I don't think so. But if they had been involved in a car accident, should she bear some portion of blame? Definitely.
TikTok doesnt work at all now. The company accepted the ban so they themselves are stopping the app from working.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
> the system will ultimately compensate through interviewing, delayed starts, etc.

A roundabout way of saying that some students that would have been accepted to their chosen college, won't be, because their grades weren't as inflated as their competitions. Isn't that also potentially irreparable harm, not just "some unfairness"?
Standard MO of software engineers is to rewrite code into the latest and greatest framework/language/style every couple of years to keep the resume fresh.
Python AsyncIO: Asynchronous IO
Most other software is more dispersed and has plenty of mirrors, e.g. the Debian project. The same criticism of crates.io is typically levied against GitHub.
Exactly what I thought. A theory has to make a falsifiable prediction. A correlation is not a falsifiable prediction.
Would Picture-in-Picture (PiP) work for you?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-f...
> This is parenting vs schooling, ignoring the fact that many schools are really glorifed babysitting services.

Modern school systems are pretty much entirely this... only they aren't really glorified. To be fair, a society in which every adult is expected to be working needs some kind of daycare for kids, but there are probably better ways to go about it.
The man is ex-KGB, installed himself in power for life and somehow his critics have a way of getting killed or tripping on some soviet nerve agents.
This is not related to any nationalism. Its the response of a sovereign nation in order to secure the data of its citizens which might face 'potential war with China'.

Its logical. If you apply logic.
It’s actually not really known how these form. Some theories speculate that they’re normal stellar-mass (with “normal” in this case being hundreds of solar masses, because stars were huge back then) black hope that just ate a lot of stuff. Perhaps they merged with other black holes, too. And it’s also possible that a bunch of dust just collapsed under its own gravity early in the universe’s lifecycle and became dense enough to go directly to a black hole.
What I wish India would do is this: force Chinese phone companies to ship stock Android and full source code. They sell hundreds of millions of phones in India and will have to find middle ground, and the outcome will be good for everyone.
So this is as confirmed as Iraq WMD and Russia collusion where the entire establishment and media comes together but ultimately this is fake? Or there is some actual proof?
Lol what questions. If you question them they name you as a terrorist and slam the NSA act on you. 'National security'
Show HN: Available: Seamlessly share your calendar availability inside of Gmail
Available is a Chrome Extension that allows you to easily share your calendar availability inside of your Gmail compose/reply view. The best part––it pastes the times as plain text.

I've been a user of various calendar scheduling tools in the past, but always felt awkward sending a branded widget or URL to my recipient asking them to book time on my calendar. Especially if I was the one asking for their time.

I've been using this extension for a few weeks and it has saved me quite a bit of time by not having to switch between Gmail and my calendar tabs every time I'm coordinating a meeting request!

Excited to share this with y'all. If you have any questions/run into bugs, feel free to DM me on Twitter (@_shahedk) or email me shahedkhan30@gmail.com :-)
It's not exactly clear if the Indian Government has authority enough to do this ban, without presenting concrete evidence, under existing laws. There seems to be no semblance of a due process. As a democratic country India seems to trust its own citizens very less.

Banning or not sufficient case has not been made in the public, only a cryptic communique from the Govt is all.

What exactly was the threat from PUBG, which is not there in other games?
The introduction to the Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad has a fascinating, and more up-to-date, essay about the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey---the so called "Homeric Question."

More evidence, from archeological digs and from the text itself, has come to light and I think there is less skepticism these days in general.
DHS Wants to Force Immigrants to Submit Biometric Information
So we are now using monopoly rules to run a country?

A literal get-out-of-jail-free card!
See also https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL.
For certain types of funding, kickstarter could be seen as negative signalling.
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Am I misreading the govtrack link? It looks like this particular bill somewhat promptly died in congress.
Well, those are mostly the same. Noob (newbie, n00b) comes from newcomer/novice. Amateur I'm not sure how it fits in there. I think BBC is just using the synonym that the most people would understand (newcomer vs noob, everyone gets the first, some will not understand the second)
Yeast could soon make psilocybin cheaper than their magic mushroom cousins can
Honest question: why use this and not FaceTime?
It means both actually
Liberal arrogance is more dangerous than right wing populism.

At least you can engage and readily recognize right wing populism; it's crude, blatant and visible.

The Left in America act sophisticated and "humane" hiding all the working/middle class resentment and evil things that get much more scrutiny in the typical Republican admin (drone campaigns, guantanamo, wars, immigrant abuse, executive overreach, corruption, etc.).
But to emulate the body, you must emulate the environment that shaped it, so now we're talking microverse creation. You could at best emulate the full set of current functions, but without the environment that model would be subject to incompleteness, entropy. You could perhaps watch for change, using the human corpus as input; all set conclusions seem to lead back to AI as human local intelligence orchestrator, rather than AI as emulation of human thought, maybe the two becoming one over time.
The article mentions Novichok being produced in Soviet Union in the 80-s, whats more interesting, it's still manufactured in Czech Republic, at least until recently:

https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/03/novichok-type-nerve-agen...
This is interesting. Overall I'm bearish on high-level synthesis for anything requiring high performance, since you typically need to think about how your code will be mapped to hardware if you want it to perform well, and adding abstractions interferes with that. I would like to know more about how Google uses this, since it doesn't seem like a good fit for the type of stuff I work on.
My understanding is that we're not totally certain if all black holes form from stellar mass black holes.

There is a theory that black holes can form from direct collapse. In this case, as I understand it, it can skip the star phase and just collapse straight into a black hole.... but I really am not an expert.

You can find more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_collapse_black_hole

And I HIGHLY recommend the PBS NOVA episode "Black Hole Apocalypse" (Jan 10, 2018, Season 45 Episode 1). It was on Netflix for a while (and may still be.)

Edit: here is the full episode on PBS (thank you NOVA!!!)
https://www.pbs.org/video/black-hole-apocalypse-yj34qi/
I am not from India - so it doesn't matter what I think. I was asking a question.

I notice from my own country that the power around the sitting government has been strengthened over the COVID-pandemic and the opposition is very weak.

I can only imagine how things would centralise further had my country also been under the threat of war.
Even better, why not use a mechanical scale? Digital is sure easier to read (plus you get neat features like tare and unit conversion), but a plain old mechanical force measure doesn't require batteries at all.
The protests are about the introduction of some Standard Mandarin classes in schools that were previously using Mongolian exclusively. (Albeit again a standardized form instead of the full spectrum of Mongolic languages and dialects spoken throughout China.)

Those changes are unlikely to lead to phasing out official use of Mongolian in China anytime soon. (E.g. on the Mongolian version of the website of the government of Inner Mongolia: http://mgl.nmg.gov.cn/U_index.html )
Automatically use openring on my RSS reader's feeds
> One thing that I think strongly suggests that this hypothesis is wrong is that there is no strong relation between ACE-inhibitors and Covid mortality.

Perhaps you can clear up something for me. We've all heard how obesity and hypertension are risk factors for covid morbidity. But I could never get a clarification regarding treated vs. untreated hypertension.

AFAIK, many obese people take ACE inhibitors to treat hypertension. If we divide obese people into three groups: (a) untreated, (b) treated with ACE inhibitors, and (c) treated with other medications, how do their covid moribity rates compare?
Guessing it was amateur in the derogatory sense.
I think Japanese schools are something to learn from. They usually have openable windows to let fresh air in, the "commons" area is usually outdoor and students cleanup and care for the school itself -- which teaches students to be responsible and it makes them feel like they are an essential part of the school, not brains to be herded. I don't care much for the uniforms though.

Now I am curious how schools in scandanavia are, given their famous prisons.
So it's more like "incompetent newcomer?"
These guys wrote "An Invitation to Applied Category Theory." It's an awesome book, and I'm super excited for these lectures.
Testing Human Teammates in Minecraft
I don't know. I have a couple of friends who met there wife online. They all seems to have very stable releationships now and all have more than one child. Some had very wild times before, some almost nothing before.
Looks like it's already working again but I'll just leave these in case.

Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qm8IZ5...

Text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qm8IZ5R...
At the top of that page is the Redmi 9a for 6,799. Here is a similar phone from samsung for Rs. 6,499.

https://www.91mobiles.com/samsung-galaxy-m01-core-32gb-price...
> far, far more than they agreed.

I'm not moving any goalposts. I see that they negotiated a total package that's high. It includes tons of overtime, which I don't resent like some in the thread seem to.
Hi! Super cool extension for readers, seems easy for publishers too. I like that it isn't baked into the browser like the Brave BAT.

Just curious - what split have you seen so far between readers picking ads v micropayments?

Question before I try it out -How do you serve up ads? Are you a part of a network? I noticed you collect all data from sites with the extension, curious to know if the ad alternative is collecting my data and targeting me with personalized ads.
It takes some serious cognitive dissonance to think that the CCP isn’t slowly phasing out all non-Mandarin languages and cultures. This isn’t something unique to China, either: France eliminated most of its regional languages in the same fashion, although that was hundreds of years ago.
The uncomfortably truth here is that kids will always be taught values. The question is who gets to decide what the "right" values are?
If it is pure unadulterated nationalism, only one country would not be targeted. It is fair to say, China is a Clear and Present danger to Indian Union and in a war-like state banning games should not be that controversial. You do not want to fund the bullets being shot at your soldiers as much as possible.
As someone who respects functional programming (because it removes geniuses from competing in my space) here's a nice video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI

What is the beautiful monospace font in the pdf here http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats_files/cats4progs-DRAF...?
Yep, that's awesome, that's a new feature to me, thanks!

Though it'd still be nice instead of pressing F11 to achieve full screen if I could press ctrl+F11 and it was "fill window" etc across browsers.
You severely underestimate how Indian teens are addicted to PUBG. Kids have spent lakhs of their parents rupees on it. [1]

Some have even dies due to addiction. [2]

[1]- https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2020/aug/17/pu...

[2] - https://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/16-year-old-addicted-to-pubg...

There are many more. I just gave a single example.
The History of Pi
Yeah, sure, if you declare every variable global, it makes adding new features feel quick and easy. There's a reason that global variables are considered harmful.
That air is a natural disinfectant is super interesting.

I read that vitamin D and observed benefits for those who have vitamin D is a correlation. Meaning that taking vitamin D supplements might not be as helpful as getting sunlight (a natural way to get vitamin D)
Demented
An American Napoleon
I suspect that anything in living memory of the people who approve the textbooks doesn’t look like “history” to them, and also runs the risk of being considered overly political— it can be hard to be objective about events you lived through, so any stance the curriculum writers take will be attacked by the parents and grandparents that were on the other side if the issues.
To sum up in a few words: "You had to be there." Or, "nuance that can only be felt, not explained" Similar to other comments, I wouldn't say this is a call to abandon originality, but rather illuminates a different aspect of creators and what goes into what they make.
But if you observe the behavior of a bacterium, operating under similar principles but seeking instead a salt or pH value, you would do well to describe it similarly. The bacterium is seeking a certain condition. It can not think, but it is a machine that acts with purpose and must be modeled accordingly.
Lampson has been expanding on it over the years. This is an expanded (20 pages) over his 2019 version.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...

No complaint here. Anything written by Lampson is worth reading.