skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this author is in fact correct that science isn’t typically concerned with absolute, eternal truths but rather circumstantial truths or whatever hypothesis best maps onto available evidence.

One of the hallmarks of critical thinking is being able to move past black-and-white reasoning. Critical thinking entails comprehension of the ambiguity and gray area present within most debates. Any individual who feels as though there exist ideas which are irrefutable even in the face of many other similarly viable explanations is clearly not thinking rationally.

I’m sure radar has indeed recorded objects in the air going very fast and turning rapidly, but as mentioned in the article, there is likely additional context which has been omitted. Thus, I don’t feel any need to fact check this individual, as there is no need to verify such a vague claim which lacks almost any context whatsoever. Hopefully both author and reader understand that claims made without context or citations are not meant to be interpreted as authoritative, definitive examples.
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Ask HN: What is easier React of Java for beginner?
I am a university senior lecturer on programming. We still have couple of courses on Java. How would you argue, what is easier to learn programming - with Java or JavaScript React library and why? Java IDE has very good intellisense, strong typing, stable versions, clear scope management and robust+good+stable library support. Java has good error messages and can be used for desktop or web development.
I wasn't aware, those look like exactly what I'm looking for!
How does one contact such renters?
Wouldn't that incentivize people to live further, in less connected areas, increasing urban sprawl, environmental degradation, and segregation?
Reviving a 21-year-old web site code with DLL injection
This kind of makes sense in a strange way. Inexpensive red LED's have relatively narrow spectral line half width (~20nm) and you can set detection thresholds against measured values. This is much better than "I think I saw something in a dimly lit bathroom". This means that in the readout part (UI) it is hard to get wrong results ("Is it one or two?").

Then again it is a wasteful and overpriced product that can leave wrong impression of superiority to the customer.
A new study analyses the murky world of fake Amazon reviews
Fwiw, any nuclear reactor design in history was sold as 100% safe. In reality, shit happen. Contractors use subspec material, things on the building site get overlooked and inspectors miss things or get told to look away,

But hey, I'm sure, this time, it will be different. 100%.
That product literally looks like a dream come true for me, down to being able to rotate the keys individually.

Thanks for the link! I'm off to order the mini.
"alternative facts" should never be used without irony and derision.
Why is most important left out?
So, power output 50MW ...

How long does one "charge" last?

What is the price of unit and per kWh?

What is the maintenance procedure?

How long is the life?

What after expiry?
Use NDI Technology in Microsoft Teams
One of the good things about remote working is not having to share an office with people who smash out features on mechanical keyboards as if they believe more decibels translate to better code.
http://archive.is/Eb4OK
Not necessarily - I could say the same about regular keyboards not supporting layers/chords...
You can't touch type the number row? Pathetic.

Your keyboard's numpad is on the left side, or you use the mouse left handed, for quicker mouse access, right? No? Pathetic.
We need an open source, modular, convenient swappable battery + BMS design. Something that end users can pick up and drop in their vehicle of choice.

Something like the Gogoro battery, but with flexibility for larger vehicles.
Unquestionably? How many of those "friends" that you keep tabs on have you talked to recently? And I don't mean leaving a comment or reading about their lives. One of the most dangerous negative effects of Facebook is that it makes people _feel_ socially connected to someone when they really have no social interaction or connection at all.
Copyright law needs major reform. Technology has hit the point where you have to make a concerted effort to avoid infringing by accident. Every time a security camera picks up music, it's copyright infringement. When your camera records virtually anything man-made, copyright infringement. Probably 90% of photos are infringing copyright.

It's totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.

Copyright on images and audio are just unrealistic. Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway
Interesting, we have had virtually no problem with auto-reply traffic.

New collaborative email clients make it a lot easier to handle support without ticketing systems.

We still are rather small, so it’s possible we will learn ourselves what all these companies already know, hah.
Do you mean corporatism in the sense it's been used historically?

From Wikipedia: "Corporatism is a political ideology which advocates the organization of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, scientific, or guild associations on the basis of their common interests." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

Because yes, that's pretty far from capitalism, but it seems to be even further from what we have today.
> This, to me, is the heart of the issue. American politics are fundamentally corrupted by campaign financing

British politics is not; the scale of our financial political scandals would make a DC lobbyist giggle at the quaintness of it. This is also true of the other Five Eyes, and yet all of them are trying to be just as aggressive as each other, there’s just a difference in scale of the parent country.

I’m not arguing for or against anything here, just noting that intelligence agencies in similar countries which aren’t beset by campaign finance woes are doing exactly the same thing.
I believe it's a manufactured event. The unprecedented actions taken were not warranted for the situation. Many tests false positive due to covid being related to other common viruses. A few people have become even wealthier while many have become even poorer.
I wonder if ADA and the gnat company have created barriers to entry that prevent a community to form that gets ADA beyond the tipping point.

The gnat and base library license confusion has been discussed in the thread.

In addition to that I'm missing a succinct and to the point introduction to ADA. The signal to noise ratio of the standard "programming in ADA 2012" book was freaking me out. I stopped looking into the language not because the language was hard but because it was explained so poorly.
I’d read that a blow to the chest during a specific phase of the heart waveform can stop the heart. In theory, this video processing algorithm, coupled to a computer fired beanbag type firearm could result in heart stoppage that would look like a heart attack.
Small to moderate groups of friends that all know each other and are excited about deep learning?

edit: Ah, just saw the "what it isn't for" section - apparently not.
Yeah, I agree. Though I usually view elements as data and attributes as metadata, but in practice the usage is all over the place.
Dev myself. Can’t live without a numpad.
To make a better sensor, just add noise
The anatomy of a digital pregnancy test
Terrapower is (was?) developing multiple technologies. They got approval for their traveling wave reactor (which uses molten sodium, not molten salt, but they are easily confused for obvious reasons) last week. Not sure if they're going to keep developing other techs.
Reminds me of Playdate [https://play.date/], a handheld game device, that had a crank on the side. Unfortunately, I don't think you could charge the batteries by winding the crank.
Or a cloud startup catering to computer scientists, offering Poset Reversal As A Service.

> "Computer scientists commonly choose models which have bottoms, but prefer them topless."
Hyperlinks don't work in <img> tags though, they only work if you are allowed to embed the svg elements directly in the page.

Basically if you include an svg as an image (via <img>, or via css, etc) it can only be an animated image but you can't do anything interactive.
The 1960 film that inspired ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
> I don’t know why everyone wants keyboard with a long throw, like we are using typewriters.

I think it's just a sensation thing. It feels and sounds satisfying to press a mechanism and hear a thunk with each keystroke. I don't think there's any practical purpose.
You can level a lot of shit at the British upper classes, but being war-shy isn’t one of them. Until about 50 years ago, the entirety of the officer corps was picked from the gentry, and it’s not _that_ different today. Junior officers are just as much cannon fodder as other ranks.
Nuclear power is comparable in safety to solar and hydropower. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Perhaps in the future you can avoid surveillance by playing Top 50 music at all times?
Lol not sure why but this is accurate. It’s like aesthetics got disease and a tumor or two.
I presume JSON is less ambiguous and easier to validate and parse?
I'd really love to see more data on whether ergonomic keyboards actually work. From what I've read, it sounds like the results are mixed: I kind of want to try a split keyboard like the ergodox or Kinesis, but I feel I tend to cross-over a fair amount when typing, and I wonder if a split keyboard would be less efficient.

I also overthink a lot about the position of frequently used keys like Cmd/Ctrl/Alt (on a Mac for instance), and what the optimal placement would be, and I feel like there's very little data about this topic.
When the referee blows their whistle, the individual player who transgressed against the rules or spirit of the game is individually punished, and collectively all players benefit from this, even the one penalized. That the one penalized may not agree with or comply with the referee is beyond the scope of accountability of one referee’s ability to enforce the rules of the game.
A lot of people have been doing that for a long time. It's not working.
Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it. I see what you mean (now that I've stepped away from it).

I will definitely take this on board.
What do you mean by this time? Nuclear waste has already been dumped in the oceans before (prior to new regulations). 8 nuclear submarines have been lost and there's no environmental impact detected.

This has been well studied by several groups including the US Navy, which is one of the biggest nuclear operators with over 80 reactors currently in warships. In the event of catastrophic loss, the plan is to just leave it because the oceans already have billions of tons of radioactive material and infinite capacity to absorb more.

Also nuclear reactors have occurred naturally [1] and without any serious fallout or contamination risks, showing that containment is really not that challenging. Most people think nuclear is scary because of popular science and culture, and they lack the knowledge and understanding to know any different. It's similar to people not trusting vaccines because they don't understand medical science.

1. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nucl...
Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
Sure, all things do. But will it die out before Python?
Apple standard chiclet keyboard is what I use. Problem with MK is how much travel a key has - it tires your fingers out v
Enjoy! I use https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ for example layouts/designs, but be warned - it's quite a rabbit hole
Fusion is not 20 years in the future.It’s 50 years in the past–and we missed it
I am not sure something built by the catholic church, one of few institutions that lasted for the last 2k years, is the perfect example.

Unless we plan on getting the pope to build nuclear power plants, which does sound cool.
To go meta, see "Inform 7". It's a system in which one programs guess-the-verb text adventures by using a guess-the-verb semi-natural largely-declarative programming language.

http://inform7.com
Yep. I have a keyboard with Cherry MX Blues but I leave it at home. Once I had an officemate with a keyboard so loud I couldn't block it out with noise-cancelling headphones; I had to move to a different room. It's just inconsiderate when you're in a shared office.
Apple postponed required adoption of the IDFA optin module until early next year
Yes, waste reduction through sustained reuse through different reactors is a good process. Eventually there will always be some waste to deal with though.
Quite interesting
Because JSON was designed explicitly not to be a config format but a serialization format. For configs, use JSON5. At leatst imo seems most sane config formats are json5 these days.
The advantage is the UX.

On a regular stripe test you are responsible to conduct the experiment and interpret the outcome which can be intimidating.

"Is there a line? I think I see a line? But it's fainter from the last time? What does it mean?"

This is replaced by an algorithm that's written by people who know what are they doing to save you from analysing a chemical reaction and have a straight answer.

edit: Just Google for "Is this pregnancy test positive" to see how many people are having trouble interpreting the results.

Here is an example from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TFABLinePorn/comments/4pxghm/confli...

Ironically, on this example the commenters claim that the inaccurate one is the digital one and the tester confirms. Anyway, the point stands: It is hard to interpret the outcome of chemical reactions.
A very good point. Solving the problem that you describe is one of the core challenges of LibreSelery. We combine multiple weights calculated based on different project data. Via the GitHub API we can even create weights based on projects activity like merging, code review, issue creation, etc...

By the accumulation of multiple weights, we try to avoid rewarding just one behavior. One of the most important metrics will be how much pull requests X have been solved based on the Y issues. We also have a minimum contribution limit that you can adjust for your project. Generally, all weights can be adjusted for each project. By making all payments transparent, everyone involved can see what the distribution looked like in the past. In principle, every company has metrics for the distribution of funds. Unfortunately, these are often very non-transparent. In contrast, we try to solve the whole thing by combining different transparent movement quantities.

You can find more information about this issue here:

https://github.com/protontypes/libreselery/issues/132
https://github.com/protontypes/libreselery/issues/159
I actually have 7 kids. What made you think I don’t have any kids?
The only thing I've ever used a numpad for in my life is Blender (3D modeling) which has some core shortcuts mapped to the numpad. Unfortunately that means these 60% keyboards wouldn't really work for me, but I've never ever used the numpad for programming.
I'm currently using Twilio's programmable video for a mobile product I'm building.

I did a lot of the same review and reached similar conclusions. The popular open-source self-hosted solutions seem incredibly bloated and buggy.

Twilio's offering also manages scaling and infrastructure. I suspect it's cheaper to go with their solution in the beginning and having a self-hosted solution will only become cheaper beyond a certain amount of concurrency/usage. They also offer recording, composition and a couple of other useful features.

If anyone has implemented a self hosted solution that's cheaper to host yourself I'd be interested in reading about it.
ok thanks. This is what I am looking exactly.
I doubt lifetime revenue is less than $0.5 in general. I'd like to see statistics. Even if $0.5 is correct, do you think 1/2 of users pay $0.99? Looks like optimistic.
The current title is accurate - the original title was flamebaity “Florida is a Police State”
(by which I don't suggest to lie, rather to make sure you mention you have some experience in popular language even if your primary job didn't use it. E.g. mentioning the side projects that made you learn C++ will let a recruiter tick that box)
COBOL seems to be very translatable to any modern language, e.g. Pascal or BASIC. Real world reasons against "why not just translate it then" are understandable, but at some point that could become economical.
Well, sort of. They discriminated against types I and II.
Yes. A NRC requirement for utility scale reactors after 9/11. One wonders why nuclear reactors are so expensive.
For those working in dynamic languages (JavaScript, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) JSON maps directly onto built-in language data types and structures making it trivial to work with.

With XML you usually end up needing custom code to convert to and from the parsed XML representation and the language's built-in data types and structures.

This is less of a concern for statically typed languages where you usually have to marshal data to and from your own structs/classes whether it's XML or JSON.
Perhaps you aren't aware that the surveillance has already been deemed illegal, and no one cares.
A lot of stuff with lead in it comes out of China and third world countries.

It's been found in children's toys from China. For adults it's not as big a deal, you pretty much have to eat it to be harmed
I remember working for a startup and finding open source music to use in our promotional videos. So I suppose it’s a thing.
RIP. I had a luck to meet him in person and have a chat. Work in area of economy, future of job ... I would recommend "Debt: The First 5000 Years"
This test really doesn't hold a lot of useful data. It doesn't calculate any of the statistics of those that died which is kinda of important when age and previous health conditions are important. It doesn't gather BMI, physical activity levels, ethnicity, secondary/multiple infections, cause of death, type 1 or 2 diabetes, etc.
Medical trials are hard because of all the variables. I think it actually works against this trial having it randomized especially when there is no placebo group.
http://archive.is/fwSf8
Did she /believe/ she was black, or she was pretending and knew she wasn't?
VPN\seedbox providers probably don’t make the wisest business choices. They may not care bout the longevity of their business even if they do.

Hosting providers that sell bandwidth to VPN services could easily log traffic.

There have been numerous cases where ‘No logs’ VPN providers have been caught logging details. See the recently exposed logstash breach.
evidence? the "evidence" of myocarditis in Penn State football players has been walked back https://sports.yahoo.com/big-ten-covid-19-positive-athletes-...

The article should be retitled "Evidence Slowly Building that People Keep Finding Insubstantial Reasons to Panic about Covid-19"
One other thing is the economic aspects, I just saw this on HN today:

https://learning-at-home.github.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24370510
> Angular 2 shared a name for marketing reasons, but was/is 100% unrelated as every major idea in Angular turned out to be bad.

Be that as it may, Angular 2 meant nobody was willing to commit to any fixed time span to support Angular.js, so it basically forced everybody to migrate off of Angular.js, introducing the toil and churn we were discussing.
Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users
Which email client do you use or recommend for this?
Well the title now says mechanical not ergonomic. Did I miss a name change or is this a general comment

Good switches are necessary but insufficient for an ergonomic keyboard and we do sometimes conflate them.
I feel the same way!

I tried a couple of mechanical keyboards (including ergodox) but I found the clacking sounds, the long key travel time, and just the bulkiness of the keyboards to be uncomfortable.

I found that there's a bunch of keyboards on Amazon that replicate the small keys. I'm currently using a wireless Jelly Comb keyboard but there's a bunch of similar ones. It's been my favorite so far!
thank you, glad you liked it
What is the assurance by Resurge Manufacturer?
Resurge is an all-characteristic item that improves profound rest and consumes fat. The producer ensures that the item will produce results when the medication is begun. In the event that you are not happy with the nature of the item, you can contact the producer legitimately. They offer a 60-day unconditional promise for you.

http://wintersupplement.com/resurge/
Yes, unquestionably it is a net positive for me. I have talked to a small minority of my friends that I keep tabs on. Without facebook, I would have talked to an even smaller number.

I don't see how the number of chats I have is an exclusive measure of value of that platform. That is but one metric.
http://archive.is/s8AEO
Two data points: our cat's poop doesn't smell bad at all when she's eaten homemade food, while if we feed her canned food or dry food, it smells stereotypically bad.

Also, cats don't necessarily knock things over just because they don't have access to the outdoors. Our indoor cat is very careful and has never knocked anything over intentionally in her life.
I much prefer these. The numpad widens the keyboard unnecessarily.
Watch the "A is for Atom" episode of Adam Curtis' Pandora's Box series. It's linked in one of my other comments. Basically industrialists and sales people got involved, brushing off scientists' concerns. And irresponsible politically connected engineers in the USSR. That's why we have Chernobyl and Fukushima.

However, these are lessons learned. Today it's quite hard to come up with a reactor design without many safeguards and passive safety features, like it's quite hard to come up with a car with no seatbelts or airbags.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351

N = 143

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm

N = 270

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

N = 100

The rest of the studies cited by Mayo are all in the same range, feel free to check. Mayo Clinic or not, you're seriously going to draw conclusions over this?
True, fair enough counterexample. I admit I had been thinking of tradesmen[1][2].

(Note however that Andreessen is a special case in that he didn't have to worry about time to MVP or for market fit discovery, because both of those steps had already been done on UIUC's dime[3].)

[1] My friends in the trades are independent because they like it, and I suspect none of them would do well with a board. The fellow who did the most to teach me my trade (unused until now, but compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273707 ) used to say life was too short to bother with poor job sites, because every evening, all his tools rolled home with him on his truck.

[2] which is a lapse, as normally my "middle class" is almost exactly defined as "able to go several years, but not indefinitely, without earned income"

[3] I'm not feeling too sorry for UIUC. I've heard that some notable fraction of their endowment is traceable to Mosaic. Not all of the people from that period made out like bandits, but from my small transect, in attempting to do good, most wound up doing well.
Panic does not change the facts.
Ok, there probably is actually lots of research going on, what little I know of it is several years out of date by now, at the time, advocates for the tech complained about the lack of research being done and I took them at their word.
Apple App Store Draws New Scrutiny in Japan
You speak to my soul!
After 20 Years of Web Development, I Am Ready for Disruption
I do wonder why they merged two tones
Wow, for the low effort of writing an OOO filter, you can stand out as a company that cares about customers?

We use a staff member’s email address on our outbound mail, so that people don’t even need to hesitate before responding.