skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My interest in cryptography and the Web PKI is part of my interest in how to improve things (and the intersection with my interest in the Network), so that means as well as reading about stuff like Bleichenbacher I am interested in bridges.

Contrary to what your joke suggests, bridges do fall down because engineers don't always do a great job or learn from previous mistakes, they are after all only human.

England (where I live) has many railway bridges constructed by Victorian engineers using cast iron. The Victorians were not necessarily careful to properly document everything about these structures. And so a modern engineering team, responsible for safety of hundreds of these structures has to make some assumptions or else it would need a tremendous amount of investment to either replace every bridge or take it to pieces to figure out how it was built.

One obvious assumption is, if you can get at the two cast iron beams on the outer edges of a bridge that's clearly supported on four beams, the two inner beams you can't reach without demolishing the bridge are presumably identical.

So on particular bridge, over a road, the routine inspection team climbed into the guts of the bridge, they measured the accessible outer beams and concluded these were of a sufficient thickness that, allowing for the inevitable corrosion by the elements and the permitted loading of trains, the bridge should be "good" for another 20-25 years before needing replacement.

The bridge fell down before the next routine inspection. Fortunately nobody was killed, but the collapse exposed that Victorian engineers as well as not documenting their design work saw an opportunity from the fact that the inner beams aren't accessible. They'd used cheaper, thinner metal for those beams and really the only problem with doing that is that bridge will fall down sooner than otherwise expected...
> Plus the EU, surely?

For most practical purposes, the EU is nested within the US sphere of influence.
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The underlying assumption behind false positive rate is that tests are independent and identically distributed. If in practice this is not the case, then false positive rate becomes misleading.
> Modules must be semantically versioned according to semver, usually in the form v(major).(minor).(patch), such as v0.1.0, v1.2.3, or v1.5.0-rc.1. The leading v is required. If using Git, tag released commits with their versions

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#modules

(I find this reference exceedingly helpful, and wish it were somewhere more official than the `golang/go` wiki, but c'est la vie)
IMHO emacs is kind of a Rorschach test w.r.t. Lisp. Some people really like programming in Lisp, and for them getting emacs to do what they want is fun and rewarding, particularly but not exclusively regarding interface affordances. I personally fall into this category. The fact that it has very similar keybindings to readline/bash (especially important if you spend a lot of time popping on and off servers that don’t have your dots and thus choose not to customize the shell too much) and macOS is a huge bonus.

But I totally get that this is from outer space for another group. Vim is a great alternative for people who want a more opinionated editing wizard mode, and VSCode is really competent at interacting with remote filesystems and supporting lots of languages for the GUI crowd. It’s a great time to be editing text.
Researchers document the 'life cycle' of a volcano
Since head-mounted displays put the screen a mostly fixed distance from the eye, I wonder if resolution is best described in terms of solid angles[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle
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This looks great! Just a note that I signed up from my phone but couldn't go through with the direct download. When I tried again from my laptop I got an error[0].

Would have been useful to be able to reuse my email address from desktop but using a different email seemed to work fine.

[0] https://static.ritza.co/uploads/mimestreamerror2.png
That rule is really rather limited. More in general, I doubt you can properly recognise passive constructions without doing constituent parsing, passive is really a syntactic construction, not a morphological one.
If you had a thread-per-request, you would see the whole call stack for the request in your debugger, like you do now with async/await and an event loop.

If you had a greenlet-per-request and an event loop, you would see the whole call stack for the request in your debugger, like you do now with async/await and an event loop.
I don't know. People keep saying that Emacs can work nice in terminals, but there's a specific bot-macro in the #emacs channel on Freenode:

<user>: ,terminal
fsbot [->] I heard terminals are [0] Terminals do weird thing to your keyboard input: http://catern.com/posts/terminal_quirks.html
fsbot [1] Terminals have limitations compared to the graphical windows; it's advisable to use "graphical" Emacs unless one has a good reason not to. See ,betterdefaults for disabling scroll bars, tool bars, etc.
fsbot [2] https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/ ;;[ ,more / ,dump]
CK is really great, but if one really like to learn things about history / geopolitics while playing a game I don’t thing any game is as rich as EU4 :)
> Even if tracking was working perfectly, this would be a cut down version of an Oculus Go

Yes, I agree, this is a tremendous achievement and a great project.
I think the idea is that a lot of the perceived instability in the economy is _caused_ or at least much amplified by the nature of stock markets. Changing how one thinks about stocks and what the ideal of a "healthy" company looks like might alleviate some of these problems.
I disagree to an extent. Sure file system traversal is great motivating example (or any tree traversal example for that matter).

However, the Fibonacci sequence provides good end to end example of recursion, then tail recursion/dynamic programming.
> "We're not even really sure why the U.S. military is pursuing a space plane."

> The U.S. X-37B program remains highly classified. Weeden says he believes it is being used to test new sensors and systems for the military.

Maybe looking at Wikipedia is a good place for an aspiring journalist to start:

> The mission hosts more experiments than prior X-37B flights, including two NASA experiments. One is a sample plate evaluating the reaction of select materials to conditions in space. The second studies the effect of ambient space radiation on seeds. A third experiment designed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) transforms solar power into radio frequency microwave energy, then studies transmitting that energy to Earth.

> The X-37B released a small, 300 pounds (136 kg) satellite named FalconSAT-8 (USA-300) around 28 May 2020... the small satellite carries five experimental payloads. The spacecraft will test a novel electromagnetic propulsion system, low-weight antenna technology and a commercial reaction wheel to provide attitude control in orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#OTV-6_(USSF_7)
US needs this too. Info in America is almost as censored.
You are right, police shootings are something that grand juries regularly decline to prosecute for.

I'm not sure that all 11 of were police shootings, however.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ferguson-michael-brown-...
In EU, 1 in 8 deaths linked to pollution
This is an interesting comment, if a bit light. Unfortunately, its quality is diminished by the ridiculous tangent that has nothing to do with the text.
Presumably Kubernetes is the answer here, but you need to run a lot of things yourself that come for free with GKE. Also “just buy bare metal” ignores the massive effort involved in operating a data center.
Well yeah. Government contracts have insane margins for virtually all private sector companies that can get their hands on them. I used to work at a manufacturing company that made car parts and military equipment. The military contracts had margins that were easily 2-3 times what the car parts made. And they required the same amount of labor, work, and time.
> Some projects like GORM sidestep the issue entirely by tagging their 2.0 releases as far flung 1.x releases. That something of a solution, but smells terrible.

Amusingly, the Google protobuf team did a similar thing for the Go protobuf bindings. The new, backwards-incompatible `protobuf` module started with version 1.20, while the old module is at 1.4.

If you've followed this, you know I've omitted one detail - they actually changed the name of the module as well, from `github.com/golang/protobuf` to `google.golang.org/protobuf`. Because, of course, Golang modules names are actually URLs, not identifiers like in every other package manager out there.
US sphere of influence.
Vesuvius is the most problematic because in the past it showed a 25 years cycle between eruptions, but the eruption of ~1975 was missed (last was in 1944 and lava capped the eruptive canal). Anyway, this Vulcanic area is the most populated in the world and evacuating will be a mess.

Every time I hyke to the Vesuvius top, guides explain that there are other active vulcanos in the area; they are all considered active and may harm at any moment. The Phlegraean Fields are problematic because they generate a lot of bradyseism (and in some places the ground went underwater for about 10 meters!), but for now they are considered quiescent.
Ischia island also is a volcano, that has erupted last time around 700 BC. Finally, there's an underwater volcano called Marsilii, that can generate a tsunami.

All these volcanos are stricly monitored.
These regulations only hurt small companies.
What a mess. Starting with the GOPATH. This is far worse than the lack of generics which has had much airtime. For all the historical credits Pike and Thompson have, I don't know what they're doing here, it's making them look like buffoons; maybe they're not involved with this. I've mostly abandoned Go because of this ongoing red flag mess. Is there an end goal? The "we're watching the community" sounds like a weak excuse.
This sounds like an issue with your WiFi. Properly configured, a modern 802.11ac (or better, 802.11ax) WiFi router should be much faster than the fastest 4G or even 5G speeds.
I knew about this rule and I still got bitten by it last week when I was trying to upgrade a package. It's one of the many things I hate about go modules.

As I understand it the reason for this design decision was to allow a project to use multiple versions of the same dependency at once. To me this seems like a pretty rare edge case. They burdened the 99% of users with weird V2 syntax so that 1% of users could handle this edge case (which could have been handled by other means).
no, they don't, if you look at the map which is what I did

as other psoter mentioned the road to Nuceria 12km away to east was existing at the time and you would be safe there
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I live in the Canadian city of Winnipeg which is built upon the intersection of two large rivers and their flood plains.

We have the Red River Floodway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Floodway) which has been quite successful, however, we're getting more floodwater every year and now we sometimes face severe flooding on the Assiniboine River.

This all used to be at the bottom of a giant lake and probably will go back to that at some point, but we've done a pretty good job at preventing billions in losses.
RDP works well if you want to connect to a remote machine, then work only on that machine for a significant amount of time. For me, I need to switch in and out of several different RDP sessions, which is a nightmare. Alt tab works either within a session if full screened, or within the local computer if not full screened. That means I need to also periodically use ctrl alt break to switch between full screen and windowed.

In windowed mode, I can either have scrollbars to view a subsection, or I can scale the window. Doing the right thing, changing the size of the remote desktop when the local window is resized, isn't an option because that is set at connection time.

Sometimes, for firewall reasons, I need to have needed RDP sessions. At this point, everything performs poorly, and I need to drag the overlayed blue bars off of each other, then interact with one or the other.

I miss SSH, and want better support for it. Nested connections can be handled with SSH tunnels. Text connections are fast enough to do anything on the slowest of connections. If I need a GUI, I can open up a single window through X11, without additional setup with RemoteApp. Windows remote management through RDP is slow, clunky, error-prone, and inflexible by comparison.
If you are fascinated by this, you will also be interested in the similar drama of the eruption of Mount Pele on Martinique in 1902.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... or https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-may-8-1902-...
Not a valid retort, IMO, to a comment that was only making an observation on the prices of the parts.
VS Code extensions for Ruby on Rails developers
As a developer who recently switched editor to VS Code it was surprisingly painful to me to find the right extensions for Ruby and ERB-files. So after some deep dipping, trial and error, I made a list of 15 useful extensions. It might help you too.
Make content creators feel relevant and leave no post behind
You already have them, for example,

http://www.ic0nstrux.com/

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-go/

https://www.openpandora.org/

The fact is that besides some enthusiasts no one into games for money cares that they exist.
A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords
Introduction to the Satellite Communication
Good idea to automatically give your email, name, photo and other details to _every_ site your visit, really?
Of course the login should be a voluntary action by the user.

Btw luckily what reported doesn't work for me, the site ask to login. It should not be even possibile, at least without exploting a bug/vulnerability.
If Relativity ends up with a competitive design, I agree that it's a risk. But I'd rather hear from Relativity's creators before assuming it could go the same way.
The happens to exist bit turns out to be very important. I can login to a machine and run an X client without installing and configuring extra software on the server. If I am using a desktop with X installed (most *ix based systems), there is no extra software to install and configure on that end either. The worse case scenario is the necessity to install an X server on platforms like macOS and Windows.

The same sort of thing can be said for Remote Desktop. If you're using a version of Windows that includes it, it is wonderful to use because it is just there.

Which is better? It depends on how you're using it. I generally prefer Remote Desktop for my use case because it takes care of audio and it is easy to resume sessions. That being said, those features don't matter to me most of the time so X is just as useful.
Exactly. The original Rift and Vive were 1440x1440 (iirc) and the Vive Pro, Valve Index and most WMR headsets are 1440x1600.
At work, we do X11 forwarding all the times. We have a wide variety of UNIX machines and we often need to run several graphical applications from different machines (not a remote desktop).

X11 forwarding works with the latest Linux distros as well a 20+ year old systems running motif apps. Note: the old systems are now virtualized but we still need them, I work in the aeronautic industry and these are the time scales we are working with.

I don't know of any replacement, at least not one with that level of adoption. Again, we really want to run graphical applications on a server, not a remote desktop.

And BTW, things are getting troublesome. More and more Linux apps integrate accelerated web browser components and these tend not to play well with X11 forwarding.

Love the irony of using a remote display to show an Electron app BTW.
> No. I don't think I am depressed. I just don't want life.

I'm sorry to hear you're going through this. In case you haven't tried professional support, it might help. In my experience they're pretty good at finding the cause of issues, which is a step towards improving it.
People can have strong emotional/sentimental connections with anything. It doesn't make them delusional, even in the clinical sense. For example, a diary.

But I take your point that people at the time may have misunderstood the program, possibly believing it was actually sentient. That's a mistake belief, not a delusion.
Not sure I've ever seen Vietnam, Ethiopia and France all simultaneously decide that Mexico is the WORST PLACE EVER and commit to its absolute destruction with poorly planned naval invasions because it demobilized a few units of archers in the Yucatan in history, but hey, that would be fun to read about :)
I've had this book on my shelf for a couple of years. I was put off it because I finally saw the film (and the remake) and didn't like them. Especially the remake, fell asleep trying to get through that film on three seperate occasions before giving up on it.

But I need to give the book a chance if it's quite different to the film.
Hmm, mumble mumble mirrored switch port in the exchange mumble mumble mumble...
We do still have to trust you though right njhaveri? If I understand it correctly this is a closed source app with unlimited access to GMail.

How can users be sure that it doesn't do stuff that you say it doesn't or that you are who you say you are, considering "Mimestream LLC" only has an email address and your HN profile has only ever posted about this one app?

Hope that's not too aggressive :) legitimately curious if this is something that you've thought about or if you are planning on gaining reputation over time to the point where people will click through the scary "This app can delete all of your gmails" warning.
In my experience, no one who's seen what this virus can do to their own age cohort talks like that. I have a (early thirties, no co-morbidity, no pre-existing conditions) brother who was hit particularly hard by covid, from which he's still recovering.

Also, I don't know where you are, but what rights have you lost, exactly? My country locked down pretty hard and pretty early, and the only "rights" I've lost are going to crowded spaces and walking around without a mask in populated areas.
I doubt that includes insects, bacteria and krill

Krill biomass alone is significantly bigger than humanity's. Insect's and bacteria too.

This article discusses a study that claims humanity is ~1/10000 of total biomass, including plants.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-make-110000...

In general large animals have been already devastated by the last ice age and then changes resulting from that. Even without humans large animals would be significantly less diverse than in many periods before.

Of course human's killing spree is not helping either.

The xkcd article is probably about large animals, but that's a kind of large animal chauvinism. Why do the small guys not matter? Yes they're in decline too
And what are the right things?
Google and Apple (and everyone else) have a blanket ban about COVID since the world has been littered with apps and scams trying to profit off the pandemic.

Your app promotes COVID content (among other things) so it gets banned on sight. It's super clear cut, don't do that!

You can try to implement a filter to remove articles with specific keywords (covid, virus, pandemic, etc..). Besides that, don't know if it's good enough to pass requirements for an app (don't think a simple web reader can pass).

Please don't call that censorship. To call this censorship is a disgrace to countries where there is real censorship, people being beheaded for saying anything.
That's why you just make sure you get 3-5 artillery units able to move into position and attack a city on the same turn, and have shielding melee units. Don't give the NPC civ's time to fight back.
Does anyone else > 40 years old remember there just being lots more animals around when you were a kid? I don't know if it's just age blinders or paranoia, but in particular I remember there being way more birds pretty much everywhere.
From the details in the article it seems that the best thing you on an individual level can do to help is stop eating meat.
please submit mailgo to https://caniuse.com/ here https://caniuse.com/issue-list or via github
Sadly, I think the problem is not even a lack of compassion, but the fact that many people don't have anyone they trust, and there's a lack of shared spaces where they could belong and eventually connect with others that could help them. Everyone needs connection (well, let's leave schizoids aside for today), and connection requires people being together in the first place. And only then starts the hard part, as a lot of people is pretty particular about connection, trust and openess towards others, but where do we expect to go if we are already failing at getting people together in the first place.

While I'm happy about visibilizing mental health problems, I feel pretty similarly to many other issues that we try to visibilize: that's only step zero, and no one seems to bother to talk about step one afterwards. While it's possible to help specific individuals, we are not getting closer to the root of the structural problems impairing our societies.
Chrome is jumping on it, by handling tel:. Which means it's not open to others
html5 version: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/

more resources: https://bitbucket.org/Tetsumi/workspace/snippets/ke6jL4/sicp
So I am not the only one who noticed that all the books were facing backwards or their cover not visible in the stock photo (probably for the same reason they don't show brand of the phones being used in movies, unless it is a deliberate product placement).
There are mods for Civ 6 and probably 5 that change the AI completely. Worth trying out.
That's messed up. Sorry you've had to go through that.
Pre-2020 iMacs could have their internal storage upgraded, although it’s not for the faint of heart. From what I’ve read though, it’s no longer possible for the 2020 model with the T2 chip.
I actually love this but I wonder if inside-out tracking using webcams might be better (although you may need more oomph on the processing side).
That was never a thing so we can't go back to it.
A resolution is 2 dimensional height + aspect ratio works.
But for all the popular resolutions we have a standardized short form like FHD/QHD/XGA/VGA but these obviously cant cover every existing resolution. Like for example the one from the article 1440p 1:1 there is no standardized name for it.
Why does it scroll the page when I move my mouse barely an inch? I literally can't get the mouse over the volume sliders as it keeps scrolling the whole page up and down.
I kind of think there’s a lack of understanding amongst Americans regarding the Chinese people.

Ever since American CEOs decided to sell out the American worker with decades of offshoring manufacturing to China and our transition to a service economy, It’s been easy to channel the resentment away from the Americans responsible, and place blame on China. If China does things we don’t like, well, American Greed legitimized the relationship with the West in the first place.

None of that is the fault of the Chinese people; but our powers that be seemed to place the blame and hatred there. The fact is we’ve been pushed into a constant cycle of deteriorating civil decorum and mutual respect for each other. The coronavirus pandemic only exacerbates things.

I think if anything could help the bridge the divide, it would be to convince Americans that China is not full of people who lack the notion to think for themselves, and that people are not uniformly aligned on all issues. Individualism of thought is not a unique characteristic of the West.