skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They follow where the media goes and take exception to the way much of the media bends the truth when they report on Trump

They didn't seem to care that much about right-wing media doing exactly the same during all of Obama's presidency. In fact, they regularly would regurgitate their talking points and promoted ridiculous conspiracy theories, including Birtherism.

> They don't do this because they like or want to defend Trump, they do it because they want to point out the dishonesty in a lot of what passes for journalism these days.

Then you would expect them to cover such dishonest media outlets as OANN, Fox News, The Blaze and Breitbart, right? And yet they've probably spent more time covering a single show (The View) than they have spent covering the full programming of all those outlets.

They can claim they deconstruct media all they want, but they can't claim they have 'no agenda'.
Thunderbirds aren't common in the wild either.
Glad to hear that you found the one and only way.
I think Epic absolutely needs other major game studios, and major software companies, to join in their protest to effect the desired change.

Interesting point about the looming iOS14 update. Makes you wonder whether Apple will ultimately fall at their privacy sword, similar to how Google fell at its own "Don't do evil" motto. E.g. it's meaningless bravado when not applied to universally to all countries, aka China.
I don't want to pretend releasing this would have changed anything, but what kind of slimy asshat holds this sort of reporting to sell a book when 200,000 Americans have died. Despicable.
I love the mahogany boxes too. Sadly, mine is newer and has a painted steel box.

I'm thinking of replacing the Weston cell with a solid state voltage reference so I can dispose of the cell but keep the instrument.
@eries any plans/timeline to list LTSE on LTSE?
Also any additional thoughts on the index fund proposal described by a few here: would you want to include existing public companies or only completely brand new LTSE listed companies?

Thanks
It's not the idea of a meter that's expanding. It's the physical space that starts out a meter long/deep/wide that's expanding.

The meter-long stick you put into that space to measure it is still one meter long at some time in the future because the force that pulls the space apart (dark energy) doesn't pull on the matter that makes up the meter stick strong enough to overcome the forces that hold the stick together. But even if it did, the idea of one meter hasn't changed its definition. It's just the tool you used to measure one meter has broken.
At the Internet Archive, we are working on this exact problem, and have been in communication with the pre-print's authors. We have built open infrastructure (open source, open data) tracking "preservation coverage", for example:

https://fatcat.wiki/coverage/search?q=is_oa%3Atrue+year%3A%3...

and are working to improve crawling. There is a "save paper now" feature, as well as an API for bots. Organizations like DOAJ, ISSN, DOI registrars (Crossref, Datacite, others) are crucial for this. In the broader ecosystem, we hope this can complement existing efforts that partner with large publishers (like LOCKSS, Portico, JSTOR) and institutional repositories. A natural niche for us is web-native (HTML) content, which we have crawled a lot of but are just getting started to index. For example, publications like d-lib, first monday, and distill.pub.

If folks want to help, it would be great to have a "youtube-dl for open access papers". There is a lot of content on large platforms and publishers which have anti-crawling measures (even for gold OA and hybrid content!), as well as a long tail of small publishers that don't use simple/common mechanisms like OAI-PMH and the `citation_pdf_url` HTML meta tag to identify fulltext content. The OAI-PMH ecosystem sadly is not very complete or helpful for the use case of mirroring.
Very interesting. I much appreciate your prompt and detailed comment. You clearly know the art and craft of consulting quite well.
Is that even the core contention? Or is the core contention that within mutable data it's possible to destroy the sentinel through bugs or malice?
Async has a place, but as you say there may be a better option for the majority of developers. The problem is that many developers are not identifying their performance issues and instead just throwing solutions out there. Perf discussions with plain Python often devolve into a GIL discussion before anyone confirms if the problem is CPU-bound.

I see many issues from developers where I have to walk them back to the start and spend time on identifying the problem. There are many reasons for this, but it's not necessarily the most fun or exciting thing for developers to do. There are still many artificial impediments because devs don't universally have the control over, or access to prod environments that startups may have. If this troubleshooting is a hurdle then sprinkling in some async starts to seem much simpler.
Just watched most of the video, and holy crap, this is super cool. Jared got frustrated by the (very slow) internet options available to him, and started his own isp to solve the problem for him and his neighbors.
I am not saying it is bad.

I was just commenting that the scale is offset. Get it?
In this case, borderless tracking and surveillance.
This kind of thing is done in aviation, and the stuff is called Torque Seal or Inspection Lacquer. You tighten the nut to the proper torque, and put a dab of lacquer across the thread and nut. Whenever you inspect the part later, if you see the seal broken or mis-aligned, you know the part has vibrated out of spec, and need to replace and re-torque the bolt.
And still is, isn't it? I don't think they changed Civ 4. Nothing wrong with different people liking different games.
> I think we should at least agree that it’s Apple’s choice whether run this risk or not on their own product

It's not "their" product. It's mine, I purchased a license to use their software on my hardware. I'm not beholden to continue using their software
I came here to ask the same thing. There's a mailing list for the Web / Android version at the bottom of the page. I will definitely forget about it until then.
You could be using spreads to hedge out the vega risk, not a huge deal.
Yes, I like having something titled 'Advanced Protection' on my central Google account.
Millennials to redistribute wealth from older generations: Deutsche strategist
I'm on board with the pricing model creating sustainability. Some guidance towards that point would be ideal, as I would be very frustrated if I invested in using a piece of software only to receive sticker shock and needing to throw that effort away. (Been burned by more than a few promising dev tools and services that did black box betas)
Any plan to support Outlook.com?
How to Paris Is Experimenting to Become a 15 Minutes City
In the first two links you sent, the 40% result looks like the baseline case getting slower, not the unit under test getting faster. The core assembly looks look identical in both cases.
Yeah, I've heard this a few times now. This is the standard AppKit NSTableView swipe action, but I agree it's not tuned very well – I'll look into improving this this.

One tip: by default, the Delete key is mapped to Archive (though you can change that in Preferences to be Trash if you prefer that). A little faster than swiping.
Ask HN: Natural language processing to identify grammar in a text?
Apologies for the clunky question. We have a growing base of adult English students. Our teaching methodology is content-first, basically we find any material of interest to our students, based on their interests, sector and language goals and build lesson plans and discussions around that 'centerpiece'. A lot of the work is curation and creating reusable discussion questions.

I have been searching for a tool that can scan a paragraph and extract the grammar tenses and features (past simple, present continuous, passive voice, indirect question) as it's a recurring question with our students. We have tools to tell us the approximate level, suggested vocabulary and word count, but does this even exist (yet?). Thank you in advance.
I read this in a comment on HN, but you could record yourself as if you're live coding, which has been just as effective for me at preventing procrastination and helps me stay focused, and even provides my own rubber ducking :D
how does bikeshedding apply to this situation?

my understanding of the term is getting caught up in minute details instead of the main work, such as arguing over the color of a bike shed before the foundation of the house is laid
4thed from a full stack developer where some parts of the stack are a little fuller than others.
As a non-console owner, this news is certainly new to me.

It seems to run counter to everything I've heard when people compare the iOS ecosystem to consoles. Where can I learn more?
It's not exactly an earth-shattering revelation. People were accusing Trump of downplaying the pandemic in order to protect the markets and by extension his reelection chances since it began.
I think the parent means that having to partition data by region is difficult/expensive and hard to do if you're a small company.
This study only examined immature humans (mean age around 19). It's well established that perception of risk changes with age. Yet this factor isn't mentioned in the study.
Many studies use students as subjects for obvious reasons, but few studies take the maturation process into account.
Apple seeks damages for breach of contract
I'm certainly not an expert of electricity nor radio nor microwave emitters, and such...And, the approach here sounds really amazing...But would a heavy enough downpour of rain act as a strong enough obstruction to trigger the lasers? In essence would weather - at least precipitation - have a negative impact here?
Sweden’s low positive test rate ‘vindicates coronavirus strategy’
Epic violates the terms purposely, which is lack of a better term, a challenge. Is like committing a crime(challenge the law) and complaining being punished
Now Keith.
I've done both, but 80% in reactive streams.
I like async/await before it has a lot less hard stuff to think about - hot and cold streams take months if not years for devs to grok - and creates code a lot more similar to non-async code. In contrast Reactive Streams requires you to change your complete program.

I like to compare it to Typescript/Kotlin-style null-safety v.s. the Java Optional or Scala Option. If you want make code null safe with option you have to rewrite basically your complete code from "procedural" to chains of (flat)maps. In contrast in Typescript you just change T to T? in a few places and add an if where you want to handle the optionality.

async/await versus reactive streams has this same problem, reactive streams is highly impactful, much more than async/await. In practice I've seen this have the effect of turning applications turn into a small reactive stream outer shell with the app itself being mostly synchronouse/Future, while async/await is used a lot more liberally because the impact is smaller.

> It seems like a worse abstraction because it mixes asynchronous code with synchronous code

It doesn't, at least in Kotlin only an async function can call an async function. This isn't different from using `map` in a stream.
The order in which the tests were run was the first thing I checked in his implementation, but I looked too quickly and thought he was generating the data for each variant, so I assumed that was not the problem. [Actually, you need the same data for both tests, but generated twice]

I was going to just point out that 40% percent difference would mean that the version without the sentinel can be improved... was going to check if there is something that is preventing the branch prediction from actually taking care of that performance drop - memory is only being read and nothing should be invalidated...
I don't understand what exactly it means to be reviewed. I have an addon and they review every time I update it. [1] I provide them with source code, and they often have issues with this or that, and we make changes to satisfy them.

If this isn't reviewing, what is? It makes it seem like this new program is less about actually reviewing (which they already do) and more about pushing for advertising revenue. That's a fair thing to do, but it's weird to frame it as if reviewing isn't already happening.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/beelinereader...
I agree with the idea of a subscription model, but $19/year is way too low.
Guys, This is Greg Kushnir, founder of Emrod.

I am excited and humbled by your support.

At Emrod we have safety and environmental considerations at the core.
I’m happy to explain why our tech is not only safe but also has a far smaller environmental footprint than any powerlines, communications antennas, etc.

As with any new transformative technology, there will always be sceptics. All we can do is rely on solid science and engineering, listen to the public and address their concerns.

I invite you to engage us in an open honest conversation. We would love to hear your concerns, thoughts about possible applications, or even just drop us a line to say what you think about wireless power.
Mercury Raise
> Epic caused their own pain here, sure but What other way can we actually get a semi open platform that we're not being taxed on?

As an Apple user, the whole point here is that it's not an open system.

I just can't get riled up over a developer not following the rules of a platform. I use Apple because the Apple ecosystem is valuable to me - the store, the SSO, the Apple ID, the UI/UX, the hardware - all of it. I don't care about Epic or any other developer that doesn't want to play nice with that ecosystem. Those kinds of developers don't have any value to me.
This looks very interesting. The visual component in particular seems very well done.

I have a deep interest in DAG-structured ETL tooling and had a couple of questions that the documentation didn't seem to address...

1. Can I execute workflows without a server running? Something like...
$ java -jar titanoboa.jar MyWorkFlowName arg1 arg2 ...
...and then my workflow executes, as a program, on my machine, until it's done and then exits? Or does every workflow always execute within the context of a running server?

2. Is there any notion of resuming a partially failed workflow? As a point of comparison, Luigi structures its DAG concept using Tasks which create Targets, and invoking a Task whose Target already exists is a no-op, so if you have a big execution graph that gets 80% finished and then dies, you can easily restart it. I find that many competing tools are missing this concept.
I think all forms of electric propulsion have too small thrust compared to the mass of the electric engine for that to work.

However, electric planes could benefit a lot from not having to carry their battery.
Just implement LLU local loop unbundling
Amazon Spent $24,000 to Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban
>The question is, how will it handle years of the daily heating and cooling cycles that the cooling system will undergo?

...you'll find out at the regular inspection and service that you are required by law to have at intervals far more frequent then "years"? That's part of the point of them, both to notice fleet issues that will be reported back up and conversely to implement directives ("it needs to be replaced with this updated strain relief at the next service") coming down.
I am pretty sure that the 40% original difference was due to a bug in benchmarking - or food for thought to improve the non-sentinel version.
Each trillion dollars is about $10,000 per US tax payer and turmoil typically means less production, which means lower supply and higher prices.
Shouldn't university libraries be that public utility?
redshift is pretty close to dead, commits have really slowed down [0]. It still doesn't have support for wayland.

gammastep[1] is a fork under active development and has support for wayland. I'm using it in sway right now.

[0]: https://github.com/jonls/redshift/graphs/code-frequency

[1]: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep
Walmart Drone Delivery Being Tested Amid Amazon Retail Battle
Looks great, but why iOS only? Certainly this could be hosted online for kids on Chromebooks, laptops, etc.
It’s easier to write code in a notebook. I frequently look at a screen for a minute, memorize what’s there, and do the rest on a piece of paper. If you sum up total screen time during an 8 hour day, it’s around 1 hour of bursts.
Nearly all federally-funded (and unclassified) research needs to be publicly accessible, as per a 2013 policy memo.
How is anyone going to enforce this?
I wish Mozilla would join them by publishing a Firefox for iOS with their own renderer and Javascript (which they have been prevented from doing). Get booted and join the lawsuit. That's the activist Mozilla I can get behind.
I feel a bit like a failure for saying this:

I can't read his work. I know they're considered great works of literature, and to be honest they seem to be much more accessible than many other extremely well regarded works of literature, but I just can't get into his work.

I've tried reading them, I've tried listening to audio books. A small bit here or there, a paragraph or a full page, will strike me as interesting with excellent style (certainly attributable in part to excellent translations) but as a whole, they all fall flat for me.

Given their popularity, I sometimes think the failure is mine, though I also wonder how many people may just be riding the "Oh they're great!!" bandwagon without actually reading the books themselves. Probably not a majority, I would hope. I didn't enjoy it much but still managed to make it halfway through "Windup Bird Chronicle" before calling it quits, so I suppose many people go all the way to the end. (Although I read a synopsis of the rest of the story and said to myself "Yeah, glad I missed that")
So the government shut you down? Shouldn't have built your company in that country.

Blame the victim.
Why would the universities mind having their work circulated for free? They don't make any money from the current system, but pay exorbitant fees for journal subscriptions.
Maybe you meant dunning-kruger? People without a lot of familiarity with the issue being confident that flux is a great solution?
How childish is saying Apple doesn’t like Epic. They violated the terms, they wanted all this to happen and expected it. No one should be surprised they planned this months ahead
Hot new job title in a pandemic: ‘Head of remote work’
“Operation Moonshot” UK govt's new Covid-19 testing strategy
> This just makes it risky for the consumer to rely on 'Sign in with Apple', especially for cross-platform applications.

The risk/reward cuts both ways. If a developer starts putting malware/whatever in their apps and Apple nukes their access to "Sign On With Apple" then it protects me as a user, and I value that.
Games are often very low margin products, so it makes completely sense that Apple's one-size-fits all 30% fee wouldn't be suitable for a lot of companies.
What doesn't make sense is how Apple got away with it for so long.

The ad '1984' by Apple has become the biggest, most hypocritical piece of propaganda every created.
What are you saying here exactly? arm64 CPUs aren't real CPUs?
Curiousity, Not Credentials
Reminds me of the Silicon Valley episode about Tethics where Richard is forced to sign Gavin's pledge for exactly this reason even though he's in strong disagreement.
Sounds like a feature to me. Aside from the poor experience on mobile, I’d be happier still using IRC. But I’m probably not most people.
Not only does it not benefit society but if I flew only on private jets for the rest of my life my carbon impact would still be less than a parent's. Producing a first world clone is the single worst thing you can do to the planet.
> Pity that they decided to just bother with C99 though.

Isn't this the trend nowadays? I've seen recently that simple languages are trending again, languages like C, Go, Zig, Erlang, Lua. I think we hit the ceiling with mammoths like C++ and Scala.
Reading the posted website, the app positions itself as privacy-first and blocks 50+ pixel trackers.
Yes, Gmail aliases are supported and automatically synced (e.g. I have my old ISP email address set up as an alias). G Suite accounts on custom domains are also supported.
Is that different from now? But seriously; if the average person had this but without diseases etc, would they care?

The corps almost rule already (directly or indirectly) in some places but without the upside of cured diseases or without war.
If Jeff Bezos was as efficient as Jeff Bezos, we would already have solved cancer, flying cards and all that.
Surely, since we are talking about excited water molecules, you mean "Whole lotta shakin' goin' on"...
The vast majority of phones people had at the time were not smartphones. The original iPhone was more "super impressive dumbphone" than smartphone, because it only had what it came with. Unless you were using Symbian, Blackberry, or a Windows Phone (which most people weren't), you had some dumb phone that had a crappy browser that couldn't render well, and whatever shipped on the phone. Maybe some extra ringtones you could download.

Blackberry was far and away considered the much more secure and safe option, for those that needed it. Your company could run your own messaging service (through Blackberry Enterprise Server), so it was far more secure in that respect.

I also had a Blackberry at the time the iPhone was announced. You were in the lines for an iPhone at the time because you wanted the safety and security it offered? Or because it looked really nice, had a browser that rendered correctly, and had a nice new way to interface? Because I don't know anyone else who switched for security at the time.
Not cherry picking - I picked the most solid comparison of revenue between platforms I could find. No idea of the % of revenue in 2020 and 2019 - I couldn't find them.
Not all good ideas make good businesses.
I came here looking for this comment. Well done! (Great movie btw).
In Latin America, the SciELO network has been very successful at providing shared, low-cost, stable infrastructure for digital journal hosting using state funding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciELO
Seem to be referring to DXVK; and honestly, that’s pretty fair given how well it works. Zink + DXVK might end up being an impressive combo for simplifying the Linux graphics stack. A bit like what Gallium3D was trying to do, but the abstraction layer is exposed as its own standardized API.
Yeah, you don't buy a tesla for build quality. You buy a Tesla if you want and EV that has solid self driving with top performance. It lacks in premium service and manufacturing quality.
Show HN: Spotify Developer Tools
That is a good point. I personally think that even when you invite a guest you don't know to lunch, you should steer clear of emotionally charged subjects, but that may be an extreme position.

But in the case of a project with over 50 branches, and hundreds of thousands of users, that advertises an active community and wants me to get involved, then it is entirely something else. There I think that great pains should be taken to keep out emotionally charged views, as there are bound to be lots of people that you actually want to be part of your community that will feel out of place. Hence my statement "large open source project".