skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532612 (2 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535374 (2 days ago)
Your name alone is a fact, and wouldn't be subject to copyright. For example, I can say "Donald Trump" in this comment without infringing on any copyright laws.

> how about Facebook making a guess that I like cats based on my previous click behavior? Isn't that an artistic interpretation of reality which should be copyrightable?

Once they record it somewhere, it is!

I'll give you an example:

Take for instance this string value: "fxtentacle is likes cats and I know it because he posted it on HN"

I have generated this string, and under US (and many other countries) copyright laws, I automatically own copyright to it, because it is my artistic interpretation of what I have observed.

You have no copyright to it, because it was my artistic interpretation, despite the fact that you are the subject of the art.
Crimes that number in the dozens of people and is disliked / prosecuted by the USA is a candle compared to the sun of China's concentration camps.
MTC slated to approve 60% work from home mandate for PlanBayArea Blueprint
Thank you. This is the what I am after. Unfortunately Limit to Designated Sites does not work when combined with the Containerize add-on.
Reminds me of a U.S. politician whose advice to students struggling with finding jobs in a recession was to borrow money from their parents to start a business.
Risking comments that HN is becoming reddit:

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Flutter is probably the best candidate. It's a shame Google is giving priority to Flutter for Web instead of desktop though. As discussed previously here on HN, Flutter for Web will always result in bloated web apps as they are reimplementing everything through canvas (eg: text editing, layouts, styling, etc).
Mozilla's "include my site in the public results" (including vulnerabilities) by default doesn't seem very privacy respecting.
> But that nice shiny metal lamp you've got? It's got the neutral bonded to the body

That would be illegal where I live, and I think in most of the world too. In fact, on a standard residential outlet here, it would immediately bring the house power down.

Either the body is grounded or it's floating. It should never be linked to the neutral.
> It's user's data (i.e profile info) that shouldn't leave the EU

If profile info can't leave the EU, then how will I know whom the message is from? Also isn't message data user data?
These articles are spread across several months. What do you believe is happening?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dozens-of-arrests-in-san-f...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Free-for-all-as-...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/30/george-floyd-protests...
This leads to essentially breaking the internet. Do we want that?

A degree of being difficult or impossible for a country that isn't hosting the servers or business operations of an internet service to enforce laws and regulations on it used to be seen as a feature. We already have a situation where reading most US local news from Europe requires the use of a VPN. Is an expansion of that situation desirable? When most of the population starts doing it, will banning VPNs be the norm outside of countries the West largely regards as totalitarian?

I don't like the path this has to go down for enforcement to be effective.
Maliciously failing to pay should be a crime, in my lowly opinion. It's one thing if you lose your job, but some folks out there are living and working like usual, while simply withholding rent because they can. Obviously this hurts impressions of those who seriously need and deserve the help. Shameful, but some have no shame...
Normality of a number is with respect to number bases, so your trick with encoding is invalid. Otherwise, every computable number could be considered normal - take an algorithm for generating of it, supply a random string (this is the encoding), disregard the random string, and you have a perfectly valid normal representation of your number. So it is cheating.
It is possible that higher casts selected for intelligence over the years. Since in India arranged marriage is the norm, parents can select for intelligence if that is a trait they care about. If there is a genetic portion of intelligence that can be selected for.

Note the above uses words like "possible" and "if". I find it unlikely this is what was done. More likely - like every other society - they selected for politically powerful.

Note too that it is highly likely that in the past rape of lower casts was accepted in some form, which would bring any selected IQ genes to the lower casts.
There's a really simple takeaway here for everyone around all this discussion that's surfaced on HN around caste: actively ask people in your org if they've experienced this type of discrimination and take their claims as seriously as you'd take other types of discrimination.

This is something SV and other places are just waking up to. Caste discrimination is a pretty foreign idea for many people, so don't feel the need to be an expert right away. Instead, I would suggest you try and find a DEI firm that might have expertise in these issues and see if they can help you work through these issues.
Why would you say that? Would you imagine separate hospital rooms based on religion?
It happened couple of months ago.

https://scroll.in/latest/959274/covid-19-separate-wards-for-...

If they are not allowed to live in the same quarter and be in the same hospital rooms, it is not hard to imagine segregation in universities too.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/07/23/even-as-india-urba...

It is not fair to call someone liar, just because you have not experienced it.
Operation DisrupTor: Darknet narcotics vendors selling to U.S. residents charged
I can give one example when SQL Server was purchased by Microsoft from Sybase. Overnight literally everyone claimed to be an expert. I did some research including asking the Microsoft employees I knew. It turned out there was one lady who did all the training at Sybase and who taught the Microsoft employees about their new database. That lady Kalen Delaney spoke highly of a husband and wife consulting team. The husband was ex Microsoft and designed some of the DBCC code. https://www.sqlskills.com/about/meet-the-team/
Given the talks from Microsoft's own React Native team regarding the 300x performance loss from Electron based apps, I am looking forward to the day it gets rewritten in React Native.

https://youtu.be/IUMWFExtDSg?t=1146
Okular works on Windows. Or, at least, used to be, some years ago.
I wouldn't be so sure.

People pay for FB ads due to being able to target a demographic, eg women between 35-45 from California, interested in wellness. That's their whole value proposition.

They could turn around and start serving ads based on the content viewed, but content and viewing on FB is very superficial, and compared with Google's AdWords, they don't have searches that signal intent.

FB's ads convert pretty badly already. If those conversions drop further, might turn out to be a deal breaker.

So what are they gonna do? Serve ads for Coke-Cola?
Those are edge cases that need to be resolved. In many cases there may not be satisfactory resolutions for them. And it’s almost always the case that the law will not punish somebody for an Un implementable regulation if they see that the entity made a reasonable effort to try and follow it.

Talking about edge cases is a distraction from the fact that FB is refusing to implement things that are very much not edge cases and do not have fundamental implementation challenges associated with them.
Moreover you need to consider it with regards to all other bases than 10 too.
Surfingkeys – vim keybinding navigation for the web
No, the article says Dalits make up 25% of the population. According to Wikipedia, upper castes (Forward Castes/Others) make up 18% to 30% of the population, depending on how they're counted, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India#Distribu...
For what it's worth, there's been a lot of progress!
I'm a little confused on my results. I'm getting an actual website with data on it, not a 404. However, in one of the data boxes on the site, I get "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found".

Specifically, on the right side of the screen there are two boxes. The top one is titled "Open Ports", and lists a single port in it, 7547.

But the box below that is titled "// 7547 / TCP /". In that box is the text "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found".

So..., am I leaking port 7547, or not? (Fwiw, http://portscan.me/ doesn't find any leaked ports, and sees my host IP as offline).
Per the article:

> Microsoft says that OpenAI will continue to offer GPT-3 and other models via its Azure-hosted API
This fits with my observations. It’s not that Chromium is faster than Firefox per se, but it responds quicker to user interaction giving it a snappier feel. I think it has to do with prioritization and other tricks to make it ‘feel’ faster than it is (e.g. pre-fetching).
(Almost) entire game soundtrack by various artists, including a nice version of my favorite piece, Fisher's Hornpipe (note Yo Yo Ma also has a version)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jHjEJUeGqKisKEagkh46N
It also is set up to launch into space and orbit the Earth.
Just to be fair, Microsoft also recently re-launched a tuned-up version of Sharepoint Lists, now just called "Lists" [1] which is in the same space.

It took something like AirTable to wake the sleeping giants, that people wanted a low-code tabular data editor and storage engine, that wasn't really a spreadsheet. You know.. like FileMaker or MS Access.

I guess this goes to show something - I have thought for many, many, many years of building such an application in the cloud (having built "application generator" type applications in the past) - but, it may not have mattered if I had - because the big players might just come in and clone/copy it. It will be interesting to see how companies like AirTable can compete (and really hope they can).

I think we are crawling towards a future of low/no-code - or the dream of the world of 4GL [2] (or perhaps even beyond that) is coming closer and closer. Regarding 4GL, "those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it". Not saying it's a bad thing to be revisiting this, but it has been low-hanging fruit for so long now, you wonder why it took so long for the big companies to engage with it seriously.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-list...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...
more than not needing react it looks like the new transformation is react-agnostic, so that all libraries that consume JSX can use the same transformation and put all application specific functionality in the _jsx function
It's not a "meme". It's a real fact that anyone who's considering depending on a Google product has to consider.

It's also a consequence of the business models that Google has explicitly chosen, i.e. your employer has chosen to incur this reputation.
Weird take on the issue.
It remains to be seen whether they will actually get away with doing that, and I think it would be much harder to get away with doing that to a popular European app rather than a popular Chinese app.
Agreed, depending on context. I have taken a number of online courses through Lynda (now: LinkedIn Learning) and Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Explorer, and the format suits me well. But for university and college, I imagine there would be a need for at least some human interaction beyond the bi-monthly fireside chats SFI put on for their students.

Half of the classes I took at Ryerson University were online. The instructors were only there for feedback, questions, and grading, and even then, only through email or a text chat. It was definitely an easy period for them.

Tutoring is a different beast since by definition it requires a lot of interaction.
It was extremely fast for me too. But I'm behind a CGNAT, which explains nothing being found and (if it's caching) why it's so fast.
Can confirm. I used to drill holes with a... well, a drill.

Totally worked. Capacity increased. Until one day your files were corrupted. And that day often came soon!
> The default MacOS PDF printer will actually remap the font cmap making born-digital PDFs where the "text" is something else entirely (say "$" maps to "a").

What? Why!? I've heard of doing that as a form of DRM, but I can't imagine Darwin defaulting to doing that.
”...actions are underway”

https://www.theweek.in/news/biz-tech/2020/09/11/ntt-data-tak...
> Everyone interested in the topic should give State of Fear by Michael Crichton a read

I did and it only made me lose a lot of respect for an author who wrote such classics as The Andromeda Strain, Timeline, and Jurassic Park.
Thanks so much for the encouragement! Gonna ready through your post. Love the PANTS -> PAJAMAS naming :D
What about, for instance, all the successful engineering that is driven by models of complex systems? We don't understand bridge dynamics at an atomic level, we have complex models that require a lot of specialized education to create, understand, and use. Same goes for microprocessor engineering. No human understands the design of a modern CPU at a transistor level, that design is also handled by computers (again guided by humans with specialized education).
Calling print in Matlab with no arguments prints directly to your printer
Would Marcus have gotten better results from bribing the invaders, like Commodus did? Scholar Pierre Hadot apparently endorses Marcus and descendants risking their life for 400 years at Roman frontiers.

The five good emperors were not sons of their emperor. Marcus offered Caesar title to Pomeianus, a great general who didnt have nepotism to back his rise, married Marcus's daughter Lucilla and provided the inspiration to Maximus in Gladiator. He refused it the three times it was offered. We could have had six good emperors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Claudius_Pompeianus
Public cost private benefit - externality, tragedy of the commons, etc
Advice for the author, and anyone who cannot seem to learn from books:
1. Read better books. The three he mentions off the top are all pop science low-knowledge perspective pieces, imo. Especially G,G & S.

2. Learn how to learn. Gaining knowledge is like building a fortress. It requires a solid foundation and years of diligence. And it doesnt happen all at once, it is built brick by brick.

3. Know how to cope with your learning style. Visual, Auditory, Verbal, Structural, etc. Go get a full battery IQ test. If you discover you have no talent at visual processing, that could be why reading doesnt work for you.

Further elaboration:

1: A good book is like a dead man talking. The dialogues of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle only survived in written form, because they were good and useful. If you want a modern example, the last good information book i read was "Ignition: An Unofficial History of Rocket Fuel." A little more difficult than the best-sellers, but man thats cool stuff.

2. Knowledge is not something you are going to just "get" by going through the pages. I have read probably tens of thousands of pages of history and politics to get to where I am now: actual knowledge, I can almost predict the news, and frequently do, weeks or months in advance. Think of it like a D&D character. If you put points into "Knowledge: Whatever" every level, eventually you'll get to a +10 bonus where you are correct more often than not.

3. Because the schools are failing at their real jobs, most students never learn how to teach themselves. They require information to be presented, just so, for them to "get it." Different learning styles are coddled and enabled, while refusing to teach critical thinking, dialogue, i.e. how to actually learn and teach yourself. People really do have differing mental abilities. Its why some are lawyers, others are musicians.

Written material will always be the largest share of meaningful information and communication.

I try not to sit on HN logged into Upvotes Anonymous, but this article was so silly I had to. Im learning how to read Hebrew, guess what, from a .... a book! What a world!
lol, come on man. I have so many co-workers that just don't use it at all, or just have an account that is dormant.
Their career is just fine

On, the other hand I'd argue that linkedin is more important for career.
If there were reasonable technologies on the immediate horizon for carbon capture then there might be an argument that our present consumption could be sustained while mitigating climate change. Unfortunately we have no such technology and we are not appropriately funding efforts that could get us there.
It might fail sooner, but you were banking on it essentially just being a binning distinction, that they didn't really do any testing either way and just stuck them in cases with or without the hole depending on what they thought they could sell at the time.

Did I lose files on fake doublesided disks? Yes. Did I lose files on real doublesided disks? Also yes.
People should desire a hybrid solution. Working from home is great but there's so many benefits to going to a workplace and sharing resources instead of every worker needing to recreate their own home office. Somethings just don't make sense.
Hopefully they now have the motivation to fix the BS "mobile-first" UI in rundeck 3.x.
Yes. You can't run controlled experiments to study the complex system of the Earth's atmosphere. It's not empirical.
Yes, I have wanted that before, and it could use existing valid syntax:

some_obj.do_later(t, (lambda x:
# (presently only a single non-comment line would be valid)
x
), a, b, c)
As a white American who grew up with indian friends/family who traveled in India for the first time, I was pretty shocked at how different it was than I expected. It's Incredibly diverse in terms of language, religion, culture, ect and I can say that It's the only county I've visited that I left feeling I knew less than before I came.
I've always found it annoying that they have all the data readily available to bill you for, but not to SHOW you, your overall utilization.
This was the subject of a fascinating talk at FOSDEM in 2018:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_fr...

The slides are here:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_fr...

TL;DR summary...

The original DOSemu uses the x86-32 V86 mode, as discussed in this HN post today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24555689

Essentially, the 386 had a sort of hardware-assisted VM that let it run 8086 OSes under multiple virtual 8086 machines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_8086_mode

The problem is that x86-64 doesn't have this any more.

Slightly more info:
https://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/
For one they expected to be rich enough to not be impacted by climate change. If you can afford to move easily, climate change will not be a big deal for you. They can also play it both sides. You milk the current situation as much as possible while at the same time keeping an eye on alternatives. I think that's what's happening.
I hate visual studio programs. They are always so slow, buggy, and when they crash, the program vanishes from the task manger but is still are running from the background, so you cannot kill it easily. Visual Studio is a crutch for real coding.
I love this! It exemplifies the absurdity of making Linux a subsystem of Windows (a far less powerful OS) by doing the same thing with DOS!
This is a good example of the point for this effort:

https://sparkmailapp.com/blog/swift-windows
That is not entirely true. After learning the n-th stack and knowing the knowledge will likely sputter out in a couple of years cycles, one is likely to learn enough to get done what needs to be done. As someone points out, few out there are true experts if they're constantly learning a new stack. And also people who want to learn all the time do get bored of learning the same thing, a lot of them branch out in different directions that are a lot less shapeshifting.

Ideally I preferred learning the technology for a few years then steeping back and reaping the benefits and do stuff with it. But, there is a fear that not keeping up leads to obsolescence on the job market so we're in this constant cycle of learning new things with diminishing returns
Essentially the EU court ruled that the FISA safeguards are not sufficient.
Git Secrets: 7 Commands You Might Not Know
Please don't give them any ideas.. the whiteboard interview coding tests are hard enough as it is
Feel free to clarify what kinds of information you are searching for. The answers might vary a lot depending on what you are looking for.

For current events, The Economist is great, IMHO. Other good publications: The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC. Maybe The Washington Post.

Quora has some good info but the quality probably varies a lot.

BTW, did you know Hacker News has a search function? Really good.

https://hn.algolia.com/

HTH.
I think news/media has some of the blame too. Science reporting in general is atrocious, journalists and editors are constantly misrepresenting and exaggerating the actual claims of scientists. I wish I had a nickel for every "Scientists invent new battery 10000x better than lithium" headline I've read. Eventually people become generally skeptical of these claims and skeptical of the scientists themselves even though the scientists never made the sensational claims misleadingly attributed to them by the media.

It's a horrible fusion of the 'telephone game' and the boy who cried wolf.
We can build bridges and build microprocessors. No one has bottled up one "Earth's atmosphere" in a lab and run controlled experiments on it. It's not empirical.
Atari STE had 2 channels 8 bit DAC à 25kHz on DMA.

It was the Falcon who had incredible sound capacity with its matrix channel mixer and DSP.
If you know that they're open, that's different from thinking you don't have any open ports when you do, which is probably what this is supposed to tell you about.
There is a difference between being fun to work with and being entertaining. Maybe I should have worded it, “be a joy to work with.” Some people are a pleasure to work with, even if they are quiet and shy.
Nicer syntax? Vastly better standard library? Those seem like subjective statements to me. Can you provide some examples to support those claims?
Ask HN: How many generations of programmers are in your family?
My family has three generations of programmers.

My father graduated with a math degree in the early 60's and was hired by IBM a few years later as a programmer, mostly COBOL and assembler. He left in the mid-70's to start his own software company. Today, at the age of 78, he is still gainfully employed (albeit part-time) writing code.

My sister and I both graduated in the late 80's with CS degrees. We've been writing software ever since for companies both big and small.

My niece just graduated in May with a CS degree and is currently writing code for Boston Children's hospital, making her the third in a line who have made a living primarily writing software. There's nothing special about it but I think that has to be somewhat rare. How many generations are in your family?
These are implementation details and of course nothing is the same because EU is not the USA and USA is not China and TikTok is not Facebook.

The core of the issue is the same though. This one instance can go away but the core issue is there and it will keep coming in different forms. And If TikTok actually gets banned, I am afraid that anti-americanism and anti-globalism might get strong enough that the banning become the norm.

These things are not like controlling cheese imports, people will actually suffer from these things just like Chinese citizens suffer from the Chinese internet censor. The moment the USA give the example is the moment when suffering becomes acceptable for the greater good(the greater good will vary, some will say it is to protect local businesses other will say national security or simply rejoice that it is an opportunity to stick it to the yankees). This is not a future I am looking forward to.