skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just last week Reply All released an episode on the origins of QAnon - https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm/166-country-...
Unless you're at the absolute top of the field, it's very unlikely you'll ever add something new to the discourse. That's not a problem, though.

There are two answers I can see: The first is to keep learning, and leave breadcrumbs for the people who come after you. And maybe, at some point, join the top of your chosen field. It'll be a while, but the breadcrumbs are incredibly valuable to anybody coming after you.

The second is both more interesting, and harder: Find a couple of fields that you're good in. Not an expert, but good. Then write about the intersection. That is almost by definition a much smaller field, and you're much more likely to be at the top of that field. (For a made up example, how many people are really good at music, systems thinking, and gardening, and write about that intersection?)

The things you can generate in that particular field are adding to that particular field - and more importantly, they likely contain unfamiliar insights to people who are only fluent in one of those fields. You've added something new to both your field, and their discourse.

Most of us probably alternate between 1) and 2), and only very few of us will ever be recognized experts in a well-defined field and further that field through our expertise.

That's OK. We're still contributing to the discourse, we just target slightly different people.
Yea, I still have floppy disk and manual for mine. 256K of ram and no hard-drive required.

It definitely required you to have lost many times before you could complete it though; the galaxy was too large for you to explore fully in the time granted by the mechanics.
Blazor WebAssembly on Azure Static Web Apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24043931 (related HN discussion over a month ago)
> Mr. Eich once gave $1K to a cause that was anti-gay.

And $2.1K to a prop 8 supporter [0]

> He backtracked and apologized but was cancelled anyways.

This is lie and you are re-writing history. I can find no such statement from him. In fact all he said was he wanted to "express my sorrow at having caused pain" [1], the classic "I'm sorry your were offended by that" non-apology. He has never stated that his support of Prop 8 was wrong, he side-stepped the whole thing expecting us not to notice.

> It will eventually come back to kill those that think you are not allowed to marry your mother, and probably, eventually, to those that think you are allowed to be religious

What the... no seriously, what the heck? You can believe whatever you want to believe but you don't get to push your religious values onto others which is exactly what Prop 8 did. Please cut out the BS that this is somehow going to lead to outlawing religion.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/new-m...

[1] https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
Awesome use of yaegi interpreter!
Switzerland has a modern military industry, and produces for itself and for export. Superpower economics are not the only way to manage self sovereignty.
As an engineer I'm used to think in trade-offs, and I wonder why that is not more common. The goals they whish to attain might be reasonable, but at what price? What are the disadvantages? In Europe there are some states becoming more authoritarian and who knows what's comes next? Democracy and freedom is not set in stone, it must be protected -- in this case it must be protected by ensuring secure communication.
Keeping api closed on Gpt3 may actually be helping the spread of misinformation due to nation states being forced to rely upon actual humans, which presumably would be better at generating misinformation. While not as scalable, troll farms are able to persist due to the lack of access to gpt3 by mal actors. This however assumes that gpt3 generated text is easier to spot than human generated text.
Have you actually watched any of the shows with Alex Jones on JRE? What I’ve seen is Rogan doing a great job of calling him on his BS, while still being friendly. I wouldn’t call it an ‘uncritical setting’.
I wholeheartedly agree that the current will to power approach taken by both parties in congress has rendered them useless. My overarching point however was that money ins't a magical crank you can turn that makes goods come into existence. The N95 problem is complicated, and not many companies could produce them even if they were funded.

They also don't want to get stuck with a factory floor full of mask machines after the pandemic is over.
The first year of Chrome's release, I absolutely hated it, not because of the browser itself, but because it felt like a shot to the gut of Firefox and open source development in general.
... and simplesubmitter.com is still available.
I'm curious - here in England, calling a person or a group of people "backward" would be rude/demeaning. Is that different in India, or is it a case or mixed wires in translating terms to English? Or do the people being called that find it demeaning but it's still socially acceptable among other people?
Firefox isn't a direct competitor to Chrome. It's Google's hedge against an anti-trust lawsuit.

When you see Mozilla as a Big Tech trust-fund baby struggling with cognitive dissonance, then their behavior makes sense.
Ah, the time of 16x16px icons. I used famfamfam until I discovered fugue, which had a similar aesthetic but three times as many icons and many more badges for making variants.

https://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/icons/search/fugue/
Show HN: Lala – Learning Japanese App
Kn95's are being tested it seems, and they are failing..

─ ECRI testing of imported FFRs has revealed that 60-70%
provide only sub-95% filtration performance.
■ This trend aligns with what NIOSH has found through
their own testing; as of September 2, 2020, 53% of
the 358 FFR models tested did not meet N95 filtration
requirements

https://assets.ecri.org/PDF/COVID-19-Resource-Center/COVID-N...
Also, I'd like an external knowledge with a spaced repetition system used as an API for the internal knowledge management system in my brain.
Typical characteristics from the two types :
https://www2.pacific.edu/sis/culture/pub/context_cultures_hi...

Often it's pretty straight forward when you ask yourself the question.

As all cultural phenomenon, there is a strong local component to it but there are still many variations : knowing where they are from, whether they grow up in big city or small rural areas, is often a good starting guess. But after a few sentences exchange showing how direct or considerate of your specificity they are, how they value your time, you usually know without doubt.

It's just about making sure you are in the right communication mode with the right person.

To bring it back to the article theme :

The way people hear a no is also pretty characteristic. So listening to their reaction when you are telling them no is also a pretty strong signal.

For example if you tell no without justification to someone from high context culture when he asked something (if he ask it probably means that from his point of view he is expecting a positive answer) he won't probably take it good. And you have a few second to come-up with a sensible reason if you don't want to ruin the relationship.

Whereas someone from low context culture is usually more direct and the no carries less weight to give or take, as in their eyes it means they will just ask to the next person.
If men choose not to be competitive and women don't change, those men just exclude their genes from the gene pool.
> ARM core to an ARM SoC

The surprise is something else
I agree that mental illness is the primary issue. I have some very personal experience with homelessness, and it sounds to me like there is some mixture of mental illness, drugs/alcohol, and very poor coping skills / life skills. (Obviously I can't KNOW the balance of those things from a distance.)

I hate to sound dramatic here, but this man's life could be in danger. With issues like this, odds are at some point in his life, he could either overdose (if drugs are involved), suicide, or be a victim of a serious / violent crime. Those things happen to folks in these situations, especially if he wears out his welcome suddenly and ends up back on the street.

My suggestion to you is to put EVERYTHING on the back-burner, and get this man some help. The catch here is that he may not want help, and as much as I hate to be "that guy," he may not be able to get better until he wants it. It sounds like he's smart enough to understand that his erratic behavior might threaten his job, and you want to help him get his behavior under control.

Some people need much, MUCH more than a steady job and a roof over their head. Long term success and balance will only come after the ROOT causes are addressed. Mental health professionals can usually help with this, if the person is willing.

Edited to change the last sentence to be less certain and include stipulations.
Those aren’t cures.
> All we know is that Eich supported one political movement with money.

He supported at least 2, Prop 8 directly and a politician who opposed Prop 8.

> A belief on a particular moral or political issue does not represent the totality of an individual.

Ahh, ok, so it's perfectly fine to believe that gays should not be allowed to marry while leading a company such as Mozilla?

> We all disagree on things; some of us on things we consider core unalienable rights and values. But at the end of the day, we are also all human beings.

Sorry, no, you don't just get to "disagree" on if I should exist or have rights such as being able to get married.
I have a stutter too. What is interesting, is that I stutter less when speaking English than when I'm speaking Russian (my first language). I think party it has something to do with different rhythm structure of English.
I think the biggest thing for me, which wasn’t covered in this article, was in understanding that even by saying yes all the time you are NOT guaranteed to please or make the other party happy.

This is important to understand because, speaking for myself, my emotional motivation to please people stems from my primary desire to avoid emotional tension.

In understanding that even by sacrificing my own desire I’m in no way guaranteeing that outcome was a game changer for me. Furthermore, avoiding these negative emotions can make things worse or generate more of the emotion I was trying to avoid, in the long run.
Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year
I don't think your ideas there result in more market share or a sustainable business model to support Firefox. Because fundamentally you're trying to shove a new value (privacy) down the throats of consumers who don't share it, they want functionality first.

I think the goal should be to make Firefox the sane default firstly for business and secondly for consumers. Business users care about privacy and security, yet Chrome and IE are the standard platforms for business webapps.

If you want an example of how misaligned those values are from reality, I need to use Chrome to talk to my doctor. Safari and Firefox aren't supported. That's entirely because Firefox doesn't do enough to make it the default platform for developers and by focusing on the wrong users.
I consider it an excuse for Russia to keep their rocket scientists employed after the fall of the soviet union. Nobody wants a starving rocket scientist driven by desperation to take a job designing ICBMs for some evil dictator.
Do you stutter when you are not hearing yourself? For example, if you record yourself with headphones on playing very loud music so that you can not hear your own voice, will you still stutter saying all those things or reading the stuff you stutter on?
They'll appeal to the supposed needs of the children while pushing whatever pretense, but have no interest when someone asks about the liberty of the children, and their grandchildren.

Never negotiate with terrorists.
Don't redirect people to different languages by geographic location! Especially if your translation is incomplete and you don't have a button to change language.
This is a great idea. I have a BeagleBone Black that has a SOC with a dual core ARM CPU for running linux and a Texas instruments proprietary real time processor for controlling timing sensitive applications.

This Intel solution has the potential to be more useful than the TI one because the ARM core has better compiler support than the custom chip TI made.
> Option and Result are Monads. Surely he misses do-notation.

Rust does not have higher kinded types, which are required to have abstractions like the Functor and Monad type classes in Haskell.

Option and Result are monadic, but they must implement their own, separate methods and can not share a common interface. Which takes away a lot of expressive power.

There is a accepted proposal for something similar, known as GAT [1] (generic associated types). But that is blocked on other work and might never actually be implemented.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44265
Twitter to investigate apparent racial bias in photo previews
An interesting dichotomy between big cities vs small towns has come up and being discussed the replies to this. Interesting that it is a very North America-centric perspective.

Go to South Korea or Japan and you'll find rural villages that are more densely packed than cities of 100,000+ in USA and Canada. This density allows for shops and convenience stores to be easily accessible and walkable in every neighbourhood, which nudges towards social interaction. Rather than sprawling everywhere, neighbourhoods are built with the same density as elsewhere (with small apartments, large apartment towers, and/or multifamily housing).

On the other end, megacities like Seoul and Tokyo are really just cities of many neighbourhoods with similar density to the rural towns, with a few areas that are more densely built and populated than others (typically centered around geographical or transportation features). Most neighbourhoods in Seoul or Tokyo feel the exact same as any neighbourhoods in "second tier" cities. (In fact, many "suburbs" of Seoul are more densely packed than Seoul itself due to legacy building heights!) But the smaller towns just don't have subway access to megacity-only amenities.

I suspect that a lot of folks who enjoy North American big city living would do just as well in a smaller East Asian town (aside from cultural and language difficulties).
To quote a meme: "moore! mooooooreeee!"
GitHub Mobile and GraphQL
It is interesting that this timeline lines up roughly with the appearance of plant and animal life on earth.
Ooo boo hoo, oh poor multimillionaire execs how can they live on 500k per year!!

Oh heaves their family!

Exec Compensation should be linked to performance not to garbage like market value.

Fuck Mozilla and its execs
Without addons, I suppose "Save Page" is your only option. Or tediously save each image manually.
> look at how it's impossible to publish anything exploring a lab-origin hypothesis for Covid-19 in a peer-reviewed journal...

How do we "look at" that?

An absence of peer-reviewed articles in reputable journals could be an indicator that this is impossible due to a big conspiracy to hide the truth, but it's also exactly what you'd hope for if there is no good evidence for that hypothesis.
But it helps if you engage, and interact with commenters on your submission.

If you literally just posted a link and never visited it would likely have been a waste of time for you - and your potential users.
Thank you for your reply. I had never thought about that, and never done it myself, but it definitely sounds doable as a final group project!
Being against gay marriage makes you a homophobe as much as being against minors voting makes you a pedophobe.
That terminology is still used in the United States for certain classes of corporations, but they're pretty rare these days.

The legal world has "managing partner" as the equivalent for LLPs.
I have a "netbook" (I mean, it is what it is) with a Celeron N4000. For email, light browsing, and watching online videos it's more than enough, and even manages to pull 10 hours of battery life, fanless and barely feels warm to the touch if "stressed" for a long while.

That celeron is a Goldmont+, which is a "hybrid" between previous Atom designs, with a few rehashed things from Skylake. Not a bad processors at all, though it lacks AVX (so SSE4.1 is the strongest SIMD it has) and absolutely crawls if you try to do anything number-crunchy on it.
Most of the time, yes.
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This is a great idea, well done!

Have you considered adding a background task to automatically push the data to e.g Dropbox once/day? I would love to have my data in a usable location without exporting it manually each time

Unrelated: Great pricing too
Pretty much all of what's covered here should be part of a good Algorithm class.

A lot of folks do whiteboard interviews wrong. They often expect to get the exact implementation of an algorithm they found in a textbook and for code on the board to compile. This isn't the point of whiteboarding. Doing this only promotes rote memorization. A good whiteboard interview should be a toy problem that can be solved in several different ways by using different strategies or data-structures. The idea is to see how the candidate will break down the problem. Is the candidate able to formulate test cases, write a simple implementation, verify his code and correct the implementation should it fail a test? On the more meta side of things is the candidate able to take feedback and explain why a certain strategy was chosen? Of course, it's not representative of real world engineering but it's a good way to peek at someone's ability to debug and reason about programs; these abilities translate well into debugging and design.
Don't get confused: sea ice and ice shelves are different things. Sea ice is formed year after year from the freezing ocean water. Ice shelves are the glaciers (formed from precipitations) that cover the continental plate and extend into water. The ice shelves are definitely disappearing at a record pace.

Now the reason why the sea ice is growing is not perfectly understood, but it is hypothesized that the Southern Ocean Circumpolar Current is isolating the continent by preventing warmer water from reaching the sea ice zone, and that the decreased salinity of water near the surface (due to the melting shelves) favors sea ice formation.

Sea ice melts every year. It has little influence on sea levels or global warming. Ice shelves, on the other hand, are much more dangerous.
Importantly, if you don't reflexively say "yes" whenever someone asks you to do something, the article is not advice for you.
Based on the title, I thought this was a GUI library to compete with Electron/etc, not another Dreamweaver/frontpage.
You'll make much more money selling symptoms relievers every years than fixing the issue once and for all.
Elm, but not PureScript?!? :)

I use PureScript everyday, and I love it. It's nearly identical to Haskell, with a few small changes that can be described on about a page
Is F-35 really the best candidate for CAS missions? Seems like you can get something at least as good in that role for a fraction of the price.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567351
As a pilot: The issue BALPA has is a very valid concern. The suggested procedure having both pilots involved goes against all training, you want clear split duties in an emergency where one pilot flies the aircraft and the other handles the checklists (you could call it "debugging") for the problem.

There have historically been avoidable accidents where two pilots lost the big picture because both were involved in dealing with a problem. That resulted in the current structure of crew resource management (CRM) being designed to have one pilot flying the aircraft and the other dealing with a problem. In many cases if the captain is the pilot flying the aircraft and there is a major problem one of the first steps is to hand control to the first officer. Contrary to some beliefs the copilot is at least as qualified to fly the aircraft, and this allows the captain to zoom-out and make a decision on what to do next such as diverting the flight to a nearer airport.

If you design an emergency procedure that requires both pilots just to control the aircraft, you'll loose a huge part of the decision making and planning abilities of the crew.
When there is something I don't want to do, I think of what Billy Butcher would say.

Sadly we can't be that direct in most of life, but the thought is normally there.
Ex-content moderator sues YouTube, claims job led to PTSD and depression
Should be tied to the other salaries in the company. For example capped at 10x the lowest paid employee.
Yes, many times. Part of it was just my non-understanding of software complexity and organizational dynamics beyond just working on the end tasks.
Have any games tried frequent savepoints + only allowing the player to reload 24 hours after dying? Seems like that would make reloads feel a bit more fresh/consequential, and also prevent addiction.
Removing Merit based education at one of America's top magnet schools
One of the top magnet school in USA, TJHSS wants to remove merit based admissions based on aptitude test and wants to replace it instead with lottery system. https://www.fcps.edu/news/superintendent-presents-recommendations-improve-diversity-tjhsst-establishing-merit-lottery
> SML has many of those features

So does Java in 2020, but I was writing about:

>> it feels really weird that now is fashionable to assert that Haskell === FP

When Googling "functional programming", you get back pages of definitions emphasising "pure functions", "no side-effects", "mathematical functions", "avoiding shared state", "referential transparency". So what Haskell provides is what the blogosphere has been labeling as "functional programming" for a decade. Those definitions could be wrong, but they're the definitions that are floating around out there.
> Here is everything you need to build Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

But I think the assets are missing, so it is not everything.
Maybe they released those somewhere else?
But does that include choosing not to work (because you do not have to in order to survive)?
Why do you need to represent `null` with another type? Is this just an issue with DB query results? You can avoid it by making sure the query never returns null or read the values yourself using a type cast test:

int? someNumber = resultset.Records[0]["some_column"] as int?;
Well, it doesn't _have_ to, but fun is surely easier!
Also, I'm sure there are PL in French but they are a niche, which means less choices, less examples, etc. Plus, it isn't that much of a barrier in Python. In the end, it's easier to find French documentation for an english PL than find a French PL.
Why does everyone assume it's due to anesthesia? It's not stated like that in the article, I think. And it's also very unlikely pharmacologically speaking. Could be infection. Could be a random stroke that happened at the just the right time...
Looking at the provided fusion flowchart: https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/Steinetz-Fusion...

It appears to be the same mechanism as neutronic high-energy fusion. An energetic neutron gets kicked out, which collides with some material in the cell (probably the erbium lattice), and generates heat. Which then needs to be hooked up to a water boiler to create steam, which powers a turbine, etc.

I'm much more hopeful for someone creating a Dense Plasma Focus device with aneutronic hydrogen-boron (pB11) fuel because the reaction energy can be directly captured as electricity, instead of having to capture hot neutrons to boil water.