skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cody Ellingham and I created this web audio player whilst stuck in the lockdown of our respective cities. It's an homage to that exciting feeling of your first night in an unfamiliar city; something which we all couldn’t easily experience in 2020.

Six cities presented in six beautiful late-night photographs accompanied by six blissful soundtracks.

For audio we used the howler.js Web Audio library: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js
https://archive.vn/DZJue
I'd make the cursor a little lighter shade in color if it's a blackboard.
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R/G colorblind here. I didn't realize how much I relied on traffic light order until I visited Houston, TX where the lights were horizontal. It was a very alarming experience.
That's an interesting take on the pipeline. If market demand for heavy oil and oil sands supply are unlimited, then it would indeed function like that. Both are finite though. It's a possibility, I just don't have the information to say which would be the more likely outcome.

There's little doubt the pipeline is what's best for Canada. What's best for humanity is another question.
Something feels a bit off about this article.

The content, the name of the website, the logo they use — all make me initially trust them as my kind of people. I want to read this without questioning who the author is. It has the look and feel of something I might align with, instinctively.

Alas, this is a dangerous thing in the world of bogus news.

The author and his editors then refer to Founder Fathers (not Founding) and “tying” police powers (instead of “tying the hands of the police” or “curtailing the powers of the police”.) People learning English as a second language are, of course, allowed to make mistakes, but written journalism about US public policy isn’t. That’s the point where one stops and does due diligence on who these people are. This is hard, because the The Gradient’s team don’t really introduce themselves very clearly.

It would be great to have just a little bit more information about what this site is before delving into this article more. The about page suggests it’s a student/college magazine:

https://thegradient.pub/about/

Somewhere between the end of the article and the bottom of the page is a mini bio on the author. They work in policy / politics, including working in DC. They also have a public bio on LinkedIn with more details.
I don’t mean to cast unfair aspersions, but am I reading a nudge piece from a lobbying think tank?

I feel guilty for even asking. How did the internet make me so skeptical?
> First, if you have the option of using one or the other, do so. Like, you can use red, blue, yellow, purple, and black for lines on a graph before you even need to find an additional color like green.

I don't see this advice getting much uptake.

First, green isn't a second thought for people with normal vision. It's a first thought. I can understand how this wouldn't be true if, to you, it didn't exist.

Second, the color space without green is harder to draw contrasts in than the color space with green.

Third, a friend of mine with red/green colorblindness always complained that he couldn't tell the difference between blue ("rare") and purple ("epic") items in World of Warcraft. (WoW has since solved this problem by throwing out the concept of item quality entirely, but the colors are still there anyway.)

So you're advising that people should make a quite unnatural choice, which will markedly reduce usability for almost everyone, but which won't actually solve the problem for the colorblind. It's just not a move that makes sense.
1) Fire is a necessary part of many forest ecosystems.

2) Forest fires have been controlled and contained for the last ~100 years on the west coast of America.

3) Forests are not being burned at anywhere close to the rate that they would naturally.

4) Fire is not the process by which these places became arid.
Multiple glibc libraries on a single host
You could say, running the company with MBAs, instead of BSEEs, when their competitors were doing the opposite.

Putting the money they spent on acquisitions, into manufacturing technology, process innovation, etc. would have kept them right up front.

As for paying for talent, they certainly paid enough dollars for talent, but could have directed those same dollars at fewer resources with the talent they actually needed. That means paying top dollar for the right people, and skipping the rest.

If they let others poach, that is because those competitors were smarter at valuing talent while Intel either slept or fell victim to broken HR policies.
This is a very American-centric view of things. The author insists that the Internet has up until recently been mostly American, yet admits that the World Wide Web was made in Switzerland. And about most Internet users being American...does the author think Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia first got connected to the internet in like 2012 or something? In the very early days, yes, the Internet was largely in the U.S., but the Internet has been worldwide for a long time, with large amounts of users outside the U.S. The graph presenting the amount of VC money spent in the U.S. vs. abroad makes me think that the author views “the Internet” as tech startups in the Silicon Valley tradition and not anything else. There is a lot more to the Internet than Google and Yahoo and Facebook and friends. American users might not see these parts of the Internet, but they exist and existed. Just because they weren't a hot new SV startup doesn't mean they weren't a valuable and popular component of the Internet. Other countries besides the U.S. have had large, popular sites and apps for decades.
Heh, yes, 'everything is related to everything somehow' is among the trickiest problems of online forums.
Chinese got the rice culture from SE Asian people e.g. Tai-Kadai, who at that time inhabited S China.

From Ricepedia:
"Recent genetic evidence show that all forms of Asian rice, both indica and japonica, come from a single domestication event that occurred 8,200–13,500 years ago in the Pearl River valley region of China."
>Adderall totally changed that. I'm able to focus on tasks long term AND even if something bad happens in my life I'm able to keep right on track

That sounds amazing. I can't even imagine that. I've just been diagnosed at 32 this year. Been on Ritalin for a few months but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Maybe 3% better. Things going bad still derails me significantly.

They're fairly conservative with meds in my neck of the woods, but I'm going to persist with my doctor to try them all to find what works.

The struggle to push through actually going through all the phone calls, emails and appointments necessary to get to that point is very un-ADHD friendly. So many times I considered just to give up and forget about it.
I can see a showcase section in the readme
Did Xi Just Save the World?
What I want from a TV is a good screen.

That's it. It's a big monitor optimised for video.

The thing that really gets me is why companies bother putting speakers in high end TVs.

The kind of person that is going to drop several thousand on a TV will have a separate speaker system.
Pondr Reached 1000 Users
I'm sure there are more valid reasons but some that come to mind are the following:

From a security point of view scoping your cookies to a sub-domain means that other services in other subdomains might not have access to them (depending on how you set them). If you store the cookies at abc.com then any subdomain will have access to the cookies stored in abc.com and you might not want that. As an aside, cookie security is one the reason why companies usually have a separate domain for user-submitted assets/media.

You have separate services for your e-commerce platform and your main marketing website and you host them in separate domains. This is why sometimes you see abc.com and dashboard.abc.com or app.abc.com. This is not a technical limitation as you could do have path-based routing to each individual service but if you don't already have that functionality hosting each service in each domain is easier/simpler.

(A combination of the 2 above) Your marketing website might be hosted by a third-party website builder and since you don't fully control what they serve you want to make sure that cookies by your platform aren't accessible to the third-party vendor. If you're proxying the requests you can strip the cookies but that's a pain that might not be worth introducing if you're OK with having separate domains.

You like having separate subdomains because it makes it seem more "professional" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You don't want the SEO of one service to bundled with the other.
> You can get a decent little drawing tablet for $30 these days. You'd probably spend half of that in the cost of pens over the device's lifetime. They're no longer ultra-expensive specialized equipment.

Can you suggest a model?
The problem with Reddit feeds is that without using their API (that costs us money) we were getting rate-limited by their servers, so even when we have moved polling to Pro users only, we were still being blocked, so the only way was to use their API to bring Reddit to everyone.
Roaring Bitmaps – Highly compressed bitmaps
I wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it.

Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly.

Here are the results from the two sites:

https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE

I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with similar results on both sites (not included in the images above). Witeboard completely failed, while Ziteboard rendered my handwriting as expected.

I also tried conventional touchscreen/TrackPoint/touchpad input on both devices to make sure it wasn't an issue with the active pen, but the results were again the same.

As one last test, I connected a mouse to the ThinkPad and tried both sites. Witeboard worked a little better with this pointing device: it mostly kept up but did have a lot of straight lines and sharp angles when I tried to draw scribbly circular patterns. Ziteboard again performed perfectly.

I have no affiliation or prior knowledge of either of these sites, I am just reporting my experience in a quick test of each.
Got it! Thank you very much.
Amazon may use keys from a variety of sources, but the ones I’ve seen were packaged differently from anything I’ve seen from an actual Yubikey.

If only people were allowed to bring their own Yubikey for U2F and OTP, then they wouldn’t have to wait on whatever official procurement processes are in place from their approved suppliers.
Self-plug: I would appreciate comments, especially UI-related, about my under-development self-hosted commenting system, linked below. You can comment here on HN, which I will read, or right on the page, too! If you use #bug tag, it will go right into my "bug tracker" (bug.txt)

http://sm.chg.pw/73/79/73791fc2.html

admin/admin are the captcha-credentials
https://witeboard.com/e5aa64b0-0603-11eb-815d-c91a6e22db0a
https://utteranc.es/
"A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!"
Well, the Camp Fire in 2018 caused $16.5B in damages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)

And more than $1.6B has been spent on fire suppression in California this year alone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_wildfires#cite...

So when you think about the alternatives, $2B to clear California's fire debt sounds pretty reasonable.
Correct, Reddit RSS are not reliable, but most importantly, the rate limit always banned us in couple days every month. There are some tools available, but they will run into this issue eventually when they'll hit critical mass of users.
I tried looking into that this spring. I suspect the answer is for this virus not much. Nothing to indicate that any part of it's life cycle involves hanging around latent.

Interesting bit on how UV-C works to sterilize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimidine_dimer

Interesting thing bacteria and some viruses have DNA repair enzymes that can fix damage from UV-C. Medically you're always bedeviled by bacterial and fungal spoors.

Limitations with UV-C sterilization I think prevents wider use. Not a magic bullet. Though it probably works well for influenza, colds, and this bat virus.
> but behind you stands surveillance, militarization of police, and the tragedy of prisons in America.

Prisons are not related to police anymore than the citizens who vote the legislators in who pass the laws and the judges who sentence to prison for violating said laws. As a cop (beat or all of the way up to chief of police) you have no say over private vs public prisons, prison policies, or even prison sentencing because they are not the same organization.

Moreover, surveillance and the militarization of police are both policies of local police departments. You can make a completely ethical decision to join the sheriff’s department in a local town that has none of these capabilities nor wants them. The law enforcement of a locality is strictly a result of that city’s politics. There is no national police force nor standard in the US that makes sense to hold all enforcement officers accountable for.
Nice job. Very responsive from my iPad Pro with pencil.
Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server (Preview) Documentation
I just got a mortgage from them, and they do have their Cash Plus banking product.

It was actually a super smooth process better than when I bought my last house with Chase. If they don’t do more mortgages they should, the experience was excellent.
You also need to use correct grammar here, which you clearly didn't use.
Why wouldn't such a deeply political article be written by someone in politics, given the context certainly in consultance with people from the field?

And which kind of lobbying think tank is against giving more power to the police?
Is this live? As in if I share it, is it collaborative?

(Excuse me if that's clearly stated or implied and I'm just dense)
Analyze Data in Azure Data Explorer Using Kusto Query Language Extension in AZD
The Developer’s Guide to Azure
Neat. A bug report: after about 15 seconds of use, I got a little "You are disconnected" warning. It disappeared almost immediately, clearing the whole thing.
:Self-plug:
From running my asp .net core api on Intel vs Graviton 2, graviton turned out to be roughly 15% faster. But the SSR of vue turned out to be roughly 10% slower.
Faster code Vs faster coding – PHP Magazine Network
California governor vetoes high school ethnic studies bill
Show HN: Concise Encoding – a friendly data format for human and machine
Being able to drop stickies would be nice. Ultimate consulting tool.
In the same spirit, I offer Tami Knight's Avalanche Poodle: https://www.snowmediazone.com/the_zone/data/500/medium/Avi_p...

Among my friends, to go first in an uncertain situation is sometimes called, "poodling it".
How to Create Your Own Programming Language – Paradigm, Roadmap and Tools
Not Wacom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292
No code runs faster than no code.

No code has fewer bugs than no code.

No code uses less memory than no code.

No code is easier to understand than no code.
Resolution of plain optics only goes up to the diffraction limit, which is not enough to see a virus.

Then there are super-resolution techniques which can go beyond that, but I don't think any of them could be adapted to scan the vicinity of the coughing human in real time.
> I think the primary problem is that the indentation is significant.

An editor problem, perhaps? We don't maintain office documents using vim; why edit structured configuration files using a plain text editor, if doing so is arduous?

My text editor[0] abstracts the underlying hierarchical data format behind a tree-based widget[1]. Whether YAML, JSONNET, NestedText, CSON, XML, or TOML backs the widget becomes an implementation detail.

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

[1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/07/06/typesetting-markdow...
Is there an appreciably significant number of police departments that are structurally not prone to these kinds of a abuses? And if there are, how many of them don't enable others who do?

Cop!=Programmer, cops integrate into one social function while programmers integrate onto many. The correct mapping would be public employee <=> programmer, or Raytheon weapons engineer <=> Soldier, for example. It really is the social function that is core to this argument.
JavaScript numbers are double-precision floating point numbers.
By this poisoned well logic, you are responsible for any increase in crime that occurs from a reduction in policing. Adults that work for an organization which is critical to every civilization to date (law enforcement) work to fix it from the inside. Only immature people take the unethical stance that there should be no law enforcement because there are flaws in the current structure. Even in Minneapolis, the only thing the council can agree on is that “defunding the police” doesn’t actually mean taking away the police funding. Only a small anarchist percentage of the population wants nobody to actually be in the police.

> the daily practice of it today is systemically flawed and no longer has the original intent as its goal.

Care to say what the goal of the Boulder, CO police department is? How about the one for Waco? If the goal is not law enforcement, how does that square with the fact that people keep electing the heads of these orgs (Sheriff, Mayor, etc)?
>As a non-ADHD person, I hate all of the above tasks and only do them because it's part of adulting.

The difference being my wife breaks down in tears every 3 months because she woke up to dishes in the sink _again_ and wasn't able to use her coffee cup because, though I meant to do them and said I would, I wound up not doing them.

That was the first 5 years of my marriage. Repeat for laundry. Repeat for trash.

For work I was on a list of 5 people out of 1000 person company who's names had gone all the way to the CEO for not filling out timesheets correctly.

I hope that makes the problem a little clearer for those who think "but everyone has trouble with that stuff"
yeah, i think i get it now. but if variables can only store functions, how would you write something like this in Copper?

x = foo()
bar(x.a, x.b)
Experienced this same issue. I didn't even have time to read the warning.
Early 80's, not mid 70's.

If you cut at mid 70's you'd basically be erasing Gen X, but just because it's popular to talk about "boomer" vs. "millennial" doesn't mean they're adjacent!
A stylus that works with your existing device (phone or laptop, assuming touchscreen) works as well.

Plenty of cheap ones out there that work with most touch sensors
The issue is not the social function though, it’s flaws in some police departments. Even on the left, there are very few who actually don’t want police around serving the function of stopping crimes when they occur.
My History teacher once remarked that a hallmark of imperial collapse is the use of the tools of empire at home.
Python promote to Bignum automatically.

Javascript number is a floating point

Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER
// 9007199254740991
Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER + 1
// 9007199254740992
Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER + 2
// 9007199254740992

no automatic promotion to BigInt

9007199254740991n + 2n
// 9007199254740993n
Oh, for sure. I'm just trying to make the point that English would be a lot cooler if we constructed our own compound words.
> The "rest of the world" is increasingly Europe, if that.

US + Europe, along with other US aligned nations (Japan, Australia, NZ etc) account for >50% of the world GDP[1].

> The rest of Asia ... wont have as many issues being led by China.

Any more details to back this assertion? Just a brief glance at the current geopolitical events reveal the following Asian countries having issues with China: Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam. Some other are heavily aligned with the US (Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, ...). A lot of these have significant populations and/or economies in Asia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
The example uses numbers outside the range of JS numbers (too many significant digits), so when the JSON is evaluated as a JS number some of the least significant bits are rounded. Personally, I think it is a mistake to use values in JSON that can’t be represented in JS, but the standard doesn’t explicitly forbid it.
A Moment for Civilizational Introspection
Take at look at https://github.com/styluslabs/stylusboard - no web client but native apps for all major platforms
my experience switching from disqus -> commento: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19555665
Sign-up fails in Safari (the email field is hidden).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jp86ens24h2043s/Screen%20Shot%2020...
> You can see the documents from the SFFA v. Harvard lawsuit, for instance, to see how the SAT score cutoff differs by race & ethnicity.

Thanks I didn't knew that. Having said that Harvard and Stanford is last rung. Those who are able to reach those places are already prevailed I would argue. Is there similar affirmitive action in place on lower levels as well?

India has it across the board which help more IMHO. Some communities have used it so much that now debate within the lower sections have started that reservation should be taken away after 3 generations.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/spm5k5IrRDw
> This is not what he's on trial for,

Could you shed some light on what you personally believe Assange is on trial for?

I mean, you're criticizing someone for giving context for the US's persecution of Assange, but avoid presenting your own alternative explanation.

> and the supporters of Assange don't do themselves favours by refusing to engage with the facts of the accusations.

Which facts are those? I mean, you're criticizing others with veiled accusations of lying but, in spite your apparent passion for the truth, you make no effort to correct what you accuse of being misconceptions.

In the end it reads that you simply are anti-Assange but have a problem substantiating your opinion with facts or establish a rational basis for your personal belief.
I’m fine with think tank nudge pieces as long as they aren’t pretending to be news editorial.

On today’s internet, there is a strong requirement for being up front out one’s agenda otherwise how do we differentiate interesting opinion/blogging from the fake news bunkers?

In this case, a buried bio on a think piece I’ve never heard of wasn’t enough to suppress the “is this manipulative blogging dressed up to look like reputable journalism?” alarm bells.

(Even though, in fairness, this author does seem to be closer to the Bob Woodward end of the spectrum than the Ghanaian/Russian troll farm end.)
The same issue as drug enforcement arises - how does it stay a profit center when those you punish are those that fund your election? It may be a profit center for the vault of the State, but it is very much not so for pockets of the campaigns. The reason why wage theft is inexplicably and reliably the biggest and yet the most overlooked shape of theft seems to me to be that one.