skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what surprises me more than anything is, we've had jQuery, we've had React, etc but none of them seem to just give you reusable web UI components that are common enough. Maybe there's some magical UI library I'm missing out on somewhere. Components are better if you're not forced to include an entire kitchen sink with them.
> Yes, but not proportionally to the power Facebook should have to distribute information.

Well, yes, though arguments can be made as to whether the two are orthogonal, or if the relationship is an inverse linear one, or something more complex (I'd lean toward an S-curve and that we're currently in the middle of it).
The latest revelations show Team Obama invented the whole RussiaGate scandal
isn't it also quite possible that there simply is no external source at all and this is just some kind of disease like a tinnitus? Tinnitus is quite common with IIRC 15-20% of people having it to some degree, so the 4% of people reporting hearing the hum seems possible. Maybe it's more common in urban areas because people in urban areas suffer more from loud noise pollution.
Indeed, OsmAnd works wonders offline on phones: there's a ton of detail compared to some proprietary services, at least in some cities, and routing works fine without internet connection (with the exception of public transport when the data is not in OSM).

It's not entirely free, namely map updates are limited without a subscription—though I haven't checked if it's the same with the F-Droid version.
Stop using Google for fonts while you're at it...
> Why can't people just settle on some tech, let it mature, and enjoy reaching higher and higher in capability? Why do we have to always tear things down and start from scratch?

At what level of language improvement does it warrant rebuilding things? Eg: What if there has actually been a change as revolutionary as multiple dispatch based on a good type system, which cannot be backported to Python, and provides huge advantages for a diverse set of applications? For many users, it would be crazy not to switch... especially given that it’s actually much easier to write performance and flexible libraries in the Julia ecosystem (writing Julia code) than in the Python ecosystem (writing C/C++/Cython code).

You might be succumbing to a bit of the blub paradox here... Python might be good enough for all your needs, but people are justifiably enamored with Julia because it brings some really exciting capabilities to the table which allows them to solve serious impediments they experience, not just because it is a shiny new thing.

Rhetorical question: Now that we have all this infrastructure for gasoline based cars, is that reason enough to hold back the “churn” to electric cars?
There are several data-broker-esque "services" that actually do this already with FB, Google, etc assets (favicon.ico and similar, loggedIn urls, ...) to check whether you have visited those pages, or whether you are logged in to those services by trying to request a URL that might return a large image if logged in, or fail rapidly if logged out. -- This has been a thing for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15499917

If you don't use any of those sites, you're considered higher risk/fraudulent user/bot.

Here's an example of a very short and easy way to see if someone is probably gay: https://pastebin.com/raw/CFaTet0K

On chrome, I consistently get 1-5 back after it's been cached, and 100+ on a clean visit. On Firefox with resistFingerprinting, I get 0 always.
This is a biased source but seems to make a good case that that study has serious flaws:

https://nuclearinnovationalliance.org/we-need-both-nuclear-a...
Yet even the most stable western democracies do it often enough to make investors consider nuclear power plans too risky - not because of the technology but because of political risk.

For instance here in Finland companies that invested in nuclear made good profit, because of not having to pay costs related to carbon offsets. Politicians saw the profits, considered them "windfall" and taxed them away.

So why would you ever invest in carbon-free nuclear power on those terms?

Simultaneously there's a lot of jobs in coal, which ensure politicians keep subsidising it. From an investor perspective it's a sure deal.
don't forget the lead and the ionizing radiation!
Unless you play video games, the space, power and heat aren't worth it. I didn't have much desk space and higher resolutions became really cheap to come by.

So maybe 8 years ago I got rid of my 2 fw900s and now use rotatable 4ks that I put side by side in portrait mode, essentially getting a ~4kx4k square (18:16). It's $750 or whatever 2 go for now well spent. Most modern laptops can even drive two monitors as long you get the adapters right. It's a really good work set up. Highly recommended.

I'd honestly say it's the most significant thing that's affected how I interact with computers (and I've done foot pedals, gestural systems, custom made input devices I've designed myself, repurposed midi device for UX, my own window manager, etc ... 2 4k monitors in portrait is the top of the list, really)
> Great, you regurgitated all the standard talking points. Have a pat on the head.

Again, I suggest you adjust your tone, as site rules are pretty clear.

> Except even if all of that were true (which it isn't)

[citation needed], as of course, I provided mine.

> As for Yucca Mountain, funny that the "genuinely tiny amount" of nuclear waste produced in the USA as of 2011.

You're going to have to provide some clarification there, like, all the nuclear waste generated in the history of nuclear power in the United States in the last hundred years? The GAO says the nation has produced 80,000 metric tons to this day. [1] This is in line with Yucca Mountain's capacity. Consider that was generated since 1958 when Shippingport opened.

The government believes that 2000T of waste are generated per year at this stage, meaning Yucca Mountain would be able to house 40 years of new waste. At one site.

Did the magnitude 7 earthquake near yucca mountain compromise the structural integrity of the proposed storage site? Because if not, then your point is moot. Which is what the DOE said. [2] And in fact when this article was written they said the tectonics of the region wouldn't yield an earthquake in excess of a magnitude 7. It's almost like they considered this, and planned for it.

Further, modern fast-neutron reactors and breeder reactors generate an order of magnitude less high level waste than classical designs. [3]

[1] https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_nuclear...

[2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/loose-nukes-w...

[3] https://nationalcenter.org/NuclearFastReactorsSA1205.pdf
Mostly if this happens, it's due to the attendant getting it wrong. Often I just take over and do the fillup myself while he/she waits.
Library of babel?
you couldn't have a password longer than 8 characters

It was even worse, if such a thing is possible. Passwords were case insensitive.

https://1password.community/discussion/60363/psa-schwab-now-...

There was an HN discussion about this, but the original article is now lost to the mists of time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783790
Sure, everything's a tradeoff - but sometimes I see things like that as frontloading the pain of when bndlrrr.io or whatever goes down in the middle of the night and your client is angry at you. But yeah, like everything in software, it's a spectrum and 'best practice' and the 'right way' are highly dependent on the context.
Cold+Sores:+Home+Remedies+&+Other+Treatment+-+Health+Lines
Something I'd really like to see in all map apps is a "scenic" route option. Routes organized by level of traffic, nearness to parks, etc.

I'm usually willing to walk/bike an extra kilometer or so if it means I'll walk through a park instead of next to a highway. Unfortunately the default/only option is always the quickest one.
Sometimes people use "binary point" to distinguish from decimal point and avoid the confusion of the dec- prefix.
I have OLED screens all over my house - I can never tell if the monitors are on or off unless the screensaver kicks in. 0 regrets spending that money.
Yelp says it will mark businesses as racist randomly then charge them to remove the marks.
ah yes, the Taser, a famous weapon of war
I guess, but that disadvantage seems massively outweigh by the benefits. Can always use something like [1] to check if a client is active on interesting sites.

[1] - https://www.webdigi.co.uk/demos/how-to-detect-visitors-logge...
Yes, I originally came across this on HN, likely in 2017 based on my surrounding bookmarks. It has stuck with me ever since even though I don't do much programming anymore. At the time, I was a TA in a MATLAB course, so I tried to emphasize that the code runs on a machine and is fundamentally discrete. (.1 + .2 == .3) returning false is an easy way into this concept.

32 bits (and now 64 as @dragontamer calculated) is a huge input space. You could verify 4 int_8 or 2 char[2] functions.
> character has bad idea [...] learns their lesson [...] Sitcom writers actually hold a tremendous place of responsibility in American society

Seemingly not widely known, is that sitcom scripts were for years often submitted to the office of the White House Drug Czar, for approval and negotiated revision. IIRC, the carrot was the show counting towards a station's public service broadcast time requirements? So a "90210" script containing drug use for instance, might be revised to reflect a list of requests, intended to present it more clearly as bad idea.

As we now collectively design a censorship regime for more recent social tech, it might be interesting to see insightful non-narrow analysis of past regimes.
1st step is to make sure it already doesn't exist.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N1CMGQQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9-...

Or

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LCB3HQJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_gb...
> This reminds me of weekend warrior bicyclists dropping $5k on components to save a few ounces of weight and go a tiny bit faster.

Was in a high end bike store in Philadelphia in around 2007 or so (pre-crash). There's a guy in front of me at the repair desk who is holding a carbon fiber bottle cage. The tech is looking at it, because it's cracked. He tells the guy that he probably overtightened the bolt holding it on ("very easy to do on the carbon cages") and suggests that he just puts a metal (even titanium!) washer between the bolt and cage, and everything will be OK.

Guy says "yeah, but the extra weight of the washer that would mean that it was pointless to buy the lightest possible cage"

I interrupt and ask the Guy if he ever adds slightly too much powder to his energy drink when going out for a ride.

/badaboom
UK Covid-19 mortality rate could be just 0.15%
Thanks a lot! It is still lacking quite some functionality (check the FAQ for details), but we'll get there.
There's actually a stock market, IEX, that has a long physical wire to introduce a physical signal delay to counteract this. Here's an interesting podcast regarding this exchange.

http://investorfieldguide.com/katsuyama/
This is a nice website I will definitely bookmark this. What criteria do you use to create a top 10 list?
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We are a slim private company for over 24 years from Styria (Graz) that cannot put on bacon, because we are simply so quick and always an ear to the customer. The customer proximity can only be kept honest and long-term if we have fair and affordable prices. Only through our experience are we able to keep costs low. And that's what our customers appreciate: high quality and fair prices. We can do both! With the motto auctions of all kinds from all over Austria Vienna, Salzburg, Burgenland, Vorarlberg, Upper Austria (Linz), Lower Austria (St.Pölten), Tyrol (Innsbruck), Carinthia (Klagenfurt), and offer goods at unbeatable prices. It's worth taking a look!
That's fair. But for lack of a better alternative, I suggested this. I think just exporting a playlist should be the bare minimum that any service should allow. And this project seems to enable that
It's clear that right now we should roll out wind and solar as fast as we can.

However, once those reach high penetration, costs increase rapidly as you attempt to reach 100% clean energy. At that point it helps a lot to have clean dispatchable power. Nuclear plants we start today can fill that role, in areas without available hydro.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
I haven’t used the Plini but only because I hit Nolly last and I’m thrilled with it. I’m pretty sure the Nolly rhythm amp is modeled after a 5150 or a 5150II, so it’s very familiar for me since I mostly work with extreme metal.

I seriously can’t say enough good things about Zilla Cabs. Just make sure to disable the cabs in the amp plugin or it’ll sound weird!

The album I did with the Nolly plugin isn’t something I can share yet, unfortunately.
I used to work at https://wellcomemat.com :)
I'm surprised people are just now noticing. This has been the trend for about a year. Just wait until you're downvoted just like on reddit and you're banned from speaking!
Somehow, this argument only gets deployed theoretically to justify per se minority rule, never to critique actually harmful policies enacted by a majority. It’s not like a minority in power is any less capable of tyranny.
Hah, that's a nice application. You're missing a:

details.footnote > summary::-webkit-details-marker {
display:none;
}

For webkit, though!
I guess what I'm saying is I think it's a distinction without a difference. It's a consequence - subdividing into "likely consequence" and "oh,shit! consequence" seems artificial.

All that means is that you haven't properly understood the risk, IMHO :)
Best response: "Sir, this is the unemployment line."
I remember that California pointed the finger at FERC and Enron. I remember that Enron played the regulations like a fiddle, shutting down plants do drive up spot prices.

I guess I don't know who is responsible for what exactly, and what California could have done better.
Better even than f.lux was Nocturne (https://github.com/strider72/blacktree-nocturne), though it hasn’t worked in years. (Maybe a decade? I can’t even find screenshots.)

Nocturne would let you invert your entire screen, then shift it to monochrome (ideally red). Obviously useless for gaming or color work, but I’ve not run across anything since that’s so great for late night text work across the whole OS.
And they don't really twinkle like the heat driven, blinker style incandescent lights do. I loved to watch the pattern on the ceiling as a kid. It would change in subtle ways. Never the same, but sometimes really close.

I got a set and I am scared of them. Fire hazard. But I do run them once in a while for young ones at Xmas time. Just so they can check it out.
I embarrassed myself as a Noogler trying to explain what in my head seemed like a good tradeoff between hash size (also of URIs) and collision handling. The process had fixed storage for a table of known hashes, and every collision was tested for validity before taking action. If you could use a truncated hash, you’d obviously increase your collisions, but if you’re going to validate all collisions anyway, it seemed like you could increase your coverage substantially (in the 60-bit case it would have been 4x) while only marginally increasing your overhead of collision handling.

There's some kind of sparsity/entropy function involved with optimizing these two but I'm too clueless to sort it out. Without the vocabulary to make my case I just got weirded out by a bunch of smart people staring at me quizzically. Sooo..
Rust After the Honeymoon
I don't think anyone on HN is trying to deny or excuse far-left violence. But I do think that they disagree with the way other commenters on this thread have portrayed it.

For example, let's examine the claims made by the person you replied to:

> There are parts of this country that are not coming back economically for a decade after what happened.

Is this actually true? Can you find a citation saying that these businesses will not "come back" for a decade? Given that recessions, natural disasters, and pandemics cause even more damage, and businesses are able to begin operation usually within a year, I find it hard to believe this specific claim.

For example, Axios estimates that damages caused by rioting could be around $2 billion (from the Insurance Information Institute) [1]. Axios also notes that natural disasters such as hurricanes can cause more than $3-$5 billion in damages. Hurricanes also cause their damages in a localized area (as opposed to nationwide rioting), so I would assume that it would be even harder for businesses to recover from hurricane damages. But my impression is that businesses in areas hit by hurricanes tend to recover within a year or two.

> And if a right wing group had done 1/10th of what these groups did we would never hear the end of it.

Wikipedia says that right wing extremists have killed 114 people since 2001 and injured dozens more [2]. It also claims that one person was killed in a far-left attack. If we consider the monetary value of a human life to be $10 million [3] (let's ignore that assigning monetary values to human lives may be problematic), we find the damages caused by right-wing extremists in the last twenty years in deaths alone has been $1.14 billion. I sincerely doubt that left wing rioting and looting has caused more than $11.4 billion in damages since 2001, so the right wing has done more than a 1/10 of what "the left" has done -- but we aren't "never hearing the end of it."

Again, nobody here is saying there is no violence caused by the left. But I am criticizing how other commenters have exaggerated that violence, while ignoring the violence caused by the other side.

[1] https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#Post-2001

[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agen...
4,000 is a conservative estimate. http://www.chernobylreport.org suggests 30,000 to 60,000. Cancer deaths are hard to attribute while workers falling off the roof installing solar equipment... not so much.

With Chernobyl it's also worth bearing in mind how much worse it could have been easily if the cleanup workers hadn't done their jobs right:

"There was a moment when there was the danger of a nuclear explosion, and they had to get the water out from under the reactor, so that a mixture of uranium and graphite wouldn't get into it - with the water, they would have formed a critical mass. The explosion would have been between three and five megatons. This would have meant that not only Kiev and Minsk, but a large part of Europe would have been uninhabitable. Can you imagine it? A European catastrophe."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/apr/25/energy.u...
> Sure it’s fun to spend money on your hobby but to say it’s “absolutely essential” is a little silly.

Well, when optimizing for FPS performance, it is :)

I agree that it's rather unnecessary in general, though. You can game on an old TV with 60hz interlaced and 30ms response time just fine. But then you're probably very much not in the market for dropping four-digit sums on a display.
compare the 1952 take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24739131
Cow pea mosaic virus can arm the immune system against cancers
The fact that “shop therapy” is a term makes me shudder.
> If $GOOG tanks 10% in a day, and a retail investor buys $GOOG at its old price in Europe, who is better off?

> For Joe Retail buying or selling that instrument, he just received a small improvement on the spread as a side effect of essentially duelling titans.

As a Canadian, I take advantage of this to do USD-CAD currency exchange. Most big Canadian companies trade in Toronto and New York, so I can buy in Toronto in CAD$ and sell in New York for US$ because some HFTs are keeping them exactly in sync. All I pay is two trading commissions and a 1-2cents / $100share in spread. So converting $30k would cost me $20 in commissions and ~$12 in spread, so about 0.1% in cost and that goes down for as much as I'm comfortable in doing per trade.

I probably lose a bit more in whatever distortion I've created, but $30k doesn't account for much in their hundreds of millions of $ in daily volume.
Little Tasks, Little Trust
Here's a previous discussion of someone getting the full dataset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681289

Tried the GDPR data export from Spotify. By default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing. After many emails and complaining and a month of waiting, I got a 250MB archive with basically EVERY INTERACTION I ever did with any Spotify client, all my searches. Everything.
At that point wouldn't it make more sense to just have the browsers include that functionality?
This is a valid rebuttal to the question "Do they get to seize the Voice of America domain too?".

Perhaps the original question should have been, "Why isn't there a law like FARA that prevents the US government from publishing propaganda?".
I applaud this action.

Not because I agree with the thought behind it. I think national defence is a necessity. I'd have no problems writing the software. But because the coder had the guts to put his money where his mouth is, and leave the job.

I respect that. About a million times more than keyboard SJW who type a lot but change not at all.
Maybe. Nowadays I’ve been invited to a discord in some mainstream topic of interest to me, and in its #off-topic channel, well, my monocle dropped to the floor from the hard n-word dropping casual racism, not some attempt to land a joke or be ironic, and that was not an anonymous message board. I think in the early 2000’s 4chan didn’t exist yet, the internet hadn’t really penetrated into life as much, console games were still not networked, and getting kids exposed to such behavior was not the default situation.
I'm fond of my early development tools: Hypercard, Resedit, Think Pascal, MacsBug... It gives me rainbows whenever I think about it, no matter how grey my developer life currently is.
with this in mind, do you think there is a concerted effort by corporate media to sway public opinion in ways that might not be ethical?
I posted this comment on lobste.rs when this came up:[1]

It kind of looks like Julia’s CSV parser is cheating: https://github.com/JuliaData/CSV.jl/blob/9f6ef108d195f85daa5...

It’s doing parallel parsing, but I’m pretty sure their technique won’t work for all inputs. Namely, they try to hop around the CSV data and chunk it up, and then parse each chunk in a separate thread AIUI. But you can’t do this in general because of quoting. If you read the code around where I linked, you can see they try to be a bit speculative and avoid common failures (“now we read the next 5 rows and see if we get the right # of columns”), but that isn’t going to be universally correct.

It might be a fair trade off to make, since CSV data that fails there is probably quite rare. But either I’m misunderstanding their optimization or they aren’t being transparent about it. I don’t see this downside anywhere in the README or the benchmark article.

[1] - https://lobste.rs/s/zksa0f/loading_csv_file_at_speed_limit_n...
Maybe I don't understand web dev; only meant that when you have many users besides yourself (analyzing data) then performance matters more.

It's important to remember, wtf?
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