skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't need to own the national grid for that. The influence in that case would come from money they are offering, not the money they already paid.

They could've made the exact same demand the first time, but what they actually did was more like

"We're more than happy to provide the necessary grid updates, just pay the money back later, okay?"

And then Laos decided to renegotiate the agreement instead...
There's no reason "pure FP" should be fundamentally any more inscrutable than Java code; that assumption may just be a personal bias due to familiarity. It's definitely possible to go the other way too, with an object-oriented mess where a judicious application of functional principles would make for much clearer code.
> If you need to use non-free software like Skype or Zoom you are more likely to find Ubuntu packages than Arch packages for it.

My experience has been exactly the opposite. Nowhere is it easier and as hassle free as on arch to run non-free and proprietary software without(!) depending in the vendor for distro specific packages that happen to work in your distro version.

Skype, zoom, msteams all install and work out of the box.
This is not a prototype, this is a surgeon performing production-level work. It's the same as if you had to whip out a basic service (as trivial as it core domain logic could be) but with all the details it need: deployment pipeline, monitoring, logging, a future-proof architecture (or do you want to be living with subpar heart surgery because the prototype was faster to deliver?).

The analogy breaks down very quickly, I just wanted to demonstrate how absurd your statement is.
They are calculated differently. US numbers are 8-12 lower than EU for the same petrol.
> What if we replace atoms with electromagnetic balls exhibiting similar bouncing properties, would it be good enough to count waves in this medium "sound"?

What do you mean by "electromagnetic balls"?

> My point is that if we can substitute the medium carrying the waves, than we may as well remove the medium from the definition of sound.

Again, sound, simply by definition, is a compressive wave. Compressive waves can only happen in media that can be compressed, which rules out fundamental fields like the EM field or space-time. Atoms may not be entirely fundamental to sound, but matter is - you may be able to have sound waves in a neutron star for example.

I wonder if it's possible to talk about sound waves inside the radius of a black hole - that I'm not sure about.
This is a zero content, generic fluff piece. It could be about any methodology! For example, replace devops with agile (or any other methodology) and devops-engineer with scrum-master. This is an insult to the reader.

Was this drivel written by GPT-3?
Yes, it does seem like they have a sort of "tradition" about it, possibly due to their larger "classic" engines and to different type of oils.

In EU modern engines with modern oil are (of course it depends) more like to need an oil change every 20.000 kms or more, in practice once per year (and this is a good idea anyway, besides mileage).

Old relevant posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14969605

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14551506
> By telling Apple they can’t control others’ speech on their platform, you are in effect controlling Apple’s speech

Since when is control, or censorship, of what someone else says speech in it's own right? If Apple wanted a disclaimer next to a message, or something along those lines, you might still remotely have somewhat of a point.

Following your contrived line of "reasoning", any TV producer should have a right to decide what viewers can (and can not) watch on their hardware.

Last time I checked, companies that make product for a consumer market explicitly do NOT have a right to decide what consumers can do with it.

Somehow, software producers already got way more leeway with that than the probably ever should have in the first place (in accordance with the law). But to argue that they should because it's about the free speech of companies, is absolutely bunkers.

I'm aware that the USA made the rather mind boggling decision that companies are people to them (though arguably only so politics could be even more corrupted with corporate money), giving rise to the lunacy of a company having something as free speech. But even accepting that as a (dismal) fact of reality (in the USA), controlling the speech of others just isn't speech itself. More importantly, such control is explicitly forbidden by law (even as per the UDHR).
Strange, because parcel in particular is zero configuration and I have used to it build client projects running in production. No complicated webpack configuration needed.
No, you have to live in fear that your health insurance is enough for when you eventually need it. Ah, and in fear that your employer is kind enough to not fire you, if so that health insurance might get harder.

Living in fear everyday, just in different ways. I think that has an impact in someone's life.
I made this comment in reply to another post:

The important part of this article is the critique of the powerful monopolistic corporate player, Amazon:

"[Amazon] did write the playbook on free returns, says Jason Goldberg, chief commerce strategy officer at Publicis Groupe, a global marketing and advertising agency.

The tactic of enticing customers to buy more than they need and return what they don't want "has had tragic repercussions for the environment and business," he says."

It seems to me like the HN community sometimes nitpicks over tiny details and fails to take part in the larger systemic critiques. Are there others who are also frustrated by the lack of larger, systemic critiques?
Introduction to Software Testing
Interesting. I wouldn't have known about seemingly every village in Iran having an article.
Dec 6: first reported cases indicating human-human transmission

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Dec 25-31: doctors in Wuhan become infected - more evidence of human-human transmission. China government denies human-human transmission

On site, Dr Li Wenlian warns about transmissibility

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Jan 1:

Dr Li is forced to sign a statement at the police station for "spreading rumors"

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/the-2019-coronavi...

Also, companies in China investigating the virus are told to stop.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-...

Jan 4:

US is finally notified.

China authorities continue to deny human-human transmission

http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020010309017

Jan 6:

NYT first report.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/asia/china-SARS-pne...

> Wang Linfa, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, said he was frustrated that scientists in China were not allowed to speak to him about the outbreak. Dr. Wang said, however, that he thought the virus was likely not spreading from humans to humans because health workers had not contracted the disease. “We should not go into panic mode,” he said.

Jan 8:

China authorities still saying human transmission not a problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/health/china-pneumonia-ou...

Jan 10:

NYT: still reporting China authorities "no human transmission"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/asia/china-virus-wu...

China doctors saying otherwise:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

... it goes on like this for a while ...

Jan 14:

WHO continues to echo China propaganda: not human transmissible

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?ref_src=t...

Jan 15:

China authorities finally admit: human transmissible

Jan 17:

US CDC finally announces screening of travelers from Wuhan

Jan 18:

President Trump informed by HHS - first official meeting

In Wuhan, China authorities allow celebration of new year to proceed as normal

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/02/06/wuhan-ne...

Yep, they handled it alright.
I wait for cg chatacters to animate on a text script by using move/acting library, then it will be easy to shoot your own dynamic 3d movies by feeding a novel into the app and deepfaking the resulting cg scene. Combined with neural links, even not so good ones, that would be an entire new universe of... this term has yet to be invented. And you guys are thinking about deceitful politicians, as if they were relevant in it. The real world that these dinosaurs cling to is melting away faster than they shake their finger on camera.
Yes, abstractions make symbolic sense for humans, but in a technical context they are most often problematic, because intuition and technical correctness rarely align. Not like they are on opposite sides, but intuition almost always has a lot of technical holes, and when you are coding, something always ends up surfacing from those holes... and it's never pleasant. In this sense, focusing on the data and simple rules is most likely to bring us closer to the true technical problem that we are trying to solve. Abstractions and organization and good names are still vital because we do need an intuitive vision of the system as a whole, but the technical processes need to be strictly correct, not just intuitive.
According to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/26... JFK conspiracies should have a new drop in about a year.

Thanks for the local colour. Is the Tulane Card still accepted for drive-thru daquiris?

Edit: from wikipedia "Garrison explains that cover stories were circulated in an attempt to blame the killing on the Cubans and the Mafia but he blames the conspiracy to kill the president firmly on the CIA who wanted to continue the Cold War." I don't know about CIA specifically (nor do I know the Mafia be completely distinct from them), but there is the coincidence that Kennedy and Khrushchev, having averted global thermonuclear war together, soon after were both cancelled.

Edit2: as long as I'm already thinking of conspiracy theories, sometime I'll have to rewatch Cool Hand Luke to see if a valid retcon would be that Boss Godfrey doesn't have much to say because his name (in northern italy, where he served under Karl Wolff) was Marco Gottifredi, and he changed it when he escaped down a ratline at the end of the war to the US south. But he's laconic because his english still isn't so good.
Shakespeare is difficult to read because many words have changed meaning over time. So unless you are very careful when reading, you will think you understand, but actually misunderstand a lot.

Some of the puns does not even make sense anymore because the pronunciation have changed. You basically have to be a specialized linguist to understand them all.
For me, I've become absolutely sick of these types of self-help articles. But once in a while, I'll read one in the hope that it'll actually teach me something new and make me re-consider how I viewed something. Usually that doesn't happen. The ones that do are pretty technical, a recent example is the 'What does code readability mean?' article hanging around on the HN front page right now.
How to find product-promise fit? And is it actually works?
I recently came across a post by NFX general partner Gigi Levy-Weiss: "The New Mindset for Product-Market Fit" (see the link). The main idea is that we first need to find a problem, then create and market a product promise (landing page), and only after finding a valid interest, start building an MVP.

I'm totally okay with this approach:
1. Discover a problem
2. Talk to people by manually posting on Reddit, FB, HN, other relevant communities, making calls on Lunchclub (if you want an invite, tell me), etc. Doing things that don't scale but also that costs only your time and $0.
3. Build an MVP if the problem exists

But Gigi suggests that you:
1. Find a problem.
2. Describe your solution in words and design. (I guess it means to build a landing page)
3. Market (he means launch a real paid marketing campaign on FB and measuring CTR and landing page's CTA) your product promise until you find a promise that a big enough group of people really want.
4. Then build your MVP.

What do you think? Is it okay to find the first 20-100 people by buying ads or this should be done manually and once you understand that problem exists and you know who has it and what messages work - do marketing?

ps. I love everything NFX is doing and posting that's why I want to better understand this approach to finding PMF.
Because it's easy to commodotise it. If all the designs are open then the race is to who can manufacture it better but there's a technological limit to that and the return on investment is quite low. What would be a company's market differentiator in this? Quality of construction is easily achievable nowadays, price will be low (as the market is very price-sensitive, who will be buying US$ 100 cases for their Pis?), there is not much incentive to participate in it, even more as the market is quite niche.

Maybe a company doing the packaging and selling of open-source hardware as whole product, much like as Mutable Instruments did with modular synthesizers, could work but then you aren't simply making cases anymore.
> Security alliance worries encrypted messaging apps can be used by bad actors

Same goes for kitchen knives. I don't hear them call for banning those, or have every sale of one tracked and monitored (which would only illustrate the lunacy of their "argument" even more).
I have been reading a book just 5 pages (some days more) and writing for 136 days without a break. I am super enjoying my journey. Check out https://5pagesaday.com/

It's not a plug to hop you to my site. I sincerely appreciate your feedback. I see a lot of benefits, like I improved my ability to express my views concisely. I am now a lot better at summarising things and packing so much of value in short sentences. I would highly recommend building a habit, like reading and writing.
Yeah, totally.
Their ReAxis plugin is a very solid plugin as well, delivering a full triaxis gear + some nice effects, the whole thing for less than $100.
This thing is amazing and can deliver a high quality result for every kind of tones out there from clean to very high gain.
What a time to be alive for a guitarist.
You could use a language model like gpt-3 for the novel part. In fact, I think that will be the first part of the pipeline that will be of sufficient quality.
> the argument is that after including Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power is still, according to the evidence, safer and more environmentally friendly than solar or wind.

That's really not the argument, but also please don't pretend that this is a fact. This might of been true in the long ago past, but solar has and is innovating and advancing way faster than nuclear. Solar is also on the order of 10x cheaper to build per kWh, 10x faster to build, safer, and doesn't leave you with radioactive materials that you need to store safely for some 50-10,000's years.
This is not true. Google is collecting incredible levels of ground / lidar truthed imagery. In terms of then doing a generation function from imagery to 3D model (without lidar) they are going to be in a good spot if they want to be. This is the same approach they have taken in many many other areas - huge ground truthed datasets, then infer without the ground truth.
You could probably make the same chart about suit colors. I am thinking about the flashy suit colors from the 90s which I don't really miss.
But, in the general case, who is this lowest common denominator programmer you are writing for? I can probably work out a few lines of terse Haskell more quickly than a page or two of boilerplate Java, because that's what I'm familiar with. Readable code is about pattern recognition, and everybody has a different set of patterns.

"Shakespeare for Dummies" works because English speakers tend to have a shared cultural familiarity that you can write for, but programmers typically don't.

That's not to say style isn't important. I'd say consistency is more important than any notion of simplicity, because once the reader has recognised a pattern they can re-recognise it quickly.
Show HN: One tool, where multiple translators are integrated
Yup I've been lurking there for years. It was better before this year. Still a few gem comments but you gotta wade through the crap.
Tesla does not have the 3D data to go with their imagery - google does. The amount of data google can collect, then integrate into their ground truthed 3D maps (which street view collects) is incredible. If they cared to they could back generate from images only to 3D based on an absolutely amazing training data set.
You referenced 'ok news' in your comment.

Thats where that one is coming from.
That (and/or plagiarism, self- and not) is what tends to be behind somebody having "produced a stunning output of journal papers".

(There are exceptions, and I have no particular insight into this specific case.)
Fractional inches notation is based on imaging tubes, not films.

There were of cylindrical fluorescent vacuum tubes that has rectangular imaging area at one end. Inch size notation like 1” or 1/1.2” for CMOS sensors denote size of equivalent imaging tube diameter for its imaging area.

“135 full frame”, “APS-C”, “Super 35mm”, “Medium format” on the other hand refers to film sizes, and thus respective imaging area dimensions.
It happened to me. Billed my insurance double and sometimes triple for each test.
Less. I want a surgeon to have done my procedure a good number of times already recently (if I get to choose.)
I don't accept that, and I won't accept it for my community.

I live in a crime-ridden country. Here, we as honest citizens are building fences, walls, gated-communities, electric fencing, metal bars around our doors and windows, hiring private security, etc to combat the crime that the wider society is tacitly tolerating. People want security, and we're willing to forego things such as "privacy" in return for that. Not all of us put "privacy" on a gigantic pedestal as some others do.
Idk, it does speak to a potential flaw in wikipedia. What happens in a situation where, for whatever reason, the "authoritative sources" are reporting falsehoods? (Not meant to be a comment on gamergate specifically)
Would be interested to hear what issues you ran into with Parcel. I've used it on dozens of projects without doing any sort of deep dive into their pipeline - just using the default no config compilation and it's worked pretty much perfect every time.
Show HN: A simplified interface to use RabbitMQ in large projects
You're translating into fortran? Why?
If you're a Mac user that cares about user experience, I would like to (aggressively) recommend Shrugs.app[0]. It's a Cocoa/AppKit app, made with macOS native technologies that integrates most of macOS features in the Slack experience. It's the best app in the town, surpassing Ripcord (which is developed in Qt and is ugly and foreign in macOS) or using Slack in the browser (my usual option), or using the Electron client. It's written by Helge Heß[1], which you might have heard about - he has some fun projects like SwiftWebUI[2].

[0] https://shrugs.app

[1] https://www.helgehess.eu

[2] https://github.com/SwiftWebUI/SwiftWebUI
Good article, but I did a double take when it said "the director wanted to protect the activists so they used deep fakes to hide their faces, here's the before and after". What's the point of hiding the face if you're going to show the before?!
Yeah, we shouldn't compare code to literary text or poetry, since these texts are not malleable in the way we want code to be.

For example Shakespeare often uses obsolete words or words which have changed meaning - but we can't replace these with more modern words or phases, since then it would break the meter or rhyme and destroy some of the double meanings. This is not a quality we want for code. We want code to be maintainable.
Ask HN: Genuine questions, why are you guys ignoring me and my post?
Those are very different situations. In the first situation, Laos' national infrastructure is at risk. They're screwed if they don't accept help.

In the second situation, they can say no to the money and be no worse off.
Speaking from experience: it’s also more visible to the police...
The sensor definitely isn’t too tiny to be useful, and you can get some nice C-mount lenses for cheap on eBay and Amazon. Incidentally, my favorite lens for my Canon M50 mirrorless is actually a C-mount lens with an adapter that cost me $30. It goes for about $20 new on the bay.

Edit: $50 for the Pi HQ camera, $30 for the lens, $20 for four Pi Zeroes (just in case it’s not as easy to find them for $5 where you are). Still comes out to way less than half the price of a used A6000 with the kit lens.
Have you produced any other major tracks for rappers? Where can I hear more of your stuff dude?? Thanks for sharing your perspective on HN. I'm more of an old school head listening to Nas and MF DOOM, but mumble rap has grown on me somehow...
Is the use of this backdoor targeting "petty crime"?
Have you read dick and Jane? I have, 150 pages to say "Sally is upset because her toy sailboat got left outside in the rain, and she wants dick to go get it". When I'm looking at a 3am level bug I don't want to wade through that mess, and odds are that the more complex rendering I gave. The complex rendering might have even "used the word storm above" and averted the entire 3am crisis.

Dick and Jane has a place for my 5 year old. But we expect 5 year olds to grow up to better.
India banned it because of security concerns.

This is interesting because Pakistan is very scared of highlighting atrocities on uighur muslims by China, so its now going against their main investor. Following Indias path but for different reasons.
Yes, if you have two AVX512 FMA units, you use them for GEMM; with a current microarchitecture implementation, if you only have one, you don't. https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/2d8ec164e7ae4f0c461c27309...
GEMM is one of relatively few computations with sufficient computational intensity.
Creating a Weather Alert System in Python
Pondering Amazon's Manyrepo Build System
Can you share some interesting behind the scenes stories of anything you've been a part of in the music scene for us HN fans :)
You want one from the idiots or one from the finance experts?
I think a lot of the time people think they have performance issues when they in fact don't, likewise with stability and flexibility.

In most cases, writing the readable and straightforward version first and only moving to the less readable but more X version (for any given value of X) after it's evident that you need to is the optimal solution.

It's the programming equivalent to buying cheap tools first and only buying the expensive version once the cheap one breaks: If it breaks you used it enough to warrant the expensive and more durable one, and if it didn't break you didn't have to spend more money than necessary.
Wikipedia say that they do not intend to be unbiased. It's enough to report on something as a fact if a number of independent news articles reports them as true.

Wikipedia doesn't (and shouldnt) do original research.

These policies are great for the vast majority of current affairs but fail in a few edge cases where news reports align together on the same message.

For current news and culture war stuff, consider the articles to be re written in the future when memoirs, PhD theses, documentaries and historians look at what happened.
The three examples used to demonstrate recursion, towers of Hanoi, fibonacci, and binary search are not the most convincing ones.

All can be solved with iteration. E.g. for Hanoi:

max = 1 << no_of_discs;
for (x = 1; x < max; x++)
printf("move a disc from %d to %d\n", (x&x-1)%3, ((x|x-1)+1)%3);

In the case of fibonacci, the iterative solution is exponentially faster as well.

Perhaps quicksort is a better example that cannot be easily expressed with iteration.
1 is simpler in most cases because I trust the computer to get the answer, but I need to know all the explicit parts. 2 hides where it all came from for an answer which might be wrong.