skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the field were contaminated to that extent, he could have presented evidence that that happened, and used that to defend himself. But that's not how this contamination worked. He amplified traces far beyond what mere contamination would cause.
This part I find interesting. Any comments/thoughts will be appreciated.

(Begin cut and paste)

From the perspective of
understanding the principles
of design, development and
management of settlements,
Kautilya prescribed that it is
important to know the kind of
urbanization he conceptu-
alized. He mentions a well
defined hierarchy of the
urban centers and the
administrative divisions. These
divisions were based mainly on
the size of population and
were influenced by the
resources available in the
region and opportunities for
economic development. The
smallest division was a village
consisting of each not less than
a hundred families and not
more than five hundred
families of agricultural people
with boundaries extending as
far as a krósa (2,250 yards).
Apparently Kautilya also
envisioned certain quality of
life for the inhabitants by
specifying population density
and kind of physical
developments in various parts
of the town. Further, in his
policies on urbanization,
Kautilya encourages migration
to the countryside in order to
prevent overcrowding into
the cities. This ensured a
control over population as well as building densities and thus also reduced the hazard risks in city centers. The policy might also have been implied on widely spreading out the population across the nation, not just concentration in particular cities or national capitals thus supporting integrated and comprehensive growth of the regions. However, such outward regions were essentially with well developed agrarian economy.(/end cut and paste)
I've met a lot of recruiters and I really think most of them don't have technical chops to be worthy of trying to impress. Its way more critical to worry about what your colleagues think of you. Focus on impressing them. Because three, five, ten years out when you have all spidered out to other companies it is these people who will get you your next great job.
I don't think Google is a good place to work at really... And when interviewing a web developer, I don't think caring if they can invert a binary tree is a good thing.

If you think things like LeetCode makes you a better programmer then you only show how inexperienced you are. You can know a lot about theory and algorithms and still write shitty, unmaintainable code.
Hello Townley - I sell in Washington state, but plan to be licensed in Oregon before the start of 2021... looking at your profile, it looks like you have been primarily centered in large cities... you might be surprised at the cost of homes and quality of life in small town, rural America. Where I live is a ~35 minute flight to Seattle, has several hospitals, everything within a fifteen minute drive, four mild seasons, and an average house price of $300K. It's also wine country. Main thing our market lacks is people with capital willing to update and reinvest in older homes and/or build out non-cookie cutter new homes.

Depending on what you are looking for in life, I suspect there are lots of places in the world that could work for you.
I wish I had actionable ideas.

For a top 5 (or 7) wish list it would be along the line of:

- Outlaw billionaires the same way we’ve outlawed (at least on paper) monopolies. At that scale individuals have the power to sway governments. (A billion is likely not the right number, but it’s a good starting point.)

- Kill the money in politics. Make lobbying illegal.

- Kill the filibuster

- Kill the electoral college

- Decouple healthcare from employment (The only realistic solution I know of is socializing it).

- Provide a robust safety net (but get rid of the checks balances to prevent “abuse”). Just blanket give everyone $2000/month.

- Eliminate exemptions to providing benefits make it proportional to hours worked (worked an average of 10 hours a week for a month? That employer must provide 1 week of benefits to that person.) There is no common good from giving employer a massive expenses break to employ 2 people at 20 hours a week instead of just hiring one full time employee. This is gaming the system plain and simple.
I hadn't thought of CPU architecture problems since all of my computers in the past decade or so have used the same architecture, but that's a good point.

I understand sticking the generator in the repo isn't a good practice, but I really just want a simple setup that won't have dependency problems. Probably an executable shell or Python file that doesn't draw in any dependencies would be ideal for me since those can run on pretty much any Linux computer in my experience.

Based off the recommendations here, I'll likely migrate my Jekyll site to Hugo or this one which was recommended by another commenter in the thread: https://rgz.ee/ssg.html

Right now, do you just keep Hugo in your `$PATH`? If you do that, do you need to note in your site's README which version of Hugo it should be built with, or are Hugo versions pretty backwards-compatible with each other?
> difficult syntax

My approach of learning any language with "difficult syntax" is to treat those as language features rather than a burden.

It is the language bridging the coder to the complexity under the hood (the computer). This comes from Rust's nature of being a low-level PL, and it is really awesome to be able to abstract those minute details so that one can write Rust and "look, it's not that different from JavaScript"

Another analogy would be `gerund` in English. English has the `gerund` feature for its speakers to nounify a verb. Other languages don't have that, some even use the same symbols for both the verb and the noun form.

Both Rust's "difficult syntax" and English's gerund needs only one-time learning session. Once you're fluent on it the sentences come out on their own.
If your function spends 80% of its time on logic and 20% on database time, with a server app, you can get by with 200 DB connections to handle that throughout, but will need 1000 connections in a serverless setup.
Apple Music has a Recently Added section - not sure if that helps.
Why do you say that? I find TOML much harder to write compared to YAML.
ReactiveRails: Basic but functional calendar app in 176 LOC
I continue to want to dabble here-abouts, since at least the time of having seen "Anna: A Crazy Fast, Super-Scalable, Flexibly Consistent KVS"[1], which is now one[2] of the two major components of the Hydro project, alongside Cloudburst[3], a Python "stateful serverless platform". There's also some other pieces like a local Anna-cache[4] & a coordinated retry library, & kubernetes-centric cluster-manager.

I have no idea how related the Hydro-Project work is to this recent publication on Calm, but I hope to find out!

[1] https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/anna-kvs/

[2] https://github.com/hydro-project/anna

[3] https://github.com/hydro-project/cloudburst

[4] https://github.com/hydro-project/anna-cache
1.Microsoft is a company.

2.Microsoft loves money.

3.Whatever makes them money gets their love.

4.Making money is the primary purpose of a company.
Check out https://www.getzola.org. It's a single executable. It even does syntax highlighting (without using client-side javascript).

I moved to it from Jekyll/Hugo, because I hate dealing with Ruby and dependencies like you!
> Well, consider that if Apple were an open platform, this default would be set by most "for free".

> If the platform invited the user to set a default, or was "biased towards their user's preferences", as most would select google, google would be the "natural default".

You almost make it sound like defaulting to Google without making people aware of the alternatives is “open” and unbiased.”
>apples aren't self fertile

there are a few varieties which are self-fertile
What part of The fact that it is better than what existed before doesn't change the fact that we can do better yet. did you fail to understand?

Yes, HFT manages to do better than the old market makers that had humans doing the same job that HFT does now in the same way with bigger margins. But that doesn't change the fact that for retail investors, I believe that my suggestion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760841 would help them even more.
Yes it can when you use musl instead of glibc
This is such an interesting read.

Now, if you want to create your own vaccine, you can do that too! Project McAfee[0] (Which has concluded now and all videos have been published on YouTube[1]) aims to teach you how to create your own DIY vaccine based on the paper "DNA vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques"

Edit:

Looks like they have also posted their results.[2]

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l8_5vY83bh-fG1G6S6lO7F4N...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDo6S3H8nlk

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WTuRBuy74KlaBzLrd0aTZl85...
Ask HN: What Operating Systems courses would you recommend?
I'm looking to learn all of the things I missed out on by not getting a CS degree. Next up: Operating Systems. I know that there's the "dinosaur book", but it seems to be a bit old now. I'm definitely willing to dig into that book, but should I supplement it with more modern courses? If so, which would you recommend? Thanks in advance!
https://github.com/apex/up is a godsend for deploying on AWS Lambda for me. By the same author as Express JS, TJ Holowaychuk.

TJ abstracts the Lambda nonsense so you just get to use a standard HTTP res/resp interface. https://github.com/apex/up-examples/

Deployment iterations for me in Singapore can be as low as 2s, but tbh I use https://github.com/codegangsta/gin locally for development iterations.
Worth checking: https://github.com/dty1er/kubecolor
We have been working with Optaplanner for the past 15 months. We switched from Drools to our custom score calculation rules and found it much easier to express business logic that way (on the one hand, we were unfamiliar with Drools and found the documentation unclear; on the other hand, our constraints are very complex).

One of the greatest features of Optaplanner with respect to alternatives, such as OR-tools, MiniZinc and the likes, is that you can express your rules in plain Java, which anybody with an imperative programming background can figure out (this is partially due to the simplicity of the Local Search model that Optaplanner is based on).

Most other tools function differently: most fundamentally, they do not use Local Search but rather Constraint Programming or Mixed Integer Programming. This means they offer you a way to encode your constraints by providing a variety of patterns for the various types of constraints they support. We found that this approach is generally harder (it requires a different mindset at the very least) and requires far more planning in advance when deciding how to represent your variables. We couldn't afford this as our process of requirements discovery went on for well over a year.

All in all, I would recommend Optaplanner. And props to Geoffrey who is helpful and responsive on various platforms!
I'd rather use it than the Apple Butterfly keyboard. I used to bang out BASIC on a C64 with the hunt&peck method. Sure, I was 10, but I know I beat on it harder than I do now with actual typing. That keyboard never had keycaps fall of it. I cannot say the same thing about this keyboard on my MacBook Pro 2017 model.
I think it all depends on how searchable and generally well-maintained the codebase is. Having some obscure critical function hidden in a monolith is totally possible too.
Row Level Security Now Generally Available for Azure Data Explorer
Breakfast has a surprisingly big variance across the world, with mostly Europe and North America eating sweets for breakfast. In many other places in the world, it tends to be savory. This article [0] has pictures of breakfasts from around the world.

With regards to oatmeal, my preference is to eat it as part of muesli [1], mixed with plain yogurt, filmjölk, or skyr.

[0] https://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/what-people-eat-breakfas...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muesli
It's absurd how they tolerate that and pay the highest rent in the country for the privilege of having a swarm of rats scatter when they walk past the trash heap at night. No other city in the country just leaves waste in a pile unprotected on the side of the road like NYC. I don't understand why they don't at least have a god damn huge bin like any other first world city if it's going to be a pile of trash anyway on the sidewalk day in day out. It's downright medieval and I don't understand how it isn't a public health crisis having so many rats so close to eating and living.
I regret bringing up the peter principle. I didn't mean to say anything except that you probably earned what you have more than you think :)
ONNX Runtime mobile a reduced size, high perf package for edge
Well delays can vary. My delay was 3 months, but that was due to COVID.
But he did. Specifically according to Nate silver on Election Day in 2016.
Optimize Azure Storage Costs – Disk Edition
Yeah they are! With a bit of research you can find cheaper knock offs too. For carpal tunnel I hit the forearm, bicep, chest, neck. The scalenes in the neck seem to offer the most reward. A book on trigger points and a theragun are very good imo.
It was same when I worked at Adobe, really. And Adobe doesn't have servers sitting idly all the time. In the old days, getting approvals for a cluster, while feasible, would be a big overhead, take time, and then in 1 year it'd be already substandard. With cloud computing, I could easily spin up a huge cluster without asking anybody for approval, do some work on it, and turn it off after an hour.

I could see how for small companies, "spinning up a VM" would be a thing to consider carefully - but for bigger ones (and especially for "big data" workloads), cloud computing is really a no-brainer.
First Confirmed Cases of Covid-19 Reinfections in US
I’m not familiar with the contents of the rant but I don’t think anyone can know how well Mars colonization would go.
Using Jupyter Notebook to Analyze and Visualize Azure Sentinel Analytics
Roll your own incremental score calculator ;)
NYC smells bad and the trash situation in Manhattan is straight out of the middle ages. That being said, I found New Orleans to have far worse smells. Something about how they do their trash there is even more degenerate than Manhattan. Imagine a little 5x5 alcove cut into the wall with a dumpster full of fried fish grease that hasn't been hosed out since Katrina. It was brutal. The entire city is a health code violation in any state but Louisiana. It straight up made me lightheaded sometimes in the french quarter, just putrid rank smells permeating the humid air with no breeze pushing it anywhere.
But apparently he was allowed to amplify those seeds in an even mixture with other seeds. The distinction is that he wasn't allowed to amplify only those seeds, while removing the normal seeds. And that's... a weird way to interpret the idea of a patent.
Thanks! Where can I read more about that? I looked at musl's website, but didn't see any mention of standalone binaries on the page comparing it to glibc. [0]

[0]: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
Yes. It's so much faster and easier to target. I've foam rolled for years and have every gizmo massage tool out there.

I'd say foam rolling, active pressure release, deep tissue massage, dry needling, trigger point release, acupuncture, acupuncture with tens are all very similar. But percussive therapy with a theragun is easier and something you can do on yourself in ten minutes.
Azure Functions has an open-source runtime including autoscaling: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...

IDK about the others.
> I posted the article to discuss land use and management/urban planning of that time

Just a few comments back you wrote:

> Do you think ‘the peasantry’ should be neighbors with royalty? I don’t see it ever happening. Ever

That sure sounds like it is discussing the present and the future.

> I posted the article to discuss land use and management/urban planning of that time. Would you like to comment on that?

I did. Read my first comment above.

Also the article literally concludes by asking the question about how the ancient text is applicable to the present:

"How much do we alter the policies for growth of the human settlements, the basic
principles are bound to remain constant so long as they address a wholesome
development of the human kind. What do we learn from the past surely depends
on how we look at it. Kautilya Arthashastra, also commonly known as the Kuta-niti,
has been referred mainly for its significance in the political history of India. Hence
there is a common misconception that it deals only with the tricks and tactics
pertaining to the state politics. Secondly, with the changing face of politics in the
modern times it is seen as a great document only for all those in the field of public
vote capturing. The few principles discussed above may seem very general but the
way they are proposed to be implemented follows the principles for making a
cohesive society."
Ewasm Launched on ETH-Compatible Chain
Red Hat's open source participation guidelines
Depends if it was trademarked. It's more funny that the FSF has asked them to change their name https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gnutella.en.html since their software isn't even released under GPL, let alone part of GNU.
Blockstream Satellite Pro Kit
Going long will limit your losses to the amount invested. The point is that your AWS bill has no such limit whatsoever.
I think you would get a lot of benefit out of learning more about trigger points not only in your arms but all over your upper body that can help with carpal tunnel.

The Theragun can do my quads well if I hit the trigger zones. I used to be a national ranked mogul skier so these aren't ordinary quads lol.
PowerShell Working Groups
PyOxidizer generates standalone binaries for python.

It requires the rust (and optionally C) toolchain to be installed first.

I think requiring another language development environment set up to package code is a big turn-off. A friendlier approach is either to have a package in the same language so it interpolates with the ecosystem, or have a standalone binary which doesn't need dependencies.

At this point, I look at it as a python distribution tool for rust developers.
I don't have direct experience with Prolog, but I talked to a consultant that told me that Prolog was good but too slow for certain applications.

Once he had to convert a Prolog algo in 50 `if then` in C. He told me it wasn't clean but the perfs they got out of it was an order of magnitude.
I wish for a static site generator with back links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aM3JzBJ6qo
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778738 (2019)
Thanks for the suggestion!

Some of the other commenters have pointed out that Hugo also has standalone binaries, I just didn't notice them last time I looked. What made you choose Zola over Hugo?
Sometimes conveniences ruin things. I've heard it said "Having everything feels a lot like having nothing at all."

The comparison of how we used to do things, to how we do them now are often just a marketing tactic, because old and new are relative regarding value. E.g., an old violin is better.

What's lacking with the new internet is about this and that, or lack of options. So the entirety of the culture is flavored by an oligopoly in their respective market.And Spotify is missing loads of music.

Music needs to change its perspective to a this and that view. Is "this" what you want over "that"? How old or new something is, is irrelevant.

No musician that I know, and I know lots as a lifelong musician, is enthusiastic about Spotify. Most of us feel we just have no choice. Same with Facebook etc. Most people don't even like it.
Using Deployment Slots with Azure App Service
This is a great effort. We've seen a lot self-hosted GA alternative hitting HN lately and that's awesome. Going through the demo, it's great to see many of the essentials. Will give this a try.

Some gripe about the UI layout, with the fixed side bar and fixed top bar, there's very little room left for actual data. I think all of top content bar area items can easily fit within the side bar. (fyi, I browse with desktop at 150-200%)
I expected the holder is Verizon but it seems Lucasfilm.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/13087/word-droid-registe...
Ask HN: What modelling languages can be used to capture complex environments?
I'm interesting in knowing what modelling notations can be used to model complex interactions in the environment (i.e. helps us to understand the world around us), something like UML but with a broader scope. Any references, books or articles are very welcomed.
Reminds me of https://yts.mx/movies/a-beautiful-mind-2001
The Mughals were descendants of Genghis Khan, the Western arm of the Mongol empire. They embraced Islam after sacking Baghdad and slaughtering the Caliph, having had him trampled by horses. When Timurlane invaded India he would erect mountains of infidel skulls after battle [0]. His descendants followed that practice though to be fair they practiced this against all opponents just not infidels however it speaks to their barbarianism. All Mughals from Timurlane to Aurangzeb destroyed temples, smashed idols and butchered the priests and monks. Dozens of Indian religious sects that were heterodox (outside) to classical Hindu thought like Carvaka, who were material rationalists, were exterminated including most Buddhist and Jain sects. Buddhist traditions that exist outside India have recorded these holocausts.

Akbar, who you eulogize, as having ushered in a golden age was anything but. He carried out the fanaticism of his ancestors and was proud to be known as a Ghazi or "great Islamic warrior". Amongst his notorious deeds that are whitewashed are destroying temples and idols and rewarding those who killed infidels and soaked their beards in their blood [2].

Aurangzeb who ruled from 1618 onwards was the 6th emperor had thousands of temples destroyed like his illustrious great grand father. He has many famous edicts still preserved [1] where he ordered thousands of temples destroyed and the idols carted to Delhi where they were buried under the steps of the grand mosque he built in New Delhi which still stands. Delhi and its surroundings which have Hindu history going back thousands of years do not have a single temple older than 60 years. Why? The Mughals systematically destroyed every temple from one of the oldest inhabited urban areas in the Indian sub continent.

The were many empires in India prior to Mughals and after the Mughals that unified most of India and in many cases had greater land mass than the Mughals.

Finally, the economic growth rate during the Mughals was generally negative and the Indian economy shrank while most of the world grew [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chanderi

[1] https://aurangazeb.wordpress.com/category/farmans/

[2] https://theprint.in/opinion/yogi-adityanaths-anti-mughal-sta...

[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2000-years-economic-history...
Also sometimes lost and closed tabs should be categorized somehow based on criteria (was open for days without scrolling).
The Facial Recognition AI Timeline of 2020: News, Research, & Regulation
Depends on the city. I live in LA and we have probably the most dangerous streets in the country for pedestrians. We were the only city to see our car on soft body deaths rise after implementing vision zero.

My theory is this is a result of the traffic, ironically. You spend 2 hours out of your day commuting at 12mph at best, so the minute you have 100 yards of asphault ahead of you, many people opt to just whip to 50-60mph on 35mph roads and 25mph residential streets to savor the speed. If you hit someone at that speed, death is practically guaranteed.