skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel extremely uneasy about this on privacy grounds and for other reasons I've not time to explain here.

Tragically, damn fucking idiots who've either ignored common sense or never had any in the first place have given the Forces of Darkness just the excuse they need to get access to their information. Their irresponsible actions gave The State just the excuse it needed to set a precedent.

Anyone who reads my posts will be aware that I'm far from being enamored with authority (as too many of those who are entrusted with it have repeatedly shown themselves to be disingenuous and untrustworthy). Moreover, I believe democracy has seen much better days and that our freedoms are being eaten away bit by bit and what's happened here is but another instance.

That said, if ever The State had a job that ought not to be controversial then it is protecting the health of its citizens from disease. Politics shouldn't enter into the debate except perhaps around the edges, for disease is the common enemy of everyone no matter what their beliefs or what side of politics they're on. This notion goes back two half thousand years or even earlier to Pericles—the great ruler of Athens—who came under attack from the citizens of Athens when they considered he hadn't done sufficient to protect them from a serious epidemic that had engulfed the city and of which he subsequently died. That has a ring of familiarity about it, doesn't it?

What I'm saying is that protecting citizens from a life threatening enemy takes priority over all other politics and matters of state—even if those other matters have negative consequences.

What's so damn annoying here is that the idiotic actions of a few damn stupid fuckwits will, over the longer term, have contributed to a further reduction of our ever-diminishing freedoms.

(You know what I'm thinking but I'll only allude to it—criticism of Pericles achieved nothing and natural selection quickly sorted out most of those who had criticized him!)
I think you're certainly ignoring facts because you don't like that UK handled covid crisis badly.

Get over it, the empire has fallen, UK is the ghost of what it once was and it's run by incompetents.

I don't have to dislike Johnson to know he is wrong,the numbers alone are enough to judge his actions.

Johnson said himself that "covid has been a disaster for UK" and it has left "the worst confirmed death toll in Europe" anyway.

He failed at protecting people and at the same time at protecting the economy.

If that's the best UK can do, it's really not that good...
My mbp 2012 is very slow when used to compile stuff these days, and struggles to build react projects and docker images. So I built a small server out of secondhand parts to offload those tasks away from my old laptop.

Using vscode's remote development support (which lets you mount a remote machine in the editor as well as doing port forwarding), there is almost no change to my usual development routine but massive improvement to build time and battery life, for ~$300 in parts. I guess I will postpone upgrading my laptop again.

This setup also works outside of my home network because I use zerotier on both the laptop and the local server, though I also configured my router to expose the server's ssh port in case I can't use zerotier for some reason. I also configured autossh to connect to my small vps server and port-forward the local server's ssh port there as an additional fallback because my isp sometime doesn't assign a public ip when the modem is restarted.
Yeah, we need sort of drones smart enough so they can pick up the food themself.
With this technology most of the permaculture ideas (protecting plants with other plants) can be replaced with drones.
Not that one counter example refutes your whole point, but I found the analysis of his record (this week’s edition) to be rather clear-eyed.

I do agree that I’ve noticed a tinge of bias that didn’t seem there before, but to represent it as more than slight is incorrect based on my experience (been subscribijg for ~12 years)

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The bulk of the analysis covers the period from 2017, when Mr Trump took office, to the end of 2019. We stop in 2019 in part because some data are released only annually, and in part because the pandemic has turned economies across the world upside down. Our conclusion is that, in 2017-19, the American economy performed marginally better than expected. (That conclusion remains if we follow the practice of some political economists, who argue that the influence of presidents on the economy can be discerned only after a year in office, and limit our analysis to 2018-19.)
I was a PureText user for over a decade and I lately (with frequent Win10 updates) I was experiencing problems with some apps, like often I heard the beep but nothing was getting pasted. If it still works great for you, naturally there is no need to switch.

There is one useful feature unique to my app (AFAIK), it's Win+Ins for pasting into a command line. It replaces all line breaks with spaces, so nothing gets automatically executed upon pasting.
Nvidia DeepStream SDK
It's not "news." Call it whatever you want, but it's definitely not that. No matter what your political stance.
I found the filesystems complaint about C++ bizarre too, because that is a system-dependent behaviour. How an open file behaves when it is deleted has very little to do with the programming language. And it does not matter if that language is Python, Rust or C++. These ecosystems interact with the underlying OS and report back what the OS layer tells them.

I absolutely understand some of the niceness about Rust preventing programmers from shooting themselves in the foot(it is still possible nonetheless), but sometimes it feels people just want to complain about C++ for the sake of complaining.
Allen Institute Software License – This software license is the 2-clause BSD license plus clause a third clause that prohibits redistribution and use for commercial purposes without further permission.

That's a big pity.
>How do you get away from all gravity? Aren't you subject to gravity from all other matter in the universe at all times?

Yes. But the effect of the distortion of space-time that we call "gravity" is subject to the inverse square law[0].

This means that, as Newton described:
"The gravitational attraction force between two point masses is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their separation distance. The force is always attractive and acts along the line joining them"

As such, while objects are affected by the distortion of space-time, the effect is diminished (but not eliminated) by increased distance from the mass that's distorting space-time.

Or at least that's how I understand it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
Yep, I do all the finger joints.
Over the last year I've been writing a replacement for the preview-latex functionality in auctex. Coincidentally, I just posted a Show HN on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24821474

https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

Xenops is intended to be used with auctex. The main feature that Xenops brings is that math, tables, and TikZ are rendered automatically, as soon as the cursor leaves the element. Rendering is asynchronous (using emacs-aio), so it doesn't interrupt user actions. It allows you to work on a \begin{equation/align/table/TikZ} block with a preview of the rendered content in view.

Another advantage is that it supports SVG images, so preview images are perfectly crisp when viewed on a high resolution display.

A video demo of Xenops is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNS-ZFVaFM4
Not really, they blamed 'complexity' and 'computer gremlins' rather than admitting that, perhaps, they made a shitty mistake.

> It’s a function that deletes the local database and creates all the required tables from scratch

Why would anyone have this? It's just dumb and embarrassing
Ask HN: How do you develop an appreciation for CS and algorithms
By the time I started my CS degree I had been coding since middle school and was a cocky know it all, so I was uninterested in the boring theory stuff my professors were droning on about and never really developed an appreciation for it. I've now been a SWE for 15 years and I revisit CS 101 every few years when doing interview prep, but it always feels like a chore and I learn just enough to get by. I think I'm a great coder and can get shit done and solve hard problems, but I'm still scared of graphs and other concepts!

I'm on the job hunt again, but this time instead of just cramming for interviews I'd like to actually develop an appreciation for algorithms. What do you all recommend for lectures/reading/other learning material? I honestly have found a lot of the instructors quite boring, and wonder if maybe I just need to find the right video series or books. Someone like a Feynman of CS who just exudes excitement as they convey the beauty of concepts and the power they have in solving real problems.
I've all but quit reading Facebook and Twitter and Parler. I use Facebook Messenger on my Mac to keep in touch with a couple of friends.

I've stopped bringing my phone to bed. Leave it in the office downstairs. The only device upstairs is a Kindle loaded with a lot of fiction and some nonfiction.

It's a start, anyway. I now believe that it's possible to be too well informed, be exposed to too much information of an ephemeral nature. Our brains aren't really designed for it.
Isn't The Atlantic busy attacking the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize because Trump was nominated for it?
I can't recommend directory-level encryption when full-disk encryption is so easy these days. It's a few clicks in the Fedora installer or a few commands with Arch Linux. It comes out of the box on new MacBooks and most new Windows laptops (although the more secure BitLocker option requires Windows 10 Pro).

Directory-level encryption is harder to set up and use—it requires typing your passphrase more often and makes you choose third-party software instead of using the features built into your operating system. Plus, lots of important files, like your browser's autofill information and other files that aren't considered "critical", are left wide open.

Encrypting your home directory is better than encrypting the "TOP SECRET" directory, but it's still just as hard as setting up full-disk encryption while being less effective.
you mean channel military funds into civilian companies for nefarious purposes. google received CIA funding. easy tracking for the NSA n CIA. the fairchilds or other chip companies all military money. so yeah if the EU becomes war hungry definitely they will catch up with the US. but remember world wars have started in Europe.
A good point to make, but if one is going to be that pedantic one shouldn't call it "impossible". A parabola is possible with the right wind, air resistance, gravity from nearby mountains, etc, and in practice those have a larger impact on almost any suborbital projectile than the difference that turns the trajectory from a parabola to an elliptical arc.
One of the most interesting parts of this book for me was the section on exponential back-off, both for the origin of the technique and examples in the real world such as for handling criminal sentences.
it is ridiculous. learn to sleep better instead of blaming noise
It's used in embedded. For a server you have other consumers which are a pain yo power down. And then you need to get some interrupt.

My home server can WoL on unicast packets, so that could be used as an "interrupt" to wake the machine from standby. But then you need a suitable workload that allows for substantial sleep time (e.g. wake up for 3s every 30s). Or you could schedule minutes precision polling by waking up via RTC.

Saving power when serving even a few https requests peer second with a sub 10ms response time - as I said, forget about it, at least with x86 hardware as we have today.
Ask HN: Which software you use has the best user experience for you?
Could be an App, Website or a script.
Octal was actually a lot more common back then, people hadn't settled on hex as the default power-of-two base - just as they hadn't settled on power of 2 word sizes - pdp8 was 12-bit, pdp-6/dec-10/20 were 36 bit, the old B6700 I grew up with had 48/51-bit words - 6-bit bytes were not uncommon
I more than likes the editor LyX. Hehe,

A few weeks ago (Who am I kidding? It was before the pandemic started) a friend pickup my chromebook of all things and asked me where the "Google Docs app was?" Beyond the obvious humor, I, at that moment, realized that my document production workflow was just LyX and I didn't even keep a shortcut to the gDoc web app anymore. What would I need it for?

It feels like it has been that way for at least a decade. Amazing software can really feel timeless. I'm going to donate as well.
I’m reminded of the film Donnie Darko, but I won’t say more as to not spoil anything for anyone.
They do, they insert "privacy" in all comms, fancy new switches in apps, trying their best to look concerned. And it works, people feel good after flipping off yet another "privacy" switch.
I stopped using Twitter for a couple weeks because the trending section that's forced you was always showing political garbage. It was driving me insane.

When I came back, I installed an extension to get rid of the trending section and some other garbage on there. It's been so much nicer since then (Retweets can still be problematic, but I don't want to block them entirely because I use Twitter as a way to follow artists that were forced to flee Tumblr. Retweets are how those artists share art from others that they like)

In the time that I was off Twitter, I didn't fully disengage from the news. I checked Apple News+ to stay up-to-date, but that was only once or twice a day instead of dozens.
LyX is fantastic. I used it for a long time. At some point I switched to TeXstudio [1], which is no longer WYSIWYG, but a great general LaTeX editor:

"Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar."

[1] https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio
The real reason is because you cannot cleanly define promises when combined with other definitions nor would you neccessarily want to - surprisingly.

Say a politician promises to cut taxes or boost social spending and then a natural disaster strikes or an adversary attacks. Either war or repairs and relief consume time and money. Holding them to it would force suboptimal decisions.

Money however is fundamentally fungible and performs best when it flows. Fraud being legal would force far more caution and selectivity which would do vast systemic harm. Why invest if there is no guarantee that it isn't just a gift that may be paid back?
That seems plausible to me.

At the end of the day I don't think the source matters in terms of how I see the Bidens, only the authenticity of the information itself. If the later comes out that the stated source was a lie, then that will change how I see everyone involved on that side. If both the information and source are false, then I would strongly support severe criminal charges for those involved.
Our main causes are environment, poverty and homelessness, and disability. Most of our charities are local, such as each of the major homeless shelters in our city. Medicins Sans Frontières and Sierra Club are our two international-level charities, but I hesitate to offer endorsements. Due diligence is important when donating larger sums.
> but not eliminated

So... you can't get away from it. That's what I said isn't it?
Agreed. Any more, I struggle to find a single publication that even tries to do both.
I assume the FED is rejecting it because the owners of the FED are the member banks which stand to lose from this implementation.
And at the same time, in your new frame of reference, you're still moving at exactly c through the time and 0 through space. But your time axis is no longer parallel with the time axis of the rest of the world.
Don’t store locally.
I disagree. In 'our' constitution there is the "Recht auf körperliche Unversehrtheit / Right to physical integrity(of your body)" as in it is forbidden to harm you. I'd extend that to a right to mental integrity, which that sort of shit is in continous violation of. And even if you don't directly consume it, the 'overspill' alone is toxic enough.

In other words: mass media is one big superfund site.
to be fair it didn't improve your quality of life MEASURABLY
This is actually complex. But QE, in most cases but not all (for example, QE3) involved the purchase of assets from the non-bank sector, not purchases from banks (in the US, banks do not hold a large amount of US govt securities).

When QE did involve the purchase of assets from banks (i.e. QE3 with MBS/ABS purchases, and in the EU where banks held a lot of govt debt) then it did lead to increase lending but the effect varied significantly (for example, in the EU the effect was tiny because most banks in the region are functionally insolvent).

So QE is not thought to have any particular effect on bank lending, and is generally not used with that aim in mind now. I think this was thought to be true in 2008 but we know now that it has no/little effect (i.e. QE is mainly effective through portfolio rebalancing). And central banks that did try to increase bank lending (the UK in the mid-2010s, and the ECB...always) use other techniques (i.e. FLS, LTRO...which, iirc, are direct lending to commercial banks by central banks...I think, I don't follow this stuff closely anymore).

Just generally too, if commercial banks are holding a lot of govt debt then that is usually a sign of problems elsewhere (i.e. the EU).
The new BBC micro:bit
I think this is more of an integration method error than an analogous case.
Considering the HN audience I recommend Canon cameras with Magic Lantern
The algorithm would have free speech protections under such a scheme, and it's likely courts in the US would conclude that it does under current law. Those do not necessarily extend to repeating lies that I have published about you, which are not protected as free speech.
Breville electric kettle for the tea drinker
Wrote my master thesis in Fluid dynamics (transition to turbulence) in LyX 11 years ago. Great experience! Great Software!
https://www.nonomo.de/en/babyhammock

There are a lot of them on the market. I can't speak to the pros and cons of other makers. The Nonomo was recommended to us by a friend.

The Nonomo has the mattress in an insert into the cloth hammock, so there's no risk of the baby getting wedged between the mattress and the hammock - that was the cause of a US recall of one make of baby hammock.

Nonomo are also good about getting additional parts, practically everything is individually purchasable for e.g. having multiple ceiling mounts - https://www.nonomo.de/en/store/accessories
Patio11 on Magic Wormhole
Skepticism is thinking they exaggerated some facts and perhaps over emphasized the importance of Stoicism and his mental fortitude to paint a prettier picture.

What you're describing is unfounded paranoia. The elites are out to get us? McCain is a hoax?
For me, CMD + Shift + V usually works
My own blogging/braindump platform, since I designed it for myself. I enjoy of working on it simultaneously with using it. I also use it for planning its own development.

I like using Word 97 for writing because of how fast it is, and how little it gets in my way. (I turned off Clippy, as much as I like him.)

Hacker News is very nice, too.

And, of course, the GNU/POSIX environment as a whole and command line in general.
Speak for yourself. My balls reach escape velocity and then make corrections to assume e=1.
Not that it'd probably make sense very often, but you could do bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies without having a persistent wallet digitally. You could have a paper backup and/or a memorized secure phrase easily. Been a while, but Electrum could do both years ago, I'm sure many others can as well.

Also, more importantly, why are encryption and this amnesiac property mutually exclusive? Can't you do both and use the strongest available guarantees that are applicable to a particular set of data? Seems like it'd at least make the job of an attacker more annoying at the least.
How long have you been on L-DOPA? It's well-known to build up a strong tolerance with Parkinson's patients after around 5 years, so I'd be careful with it.
The 4-day week made for 20% less work, I would say. ;)
Can you give some recommendations for must have plugins? I have a few Postgres databases running in production and none is more than the default docker image from Docker Hub
Have you considered trying more sophisticated dimensionality reduction algorithms? I'm especially interested in seeing the results of UMAP on this dataset.

Also, what about doing inverse transforms to try to hallucinate music?
Theories about people conspiring to control money, societies etc are usually very recent historical investigation and speculation.

I think you mean conjecture and ideas to propose theories about how past civilizations were able to create megalithic structures, and who they were?
this same exact thing happened to me, in the same order even. Now, about 6 mo later, I'm getting the rattle again on the left...
> If you introduced to C++ a Result type, or a package manager (I assume people have done this already), most C++ developers wouldn't end up using them. Most libraries wouldn't be using the same vocabulary. It would be arduous to even move the standard library over, because it would be a breaking change. Much of the tooling out there would probably never get specialized support.

CMake kinda makes me think there's definite interest in this kind of thing in the C++ community. It's janky and horrible, but it has tackled the module/package/library issue a little bit (not in an elegant sense but its a little more standardized)
I imagine the ratio is even smaller. HN is a often a particularly uninviting place to comment on.
One of the issues when using PCA (or POD, Karhunen-Loève expansion... whatever your field calls it) on a dataset is that it optimizes the spectral content of each mode to obtain the best possible orthonormal basis for the reconstruction, so you can get very different frequencies in a single mode. Should you want to restrict this, you could use DMD (Dynamic Mode Decomposition, one frequency only per each mode) or mPOD (Multi-Scale Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, a restricted set of frequencies per mode).
When you're tossing a ball into the air by hand, gravity is going to have a far more dominant effect on things than air resistance and friction. Things still fall on the moon...
LyX is incredible. Hats off to the contributors. I use it for journaling, writing papers back in college, and even for sketching out ideas. One of my favorite programs that's always one of the first things I install after a fresh format :)
Curvature due to gravity does not depend on mass, which is kind of hinted at when mass cancels in F=ma for that force.
I've always wanted to know why a ball doesn't follow a beam of light if they are both following straight lines in spacetime.

But even more important, if light beams are reversible under relativity (reflected off a mirror they will backtrack the same path) then light can not enter a black hole because its reversed path could allow it a way out. But then there's that whole thing of objects falling in appear to slow and stop as they approach the event horizon, so maybe light doesnt enter after all.

My conclusion is that you cant really understand it without serious study of under someone who already gets it.