skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't trust strava estimates. They are (or were, I haven't used it in a while) all over the place for me.
As an example of other news sites not giving them a fair shake, if you read the linked USAT article[0], they seem to want to be spinning the Babylon Bee in a negative light.

> Headlines on the site range from commentary on current events to the absurd. "Big Tech Fights Election Interference By Interfering In Election," "Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch" and "Teen Applies Entire Case Of Axe Body Spray Before Heading To Youth Group" were all featured on the site's homepage Friday morning.

> However, other headlines mock transgender people and Black Lives Matter protesters.

"However"? How do headlines satirizing transgender and BLM issues not fall under the previous umbrella of "headlines on the site range from commentary on current events to the absurd"?

USA Today also seems interested in "fact-checking" The Babylon Bee's headlines[1], something I've never seen done for The Onion / other satirical news, even when people "eat the onion"[2].

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/16/dona...

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/30/fact...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/AteTheOnion
And NYT or Washington Post don't omit content when it comes to the two sides of an issue? especially in the last six months?
Company director is the one job where pay and performance don't matter
Raptor Maps (YC S16) Is Hiring Sales VP and Director for Climate Tech Software
Why are they entitled to Facebook's money? They signed on the dotted line. They don't like the contract they signed? Too bad. They can go to arbitration.
I ran the same searches and got the info as the #4 result in DDG and the #1 result in Google.

Disclaimer: I switched to DDG and only very infrequently need to resort to google. I happier not being tracked.
Not an expert but IMO:
Understand the basics of the first uni statistics and probability course really well on a usage level (plug and chuck + some intuition level).

Second, google on lying with statistics.
For a 160lb rider, that’s only somewhere in the range of 14mph sustained on flat ground. That is incredibly low for a regular cyclist. Frankly, that power is just far lower than what most people can put out. My assumption here is that Strava has very poor estimation for riders without power meters. Or your route has many stoplights and stop signs, which is difficult to account for when calculating average power.

Regular recreational cyclists can generally put out 200-250W for well over an hour depending on weight.
If you have an implementation issue which no implementation has managed to overcome, then you probably have a language design issue.

I have very limited exposure to C++, so I'm not sure whether you're saying that some implementations have gotten this right. That isn't the impression I get as an outsider.
This isn't a takedown notice under DMCA, is the point. There's no safe harbor for this kind of infringement, so Github doesn't avoid any liability by taking it down after receiving a notice.
I think there's nothing Trump can do to win Washington; rather, more accurate to say there are many things Biden could do to lose Washington.
This is really interesting. Where are you based?
Yes. Thats why courts need to be able to intervene, which they cant do in the case of a truly decentralized blockchain. Which is why a blockchain is a poor fit for recording the ownership of non-digital assets.
Is there an issue with saying left-libertarian? Cause it's hard for me to believe that all these tech/media/etc employees aren't left, if it's reasonable to describe them as "progressive."
> Would you also have zoom suppress a SFSU lecture discussing Mein Kampf?

If the speaker agreed with Mein Kampf, and was promoting it, I'd have a very hard time criticizing zoom over it.

Free speech is important, but this speaker can find her own tools to promote her terroristic ideas, zoom has no obligation to help her.

> are expected to be able to engage with controversial or wrong-headed ideas

That's a very charitable interpretation. And if in fact this was a forum to discuss ideas, with pro's and con's, I might agree. But this is simply giving a platform to a terrorist, there is no intellectual discussion going on here.

The way you wrote "discussing Mein Kampf", you are implying they would actually be discussing it. But that's not what's going on here.

It's kind of like a reverse strawman - you changed the event into a much less controversial one, and then told people they should criticize zoom for blocking it. But zoom didn't block your strawman, they blocked an actual terrorist.
I have a good one. Here's the "fine people hoax" where he very specifically denounces white supremacists. Joe's entire campaign was started on a lie. You're being lied to by the press about nearly everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WWoXwUIywQ

Second part of the quote which you have not heard so far: "And I'm not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally."
Glenn Greenwald: “an important sentence on how US media works”
I'll try to set up an hotspot phone sticked and plugged, then run a webserver and stream the crying
Was Covid-19 a work-in-progress therapy for cancer treatment? Cancer cells (especially metastatic) have an overexpression of NRP1 (Neuropilin-1). Covid-19 will try to invade NRP1 over-expressing cells and try to destroy them, and hence help with destroying cancerous cells. Am I wrong?

https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6515012/
Because none of our other news organizations have been repeatedly caught doing exactly that.

I honestly can't remember the last "news" article I read from any source that didn't seem to conveniently forget some context or additional detail. Even the AP doesn't read as an unbiased accounting of the facts these days.
InsurTechnix believes that it's important to pro-actively defend against ransomware. The costs of e.g. patching OSes, or updating software applications, or blocking RDP ports, etc. are tiny by comparison with direct and indirect costs of attacks.

Currently cyber insurance is a game that no-one really wins. That's why we're trying to change the game.
Maybe what you are looking for already exists?

https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro
Clickbank University
Couldn't have said it better myself. It's weird to me that people on the left don't see how gaslit they are. It's nuts, the bubble is impenetrable.
Rabbis aren't the wealthiest members of traditional Jewish society.

But they can afford large families, and good marriages for their children. Monks they are not.
Things I like about Go (in this order):

* useful, not shiny. No new framework every year, just for the sake of it. An actually readable spec. Changes heavily thought through before being introduced. A programming language isn't a place to move fast and break things, as changes often cannot be undone.

* Readable code. You can figure out what a piece of code does pretty easily. Even if you can't do so at first glance, you know where to look next.

* Simplicity. I personally like having full understanding of things. This applies both to the language itself, as well as to the tools (go test, go mod, go generate etc). This is pretty subjective.

* The formatter. As a screen reader user, aligning things with spaces so that they would form nice little tables is a hard task for me. I'm happy I don't have to do so.

* Compiling programs as single, static binaries, assets included.

Some small things I don't like (also in that order):

* No try macro[1]. IMO try was a better solution than exceptions, and I found the arguments against it not that compelling.

* Overrelliance on struct tags, which shouldn't exist at all IMO. I don't want to couple my business logic, storage and view layers. Options for i.e. JSON should be specifiable at call time.

* No generics, or, even better, zig-like comptimes. They're simpler and more powerful, though they wouldn't probably neatly fit into go2.

Overall, I'd give go about 8.5/10.

[1] https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/32437-...
Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery
The tooling is not very good because nobody pays for software tools. When the electrical engineers pick the ecosystem they are not stupid enough to just use whatever tooling comes with the ecosystem for free, they spend $50k/year per engineer(!) to buy adequate tools to make their engineers productive. In contrast, software engineers and their engineering organizations are happy to waste equally valuable engineers just to save a couple bucks; it is insanity. In what other industry is a $10k expenditure an instant deal-breaker when investing in the productivity of an employee who costs more than $100k/yr? Companies invest more in the productivity of their truck drivers and admins than they do in software engineers. We are extremely valuable employees and we should demand that our companies invest reasonable amounts into actually making us productive instead of just tossing us the scraps since they are harming their own profitability by doing so. I mean, think of all the awesome tools that would make our jobs easier and more productive if our productivity were valued even half as much as the average electrical engineer.
Is your goal to fix people's terminology or to fix the actual problem?

It's not an end user's job to tease apart what specific thing is the root cause. If something changes, and their system feels slower, they're going to reasonably assume the thing that changed is at fault. That's doubly true if there's an easy switch to turn that thing on and off (which there often is, by picking a Wayland or non-Wayland session at login), and they can easily evaluate the difference in isolation. It might be cathartic to spend time yelling at people about who is actually at fault, but fixing the root cause would make there not be a fault to seek blame for.

People aren't going to stop running GNOME en-masse. Distributions are not going to abruptly abandon GNOME. If (and I do mean "if") there's some issue with GNOME's Wayland implementation, that's going to be many people's primary exposure to Wayland as a technology.

People will continue working on optimizations, to many places in the stack. It doesn't matter where the fault lies or where the fixes need to happen, the net result is people saying things like "I switched to Wayland and things got slower / less smooth / etc", and they're going to continue saying things like that. It'd be nice if people phrased it more that way (slowness associated with switching to Wayland, rather than Wayland being slow), and provided more details about their environment, rather than implying that "Wayland" is a single piece of software which should incur their ire. It'd be even nicer if there were less ire to go around because more things Just Work.

It's also entirely possible that some of the people in these various threads have issues with some other piece of software in the stack.

> If you have a beef with GNOME, then bring it to GNOME.

I'm not the one with a beef with GNOME; you seem to be. If you have a problem with GNOME, take it to GNOME. GNOME works great for me, and I don't care which Wayland protocols it does or doesn't choose to implement. You haven't even specified what precise change you think ought to happen there, just some general complaints about protocol extensions.
Monkeytype – A Minimalistic Typing Test
Major League Eating
The top echelon has gone from old, white and male to old, white and male or female. Big whoop.
Not who you're responding to; there's Amethyst but I use Rectangle (the fork of now defunct Spectacles).
By clicking on it.
You don't need to wonder. Millions [0] of people call it each year, and that doesn't happen without it being disseminated. Dissemination works.

As further evidence (albeit anecdotal) I have noticed, especially in light of prominent suicides in the last few years, that the information posted seems to be getting more attention, with, as you called it, meme-like inclusion almost everywhere and every time suicide is discussed. This has correlated with an increase in the number of calls they receive.

They have received more than 12,000,000 calls since 2005, with 8,500,000 just between 2014-2018, much faster than the increases in suicide rates.

[0] https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/201...
what's the highest level math that one can theoretically get to through "just [reading] the books and [doing] the exercises"?
No need to take me on my word, Googling my username / full name will lead you to a pretty long, detailed and hart to forge online history.
Taleb tweeted his response, mentioning also this HN topic: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1320433476345176066
Ask HN: Experience at Facetdev.com
I was wondering if any one has used Facetdev, arc.dev or Toptal., and what your experiences are?
Which country would give them a few thousand visas for their employees in China to exit together with their families?
> By scattering selectors all over the place the HTML template and the JavaScript code is tightly coupled so when you change one place you need to manually change the other place as well

eh, it's not like if you change something in the vue state store you don't have to modify the template as well
DRM circumvention is absolutely not "purely an American ban." EU law bans circumvention software under DIRECTIVE 2001/29/EC from 2001.

This is codified into local law in various ways by various member states, but as an example in the UK it became section 296zb of the Copyright Design and Patents Act (as modified by the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003), which can be found at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZB.

(1)A person commits an offence if he—

(a)manufactures for sale or hire, or

(b)imports otherwise than for his private and domestic use, or

(c)in the course of a business—

(i)sells or lets for hire, or

(ii)offers or exposes for sale or hire, or

(iii)advertises for sale or hire, or

(iv)possesses, or

(v)distributes, or

(d)distributes otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the copyright owner,

any device, product or component which is primarily designed, produced, or adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures.
(2)A person commits an offence if he provides, promotes, advertises or markets—

(a)in the course of a business, or

(b)otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the copyright owner,

a service the purpose of which is to enable or facilitate the circumvention of effective technological measures.

I shall spare you the rest, which is available at the link. But I would note it's not even a civil offence, it's a criminal one, with a maximum two year prison penalty.
This worldview discounts the political awareness that such actions can foster. Someone who replaced their crabgrass lawn with native meadow has a daily embodiment of their value system. When such a person hears about murder hornets, is this person somehow less likely to contact his/her representatives about the issue than the person who kept a typical lawn, in your assessment ? That's the only way I can see this as a net negative, rather than neutral or trivially positive.

Or, given that the described standpoint suggests I have enough attention for either planting a meadow lawn or supporting 'big action', why are you wasting it telling us about this, instead of naming names of the big actors to write to our representatives about and avoid electing representatives that hold a favorable position toward them ?
> What makes people work on projects like this?

I would love to dualboot a minimalist OS that is supported on my device (e.g. Galaxy S[6-10]), works for basic things like calls and sms, and doubles my battery life. Then, when I need the full-featured experience, I'd just boot into Android.

The reason this won't work is rather the device manufacturers, sadly. I agree with your conclusion that these OSes seem to be doomed to failure, but I strongly disagree with the premise.
Dude where can I get one of those awesome suits?
Oh, man. I love the Bee. Most of my daily chuckles come from their satire.

But I go directly there, not via Facebook. They should work harder to not rely so heavily on that single source of traffic.
For 1 hour FTP in heavy trading training, I did about 250 watts rowing and 300 watts cycling. I did 250 watts on the bike for about 6 hours, and I don’t think I could have done 200 watts for 3 hours rowing for several reasons.

I think the best multi-hour total energy yield efforts are from recumbent bicycles.
> until Prime Minister Trudeau watered it down so much that it became meaningless.

So the father fought against disabled people's rights and the son killed the country's aerospace sector.

What a dynasty!
Another reason to use Jitsi.
I think the idea is to have a passive bundle of fiber at the far end with all your electronics in the safe zone, like a fiber optic endoscope.
Okay for coding I what say: practice practice practice :D
I personally learn best when I have an idea and I want to implement something specific. Can be big or small. Best are the ones which are very extensible.
What I do as a mentor is to review code and give feedback. You probably don't wanna learn julia though. You can get some starter feedback at exercism.io Maybe you can ask there as well if someone wants to mentor you for some cash.
> If you have an implementation issue which no implementation has managed to overcome

I recall a time where GCC's error messages were infuriatingly cryptic.

Then clang came up, and suddenly cryptic error messages were not only clear but helpful in identifying root causes.

If your line of thought made sense, C++ would have been an awful language until clang fixed it.

Don't confuse "implementation X didn't bothered to pay attention to a feature" with an issue in how a language was designed.
This is to be expected of HN. After awhile you stop caring about the flagging, downvotes, people feigning outrage and mods threatening to ban you because your commentary crossed over some thin “inflammatory comments” line they superimposed on top of their “guidelines”.

Just move on to the next story and be thankful you were even able to see it and read it before it was sent to purgatory.
I think our sight is all a little different. I can clearly see 50/60hz strobing in light when others can't. Back in the old CRT days I would get strained eye sight and nausea if I worked at monitors running below 85hz, unless it had long lasting phosphors like the old monochrome CRTs.
I came here to say the whole [2003] bit like everyone else, but it's worth noting how recent some of the "haha now c++ is better and this article no longer applies" changes are. C++ Concepts only made it into the standard in 2020.
Copyright law is always a balance between creators and society.
When it comes to being able to watch videos no matter the device
or Internet connection, and doing so for non-commercial purposes,
the balance we should strive for seems clear to me; it should
allow youtube-dl.

I loved that last quote.
I assume she's probably barred from entry by ship as well. But I share your apathy to her plight.
This is a fascinating concept, although its implementation would be complicated. What qualifies as 'non-intelligent', just anything non-human? Can we define a spectrum (as a pescetarian, I make special exceptions for octopus and squid as they qualify as sentient on my rudimentary personal sentience/intelligence spectrum)? What defines best interest? I can easily imagine scenarios in which my best interest would be euthanasia or copious painkillers/sedatives, if I had to otherwise live in severe pain or discomfort. But I can't say what other humans would want in that scenario. Interesting topic indeed.
I am still waiting for bug 865 (now 258) to be resolved.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/258
https://clash-lang.org/ is a functional HDL. Compiles to VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog. That's lower level than just about anything else you can get code for (I suppose SPICE is even lower level in this sense...)
Getting Started with Angular
If there's one platform I don't think of as toxic, open to new ideas, suppressing flame-wars and censorship, it's hacker news.

It's by far not perfect, occasionally interesting stuff is flagged, but generally speaking if you're open minded hacker news delivers.

To the point: you're obviously frustrated. You blame your frustration on neglect of big tech influence. You want to make a point, counter to the flagged posts.

Do it! If there's substance behind it, it'll either be ignored (much too often, but i digress) or it'll hit the front page. But it won't be flagged (as the linked posts have been).
In the Pacific Northwest, we have a couple other slow moving ecological train wrecks. The first is the himalayan blackberry, an invasive species that kills everything else and completely dominates where it has taken root. It grows everywhere.

A similar story for the scotch broom. And the english ivy, which is killing the trees.

All of these are everywhere and very difficult to kill.
Study: Soil fungi act like a support network for trees
Yes, local searches (if that’s what you mean) would be one of its weak points.

On the other hand, there are often various good local search providers who have bangs that you can use directly, with better SERPs than Google for the relevant queries.
Mac Os X on desktop seems < 20%[1], so hard to imagine how overall it could hit that figure.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
Isn't that in the US also tied to a minimum employee count?
Interesting, probably depends on hardware then. On Pi4, that same workflow (drm/kms without desktop managers, with GLES on top) delivers superior image with no tearing (tearing does happen in windowed mode under load), while consuming less resources than windowed mode. This library: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac
And in many juristictions they are explicitly defined, and don't apply to copyrighted work generally, only when acquired under specific circumstances.

Format shifting is explicitly illegal in the UK for example, and timeshifting is restricted to works obtained from a broadcast source by the person performing the copy, and not to an on-demand one, in many territories.