skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all his sins Mark Taibbi (not Taibibi) has expressed his views in several books and lots of articles, I doubt all 6 books are nothing but insults.

Look, the truth is there a big gap opened between center-leftists, people who like Hilary, Biden,BWS and all the mainstream democrats, and more progressive inquisitive , hardcore leftist branch like Taibbi or Rania Khalek who wont give a pass to the democrats just because they are "on their team". Like the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks of the Russian Revolution these 2 groups hate each other more vehemently than any right wing side, because they consider the other as traitors. A split is inevitable.

All the rest huff and puff is just a front for this fundamental issue.
Yep. The genuinely useful stuff is never coming from Medium/Twitter personalities. Instead I often find it on obscure Blogspot sites with a few posts per year, with archives going back to 2006 or so. That's where you find content from actual good engineers. Leave the Twitter e-celeb drama to the plebs, and Medium to the CV-filler fluff.
Launch HN: Deepnote (YC S19) – A better data science notebook
Hello HN,

I'm Jakub and I'm the founder of Deepnote (https://deepnote.com/). We're building a better data science notebook.

As an engineer, I spent most of my time working on developer tools, building IDEs, and studying human-computer interaction. I helped build a couple of startups, I built tools for JavaScript development, and worked on Firefox DevTools. But once I started to work with data scientists, all those code editors and IDEs that I knew as a software engineer suddenly stopped being the right tool for the job. Notebooks were.

Notebooks as we know them today have many pain points (versioning, reproducibility, collaboration). They don't work well with other tools. They don't exactly encourage best practices. But none of these are fundamental flaws of the notebook paradigm. They are signs of a new computational medium. Much like spreadsheets in the 1980s.

Two years ago, my co-founders and I started to think about a better data science notebook. Deepnote is built on top of the Jupyter ecosystem. We are using the same format, and we intend to remain fully compatible in both directions. But to solve the above problems, we've introduced significant changes.

First, we made collaboration a first-class citizen. To allow for this, Deepnote runs in the cloud by default. Every Deepnote notebook is easily shareable (like Google Docs) and easy to understand even by non-technical users.

Second, we completely redesigned the interface to encourage best practices, write clean code, define dependencies, and create reproducible notebooks. We also built a really good autocomplete system, and added a variable explorer.

Third, we made Deepnote easy to integrate with other services. We didn't want to build another data science platform where people work with an iframed notebook. We want to build an amazing notebook that plays well with other services, databases, ML platforms, and the Jupyter ecosystem.

Check out a 2-min demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/b7e05ecca78047c2a2f687d77be8ecea

Building a new computational medium is hard. It takes time. Today, we're launching a public beta of Deepnote. Not everything works yet. Some pieces are missing. But we also have a lot in store, including versioning, code reviews, visualizations. We still have a lot to learn too, so I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Not sure why you are getting flagged. People not seeking medical assistance could be a reason why the sampling isn’t collecting any flu case.
If the engraving happens in China then most likely yes.
I agree that Express/Slim/Flask is a better comparison.

But, to answer your core question, there are a few different reasons:

* Performance. The simple, straightforward Rust code will often be much faster than the usual suspects here. Sometimes, I/O is your bottleneck, but sometimes it's not. Maybe you only move some backend services over. npm is an example of a company that did this; some high performance services were implemented in Rust because Node was struggling.

* Consistency. Resource usage tends to be very flat. This helps with things like capacity planning, but also reliability (which is a later bullet point).

* Cost. This is directly related to performance, but also on a different axis: memory usage. We've seen people switch code to Rust, and while the performance doesn't change things for end users, the extra overhead means smaller servers, or less servers, which translates directly into $$$. There are some big, not super public success stories here I wish I could tell you about, but a public example is Rubygems. They had a lambda doing some log processing, and the performance benefit of Rust made things fast enough to move it onto lambda's free tier. Infinity savings! (Though of course it was actually from $12,000/year -> $0)

* Reliability. Back to the npm use-case, they had a lot of ops issues with Node. The Rust code ran for something like a year, year and a half, before ever having a single production issue. Static typing helps here, less variable resource usage helps here.

* Static types. Some people have come to prefer developing in a language with static types. Rust doesn't have a monopoly here, but it is among very few languages that have many of its features, and many of them don't check those previous boxes.

Of course, things aren't a panacea either. The ecosystem isn't as mature, even if this web page says it is. Async is great, but not perfect. Some people really do not like static types. Etc.
You can (almost) always change your email address. Just connect to the website and it's usually an option.
There are several other national retailers that are shutting their stores down Tuesday/Wednesday for security reasons. More fear of looting than anything.
Yeah this is a bit premature. I dunno why we don't just pay the ranchers for livestock killed (it's pretty rare) and everyone goes home happy?

Apex predator reintroduction is a good litmus test for how much conservation we can stomach, so I think it's important that we get this right.
Agreed, which is why it’s the only one I labeled as not pretty clearly false.

I think it’s a dumb reason to not vote for Biden, but I find the cognitive dissonance with which this story is being treated sorta astonishing.
That’s true, and it sort of misses the point of Ramadan.
> He also talked about how he was able to buy into amazon stocks when it was $60.

Lol, there are a lot of stocks now at 60 you could buy that may turn out to be big winners. What kind of argument is that?
That's a chronic issue. It's even worse, with printed materials.

Things move so quickly, in tech, that something is out of date, almost as soon as it's published.

I've been training for years, and setting up a syllabus/course is a big job. Often, my subject matter may be "old hat," by the time I am ready to give the course.

That often means that I don't teach "bleeding edge" stuff. When I take those courses, they tend to be mighty "scruffy," with ill-prepared instructors, and lots of "Well, it worked this morning..." stuff.

The same goes for topical material in walkthroughs and tutorials. If they are relevant, they are likely to be "scrappy." If they are good, there's a fairly high degree of confidence that they will be out of date by the time I see them.

Nonetheless, I have gotten fairly adept at translating "dated" stuff to my current circumstances.
This is completely irrelevant to the linked data.
I'd say visibility and it's super easy to start. Even if you want a simple github-hosted static blog, there's just a lot more to do than just opening a website and writing in simple markdown
Azure DevOps Blog: What Is DevOps? With Donovan Brown
I am currently using Mullvad VPN.
Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1M miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
I mean... the obvious answer to that is that we don't use the same techniques to manufacture a telescope or camera lens that we used to manufacture church windows. In fact we don't use glass for large telescopes specifically because they'll deform under their own weight.

I'm not saying that original fact is correct, I'm just saying I don't think what you're saying disproves the idea that that glass could deform over time.
On the other hand, there's no gatekeeping on custom domains, right?

I have a custom Medium domain from back in the day when you could get them, and it doesn't suffer from any of the usability problems and dark patterns of the actual medium.com (though I should probably move away from it anyway).
There are different types of boring. When I read The Economist, I find their writing unchallenging, never broadening my worldview or making me rethink my preconceived notions.

Good journalism and opinion writing isn't boring, it's absolutely fascinating, and that's something I find The Economist lacks.
Launch HN: Block porn images using AI(NSFW Filter v1.3)
XPath/XSLT 2+ also have only a single implementation (by the spec author) so don't meet W3C's requirement of two interoperating implementations. Basically, XSLT ceased to be a "standard" whereas XSLT 1.0 had excellent portability across libxslt, Saxon, Xalan, and MS' xslt.exe.

Edit: there is/was a token implementation for XSLT 2.0 called Gestalt
My guess is the engraving happens in China, so not so surprising that the CCP keeps a tight grip on the wording lest its citizens see it.
So because their platform is being worried about Big Tech abusing their monopoly power to arbitrarily silence entities, they're now "right-wing"??

What the fuck happened to this place?
Isn't UWP games in the Windows Store what you are looking for?

For example, all Xbox Game Pass games are installed via a virtual read only filesystem (XVD Disk Driver). If you need to mod a game, there is an optional setting to unlock write access.
> But it is getting increasingly more time consuming

I'd dispute "increasingly" - twas ever thus to some degree.

Spotting whether a tutorial is still valid is a skill that can be honed and it's part of learning how to learn.

Your argument has some merit but your solution of "let's stop writing tutorials" seems a trifle extreme. Wishing something was better isn't a great argument for it's extinction.
I honestly wonder if the word "Linux" scares people away. Google seems like they try to avoid all mention of what Android really is.
Ramadan springs to mind...
Yeah, it's pretty awful and it doesn't register as a print service (so you can't print from other apps).
Hope they continue to do well, and are added to a limited hunting season in my state, creating a balanced population and a new game animal.
If you consult the previous years, the graph is the same.
The conclusion is not accurate.
I love a day when I see/understand an idea that is new to me.

This is an extremely well written paper. A high-school student with motivation could understand all of it in about 1 week of work.

The key idea here is in Lemma 3.3 which is a simplified presentation of Lehman's original idea. All of the "good" algorithms in this class are exploiting this observation.

Hittmeir adds a new ingredient, namely applying "baby-step-giant-step" searching. And Harvey makes a slightly better parameter choice and strategy than Hittmeir to get his result.

The new idea and value to me would be the concise explanation in Lemma 3.3.

A lot of the feedback is of the form, "who cares, since it doesn't push the state of the art in practical factoring", but for me, there is art in ideas like this. Lehman, Hittmeir and Harvey have put forth a really elegant and beautiful line of thought here---that is accessible!---and I hope you can enjoy it without too much worry about how much it is worth.
I write my own blog posts as I learn something, it's a great way to reinforce my learning. Sort of, If I can write it down in such a way that I can explain it, then I'm more confident I actually understand it. I then look at it and think what would someone who doesn't know any of this ask if they read this or if I was explaining it to them. Sometimes I don't know the answer, so I have to go off and research to allow me to fill in those knowledge gaps.

I find this really helps me.

I just don't publish the bloody thing to the internet! Because I know it would just be clutter when people are looking for an actual experts explanation of the thing.

It also means I have quite comprehensive notes I can go back to, again private though.
No, the distinction between BH and NS can be made by just looking at the shape of the gravitational wave (stress as a function of time). A BH and a NS of the same mass will have different densities, so they produce very different ripples as they merge.

Of course, this can be corroborated with electromagnetic observations. But, to my knowledge, not all NS-NS mergers are witnessed in telescopes for various technical limitations.
ACM for Nitro Enclaves – It's a Big Deal
ACM for Nitro Enclaves – How Secure Are They?
they are sunsetting this in favor of Internet Printing Protocol

Which matters not at all to people who spent hundreds of dollars on internet connected printers and scanners that support Google Cloud Print.

Firmware update? Nope. Chuck it in the landfill and write another check.
Amazed that most of the comments seem to believe this is not as bad as Facebook or Twitter blocking disinfo. In my mind it could be worse.

Emails are private communication. It's not a public forum. Censorship in the private arena is an order of magnitude more intrusive. It's not just free speech at this point, it's peaceful assembly. The "monopoly vs many choices" argument notwithstanding.

If you could choose between five or more cell providers, yet T-Mobile started dropping your calls (to your mom, or your business contacts, or whoever) every time you mentioned a watchword like "Trump,"* how would that make you feel?

*Note Twitter (edit: Instagram) is literally censoring the hashtag #trump now: https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1321999369680334848?s=19
That doc took some criticism for distorting a few elements. They played fast and loose with the timeline, omitted a few details and insinuated some things happened that didn't. The main thrust of the story was still accurate, but they played up a few things for drama that weren't that dramatic in real life.
That is already done, and master builds on stable. They haven't cut a release yet because there's more they want in the release than just "whatever is on HEAD when we compile on stable."
Wood infused for that all natural feeling
I'm pretty sure that "which language you chose" can have a huge impact on "how you programmed [...] the server".
Office 365, 5 desktop install (at one time), ~$99 a year. We do one subscription for our family per year. Gives 1T of onedrive space as well.
This feels like a sensible conclusion. With borders closed and human to human contact relegated to only your closest family the whole annual mechanism for spreading flu (often season and triggered by air travel) goes to zero.
The title on HN is probably invented by the submitter, which is misleading and doesn‘t match the HN policy.

The title on the page: “Influenza: FluNet Summary 26 October 2020

Source: Laboratory confirmed data from the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS).”

It‘s also possible that those who would normally participate in the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System just weren‘t able to do what was normally done in a non-pandemics year. The page doesn’t present any explanation.
Yes. I believe it was spun out of an internal project at Lawrence Journal-World.
The title is misleading at best, utterly wrong at worst.
This single biased (he's working on rust LSP and is part of ferrous system (their business model depend on rust adoption)) opinion has an insanely huge disclaimer: the productivity claim only stand for complex applications that does not depend on libraries...
Large, complex app and building everything yourself is such a niche use I didn't knew it existed.
Why food allergies are on the rise
What's a "dark pattern" company? I've never heard that term before.
I recently started learning Ruby on Rails about 3 months ago. I had zero knowledge about any web programming. HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript is all new to me. Using Ubuntu was also foreign to me, but I tried.
I started watching videos on YouTube, especially from Traversy Media. Then I joined a few courses on Udemy. Reading books was painful, so I started actual working on code. I am building app to create a portal, giving information about non-profits. (planning to release my rookie code in AGPL license). Having a project in mind really helps. I really liked the simplicity of Rails' structured way, but there is a lot to learn and it gets overwhelming, but it is fun and I like it. It was also motivating to know that I could learn programming at age 53. Heartfelt Thanks to all those unknown faces on the internet who are selflessly helping others like me learn new things. Now I realized, that you are never too old to learn something new.
Yes, Ruby on Rails is fun.
The only solution? So... in 2020 the only place to publish long-form content is Medium?

Well... TIL.
It’s not inconvenience. Millions of people’s lives are on hold. This is awful for our happiness, our culture, our productivity. Children are kept home behind a computer screen, or even worse, sent to schools that have become more controlled and joyless than prisons, screamed at for playing with their friends. This is evil.
Here's someone from Collabra doing a talk on it [0]. The idea is pretty straightforward, but actually will fill an important niche in the compatibility and eventual archival space.

On a higher level note, this shows that Valve is pretty committed to Linux as a concept. I feel that while a second wave of Steam Machines or Steam OS may be a while away, they're certainly making it much easier for gamers to Switch to Linux if they were so inclined.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbWbBYAolo
Since all of these concurrency approaches’ pain points are around shared mutable state, maybe it’s shared mutable state that’s the pain point.
I'm okay with that too, I was just replying to the annoyed attitude toward people who market themselves with useful articles.
The issue is with transferring older material to the site. Lot more than an afternoon, there..

I agree, though. Static site generators are nice. I will probably look at doing one, sooner or later.

My issue is that I like to have a fairly "branded" experience, so I want to control all kinds of stuff. I'm not usually one to leave "standard" templates in place, without peeing on them.
There's a great npm package that lets you send emails without an SMTP server: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sendmail
Thank you! And thanks for linking to Falcon, I'll check it out. The demos are similar to the thing I was trying to achieve, and show the performance I dreamed of.
It's not specific to cloud print, it's quite usual. In large companies several sites are on the same internal network, and you can send your print job to any printer.

In my company I can easily print my document on another continent.
That quote is definitely not original, and I believe was originally applied to TV (i.e., TV as a medium, singular form of media). (See the origins here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/24/tv/)

I mean, not knocking who told you that at all, I think it's funny that they applied it to Medium the website. Just a little tidbit of info about the quote's origins, in case you weren't aware!
thomaslord and WJW did a great job saying what I would have said. Django already provides you the harness, and when you try to implement it yourself you will run into some gnarly technical problems. How do you make sure one test's database changes are not seen by a different test? Are you going to run tests sequentially and reset the DB before every single one? Or are you going to try to wrap your requests in a transaction that can be rolled back afterwards? Any approach you take, you are reinventing what Django already does.
Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau
This is cool. Good job.
If someone claims you are something you are not you have a right to sue them. I don’t think this should necessarily reflect poorly on him.

Everyone deserves the right to clear their name even if they are only accused of cheating at a really old video game.

Truth matters and unfortunately a long drawn out expensive process is the only way we have in most cases.
That would be wealth redistribution, which a critical mass of Americans are pathologically opposed to.
For the first question: I think a big part is that other detectors came online, providing much more confidence that LIGO measurements were real gravitational waves.

For the second question: they can infer the masses of the objects in question from the gravitational waves. Generally if the mass is < 2.5 solar masses it has to be a neutron star, and if it’s > 5 it must be a black hole. Keep in mind this isn’t rigorous! The theoretical maximum for neutron stars is a little less than 3 solar masses, and the estimated minimum for a stellar black hole is much more empirical - I think the smallest known is about 3.5. There’s a lot of interesting physics between 2.5 and 5 solar masses - perhaps this is how we’ll discover “quark stars.”

I believe our detectors are not sensitive enough to detect the acceleration of normal stars in any physically plausible scenario - I think they would have to be accelerating way too fast to generate waves that are indistinguishable from noise.
I suspect that my site may be more robust, in the future. It's hosted on a server that a friend of mine runs, and he moved to a better LiquidWeb server.
Twitter? Reddit? Hacker News?

Are you really trying to make the case that Medium is the only way people find and read content?
imo, the "dog whistle" concept is very damaging to a persons perception of reality.

The implication is that there does not exist a gradient between (or even orthogonality to) left and right. If something is just a little bit short of left, it's considered a "dog whistle", implicative that it's all the way to the right now.

I know a lot of people who have voted blue their entire lives that are against cancel culture btw.
Credit Karma in Talks to Sell Tax-Preparation Business to Square
I wish we had a better way of conveying what goes on in our heads.

I have dreams and I can visualize things, but it's never like I'm "watching" a dream or memory. While I'm dreaming it feels real, but when I recall a dream it feels visually distinct from a lived experience. It's like I "see" things but my eyes aren't doing the seeing. Is that what others experience, or are dreams visually identical to the real world?
Which means there's a huge flu season in our future.
> Maybe all of arxiv is really a big joke

So read it, just read it.
The statement is not true at all.
This isn't at issue. TG has tracks for emulation and arcade. Submitting a game to the wrong track is against the rules. TG alleges that the plaintiff passed off emulated gameplay as live arcade play.

Arcade and emulated play have different verification standards. Generally you need to reset the cabinet, which shows the machine's uninitialized memory on screen, post game you need to show the board. For emulated play you typically need to provide a full recording of the game, which can be re-run in the emulator.

One difference between arcade and emulation comes down to inputs. The arcade joystick has a 4-way restrictor. When Jumpman is climbing a ladder the player can't provide left/right inputs. At a high level this impacts their ability to steer and group barrels. This is totally irrelevant apart from the highest levels of play.
This. RGB was revelatory.
Just anecdotal, but I did 12-8 fasting for a few months and it was not at all effective. I was starving half the day and didn't lose any weight at all. Mornings were tough and I was achy and cranky by 11am. 3 months in and my body never adjusted. I switched back to a normal meal schedule and felt better and didn't change weight up or down.