skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This appears to me to be someone’s agenda, and not something the research we have actually supports.

Other position papers that I've dug up when curiosity got the better of me:

> Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) is dedicated to advancing rigorous, peer-reviewed science and evidence-based policies related to sleep and circadian biology.

* https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/

* (refs, with pro and co): https://srbr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DST-References-S...

European Sleep Research Society:

* https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commiss...

Canadian Society for Chronobiology:

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-turn-back-th...

* https://twitter.com/ChronobioCanada/status/11906320965969264...

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (with 36 footnotes if you want to dig further):

* https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780

* https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8780

The Centre for Chronobiology, based at the Psychiatric University Hospital (University of Basel):

* http://www.chronobiology.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JBR-D...

* http://www.chronobiology.ch

(Personally, I'm just going to trust the experts on this as I don't have the energy that you seem to have to go digging in this fashion. A quick cursory Google/DDG search is enough for me. Please don't take this post as an attack or anything.)
I don't disagree with the principal of the argument. I also think by continuing to use my phone until it basically dies/breaks, I'm already doing my part. I am also a person who likes fast performance and doesn't want to invest time in changing the world by accepting a thousand cuts of lag daily. Maybe that's a flaw I have but I'm willing to live with that.
SiFive unveils plan for Linux PCs with RISC-V processors
No. Both are incorrect. It needs to be able to rotate freely, more than just one full turn (360 deg)
In fairness to sapiens, the patterns are everywhere we’ve looked, even when we look at things 100,000 times smaller or 100,000 times bigger than anything that any of our Earthly peers have.
The tk (of tcl/tk) multiline text widget uses a BTree to store the text.
An involved solution can be to set a Matrix bridge up for most services, including WhatsApp.

The downside are:

1. You have to host your Matrix server, so not everybody will be happy about it, or able to do so;

2. This relies on reverse-engineering the whatsApp web API, and is against WhatsApp TOS, you might get banned

3. You need another device with WhatsApp installed (an old android phone or a VM works fine).

Personally, this is the main reason why I refuse to use any of these proprietary apps, and I make this clear to my friends.

On the upside, if you go that route, you can go the extra mile and bridge facebook messenger, discord, telegram, and others to your Matrix account, and control everything on the go from a single app. I'm planning to work on push notifications for the Linux phone platform :)
Might be what'll happen. We could've been reaping the benefits of and/or living the dystopia of that today, or even 10 years ago, were the decision made to actually barcode everyone. But we didn't, and what's likely to happen is we'll push the biometrics recognition technologies to such high level, the machines will no longer need the barcodes. Then the dystopia will happen anyway.

Note the irony here: what people don't want is the dystopia, but what's stopping it now is that they find barcoding people creepy. They won't notice the AI tech until it's too late.

On a broader note, this pattern of rounding a square peg to fit if we can't square the round hole - it's what we do. All the time, everywhere. For instance, designing a reliable all-terrain vehicle is something that technologically escapes now even to this day, but thousands of years ago our ancestors figured out that if they flatten and pave the terrain, then a simple wheel would do.
There is some sort of Whatsapp transport for XMPP[1]. Dunno how well it works in practice.

[1] https://git.theta.eu.org/eta/whatsxmpp
I'm pressing right mouse button twice (first shows the YouTube menu, second the browser one) then save as (or view video then save as), in Firefox with media.mediasource.mp4.enabled=false
- so maximal resolution which I can get and I'm happy with is 720px.
How Much Money Do Podcasters Make?
I tweak the animation setting almost every time I get a new phone :)
Facebook Censors Bitcoin-Related Content Once Again
Guide to Application Modernization
I have also found that students have a much easier time with forcing after learning about ultraproducts (and Los theorem) and boolean valued forcing (even though technically, the modern version using partially ordered sets of 'conditions' is much more convenient). Then you can think of forcing as a way of taking a 'model' where properties of elements are described by 'boolean valued' probabilities and collapsing it to a bona fide set theoretic universe.
I meant "directly hold" (since I intended to reply to the parent's comment about "hodling").
There are a number of serious companies using RISC-V in embedded contexts where a number of the author's criticisms don't apply.
> Yeah let's get all the young people infected, having one percent of that population die is fine right?

Are you really claiming with a straight face that the chance of a young person who gets infected dying is 1/100?

Would love to see you try to provide a source for that...
This man speaks truth
The blog post reads like a high level overview and skips the real engineering behind the scenes. I wonder how they'll integrate native functionalities like geolocation/audio-video/maps etc which are highly platform specefic.
Interlude: Rethinking the JavaScript Pipeline Operator
I think the logic is that there's not way to have money coming into your control that isn't theft. If that's true the biggest economic criminal is the one with the most money.
Show HN: CSS Selectors as a Game Mechanic
Use CSS selectors to turn the white boxes pink, and get to the next level.
Why not use something like this? Am i missing something?

bellard.org/libbf
Doesn't Windows 10 have a 32-bit version as well?
" UHaul is up to double the cost of their budget competitors like Public Storage."

This is a HUGE red flag, and you probably would be better off with uhaul. The "budget" guys will probably cost more once the hidden fees are paid.
Would you really use a JNI bridge and end up with a possibly heavier codebase? Swift for Android isn't officially supported by Android yet. I'd rather use Kotlin Multiplatform instead.
In functional programming the Option type exists to make the 'literally no value' case more explicit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type

If you are using TypeScript (TFA mentions it), fp-ts provides a good functional programming layer. Although if you aren't already familiar with functional programming it's going to be hard as the documentation is rather lacking.

https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts/blob/master/src/Option.ts
Thanks for adding these details. Montreal's ancient water system is a big reason for a lot of the construction. Apparently more water leaks underground from broken pipes than is used. My street is slated for construction to remove lead pipes (interesting comparison to Flint; https://globalnews.ca/news/6113701/montreal-drinking-water-l...)

The other factor is repairs were neglected for much of the 2010s, which compounded damage, so they're playing catch-up. So yes, there is a lot of construction, and undoubtedly some corruption and incompetence mixed in, but it's not as bad as some people who like to complain say.

It will be interesting to see if they can "catch up" some year, and it's very important for informed people to remain critical and engaged.
Harvard School of Arts and Sciences to Reduce/Pause Admissions in Some Fields
Kotlin isn't really a Google project (although they adopted it). It's made by Jetbrains.
And this is why it's so important to maintain basic civility to everyone, regardless of political views.
Aren't the semantics of this exactly the same as Java's synchronise? What error does it protect you against compared to synchronising on list? What happens if .insert() also uses atomically{} somehow?
That's due to extreme polarization, the destruction of middle ground / moderates.
America seems to be an interesting country where people silence others' political beliefs, as opposed to the usual military violence, tightly-established hierarchies, and economic oppression...
Typhoon class. Know that due to hunt for the red October. Rip Sean Connery.
Man, I haven't seen a DjVu file in years. It used to be somewhat common in scans of magazines and other media that relied on images. Pity that it didn't catch on, although I suppose it still could, if some of its benefits were refined. I find that larger PDFs tend to tank optimization, is that a problem for DjVu files at all?
Awesome! A sign the Overton Window is moving!
In some countries prisoners can vote, in others they cannot.

For example in France they can (though there are no polling stations in jail...), but there is a potential penalty decided by the court in relation to a criminal condition that suspends civic rights for a set duration. During that time the person cannot vote, cannot be elected, and cannot perform some official jobs or be a civil servant whether they are in jail or not.

So it is possible to, say, be sentenced to 2 years in fail, suspended, and in addition to 5 year suspension of civic rights. So the person is not jailed but cannot vote or run for office for 5 years.

Google tells me that 25-30,000 people have their civic rights suspended that way every year in France, when found guilty of a criminal offence. Before 1994 anyone convincted of a serious crime would lose their civic rights automatically for life.
How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet
Why wouldn’t you be? The way that people react these days is so all over the place that it’s a no win situation unless you’re talking about financial/economic policy.
This is one where the market wants what the market wants and it wasn't mesos. In 2013/2014 I was super excited about mesos and then kubernetes came out. Having worked at Google, seeing this thing come out it was clear from the get go it would win. But if you're a startup with millions in funding running at 100mph you can't stop. It's impossible to course correct immediately and you shouldn't. You have to see it play out in the market. Even in hopes that you can continue to establish a strong business. In this case kubernetes ate everyone's lunch including mesosphere. It's sad. It's really sad to be a technologist who works on something for years only for that to become irrelevant when something comes out that takes the market in a different direction. And this gets even harder when every cloud provider starts using open source as a marketing and distribution channel. I experienced this with grpc. My original project is now no longer a company maintained effort but instead a side project once more and it's even been renamed. The perils of going up against Google. The only saving grace is to solve the same problem but in a different way. E.g move on to being a "platform".

I'm sad for Ben, Tobi and Flo but that's the game and sometimes it doesn't go your way.
Not sure I agree that there is some logical reason why Node.firstChild should be null for an empty element whereas e.g. array[0] should be undefined for an empty array. I think the actual reason is just that DOM is an old API. If designed today it would return undefined.
Yeah it does seem odd theyre pushing both flutter/dart and jetpack/kotlin, usually more choice is a good thing, but I'm increasingly uncomfortable about the effect on Kotlin if google goes full in on flutter instead
When I say 'we killed', it's myself included in a very personal way. I am an ICU doctor working on the frontline at one of the largest european university hospitals. And I am not a resident anymore.

Yes, they were show-offs and they still are. There is no justification for throwing away years of clinical experience with ARDS based on the personal opinions of a few who want to steal the spotlight by relying on novelty. They deserve to be despised, and I can say that with full confidence because I know a few of them personally.
Microservices and Serverless Functions – The Difference
I'm assuming because of the fragmented insurance market. Ideally, all of the insurers would band together, but in reality, you've got a bunch of players with 2-5% of the market who can't afford the big time Toronto legal firms.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4088

“The cost of new nuclear is prohibitive for us to be investing in,” says Crane. Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu. At that price, the project would have been viable with a CO2 tax of $25 per ton. “We’re sitting here trading 2019 gas at $2.90 per MMBtu,” he says; for new nuclear power to be competitive at that price, a CO2 tax “would be $300–$400.” Exelon currently is placing its bets instead on advances in energy storage and carbon sequestration technologies.
More like going underground
1) Either way, for the money, no.
2) I understand how percentages work.
3) No, it's not. Not when there's living expenses and a pandemic going on.
4) Yes, exactly why your offer is nonsense.
A year of people not getting shafted is an amazing achievement. Multiple by 100 you have a cultural shift.
Americans Agree: Improving Our Public Health System Is an Urgent Priority
The final Democracy Institute poll (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1354506/us-election-202...) that came out Saturday predicts a Trump victory contrary to most other polls, because it found that 79% of Trump voters do not tell others that they support him, while only 21% of Biden voters are shy.

USC's poll predicts a Biden victory, but when experimental questions are asked to figure out how those polled really feel, it forecasts a Trump win (https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3338/experimental-poll...).

For those who are skeptical, put on a "Make America Great Again" hat and walk through downtown Chicago, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, or Cambridge before or after election day 2016 (or 2020). Now, put on a "I'm With Her" or "Biden/Harris 2020" shirt and walk through Provo, Fort Worth, or Pensacola before or after election day. In which scenario are you more like to be yelled at and/or physically attacked?
I’m with you on this one. The money spent on building expensive rust buckets never used could easily have been redirected more productively to building industrial capability or better healthcare.
It's whatever your interested in learning about. Honestly no pressure. I am from the scientific side, so I don't worry about trial enrolment.
> Netflix has been developing a mobile app called Prodicle to innovate in the physical production of TV shows and movies

I assume this has nothing todo with video as its on a phone, but does anyone in the TV business know what this app actually does or could do - time management/planning/todo/contacts/legal/safety guidelines repository etc?
Reflections on 2009's Predictions for Twitter
Show HN: Giving away new placeholder logos for UI design
I figured one of the two had to be Persi Diaconis, and it looks like I wasn't far off the mark:

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2015/01/mathematics_and...

If I did get it right, Ron Graham as the second mathematician makes perfect sense too :)
Nope. Your metabolism is related to your current weight, unless you have some specific diseases.
You probably don’t remember your actual activity level from the past.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/met.2016.0108
I believe a 1 axis printer is usually called an extruder.
It sounds like a great idea until you realize a bunch of countries have abandoned their inheritance tax scheme. Countries like Sweden, Australia, Israel and New Zealand.

I assume they had a good reason for it.
That is not true, there can be many reasons a developer might want a certificate revoked. One might be to disable test builds of software distributed to users once the final version is released. Another might be if there is a serious bug or security vulnerability in a release to force users to either down grade to a known good version or upgrade to a fixed version. Yet another might be because a license agreement for a third party software library or component in an application expired and the developer is required to disable versions of their software containing the licences component. I’m sure there’s are others. None of these are any of Apple’s business and the developer might not want to reveal the reason to a Apple for liability, confidentiality or other reasons but Apple has offered this service to their developer customers and committed to an agreed process which HP says that HP followed.
And still sucking hind tit compared to Norway, Finland, and Denmark. But let's not let simple facts and data get in the way of your anti-lockdown fairy tale...
WordPerfect for DOS Updated
The reals and the rationals do not have the same elementary theory over the language (>,+,*).
I've never really been a fan of this take. It seems to rest a lot on the ideas that:

1) Fusion is hard. While it can be hard (fusing x86 will be), I do not see why it would be meaningfully difficult for RISC-V hardware (except on devices so small it's better to have the simpler base ISA anyway), or compilers, who can in the worst case just treat fused pairs as their own instructions.

2) There's anything wrong with just most software assuming a fairly fixed set of extensions, as seems to have happened. If microcontrollers want to use a subset without multipliers, that doesn't mean anyone else has to care. If bitmanip is stabilized before RISC-V breaks into more common consumer use, why not assume it when writing code? It's only a problem if people make it one.

Most of the rest don't matter much in a global sense. The arguments about which operations go in which extensions might have meaningful merit, but it seems not very important to me.
Space, Remorse, Humility, Kindness, Consistency
Not destruction of the middle ground, but rather hiding of the middle ground.

Moderates do not feel safe to express moderate views for fear of being ostracized and cancelled.
“Protoproducts” are works in progress that still generate sales
Show HN: How Many People Have Voted?
XmlHttpRequest, yes. Also known as AJAX.
Groups are not difficult to unbundle from Facebook. What's difficult is financially supporting the cost of running such a network when Facebook's model is 'free' for people to use. That means you're going to struggle to charge for the service, which wipes out a big category of potential competition. Sure, you could charge, and you'll struggle to gain any traction. It leaves advertising, thin (one person, low costs), and non-profit avenues.

Thin either requires charging or running advertising. If you run ads on people's groups, it's going to annoy them inevitably, devaluing your product. You can charge as a thin product, and it'll be a very slow growth model. The non-profit approach requires donations or the equivalent, which is difficult as well.

Ning was an example of the rapid growth the segment makes possible. It proved financially unviable in the manner in which they approached it, and they proceeded to ruin their own product's appeal during the business model conversion.

It's certainly feasible to run a thin model (avoiding the bleed-to-death financial problems of a Ning), in the style of Pinboard, however it'll be a very hard slog. It would take someone insanely dedicated, with a willingness to invest many years of struggle (five years minimum, plan for ten). That's a difficult pitch in the age when (in the US) an average software engineer can earn $140,000 per year with good benefits, and an average web developer can earn $80,000. Someone with the ability to do it, gives up a lot to pursue that (an average sofware engineer at five years of struggle, making barely-getting-by money pursuing this idea, loses upwards of a million dollars in total compensation vs working for a decent non-FAANG tech company).
It's a nice ideal, but once the views become too extreme, it's not practical. Not many people will maintain basic civility towards a person telling them they don't deserve basic rights for example.
I agree. How crazy is it to think its ok for donations to one of the established parties should have repercussions on your emplyment? Dont people see that the other side could want the same thing then.
we're posting Cato Institute links now?
Comments claiming the lockdown did nothing add something to the discussion? How could any rational human being really think this? They just blindly hate the government and some people here really don't understand that this worked, not because they debated about it but because they just did the obvious thing and organized a response and executed it.

Edit: and also instead of making personal attacks please address the substance of what I'm saying I've been on HN but just created an account to respond to the new wave of germ theory denialism I see on this site.
Is what I wrote wrong? Is it not true that in the beginning they saw an increase in fatalities when treating with certain kinds of steroids?
Like many of you, the Election on Tuesday is front of mind, and will be for a few days after :-/

I was thinking about the number of people that actually vote, and with more states allowing early voting, I wondered how it would affect participation in the election (given the current pandemic).

I was able to find the raw data on http://www.electproject.org/ but wasn't happy with how it was being displayed, so I created my own visualization.
I don't see any way the ALG could work reliably without being stateful - after all, the string it's looking for might end up split across multiple packets for any number of reasons out of control of the network hardware.

Perhaps this is the reason why all of these kinds of protocols always seem unreliable...
How could Apple possibly know for sure whether HP had actually lost a key or not? All they have to go on is what HP tells them. Anyway this could have nothing to do with key security.

Apple gets certificate revocation requests all the time, to disable test builds, disabled badly bugged software versions, to disable software for licensing reasons. It’s the developer’s choice when or if they revoke a cert. Do you have any evidence this request was different enough to require escalated investigation compared to any other routine request? HP doesn’t seem to think it was.
Young Americans are also more likely than older Americans to support punishing people at work for personal donations to Trump. Forty‐ four percent (44%) of Americans under 30 support firing executives if they donate to Trump. This share declines to 22% among those over 55 years old—a 20‐ point difference. An age gap also exists for Biden donors, but is less pronounced. Twenty‐ seven percent (27%) of Americans under 30 support firing executives who donate to Biden compared to 20% of those over 55—a 7‐ point difference.

I think millennials might be quite a case study on bad parenting, because Gen Z are literally turning out to be bad apples. This is all of our faults, we are failing our kids more or less.

Reminds me of the recent violence in France “connected” to Islam. Where did you kids learn this stuff? Who is parenting you?

What is all this internet and global economy, and social connections via social networks for if this is how narrow minded our new generations are becoming? What is the point of all this exposure if you are literally turning out to be stupid people?
Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities