skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi fellow script-builder!

Yep definitely had a lot of fun in those places. I remember loads of people logging on injecting admin command scripts (wasn’t it something like Person210’s admin commands that everyone used?)

One of my more vivid memories was making a script that would inject a train station that only I had access to, with a train that would take me to a distant planet with god-mode weapons and aircraft. Had a lot of fun with that! This must have been back in 2008/09
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I was thinking about making a Ask HN about this topic but now is a better time.

Ask HN: What are the conditions for your state or county to return to Feb 2020 levels (no masks, full capacity everything)?

I keep hearing "when there's a vaccine" but I don't hear specifics.

There's a vaccine now('ish), why not open up now? If not now then under what conditions exactly?

I really want to know the SPECIFIC conditions to return things to the way they were and I'm not hearing much.

What are the specific conditions to end mandatory masks and capacity restrictions in your area? Are there any?
How well are the keyboard mappings handled? Can I map any key sequence to any command? Can I easily see the current set of mappings? That would make me want to use a GUI calculator as opposed to a command-line one.
It should have been a generic "If your site takes too long to load or lags while scrolling we will heavily derank your page and visibly show you this so you can improve"

Page speed is the one metric you want SEO nuts optimizing.
Yup. It's an attempt to formalize the mess that already exists in many JS libraries.

That's why, even if I don't plan on using Typescript itself for a project, I prefer libraries that have type declarations or are natively Typescript. It shows the library authors at least attempted to understand the type system they were creating.
> While you're surfing the web, you ought to thank Jacob Thornton for making it so pretty. He's a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Bootstrap, free software that the pros use to make their sites look spiffy. If you've ever noticed that a lot of websites have the same big chunky buttons, or the same clean forms, that's likely because an estimated one-fifth of all websites on the planet use Bootstrap.

I don't blame Jacob, but man the WWW would probably be better without Bootstrap. Again, it's not Jacob's fault, he made a product that was so good everyone wanted to use it... so everyone used it. It feels like the Demolition Man future, where Taco Bell is the only survivor of the Franchise Wars.
I'm pretty sure those who would actually use WSL are also able to install a regular VM or Docker.
Would they still have guns and murder people when their activities are no longer illegal? I have trouble thinking they would bother funding an army. There's no need.
the welders did their job and left, then the fire started later.

Are you familiar with tire fires? That's what the welders set off. These are not rapid combustive fires, they are slow burners that take some time to really get going. The fully expected result of welding setting off a tire fire is that it would smolder and get worse over a prolonged period of time (compared to an explosion)

* they never question why 2 tons of unclaimed ammonium nitrate was just sitting in the warehouse for 5-6 years*

It's been fairly well reported in other outlets that concerns were raised about the conditions in the warehouse, and then ignored.

jets

Jets fly, literally, everywhere.

intentional

No analysis has suggested this except conspiracy theory speculation
Or lessons well learned
My girls ( 8 and 9 ) love Minecraft. Especially any kind of dragon mod.
You need something to make sure the hot air only comes out one end of the engine, otherwise you get net zero thrust. In a normal jet the compressor takes care of this.
iOS Apps Adapt to the Various iPhone 12 Screen Sizes
There was a broken door. The port authority was worried that people might use it to gain entry to the building and tamper with or steal some of the dangerous stuff they were storing in there. So they asked a crew to fix the door.
> Instead, it has a bunch of pictures of scary looking guns, and feels sensationalized and focused on the wrong thing entirely.

Not particularly different from, well, all news coverage of guns.
If company X leaks your email, close your account with them and block the address.

Also, it's useful for have i been pwned. One of my few accounts which uses a grouped address is in today's data dump, and it wasn't clear what account it was, because of the grouping.
Doubt there is a simple solution like the Baby Bells but there are a couple of things that could be done. Facebook has more than 6000 patents. Spin those and all other intellectual properties owned by Facebook into its own company who will then license them back to Facebook and anyone else who wants to get them at the same cost that Facebook does. Spin off everything not related to the product at facebook.com. Instagram, Oculus, etc. Also require Facebook to enter into a consent decree on many of its uglier activities.

On the issue of censorship, take that out of their hands entirely. No faux outside counsel that is appointed by Facebook. Instead allow outside service providers to provide users filtering services of their choice. If a user doesn't like Christians, they can use a filtering service that removes Christian posts. If a user doesn't like conspiracy theories, they use a filtering service that provides filtering for that type of content. Let the users decide what it is they want to filter out and have it done by independent entities not under the control of Facebook.
So this one right [0] which is from right before the fireworks went off. What you're hearing is a lot of small explosions from fireworks going off around the edges before the main mass goes off, there's similar sounds in a lot of other videos of burning fireworks it's just a bunch of very small fireworks going off.

There's no other actual evidence of strikes none of the cameras seems to have caught the missile or bomb which with so many cameras watching the same thing you would have had one catch a frame at least of it and no one's found it.

[0] https://youtu.be/tFR1PJnLwg0?t=60
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Wow. How big is your place, what heating tech do you use and in what region? That’s wild.

For reference my place (in Chicago) costs lest than $60 a month to heat in the dead of winter.
> > Adobe just couldn't get it done.

> They should have fully open sourced it, at least the runtime.

Rumor had it that there was code in there that Adobe (or more likely, FutureSplash) had licensed and couldn't release.
Understanding the history of science gives a sense how progress works when dealing with things extremely complex .

Here are 3 good starting points.

1. The little book of psychology (penguin randomhouse) charts the important milestones and people in psyc. (Michael Lewis's Undoing Project not many like but it shows why understanding complex non obvious things take time)

2. Faraday and Maxwell by Nancy Forbes charts how long and why it took long to stumble upon EM field theories.

3. Infinite Powers by Steven Stogratz charts the history of calculus. Which shows why it took thousands of years to get to Newton's Laws.

Textbooks present the math without showing people the journey. Psychology and Sociology are going through those same moments Physics and Maths witnessed when new discoveries suddenly start exploding.
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> The article you posted doesn't mention that YouTube is promoting ad-free hosting that the creator doesn't have to pay for.

The article from 2008 doesn't mention that butterflys might be appearing across the video randomly either. How is what they didn't specifically say (or imply) relevant? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

I thought the messages from that far back was interesting, which hedged toward this eventual practice.
There's definitely teams at MS exploring about this problem (e.g. IntelliCode is my favorite for TS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/intellicode/in... )
Reddit is the reason why I un-AMP every single site IMMEDIATELY as soon as I open them.
Orbital Transfer – tools help developers manage their execution environments
I used React client-side, Node server-side, and MySQL as the db. I only mentioned Kontxt here because I demoed it for Thomson Reuters because it could be helpful for their legal professionals as a collaboration tool after they find documents via their WestLaw legal search product, and your tool reminded me of it. I actually used Kontxt as a sales pitch to highlight their annual report and add some calculations and explanations about how much money they could make. Nice work, again!
Unity’s HTML5 export is super heavyweight (unless you do some super complicated things getting it to work with the ECS stuff). Flash was...though abused a lot, much more lightweight, able to slot into a randomo webpage without sticking out too much/causing performance issues.

Also as a direct substitute, Unity has much inferior font rendering, and no built-in vector graphics capabilities.

If I was doing a 2D animation tool for browser export, I don’t see that unity would offer me much, and would come with a lot of downsides.
I came to the comments to shill for Numi, which is my favorite app for quick calculations. (I don't personally understand why tiled number buttons would ever be desirable for a non-touchscreen GUI app—I much prefer typing equations in.) And I love Numi's variables which you can update and automatically propagate the changes through downstream calculations.
There definitely are some subtleties of building science involved. Insulation doesn’t so much keep your house warm (that’s what the furnace does) as keep the outside of your walls cold (at which point they radiate/convect less heat into the air). If the air reaches its dew point at an inopportune place in the wall assembly you can easily get moisture damage and/or mold.
A Crime a Day
My brain hurts, this is amazing.
I really wish OsmAnd~ had a Linux or cross-platform version.
I've always been a fan of W|A scale comparison system but this is by far the most oddly interesting one I've seen. It's not just any medium pizza but a Domino's medium pizza.
Thanks for sharing! TF2 is frankly the best class-based FPS I’ve ever played.
What nightclubs do you think are open right now in California?
Yes, what I was alluding too was that new tooling tends to make it easier for client resources to explode out of control.

Don't get me wrong, jsx is great. but it should be used in the right place.
> Any thread where the discussion isn't expected to splinter into subtopics

But most longer running discussions will splinter into subtopics. If the discussion is short enough, the way it's displayed doesn't really matter either way.

> Other examples would include threads with real-time reactions to events, like a sporting event or political debate

I think the line between a mostly synchronous chat and an asynchronous discussion forum as been blurred a bit. In chat, it's a lot easier to follow a discussion as it's happening because you can read the messages as they come in and only pay attention to the ones you're interested in. But trying to read the log after the fact is a bit more time consuming because you have to search for the relevant messages amongst many.

In a threaded and asynchronous discussion, it's easier to go down a subthread to follow a particular discussion than it is to find that discussion mixed in with all the other posts.

That said, I find it interesting that email clients have moved towards displaying messages in a conversation view, yet newer chat clients like Slack are introducing threaded discussiion as a feature.
Ask HN: Facebook's Impact on Your Family
Did it have any impact on your family?
Positive or negative?

It's apparently a leading cause of divorce.
https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/facebook-has-become-a-leading-cause-in-divorce-cases-27803
> you should be passing on the lessons

One thing parents discover is that if it's between dopamine and "lessons", dopamine wins 100% of the time. My 16 year old right now is playing games instead of doing his homework. He's going to have 2 "F"s this semester, just like the last, and one before that, and one before that. Doesn't give a shit - never experienced any hardship (yet).
If you have any minecraft modding resources to recommend, I'd love to find some to do some simple, relatable things with the kids. (We're way past scratch, onto javascript [still plenty to do here to get the basics completed], but I like to bring in "more interesting" things like react-native or minecraft mods.)
I thought you you were saying that YouTube has been marketing ad free video hosting since 2008 and the article was the evidence of that.

I must have misunderstood.
That's because it was probably just one guy who had the authority to put that there without any threat of getting fired. Google today would set up a committee with diverse groups represented (including HR, PR and Legal) to focus test any and all potential "hate joke incidents" to ensure bland and inoffensiveness to all. The ongoing YouRube Rewind fiasco demonstrates this very well.

I have to thank the Japanese for having a sense of humor otherwise "all your base" would have died a slow and painful death long ago at the hands of the joke police, and it still might if it were to ever leave its relative obscurity.
For professional reasons, I have long been fond of the following fact about giraffes. Their heads are so high that their hearts have to produce higher blood pressures than any other animal [0]. When they lower their head, a set of valves in the neck restrict the blood flow [1], to prevent the high pressure from damaging its brain.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8368000/836...

[1] https://www.novartis.com/stories/from-our-labs/giraffes-have...
Here to add https://dagobah.net/ to the list
This is great I had no idea how many times people tried to end Prop 13 using the courts or how litigious HJTA was.

Hard to read on mobile though
> Edit: After a short while you’ll realize that Mutt is completely pointless because most modern emails are made with HTML templates which means you’ll just see a bunch of code. Maybe there’s a plugin solution?

lynx?
Up to Catalina, macOS used to have the overpowered Emacs calculator[0] preinstalled. Default keybinding to activate it in Emacs is C-x * *. I especially like how it uses RPN but also has an algebraic mode, so one can use whichever is more convenient. There's several other features that I use quite often, such as

- symbolic differentiation/integration

- conversion between units

- solving equations

- working with matrices

- rewrite systems

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm...
Important source material to consider this question is [0] "Lebanon blast: Ammonium nitrate behind many industrial accidents"

Basically the AN is an oxidizer and as such a chemical that "intensifies combustion" and so must not be combined with fuel or oil.

Since it was contaminated, the contaminants are potentially combustable themselves. The warehouse was also likely filled with partially combusted gases from the tyres, fireworks or other burning material.

So the explosion that did occur was not just the Ammonium Nitrate, but a mixture.

As other writers have discussed, the blast would not have fully involved all the material either - some would be lost and some would remain unburnt.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/5/lebanon-blast-ammoni...
Make sure every alternate browser has accessibility specific features. Then smack them down with the ADA.
I hope that as a user, I can specify that I prefer AMP pages.
and he didn't get _caught_. He admitted it.
Yes. Also, they are sitting on $0.8B in cash.
I've had two "good" exits in my career, a purchase by a public company of a game studio and an IPO. Both of those gave me barely six-figures at the moment of the event, so they were decidedly positive, but not even "gosh darn you!" money, let alone "FU!" money.
Yes, significant parts of Mexico are essentially a failed state. Violence is used to gain control. Extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking, etc. are big business, hopefully none of those are legalized.
Correct. The way Blazor produces DOM updates is pretty interesting. There was an excellent NDC talk that does a deep dive on how all of the internals work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCgqTDki-VM

The amount of javascript interop that I have to maintain in order to support a very complex Blazor application is somewhere around 200 lines at the moment.
They don’t cover everything and it requires setup, but I like using linters for this kind of thing - these types of suggestions can often be standardized in a codebase and auto fixed by tools like ESLint nowadays, it’s also a good way to make people aware of features.
The only good font I am aware of which did a good job at legibility is Heinemann Special: https://www.type.co.uk/a_to_z/id/44924
Flash games and animations is basically what really got me into the design side of web dev. Before that I was all about the code, then making silly little flash games based around in-jokes between me and my friends is what got me into graphics, animations, etc.

The global hate for flash (which is fairly warranted) drowns out the absolutely colossal impact it had on pushing the web from a purely informational thing to a platform for entertainment.
I've not done too much kernel programming, but for sure I know that looking for existing uses of code is very helpful.

It looks like the author of the piece did something similar, and noted other people doing similar things to themselves.

I wrote some modules to experiment with the Security Module API, because working with the APIs seemed like a good way to learn how they worked, and what was possible beyond just SELinux,Apparmor, etc.:

https://github.com/skx/linux-security-modules
You wrote something that is completely obvious to anyone but some how its surprising what little thought I had put into it... I'm calling it: "Employed by robots" because it goes well with the "Trial by robots". Just those 2 make for "Governed by robots".

We still have some humans in the board room who could theoretically switch things off just like the switched them on but its somewhat naive to think their job description allows for it.

This leaves only governments. I could see myself write government automation even while fully aware of the above. If the pay is right, nice coworkers, interesting stack. ~rolls eyes~
Independents won almost 20% of the popular vote in the 1992 U.S. general election. Also hold more seats in Congress. That’s a more apt comparison, not the Libertarian Party.
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>learning to think about concurrency, time, interrupts, race conditions

So what books can you recommend to understand the above subjects? I know of only UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers by Curt Schimmel.

>everything is concurrency, at the lowest levels .... after a while I came back to doing kernel stuff and found that with this new background all that hard stuff was trivial and obvious

I see a lot of HDL programmers say this. But how exactly do you map the concepts since the very language semantics between HDLs and "Standard" computer languages are different?
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kbenson suggested that Google could be petitioned to allow more browsers than the handful they already have.

I'm saying that if they allow even a single new webview-based browser, that would implicitly also allow any program using said webview library. This is the opposite of what Google wants.

Therefore the only logical conclusion is that Google will not allow any webview-based browsers.

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25156594 kbenson clarified that they think Google should not allow any webview-based browsers regardless of whether this hypothetical petition process exists or not. I responded by pointing out how this distinction does not help in any way, because even a new browser written from scratch that gets allowed by Google can then turn around and implement a webview library based on itself anyway.

My point is that this entire thing that Google is apparently trying is nonsensical. Maybe it works for phones, where "malware" (ie alternative browsers) can't easily change whatever Google is looking for in the HTTP requests (user-agent header, etc) to identify webview-based browsers vs the few they chose to allow. But it doesn't make sense for regular PCs. Anything an allowed browser can do, "malware" can mimic.

Actually, there is one way that it'll work on PCs too - if every google.com website starts using DRM. I almost look forward to that just because of the carnage that will occur in response.
Exactly. I read one of the books a long time ago, and it was like 'we have this surpressed magic here', but somehow there were no hard (math) results. I understand it is easier to calculate the product of two rotations with G.A. is there apart from that anything (substantial) else?
Well "bc" is still included with macOS. "bc -l" to start it in a useful mode. It's slightly quirky, but very powerful.

For example, "4*a(1)" to calculate pi.
Standard fire protocol would advise against opening the doors, to limit the oxygen. I think by the time the fire-fighters arrived there really was no hope of containing this fire.

Tyre fires [0] are famously hard to extinguish, even on their own. Generally the best a fire department can do here is to prevent the building full of dangerous chemicals from causing nearby fires.

It looks like it was too late for that due to the dangerous storage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_fire
Ask HN: What's the best low latency local windows to Mac streaming solution?
I want to start using my hackintosh again but while parallels performance is commendable, it isn't good enough for my liking. I have a local network where hackintosh is connected by ethernet while my windows thinkpad is connected by wifi (though I'm consdering a usb c to ethernet adapter to make things even faster) on a fairly decent router.

I have 2 4k monitors.

I tried both windows remote desktop and jump desktop and they didn't really cut it. Is there anything faster?
YouTube made it big encouraging that wide range of creators to come to their platform, then once they've established their monopoly they turn around and kick off the ones that are inconvenient for them. That feels immoral.
It is obviously not a deterrent if you are not willing to follow through with it. The word you are looking for in that case is not "deterrent", but "bluff".
Thank you. I love to see the intersection of many fields of engineering, science, finance, and mass media here on HN. A truly amazing resource. But yes I struggle with the semantics when they blend together too much. I struggle to see how, when petty Us vs. Them battles flare, it's generally in circles where these fields all culminate into one. I struggle to see the sleazy culture of east coast advertising and stock-trading types (bigots from the 50's and 80's) infiltrate technology as a profession, specifically in Silicon Valley. I struggle to see that "social responsibility" and/or spiritual awakening is being packaged and sold like McDonald's.
No, you should never entrust your personal data to something free. They keep the customer happy, so if you are not the customer you can't be surprised if they don't keep you happy.

I've been on fast mail for 10 years or so. I'm happy.
This makes me wonder what Travis' endgame here is. When Github and Gitlab, the two sites that account for the vast majority of OSS development, offer free CI, who's their target market? Enterprise? They already use Jenkins or Bamboo (or Github Enterprise or Gitlab self hosted).
Any guess what the public date and price will be?
I don't know why. Can you explain?