skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, you have limited options when it comes to Reddit submissions no matter how crafty you are.

But comment promotion is unlimited, and for that reason, that's where my mind went.

For example, some of my highest volume referrals from Reddit were comment-replies I left on some submission that became the main result for, say, "best <product> 2020". People trust comments and they have weirdly-good authority in the SERPs.

Right now if you google "battery life of <product>", it parses a comment I made on Reddit in 2018 and shows in the instant-answer box.

I know I'm getting off the thread's rails. Just thought it was somewhat interesting.
That's hilarious ! Reminds me of the « french military victories » query that suggested « french military defeats » (which, as a Frenchman myself, pissed me off in a funny way :p)
My broader point is that there is no problem to fix, human population cannot possibly exceed the carrying capacity of the earth.

Looking at recorded human history, the long term trend consistently is that the population has risen. This means resource availability has increased, either due to discovery of new sources, invention, efficiency increase. Shocking decreases in some or other resource have had little effect on this trend.

Unavailability of some resource just means reduction in standard of living, for everything except food and water. And again, the net biomass on earth does not increase the more humans are here, and so the demand for food and water does not change whether that biomass is humans or buffalo. There can be no food or water shortages from overpopulation, only mismanagement and natural disaster.

The free market is the only thing capable of handling shocks, no other system is flexible or agile enough to quickly resolve a change in resource availability or demand. And sudden change of resource availability is not what we are talking about, we are talking about resource shortage due to overpopulation. A shock decrease in resources would result in disaster no matter how many people exist, so trying to address it by managing population levels is pointless.
This is well known. Not only do we know that they buried their dead, we also found out that they cared for their sick/injured even though they were never likely to be hunters(or productive post-handicap)...they also cared for their elderly and buried them too.
How iMessage does it: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec70e68c949/...
I really wish more people realised this. The UK has tremendous soft power in addition to significant economic and diplomatic power. London was the EU's only truly global city. People may point to Paris, Frankfurt etc but those cities do not wield the influence and financial clout of London.

Brexit is a loss for both sides.
Thing is that some candidates for expansion have questionable practices when it comes to democracy. This is why those countries often see the EU in a positive light as it isn't as corrupt as their local gov at least.

I don't think current EU leaders really have any long-term plan, they just keep on steering in the same direction. Can be good or bad depending on your perspective.
> Governments can drastically reduce contacts between people, and doing so reverses the growth of the epidemic.

But doing so has costs and epidemiology is not, nor should it be, the only consideration. The US could enforce speed limits of 25 mph everywhere and effectively eradicate motor vehicle deaths. Could enforce limits on sugar intake and reduce heart disease deaths. But of course these seem fairly absurd propositions. The fervor of COVID reporting makes such measures seem reasonable.

It reminds me a bit of Bostrom’s vulnerable world hypothesis, in which he imagines scenarios could arise (in that case due to technological progress) where the only way to prevent a rogue bad actor from accomplishing mass destruction is “turn-key totalitarianism” where freedoms are subsumed to allow the government to address the threat. And there are situations where this seems the only pragmatic response, for instance if technology was discovered that allowed an individual to easily and cheaply produce an explosion akin to a nuclear weapon.

But COVID does not seem such a scenario to many. And yet what many others are asking for here is turn-key totalitarianism. Is that really favorable here to more vulnerable populations being at higher risk? Do we really want to just maximize age expectancy and reduce deaths as a guiding function of society? I don’t think so, but that is the implicit claim within, and it's why it's hard to enact in practice.
Sorry I'm not entirely clear what you mean. However I try not to weigh myself down with "What ifs" as a general life rule.

Where does it end?

What if your parents never met?

Please don't read this as facetious, I'm not meaning to be.
Bootstraping a minimal image for kernel development
1301, to be more precise.
PhotoshopCClinux – the unofficial installer for Photoshop CC v19 on Linux
Is Signal's desktop experience still an electron app?
This is interesting.

The new architectures could also support new programming languages where single instruction multiple data and parallelism would be easier.

Get rid of all the sequential part.
I'm doubtful about this. Even though Android uses the Linux kernel, its userspace is completely different; There isn't much overlap in the APIs you can use on Android vs ones you can use on desktop Linux, besides a few things like openGL and syscalls.
The UK was in favor of enlargement precisely because it would hinder integration. The best explanation of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE
This argument is so tiresome. It isn’t a radicle idea that people should be able to engage in basic actives like transportation, commerce, communication, etc. without having to give up their rights to safety, privacy, and other basic standards. “If you don’t want to risk getting poisoned, just don’t shop at that multination store”. How about any store should be regulated to provide a minimum level of safety in the things they sell. How about any communication platform be regulated to provide a minimum level of privacy and data protection for private user information.
I don't get it. I am still regularly re-installing my favorite more than a decade old games from optical disks...
uBlock Origin blocks your player at the bottom of the screen. Not sure why.
I'm not a lawyer, but thankfully the constitution is actually a pretty easy read from the originalist perspective that now has significant influence on the court and in this case I don't need to worry about case law and so on, so I'm comfortable speculating a bit.

Here's the relevant text: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."

This means that the legislatures of the state have total and exclusive power over the manner in which their electors are chosen. Plainly read, no other body, including that state's judiciary or executive, has the power to direct how electors are chosen. This power is so broad the state could select electors by lottery, or even a poll on hackernews and it wouldn't be subject to any oversight other than a constitutional amendment.

So, you can see that this isn't about a state following its own laws, it's about a state following the constitution. Since the constitution is a pact between the fifty sovereign states, like any other binding pact when another party doesn't follow the rules of the pact they can be sued in the appropriate venue which is the Supreme Court of the United States, or otherwise acted against. Let us hope it doesn't come to the otherwise option anytime soon, because the last time was a real mess.

I think the best, if not necessarily the most likely outcome, is that the court orders the lawbreaking states to fix things, which is as simple as calling a special legislative section and passing a resolution selecting a slate of electors. Presumably states with Democratic legislatures will pick Biden and those with Republican legislatures will pick Trump, but no matter what it will be up to the democratically elected legislatures of the state in question, which in a sane world would be acceptable to both sides.
The hell-raising story of Uber rewriting their app in Swift
> I jumped out of the bed, logged into Google Cloud Billing, and saw a bill for ~$5,000. Super stressed, and not sure what happened, I clicked around, trying to figure out what was happening. I also started thinking of what may have happened, and how we could “possibly” pay the $5K bill.

> The problem was, every minute the bill kept going up.

> After 5 minutes, the bill read $15,000, in 20 mins, it said $25,000. I wasn’t sure where it would stop. Perhaps it won’t stop?

> After two hours, it settled at a little short of $72,000.

> By this time, my team and I were on a call, I was in a state of complete shock and had absolutely no clue about what we would do next. We disabled billing, closed all services.

1) Why wouldn't you shut off the service as soon as you saw the $5000 bill? Really doesn't sound like a "hop on a call with the team for a few hours" kind of decision.

2) Why was the person taking a nap the only person who could get a usage limit alert? One of the great benefits of a team is that you can have multiple eyes looking out for problems. Someone could have raised a flag as soon as the first unexpected alert came in.

3) If going over the free tier limit was your chief concern, why not check the usage after a quick run before letting it go overnight and unsupervised?

That the problem could get this bad is a UX failure, but the problem itself is easily seeable and avoidable.
I said "we would all live in totalitarian states", and I also doubt your totalitarian state was created by YouTube propaganda.

I'm more worried about the censorship leading to totalitarian states than extremist YouTube channels.
I like the term "Yak shaving", however the story told was quite anticlimactic. Yak at a zoo? Really?

Why not go all the way to Tibet. (Acknowledging the exclusive western perspective here. I fail to think of an analogy for the west...)

There is an opportunity missed pointing out the ignored complexity of related implied conditionals (like flying across the globe), which were consequently not exploded onto the described stack. That is, within the narrative. Missed, because the scope of conditional complexity is pretty much arbitrary (point in the reader's resonance); "importance" is mostly a matter of subjective perception merely experienced as rational thoughts. Every egosyntonic thought is experienced as rational.

Internal task prioritization is part of executive functioning and e.g. broken in ADHD (everything feels important). However, it's perceived as consistent with the internal model of reality and not foreign (aka egosyntonic; "rational") no matter the expression and functional applicability.

There is the problem. It's not a question of better thinking or simple rules for analysing a problem, it's a problem asking for an hypervisor, who cares about time management/energy expenditure, not reasonability. For some people an instance can be internalized, or even just works out-of-the-box; for others it needs to be externalized.
Hmm... thanks for that pointer. I'll investigate that.

Cheers
Sorry, jQuery was a bad example - I remember jQuery not working in Node at all, but that was roughly 10 years ago. Things have improved.

The fact remains that the most popular JS env is the browser. It has APIs such as window which are not compatible with Node and Node has APIs which are not compatible with the browser like __dirname or require. That's why tools such as browserify and webpack exist to bridge the gap.

In Deno the gap is much closer. Obviously, the Deno namespace is not available in the browser (but there's a shim for most APIs, e.g. Deno.writeFile and readFile are implemented with a virtual FS) and some web APIs are not available in Deno (yet), but the compat story is much better.

This is no surprise since web compat is a core goal of Deno. Node compat is not.

> Wouldn't it be trivial to just fall back to checking node_modules for named packages?

No, the resolution algo is not trivial (nor performant). Also, it's not necessary: There is already a standard for how to import code in JS; it's import statements. Import statements do not allow named packages, e.g. import $ from "jquery" does not work in the browser. Except, again, import maps.
Attempts have been done on this, not once (P3P [1]), not twice (DNT [2]), but multiple times (several expired RFCs, GPC [3]). This sounds like the evil bit (RFC 3514 [4]) at this point.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

3: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/coming-to-a-brow...

4: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
Applies to every messenger
>If people hold houses to speculate with the price of real state

...isn't that one of the problems with housing? It already allows for speculation, and in addition to that, it's heavily biased towards people speculating in one direction: up. People can be leveraged up to 20x (aka. 5% down payment), whereas for stocks it's limited to 2x[1]. There's also no meaningful way to short housing prices. You can't short-sell a house, and there aren't derivatives for housing (futures/options). The latter would also help increase supply because speculators can speculate on housing without tying up the underlying asset (ie. stories of speculators buying houses and leaving them vacant because they don't want to deal with the hassle/risk of tenants).

[1] https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/invest...
I know, this was exactly of my point: I felt that OP didn't read the article, and it didn't occur to them that "vaccine data" could also refer to personal information in their blanket dismissal. In this concrete case it wasn't the case, but that all "vaccine data" should be open is certainly privacy nonsense. Once you introduce that definition I agree.
href footnotes are a usability disaster in my experience. Many (most?) don't have a jumpback link, and when the link is too close to the edge of the page it gets overridden by the prev/next page control. I've ended up giving up on reading footnotes in ebooks. If it weren't for coronavirus library closures, I would read a small fraction of the ebooks that I read right now.
if you have 100 machines you need to install 100 new OS's which just by itself is a bunch of work.

The actual install of linux is generally pretty straight forward but to do it minimum downtime you need spare boxes to build with the new distro (preferably 1 for each old box, but you can get away with less, its just takes more time), install your software on, and then test. You also need sysadmins and testers to do the work, and developers to fix any issues (normally around library versions etc). Then you have the risk that something was missed in the install & testing and causes issues in prod a new distro will not be 100% bug compatible with your old one so you will find problems.

And thats assuming you have the skills to install the new distro, how to set it up as required, how to reinstall the software (its amazing how much in house software doesn't have install docs or even source code), and the skills to run it 24/7. If not factor in training and self-learning time for everyone.

Its all doable, but its probably months of work and a bunch of risk just to get back to where you were on a new distro, which makes no difference to your customers at all.

Theres a reason companies tend not to switch very often.
Been using https://www.picoreplayer.org/ for a few years after my real Squeezebox hardware died. May take a look at this one for Spotify support.

What I really want is something that can do LMS/Squeezebox and be a Google cast receiver but as far as I'm aware there's no way to DIY a cast receiver as it needs a Google cert.
No one is installing something self described as the "development branch" on their vital infrastructure.
For those talking about a native port, the drama involving The Witcher 2 native port and the absolute negative reaction from Linux users along with the disappointing progress of Steam Machines had made CDPR hesitant to develop for the platform.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-witcher-3-didnt-c...
I do utilise such tools but I 100% advocate for being a human being and just speaking to people.

Customers really appreciate it. I guess its not for everyone, and it's not infinitely scaleable but it is highly valuable in the early stages.
Willingness to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Ticks Up to 63% in U.S.
The trouble is, this is really just them being honest. Within 6 months of acquiring Oculus they started pulling in data from their Oculus accounts and associating that with Facebook profiles based on email or whatever identifiers they can use. Requiring Facebook accounts is just being transparent about the fact that Facebook maintains a profile for you which crosses all of their systems whether you have accounts or not.

I hope the EU addresses the root of the issue and starts cracking down on the shadow profile stuff.
If this separates Oculus into it's own company I'd probably buy one of the new headsets. The things Facebook is doing here definitely detracts from the product. I don't have to give Logitech my drivers license to plug in a mouse.
That was a fun joke when it was originally posted (2013 according to Internet Archive) but today some them are actually real things with smart homes and smart bulbs, different vendors, different protocols etc etc
Sorry to hear that you hold other cultures in such low regard.
Not really. If you have really honour, you don't fight for a murderous regime. You fight against it.
Easier said, than done, when you have family etc. but any praise of the Wehrmacht is pretty out of place, considering the context. They only turned against Hitler when the war was about to be lost. Not before.

But given your name, you might see things differently.
Showcase only your best features, not all your good ones
Correct, I'm referring to e2e. My personal trust model is not to trust the server.
They were hiring for a low-rank employee that would take training and instructions from London.
Show HN: Use Figma to ship simple static websites
EDIT: I can't read, sorry. Please ignore.

> But each is 6600 JPY. That's more than 600 dollars.

That's about $63 USD, not $600.

https://fxconvert.net/converter/jpy-usd/6600
Perhaps you weren't around at the peak of blogging era when all the gurus usually running self-help blogs were preaching that writing style to aspiring bloggers. It stuck around and still is dominant in blogging - and for good reasons for certain audience.

Information examples from more popular blogs:

https://neilpatel.com/blog/write-copy-like-apple/
https://copyblogger.com/short-guide-to-good-copy/
Coronavirus victims tend to be much older, and generally closer to the natural end of their life. Every day thousands in the same demographic die from cancer and heart disease too.
I have yet to meet a reddit democrat that knows more about Obama than they do about Trump. That's why I thought Trump should've been in office again. Now we've got a dying old man and a pro cop VP.
What can different cultures teach about boredom?
Hey HN, this is a particle detector developer by my friend Oliver Keller for his PhD at CERN. I've put together some kits so you can more easily build one yourself.

Previously discussed:

- DIY Particle Detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196177

- CERN publishes instructions for building your own particle detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185665

- CERN at Home: Building a Particle Detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24344382
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Where is the suit against Google for doing the same thing with Nest? I will not be holding my breath.
I don't get why. Aren't you and CDPR using Vulkan rather than DirectX by now ? If a small studio like Wube can afford to develop for Windows, Linux and even Mac, why can't you??
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we need a downdetector detector !
You're absolutely right. You should definitely demand a full refund on all the money you've paid for CentOS!
This is not how rational basis review works.
>So called 'free trade agreements' are an interesting example: econ 101 tells us that free trade agreements are pretty silly. Adam Smith and Ricardo already showed that you should abolish your own trade barriers unilaterally regardless of what the other guy is doing, no need for any agreements.

That's obviously stupid because it would undermine all regulation because you can always ship products to an unregulated market and then ship them back. Free trade agreements exist because the countries involved want to keep some degree of regulation and they want to have a choice which regulation they get to keep.
Show HN: Paid Learning Lists
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And Frankfurt is not as attractive a place to live as London or Paris.
> We grant these companies patents so they can be open about their tech.

No. Hard no.

A patent is used to grant some exclusivity to the patent holder because it assumes the patented thing can be readily duplicated.

The idea is that they want the patent holder to have time to profit from their idea before it can be copied and undercut.

It has nothing to do with being open or sharing.

If a patent is for a tool, there is no requirement that the patent cover things like how to manufacture said tool. If the patent is for a process, there's no obligation that you provided details on the exact application of the process and it's intended purpose.
Startup Requirement Document
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> The site is the work of a guy, "him", and "his" work. We don't have to guess and say "them" and "their" work.

Assumptions are presumptuous and harmful. Everyone is a they/them until otherwise stated. These are extremely useful pronouns.

You're a they/them.

Calm down. You seem to be overly attached to regressive labels. I don't know what drives this in you, but the universe is burning and people just want to be happy. Your life is short; you're going to die and rot away. Is this really something to get worked up over?

In the future, when our descendants are all uploaded to computers or replaced by an AI overlord, people will be all sorts of genders. They won't be bound by yesterday's norms. Would you be a stuffy gender policeperson, or will you just let people be who they are?
Unfortunately, few styles actually dictate this. I remember one anthology from my undergrad days which handled things perfectly: side notes for vocabulary notes (it was an anthology of older English literary texts), footnotes for commentary, end notes for text source notes (there weren't really citations per se so much as indications about where the anthologized text came from and choices about which edition/manuscript was followed for the text).