skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that if you took the coastline of Turkey and created a mountain range out of it, you would have a basic representation of Mordor. Then took Gondor mainly based around the city of Minas Tirith, Rohan based mainly around Edoras etc. and you would have the Greek City states. Minas Ithil would be Troy or other overrun ex colonies of the early Greeks. And then you have the Haradrim et al and they look a lot like the Persian empire.

There are many other aspects as well such as the last stand at the Battle of the Black Gate being a lot like the Battle of Marathon.

So to me the Lord of the Rings in some parts often sounds like the defense against the Persian Empire (there are various aspects that don't fit of course), so to only see it through the myopic eyes of Identity politics is I agree lazy.
The culture of the Saudi royal family feels like one of immaturity. It's like a bunch of young teenagers got a ton of resources and simply don't know how to channel them into anything meaningful.
Frugal Living 101: list of ways to curb your home expenses during Covid
The irony. The article's page loads content from various third-parties, including, you know, Google. Walk the talk and all that Mozilla.
I used a package called data-ui for the distributions and histograms, would recommend.

The NLP I use is all custom and does a kind of hierarchical pattern matching. It identifies low level meaing and uses that as building blocks for higher level.

And yes it has been my observation that the market often reverses for the most popular plays
> This document [0] has airport-to-city-center-by-taxi timings for top European airports. 1 hour seems to be the absolute worst, 27 min average, 22 min median. And it only gets better with smaller cities [1].

Sure; rail times were what I was assuming; your document puts them in the region of 40 minutes from a "hub" (though there's a lot of variation), so I stand by about an hour from a typical origin/destination. If you routinely take taxis then fair enough, but that comes with its own set of downsides.

> Boarding for short flights shouldn't close earlier than 20 minutes before departure. For large airports 40 mins should be enough. For tiny regional airports 30. Even check-in counters will sometimes close as late as 30 mins before departure.

I've never seen an airport that didn't officially advise 45 minutes, and every major airport I've been to had check-in counters closing an hour before departure. (Whereas, Eurostar excepted, the official number I've heard from train operators is 5 minutes). You can probably get away with less most of the time, sure, but I wouldn't want to take the risk.
The "King" of the USA probably brings more than 500 tons of luggage and involves over 1500 people when doing a diplomatic visit...
This is the gist of the Rational Expectations wave of economic theory.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1995/cer...
Xcode’s main issues are its bugs (which are inexcusable) and the project file format which is way too hard to work with.

Why aren’t files in groups sorted by default? Why does sorting them cause large sections of the project file to be rewritten? Why do I need to add files through the UI? (Why can’t I create them in the terminal and have them just show up?)

I know that groups vs folder references play a role here but most projects use groups, and groups are a terrible experience.

It all leads to constant merge conflicts and files just accidentally getting removed from groups and nobody being able to tell in code review. They need to fix the project file.
One way to not get criticized either way is take the vaccine then afterwards purposefully mist themselves with COVID-19 that shows they risked themselves because they believe in the product so not showing privilege they will always have a huge medical team to fall back on I guess. Not saying they should but haven’t famous doctors tested on themselves by trying to get sick?
Venezuela wields a powerful “hate” law to silence Maduro’s remaining foes
> FAANG who have the resources to puzzle the scraps back together for decent conversion tracking with the help of logins, IPs, SDKs with First Party IDs

Those are not exempt from the GDPR either. Granted, at the moment there’s very little enforcement around these (especially IP addresses despite their huge tracking potential) but once enforcement is stepped up there shouldn’t be any difference whether it’s a FAANG or a small company doing it).
From what I understand, this is not the goal of this tool.

Their goal is to smooth out volatility, at the cost of performance. Instead of "100% VOO", they invest in a more balanced portfolio like 80% stocks/20% bonds. This means at any given point your portfolio will not have big swings in value, in case you need to withdraw money (like to buy a house) at a sub-optimal time.
Belingcat reported 2 teams of either 6 each or in total for the attempted hit in Navalny.

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...
Multi-User Todo App Using SyncState and React
It always felt awkward when people tell me I have high capacities, or any sort of similar compliment, because it never feels like I'm "good enough" or that I'm really able to materialize those pretended capacities into my real life. It leads to an awful feeling of "missing one's true calling".

In the end, I did not acquire a significant amount of merit or status related to those capacities I heard people tell me.

Rating oneself, evaluating oneself, comparing oneself to others is NEVER healthy. The universe doesn't care, society doesn't care, your relatives don't really care, it will not make you happier, and generally it won't make the world a better place.

It's important to have humility, and avoid the reflexes of constantly having the thought of "what rank am I, do I reach my objectives, am I doing my part". It matters to do self introspection but it's not healthy to be afraid of natural selection because it leads to a social darwinist mindset, "eat or be eaten", which will always generate anxiety and fear. Civilized brains are able to focus on cooperation, not domination.

Humans exited the food chain, so there's no need to act like animals in the wild.
They do this on the ferry ride from Rotterdam to Hull as well. I think the ferry just goes really really slow to make sure it arrives at 7am. I bet they save on fuel doing this as well.

If you ever want to go between Britain and The Netherlands this has to be the most relaxing way to travel. Get on the boat around dinner, eat dinner on the boat, have a beer, go to your room and sleep, wake up in your destination.

It's even better than night trains.
> shameful that a device that is marketed as the gold standard in privacy

It's being marketed this way, that's it. It doesn't mean Apple care about privacy, and they prove every once in a while that they don't respect anyone's privacy at all. They spy on their users as much as anyone else (and overall, they have access to much more information than everybody else except Google).

All they want to do is prevent third-party tracking on their devices, so they have a monopoly on their users' data.

But they do collect those data and they share them with third party “partners”. Don't trust me, just look at their privacy policy, it's explicitly written there: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
One more year and she can start drinking. Jokes apart, Kate has come a long way. Kudos to all the contributors.
Do you speak for the far left?

I have seen seemingly infinite demands from liberal Democrats that big tech shut down covid disinformation and election disinformation. Surely you are aware of this. Is it your position that this isn’t censorship?
But not the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
> One mature oak tree is like 20 kg / year.

All of which will be released again when the oak dies.

Net effect: Zero.
What do you think are the possible issues for full encryption of iCloud backups?
In a sense both views are correct. Our psychomotor states instantiate the abstraction which are drawn from them (or else, why abstract?).

eg., there is a level of abstraction at which an ape "alerting" another ape is the same as an chemical "alerting" a cell

My point is that these things are only equivalent to these abstractions in a very narrow kind of activity (cognition).

A concept in the brain-body of an ape is a means for coordinating itself with respect to its environment: coordinating its eye, its hand, and latterly, its mind (, emotions, thought patterns, etc.). (NB. political correctness is here just a regulation on how we socially coordinate).

That's just what we use concepts for.

They also play a purely cognitive role in the sense that "circle" is both a guide to the motion of my hand in drawing a circle, and also a "Form" to which cognition can be purely and abstractly directed (ie., a shape with various properties...).

But this cognitive role is derivative of their non-cognitive origins in, quite literally, structuring the meat of our bodies. It is this structuring process which is how we "conceptualise" the world.

A dog is replete with many concepts; it is the dumb cognitive illusion of apes lacking self-awareness to think their linguistic cognition is where "concepts" lie. This is a cognitive shadow of how every animal navigates its environment.

Your "AGI" remark indicates to me that you may take this cognitive view. I think this is the consequence of a mathematical discipline (computer science) being "let into the room" -- it should be thrown back out.

Mathematics hasn't much to say about intelligence. The dumb walnut we call a frontal lobe possesses no models of how it actually works, and only the shadow of concepts it calls "abstractions". It is a delusional Cartesian place with little to offer self-understanding.

Everything important for the development of intelligence, etc. will come from the non-cognitive (, bodily) aspects of mental function which will require building animals. Cognitive ai systems cannot conceptualise, they only automate the walnut.
While I find the "almost hilarious" kind of overly snarky, I have my own version of this that has the race condition check. Basically uses `mkdir $THISBIN.lock` line that gives me an atomic way to create or check for existence of a logical semaphore, and provides me with a scratch area. The trap'd cleanup function removes it (which when debugging, and I use that scratch area, is inconvenient, but <shrug>)
Ask HN: How to run analytics on data without access to the data?
I have little service for personal use, and I was considering opening it up to a general audience. Right now its processing some of my personal data for fun little personal report, in particular chat data. Since its information I have access to already, I don't mind running the program locally.
What I would like to be able to do is run an analysis for anyone and return the little report that I get for myself. Without having access to their data or storing it in the first place. I know with for example oauth scopes, you can grant access, which sort of fits the criteria. But I'm thinking more exported data from an application, that doesn't have delegated access functionality

How I envisioned a solution would be some trusted third party takes my analysis script, returns the report and that is it. I never see the underlying data and recieve only one time token to access it.

I know it will never be hundred percent leak proof, and there is still a level of user trust, I realise that, but just thinking conceptually, is there any existing service out there, that does such a thing or attempts to offer something similar? Or what would an alternative approach look like?
I’m not a doctor, but yes I’ve done paracetamol/ ibuprofen interleaved with 2 hours gaps between each other when I had very bad flu.

I’m curious why no one here mentioned aspirin though
Good idea in general, but the details matter. Teaching people how to make efficient wood burning stoves could fall prey to the Jevons Paradox.

Ideally you would enable some other type of stove. They may lack the infrastructure for natural gas or propane, of course. But I'm sure heating can be accomplished without chopping down trees at all. Through solar, for instance.
MrBeast, YouTube’s viral philanthropist, explains where all the money comes from
It is however the most important remaining area of tropical forest on Earth, because of its size and the fact that large pristine areas still exist. That's not to say that conservation issues in the Congo basin, tropical SE Asia, Borneo, Papua New Guinea etc are not as important. But I think you should be cautious about making a statement like that about Amazonia.
When you’re a tiny startup budgets are extremely lean and products don’t have a lot of users. In that environment companies often prioritize breadth of functionality (see what works) and getting that via several (more affordable) junior team members guided by a smaller group of senior team members.
Isn’t this a bit like mode collapse in GANs?
Mozilla and Opera aren't viable because of Chrome. Chrome is arguably more polished because Google pours more money into its development, more readily available because Google can lobby/buy/enforce its inclusion as the default browser, and free because Google makes money from the information it collects through it.

You can't compete with Chrome when your primary merit is simply not being Google. Forcing Google to spin-off Chrome should have been done earlier though, before Microsoft had a stake on the engine. Now additional steps need to be taken to ensure that spinning off Chrome will not actually kill competition; with an independent Chrome, we can count on Google cutting down on Mozilla's funding since Google wouldn't be any longer in danger of being ruled as a browser monopoly.
Thanks! Using Ansible sounds like a great idea, specially when it allows me to also match installed packages!

Would be great if I could combine with a local secrets engine. Like Hashicorp Vault but local.
Why Python version 3.5 specifically?
I got that slightly wrong, it's 1099-INT for interest in income on checking/savings, 1099-DIV is for dividends only.
you are made upside-down
> Libre phone

Librem 5 phone: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5

Pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Services hosted on GCP didn't lose any traffic during this incident. This was a control plane outage, not a data plane outage. That means that if you needed to go in and adjust something to resolve your own outage, you were in trouble, but if your services were healthy, nothing bad happened.

As the time of the outage increases, service health probably trends to zero without being able to manage the service... but for a few hours, it's not a disaster. Usually.
Something must absolutely be done to allow competing browser engines on iOS, such an anti-competitive behaviour is astonishing. How much money did Apple make thanks to not allowing the Web to be a viable alternative to native apps on its platform?

Over the past 10 years, how many companies chose to build native apps for iOS instead of web apps running everywhere? How many people bought iOS devices instead of competing products because of that rich app ecosystem (working only on iOS devices)? How much money did they make through the App Store fee that app developers could have saved if Web Apps had been a viable option? How much money was poured in the native industry instead of the Web?

Apple has been preventing the growth of the Web as an app platform for years, it's time for a change, and it's time they pay for it.
Benchmarking Istio and Linkerd
I use noise cancelling in-ear headphones and on top of that I wear ear muffs intended for operating heavy machinery. I've never found a single pair of noise cancelling headphones that actually cancel all noise, so I layer them.
Is being hardworking a talent or something you learn?
If we're talking Linux embedded and not something like an MCU, then you already likely have a shell installed. So you might as well use it for the things which shell excels at. Shell scripts are much smaller in size than the equivalent C code, for those things that shell is typically used for.
When I was a student (so I thought I was smart), I got to pick up a bunch of desks at a moving company. How hard could that be...
The (older) gentleman working at the moving company saw us struggle for a few minutes, then asked us to move aside, and he was WAY more efficient at packing the truck with desks, than we were... Was a nice lesson that experience can beat a lot of "smarts".
Fonts by Google, really?
This is yet another study that reminds us of how contagious the virus that causes Covid-19 is, and how hard it is to keep from infecting others if one lives in crowded housing.
I have a few doublethink beliefs like this that I find quite useful.

It feels like different modes of thinking for different situations.
signify works with text, you only decode the signature from base64 string and check the rest in raw.
Does AppCode support live preview?
I agree with the general sentiment, though I set the bar a bit higher (or lower, depending on your perspective). Bash does okay with positional arguments, error handing, and even loops. You can get a lot done with that, and there are a lot of circumstances where a little bash script is just what you need. Where I draw the line is at arrays. If you're starting to think about data structures, bash isn't the right tool for the job.
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I remember firing up Kate on my first Linux install ever - a dual boot with Windows 98SE and Suse 7.2! I keep meaning to fire that up in a VM but haven’t found the ISOs yet.
> They spy on their users as much as anyone else (and overall, they have access to much more information than everybody else except Google).

This is easily disproven by making a GDPR access request to see what various companies have retained on you, or if you’re extra paranoid inspecting what the device is sending back over the network.
Yes, couchettes are differ a bit in hardness, but not everyone can sleep on them (I can about half of the time); in other languages they're called "lying-down cars", as opposed to "sleeping cars", where you get a proper mattress. I've never seen someone use a sleeping pad on top, but you could definitely try; I have thought of doing that too but not tried it yet. It would be easier if you get on a bit earlier in the evening, or the starting station.
Cristoph is german. Meaning Kate already started drinking four years ago :)
Well, there is embedded and embedded embedded :)

I was talking about embedded Linux here, so 512 MB RAM is not really uncommon, many systems have even more. No problem to run even bash. dash is sometimes preferred for license reasons, busybox ash is smaller, but then programming can probably get more annoying already, because useful features are probably missing. I use dash regularly for scripting (interactive use is a pain), haven't had to use ash for a while.

Of course there are much smaller embedded systems. But I don't think they would run Linux.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20510933
I think this is about the fourth time I've seen this story on HN.
As you mention, this is for a person to apply themselves and my original comment is not meant to be applied to others.

Regarding your points:

> "Thats just imposter syndrome. I'm sure you'll figure it

> out."

But they should be encouraged to at least try to find a solution (depending on the scenario). If it's simply "I do not know how to do X" and I ask "have you looked at Y", if the answer is no then this is something they should do. Maybe there is no solution there either, but it is something they should explore so we can have a discussion about that.

> It is much harder to focus and succeed when you're trying

> to push yourself down a path you think is probably

> fruitless.

Well, that is also where the maximum reward exists - when you think something is impossible and then you discover you are able to do it. If nothing else, you gain a better ability to judge what 'fruitless' looks like when considering problems.

> It is much harder to solve problems when you don't have a

> sounding board.

Sure, but it also robs you of a learning experience if you are always relying on other people to guide you through solving problems - and it can be exhausting for the person that has to guide you. So it should be something that is not used common place.

For example, you could ask "off the top of you head, do you know how to do X? If not I'll consult Y...". Maybe they have some pointers for solving X, but you're also saying that you're willing to investigate using method Y.

Ultimately, if you have little risk, you have little reward. You can easily setup a scenario where they try to solve their problem, but don't get stuck for too long. For example, send them off and check up on them half hour later: "any luck solving X yet?", "have you considered looking at Z?".

Another point to consider when you agree to always help somebody solve problems they make little to no effort to solve themselves is that they are robbed of the learning experience, they have a path where they never have to become self-dependent and you are distracted from some other task.
As a reminder (from first hand experience with mobile development for major companies), the iOS versions of those apps do the same. Even more so, all of those tracking SDKs are targeting iOS first, Android second.

Please don't feel safe on iOS just because Apple marketing is blasting misleading claims at you.
You can't say things like that, can you imagine how Apple device owners (which are plenty here) would feel about their purchases? I've seen the argument of 'using Apple if you are privacy conscious and rest is subpar' here a thousand times as a main justification for the higher price.
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There is an essay[1] from last month, which argues for assigning agency to biological systems and not just for illustration for the general public but for research.

For me, a layman, it had some convincing arguments, at least in abstract.

[1] - https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-and-o...
Their walled garden leads to users vulnerable to every Apple's decision.

Sent from my Pinephone.
everyone's trying to get into machine learning baby
What is the purpose of diplomatic immunity anyway? I thought everyone was supposed to be equal under the law. If people don't like the law of a specific country, they should just stay in their own countries.
Using iPhone 12 Lidar and infrared to see in a cave [video]
Maybe, but people say similar things for e.g. using Vim over an IDE too, though...
Same here, my comment was not about the head count on an attack per se but about the time they wanted to enter the country/start working at the embassy.
This is my feeling, too. Race conditions, misunderstanding globbing, whitespace in path names - these are the main sources of errors in Bash scripts I come by.
At least ..
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=golden+airline+ticket
The UK keyboard sits in the uncanny valley where it superficially looks like US-ANSI, then you realize the tilde (essential character for a UNIX-er) has been replaced by the negation sign ¬ (who even uses that?) and the @ and # signs relegated to Outer Mongolia.
Was ist eine Lernplattform oder ein LMS?
It's useful when it's useful, but I disagree that it belongs in a minimal template, and especially so without mentioning the obvious drawbacks.
Ask HN: Can you cry under water?
Have used it on 7KB RAM :) But to be fair the interpreter was in ROM, no idea how big that was.
It's got Thunderbolt 3, so maybe with an external graphics card…? Drivers might be an issue though.