skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this observation may infringe on the boundaries of good taste, but this line stuck out to me -

"I noticed that the group was one Black guy, one South Asian guy, one East Asian guy, one White girl, and one guy who might have been Hispanic. It was like some sort of promotional photo from an HR department. And suddenly I thought of the Axis powers, and their insane delusions of racial purity and supremacy, and I thought: 'How could you idiots ever hope to beat us?'"

The United States was ~90% white for World War 2 [1]. Other major allied powers, the USSR and the UK probably were even moreso. It doesn't make sense to suggest that modern diversity had anything to do with World War 2.

A better, modern example, might be comparing the modern US to modern China, which is 92% Han Chinese[2]. Only, I'm not sure US dominance against China will be as decisive as it was against Nazi Germany.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic...

2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
It’s absurd how some pages can’t be consumed any more, because of the insane number of ads.
I live in SF, and here's how it works:

- people are friendly, but weary of the homeless and corona issues

- gay people move to SF for obvious reasons

- young people move to SF instead of the Peninsula to date

- tech people move to SF instead of other regions for the jobs

- most families move out when they have children because of the school admission and location policies (if you have 2 kids in elementary grades, they might have to go to different schools, etc.)

- if you're Republican and mention Trump in the office, you will likely have to find a new job.

The downtown was not burned by Marxists (yet), but rents are still too high for all.
Obligatory Achewood reference (bring back Achewood btw): http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007
There are two things holding back octopodes from world domination: their short lifespan and solitary nature. Both of which should be curable. If instead of curing cancer in mice every week, if we fixed these two issues in octopodes, we will probably have our own aliens in our oceans.
Well... livability for who then?

For someone who wants to have a large home workshop to build boats in, built on cheap land, yeah, it's not a great place. For someone who wants to live on a farm and grow all their own food, not so great. For a childless couple who needs a 5 bedroom house and professionally landscape-architected decorative garden to show their coworkers they have made it (I know several such people in the South Bay), not great. For a family of 7 who want each kid to have their own room, not so great.

However it is great for anyone who doesn't like making every trip by car, or who wants to live somewhere where there are constantly new things to do.

> Is it really the city to start or raise a family in?

I have a 1.5 year old and a 4 year old, have been living in SF for about 8 years and intend to stay indefinitely. So for me, yes.

But many middle class families have different criteria. e.g. there are many families who move out of SF because they feel they have run out of space in a small rent-controlled apartment and can't afford a bigger one; or they need childcare help from family who live elsewhere; or they don't want to send their children to public schools alongside working class children ('the average test scores are too low'), but can't afford expensive private schools. Etc.

In my personal opinion, for anyone under the age of 20 it is a much more fun place than almost anywhere in the USA, with a much wider variety of resources available. Suburbia sucks for young people (speaking from personal experience after growing up in a "nice" suburb). YMMV.
Please do one on Westworld UI!
No, very often they do add the favicons! That makes it easier to locate websites that are outside of your expected IP space but are pretending to belong to you. For example:

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=http.favicon.hash%3A7085...

It takes a bit more refining to get a good list of results; the general idea is to find websites that look like the real deal but are located somewhere on the Internet where you didn't expect to find them.
Some major Australian airports passenger movement down 99% on year before
>> Managed by a government institution or not-for-profit with open meetings, salary caps, public records requests, and other (legally-enforceable) checks-and-balances.

>I think you're making this too complicated.

It isn't complicated at all. My internet provider is exactly like this. Unlike US "nonprofits" it is actually nonprofit and every dollar goes to building a better infrastructure.
Are there any megalopolises that don't have a culture of quick paces and impatience?
I had an IBM PC XT in early 90-es, just like in the picture. Green monochrome monitor, dual 5 inch floppies, 20mb hard drive. Some company was throwing them out and my father brought one home.

At one point the hard drive failed and the PC booted into basic from ROM.
My experience from a few years ago, most people were already engaged communicating with somebody.

So, it would be odd to ‘interrupt’ somebody while they are in conversation.

It was interesting to see lots of people communicating, but with somebody not physically present.

Anecdotal, of course.
There is certainly a wide spectrum of livable cities between SF and suburbia.
If we're talking service, not membership, wouldn't the onus be on Israel in this case?
> I feel like I must be misreading something, because your second paragraph appears to me to be the doublespeak you claim to dislike.

GP's first two paragraphs are very clear irony.
I clicked on the article expecting to make the joke that alt-Berlin looks a lot like Vancouver since they did a lot of the shooting here. I was out at the university when they were filming the first season and they had done the main mall up in Nazi flags, it was really weird.

Living in a city where they do a lot of filming is weird from the standpoint of recognizing the backgrounds of areas. One that sticks out in my mind is the ending of Tron:Legacy. They have multiple shots that are supposed to be the characters driving, but consecutive shots are all out of order including switching between driving north and south multiple times.
> valid study is retracted

Which study was that?
Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing
If all they say is "competitive" then they're refusing to compete on salary.
I have a Londoner friend I stay with there sometimes (I'm from the North of England).

I wind him up by threatening to walk around his neighbourhood being "weird and dangerous-looking" (his unnerved words) by using friendly eye contact and saying hello to people I walk by.
Wellies , walking our 9 months old pup with dry feet is priceless
The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was mosquitoes
App gives you a local ADB shell, no need for root
The patch was released (less than) 0 days ago; that's the definition, no?
Show HN: Go library to convert Remarkable 2 files to PDF
To be fair, this fast track should be the norm. The naturalisation process is insanely long intentionally.
...whereas three years of service in French Foreign Legion allows you to apply for citizenship, or immediately after you are wounded in battle ("French by spilled blood")
AFAIK, I didn't have to add any plugins to achieve that feature. I believe you can set the order to be Shuffle Tracks or Shuffle Albums out of the box, but I might be misremembering if I needed to do anything for that to be there.

see: https://i.imgur.com/zL0oZsx.png

You can customize this feature in Advanced Preferences. Then, go to Playback -> Shuffle -> Album grouping pattern.

See: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=113035.0
Why WebRTC is the right choice for your streaming project?
It honestly has a negative connotation for me since it’s been so overused to almost be meaningless. It either means they have no business model or their business model is surveillance for profit. Big red flag.
Are you saying it is just a numbers game?

I think of ‘Mythical Man Month’ and the notion that having more humans is not necessarily an advantage.
What a fitting end to 2020. A whole new sector of work specializing in proving the validity of a recording is about to prop up
Fair enough, but then presumably you need an account with them regardless of where you get the app from.
You may be wrong about the UK, which fought the war as the British Empire. I believe more than half the pilots that won the Battle of Britain came from the Commonwealth. The Battle of Monte Cassino included New Zealanders and Nepalis.
Although this may seem like the right way to handle lower resolutions it suffers from the fact that, in practice, you will be turning a whole bunch of css levers and knobs to get to get a small number of pixels to turn the right colour. It’s a complicated and roundabout way of doing things. It would be better just to have an svg for 64px and above and a set hand drawn png images for the smaller icons. No fancy new image format, maybe just a decent naming convention or zip file per image set. Should only be 64px.svg 32px.png 24px.png and 16px.png. You may even be able to skip the 24px version.
Why I'm Losing Trust in the Institutions
You should care about politics, but also understand that your isolated action will not magically change the world. Your individual action does have an impact, but it’s likely a small one. So adjust your efforts and expectations accordingly.
You need to state what your criteria are. "Livable" is relative, and poorly defined.

Empirically, there is very high demand to live in SF, indicating that many people find it more "livable" by their own criteria than alternatives.
I literally have those sentences framed in our offices, to remind my employees that we are just making software. Sentences taken from websites we stumble across, like « We advance humanity » or « 125 years experience with the future », all on backgrounds of cute things which people pretend to be helping because they provide the software that helps build a machine for the doctor who helps a kid in Africa. Let’s be humble, as employees the company is here to provide us with experience and pay, and hopefully a good time; We must be mindful of the community we’re in and always talk to the old lady upstairs and lend our drill to the father who’s rebuilding his bathroom in the building; and the software we build has a nice role among the million other cogs that make society work. No go back to taking care of your families ;)
Most of the comments here are hung up about the accuracy or lack thereof of the saying hi observation, which is just the article's title and hook. I'm more curious to see if anyone agrees with the author's point about the lack of intermixing in SF between people of different classes, and the seeming lack of urban social cohesion, unlike other cities such as NY or perhaps Boston ("Boston Strong").

Certainly, if one works in tech in SF, it's easy to get stuck in an industry bubble where the first questions strangers ask each other at social events is "oh who do you work for?" and it just becomes a parade of corporate logos, tech stack holy wars, weekend side projects, and comparing option offers.
Yes they did, and gave up because of serious problems with that approach. (Interestingly, so did Rust, more recently).
FinalUnit: AI Driven Unit Test Generation for Golang
"NYC does have plenty of homeless as well, but the cold clears them up pretty quick."

That comes off pretty cold-hearted...
Political Sectarianism in America [pdf]
You can reach out to companies that interest you directly, using their career page, finding people who work there and contacting them (LinkedIn, or via Twitter but preferably through an introduction), or some combination of both. You'll usually get a message back if your online presence shows some sort of proof of skills.
Looks like Reddit to me, except for the Haskell typeclasses.
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Launch by RedPeppy
I wrote a python script using fontforge to stretch DECTerminalModern at desired width, you can find the script, screenshots, and the resulting font here https://gist.github.com/epilys/95869773037d3d2235d324bd5a048...
Show HN: Visa – Easy third party auth (OAuth 2.0) for flutter apps
This isn't really true.
There have been a few isolated cases of former members of the armed services who were convicted of a felony being deported. I don't agree with that happening either but to say they are regularly deported just isn't true.

If you serve in the armed forces and don't commit crimes, and apply for citizenship you will most likely get it.

Also the US accepts alot more immigrants than Japan, China, and many other countries.

Most of the complaints about immigration come down to this, there is much more demand than "supply".
2020 in Review
> There was also that XEDOS, that never officially saw the light of day

I wonder if XEDOS ever existed as actual code, as opposed to simply an item in a roadmap.
So if you're an indigenous Frenchman you're automatically entitled, but Africans must literally risk their lives before being eligible? And people are celebrating this...

Why should ethnically French have a greater right to France than newcomers? It may have been their grandfather's homeland but it must not be their grandson's if we're ever going to progress. We're better than that now.
It is not a problem using Python as interface for C++ libraries. It is just easier to use. I don't go to C++ for its friendliness. I feel that everything are trying to be everything else. Programmers never had a problem switching to a new language when needed.
I demand byte club(or better yet bit club)
> Finding a lot of Super Simple Songs.

> Like... a LOT.

> Your spotify was moms-spaghetti-movie-soundtrack-baby-shark-prison bad.

> Thank your obsessions with Eminem, soundtrack (e.g., Hans Zimmer and Two Steps from Hell), and Baby Shark for that.

LOL my kids used my spotify a lot...
> An async function and a normal function are semantically the same

But they are not, AsyncIO and BlockingIO are different side effects, thus you have different types of computation, that's exactly what I'm talking about. In languages with monads or algebraic effects these would have different types.

You don't say that Lists and Arrays are semantically the same, despite being similar sequential collections, they still have separate types for a reason. Though it's good to be able to abstract over them.

And in languages with monads we can parametrize over various effect types by using tagless final approach, which allows us to write computations which could be interpreted in contexts of various effects (in this case, Async and Sync), just as we parametrize containers with types of content (in [1] there is an example of how we can parametrize computation over various async implementations), but still these are different effects.

[1] https://kubuszok.com/2019/io-monad-which-why-and-how/#typed-...
Common Patterns for Bounds Check Elimination
I see. Well, I am not in those groups. Hope you get better answers from the others. Good luck!
It looks like MrGilbert has forked [0] just-an-email but it's not actually his project?

[0] https://github.com/DanielGilbert/just-an-email
Corporate Profit Strategies and U.S. Economic Stagnation
ImageNet trained CNNs are biased towards recognising textures rather than shapes
The top two chess programs, Stockfish and LC0, both use neural nets for evaluation but Stockfish's is very shallow CPU-based one with a clever way not to have to re-evaluate the whole position after each move (borrowed from Shogi). LC0 is modeled after AlphaZero and uses reinforcement learning.
How about Radiohead's 2007 album In Rainbows?

Maybe OK Computer too, but I don't know how much hype there were because I was too young then...
Diff-so-fancy – Improved Human Readable Format for Git diff
We notice it here in Cornwall, UK. Most of the time everyone is super friendly, lots of hellos and smiles between people you see in the street, even strangers. Then it's holiday season and the place fills up with visitors - there's a palpable change in the interactions.

I make a special effort to say HI and smile very enthusiastically during these times, see if I can break people out of their misery :-)
Check out the supporting information on your second link, some very nice videos there, freely available.
Yeah - I swear patio11 has written extensively about this, but on a quick search I couldn’t find it.

Basically Tokyo builds proper housing supply so it’s easily affordable, but as a result housing is not a good place to invest money.

In the US housing is seen as an investment which creates bad policy and perverse incentives to constrain supply in order to enrich existing owners.

Housing can be affordable or a good investment, but it can’t really be both.

Tokyo does this the right way and SF (along with the Bay Area and America generally) does it wrong. Housing in Tokyo is relatively cheap.

Somewhat unrelated I found this one while looking which I loved when I first read it. It’s about a super cool tax policy Japan implemented to help rural areas that people leave for the city, it incentivizes people to send some of that money back: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/
Someone has to have the thankless burden of writing the Python glue code.

I consider that a problem, moreso the way JIT efforts tend to be downplayed in the community.
Bet that it would surprise you that property crime in SF is 20% higher than in Detroit. Course violent crime is double in Detroit. But things are getting better in Detroit while they're getting worse in SF.

https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/detroit_mi/san_fra...

Most of the violent crime in Detroit is confined to a few zip codes which definitely are not where you'd locate a tech company. There are lots of video cameras installed downtown and at places like gas stations and liquor stores which used to be crime magnets.

Here's the City of Detroit crime viewer. On the left check off all the crimes under violent crimes. Be sure to set the date range or you only get the past couple of weeks. It takes a while to pan but you can see that there are fewer crimes in the downtown area than say the East part of the city.

https://cityofdetroit.github.io/crime-viewer/
We're big on queuing
Tokio has a version of block_on too that you can use with those libraries.
Sassoon is designed for that purpose, this version seems OK: https://www.wfonts.com/font/sassoon
Japan uses the same power plugs as the USA.
This is like asking why ethnically African people have a greater right to Africa than non-African people. Sounds dumb doesn't it?
I'd like to say thank you for Notion team to support proper work with IME (at least for Japanese, Win/Linux/Android) from at least 1.5 years ago.

SPA apps made by English speaker tend to have broken input field (Even twitter's tweet field) but Notion isn't even though it has complex features.
This actually looks really great, thanks for sharing!
The context is given by the article we are discussing.

Sure you can find entertainment and enjoy nice things, but it won't really feel like a community.
Planet Cosmo Communicator and Planet Astro Slide have a physical keyboard and support custom OSes.
That‘s a very good question! I am not sure how easy it is to do in a agnostic way. If we want to utilize the static generation features and other framework features, it‘s necessary to use some framework specific components (e.g. Next and Nuxt both have their own version of the „link“ that allows for smarter page loading after an initial render. It might be possible to just replace these parts somehow and leave the rest agnostic. But I don‘t think that‘s an easy task and you might lose some features when switching to a „dangerous setting inner html“ approach that isn‘t very well optimized in the compilation steps of the frameworks.
Btw, I love your content!
All I'm saying is that modern diversity isn't a factor in America's performance in World War 2 as the author suggests.
Similar to sharedrop.io [1] in name, user naming and appearance. The latter does allow sharing between users not in the same IP too, though. I am not affiliated with either.

[1]: https://sharedrop.io
seems like it would cut into the market for "cloud". users would in some instances have no reason to upload data to remote data centers just to move files from one device to another. why doesn't every phone support wifi direct.
Scientists make a sodium-ion battery density breakthrough
I am not sure we have a ton of social cohesion in New York necessarily. Among the well-to-do, sure, we're not only working in tech, but there is still the discomfort with there being many classes of people. (The gig economy killed any hope of there ever being a middle class again.)

I think if you want people to say "hi" to you, you have to act the part. Some single 20-something walking around with headphones and a hoodie... nobody is going to talk to you. Get a dog and a partner, and people will talk to you while you're out walking the dog. They're walking their dog, and so you have something to talk about. (The dogs will break the ice!)
Perhaps, but it's a practical observation. It's the same for most of the major Northern cities including Boston and Chicago.
How User Tracking Devalues Ads
I've never in my life have been in a city where it would be OK to just say "hi" to a person you don't know and are not planning to get to know. This sounds... like something out of pure fantasy. Where on Earth do people do that?
As a UI/UX agency that focusses on B2B SaaS, I’ve always found Fantasy UIs fascinating. It’s the complete opposite of the simple & clean interfaces clients ask us to design.

I’ve spent some time thinking about why these Fantasy UIs are so fascinating despite the fact they seem not very user friendly.

My conclusion was that fantasy Interfaces are very much like the early web. Lots of moving parts (dancing banana gifs) and you had to figure out the navigation on each website you visited. Today, everything looks and feels the same and we lost the creative spirit of interface building.

Figuring out the interface might not be best practice. But at the same time, I remember sharing websites with friends purely based on how fun the navigation and overall controls were.

We lost the Art of interface building and turned it into a complete science. There are arguments for both sides.

My wish is that... Hopefully.. one day, someone will contact us with a project that allows us to build the first fantasy UI for a real-world SaaS product.
Most of that is parking_lot, which is an optional feature not even included in the full feature.
Fair point. I think I'm still right about the US though.
SVGs can respond to their size, yes -- essentially the same way websites can -- see https://codepen.io/pjwdev/pen/dypVLgg

In addition, vector-effect="non-scaling-stroke" allows you do declare that a line is [eg] 1px thick, regardless of the image size.

Snapping to sizes would be possible, but not straightforward, until CSS supports calc(round())
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-4/#round-func
> "play random album from my collection"

Quod Libet (https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) lets you do exactly that.
'Our blood is cheaper than water': anger in Iraq over Trump pardons
OP hasn't been forced into anything; as they describe in their post, this is a choice that they've made. I don't know who you think you're convincing by speaking so sanctimoniously about someone else's choices, as though they're incapable of taking the right decision without having asked you first or that they must've been forced into it, but it certainly won't be OP or me.
Need something large & portable to read PDFs without eye-strain.
That said, the future has the size of the biggest state that need to be kept across await. The future might be slightly oversized, but still order of magnitude smaller than a perfectly sized stack.