skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The network seems exciting but it definitely needs a less confusing explanation. Or at least an explanation that does not require prior knowledge of (what seem like) niche concepts.

> "It surfaces content related to the node you're visiting using a lightweight fanout convention"

Requires knowledge of what exactly a "node" constitutes in this context. Since I don't know what such a node is, the remaining part of the sentence about the fanout convention is just meaningless (it also seems irrelevant?).

Now, it is explained on Agora what a node is, namely:

> "A node is the set of all subnodes with a given title, or otherwise mapping to a single entity or wikilink. Subnodes can come from a variety of sources; currently these are mostly notes as volunteered by users via their independent digital gardens."

This suffers from the same problems: I still don't know what a node is, since I would need to know what a subnode is. I'd expect a recursive relation where a subnode is simply a node that is a child of a node, but it seems there is a distinction between both. In any case, it's still unclear.

It seems as if it's written by someone who's so familiar with these concepts that they forgot what it's like to not have this background knowledge. I'd recommend letting someone without prior knowledge explain to you what they think it is in simple terms, and build your explanation from that.
From I am standing, with the Web turned into what is basically ChromeOS, I am not so sure how lucky it was.
Probably needs some work, mine tells 9,3 and I've never, not even once been approached by a female.. or it shows that a truly rotten personality cannot be fully captured in a picture ^_^ (or that the AI is horribly broken to recognize how well a picture was taken and now what's actually on it)..
Now I'm curious about the things you're building. They wouldn't happen to be on a blog somewhere?
Try to do Office documents for school work on Android.
Yes the UK is about to hit a healthcare meltdown at this point.
The problem is that it's not easy to determine who is vulnerable. I have a 39 yo former colleague who passed away due to the coronavirus, previously in peak athletic form with no known health problems. How would you know who to isolate?

Plus, it's not just about death, but life long life quality impairments due to tissue necrosis, especially the lungs. Sure, probably single digit percent of people will develop this, but why risk ?
I’m also a fan of Bubble and have made a few dashboards and apps with it.
Many countries (at least in Western Europe?) have state-owned media organisations, usually with rather strong provisions to ensure their independence from government.

In practice, they usually end up being the most reliable and unbiased news sources probably because they are less subject to the pressure to write buzz pieces in order to drive viewership and therefore ad revenue up.

While the other successful private media organisations end up being either buzz article mills, more or less openly ideologically oriented outlets, or high quality news with more limited output.

I find the public news we get in our countries to be actually quite useful, even if a lot of them are currently under attack by governments seeking to reduce expenses and increase control by any means.
Yeah, fortunately for the moment I didn't receive any comments that I needed to remove. If you self host your mastodon server, it should be easy to remove comments but if you don't you basically have two choices: Report them and hope your admin remove them or filter them out with the small js script.
> Source? Especially for the second statement.

Too lazy to Google but India used protectionism because it wanted to do its own thing after independence and keep the evil western corporation away. By the end of 1980's India was almost bankrupt and had to get loans from IMF one of the condition was to open up the economy. India's poverty rate started to fall down after the economy opened up.
Pierre Cardin’s net worth was apparently 800 million USD according to a quick internet search. That is quite a few bucks. Maybe Pierre Cardin has a couple of lessons to teach us.
Interesting but don't you think google has the advantage of being the major platform and they can learn from their mistakes without paying for them. While competitors have to be more careful
There are two towns in rural Hungary which are reasonably well connected: you need to take a so called secondary main road then after a short time turn to another and again in a short time there you are -- but that's not a direct route even if it's fast. The direct route is an unpaved road cutting across the countryside near two tiny villages if you can call that a "road": more than half of the year it is an unpassable mud trap. The locals regularly need to use their tractors to get the hapless Google Map followers out of it. It's so ridiculous it became a national sensation.
Looks like this dev has patched the HW and has shell access https://twitter.com/nyan_satan/status/1322329047779713024?s=...
> Do you know how you're supposed to get the vaccine? Has anyone contacted you or given you information?

afaik if you don't know or haven't been contacted you're not on the list yet. You know it's your turn when they tell you it is.

> A more contagious/virulent variant of the virus was just detected in Colorado, today

There are 10 articles a day about new "mutant and more virulent strains" around the world which aren't supported by any evidences
Thanks for those sources. Yep, those examples are more in par with the case at hand.
To answer the original post then, education is key: "knowledge is power, power is responsibility".

The issue here is that Apple is employing tactics with lobbying, PR, marketing (sort of brainwashing) to make you "try not to think about it too much", so yeah it is "no wonder people pick door number 3". The hypocrisy that fuels the hype and demand for its brand is what consumers should be aware of.
Loosely speaking, he was. His work was described as futuristic and space-age, and he did create a concept spacesuit for NASA in 1970.

The NYT obit [1] is nicely done, and its title is well-judged, too, Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98

Cardin was a businessman almost more than he was a fashion designer; if nowadays we refer to "brands", it has much to do with him.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/style/pierre-cardin-dead....
Yes. It has "falsifiable claims" in the sense that, if existing theories of e.g. general relativity and quantum mechanics were proven false, it would also be proven false. Generally when people refer to "falsifiable claims" they're referring to falsifiable claims that are not already made by a more parsimonious theory. As far as I understand the field, string theory has made no such claims.

And yes, that's what I meant by LQG being a less mature theoretical space. Either LQG will fail to find a solution for 3D space (so sad), or it will and its solution will make falsifiable predictions that are not part of existing theory (yay!), or it will propose a set of solutions that make no new falsifiable predictions (in which case it enters the same state as string theory). Both of those first two possibilities would be forward progress.
> Maybe this will be eye opening how much we have f up the internet, something that should survive 3rd world war is now mostly in the hands of 3 companies. Now imagine they pull the switch.*

I see people frequently quoting the bit about how the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear war. But that quote was about packet switching. I.e. layer 2/3. Not layer 7. Application layer is, as you nicely demonstrate, very centralized, and was never immune to nuclear war.
It is just a credibility issue.

I was talking with a doctor friend that oversees an ambulatory care group for the county, and they were able to allocate vaccines for the EMTs (first-responders).

Over 50% refused to be vaccinated.

Not sure how we overcome that.
Control your local IoT from everywhere
Cyberpunk-ish video they put out explaining it -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKxmO-oXF6o

I assume by the increasing computer size instead, you can solve it in linear time.
Given that I see more Windows laptops and 2-1 devices than Android tablets around here, Microsoft has reacted quite well to this.

Additionally given the amount of people that run Office on their phones, in spite of total lack of usability to do such kind of work on those devices, again very good reaction.
> Below is a list of 50 celebrities which the DeathList committee has selected for their likelihood to pass away during 2020.

Never heard of this before. Seems kind of an incredibly unpleasant thing to build.
Ahoy! If you would like to collaborate, the Agora is [[open source]] :)

I know what you mean w.r.t. Markdown syntax. One thing I'm trying to do with the Agora is to use a single extension ([[wikilinks]]) as much as I can; see for example [[agora actions]]. TLDR: I think wikilinks and blocks are enough to craft a simple DSL that lets you remove most of the limitations for defining/passing metadata.

See also: [[the agora is a markdown convention]].

https://anagora.org/node/open-source

https://anagora.org/node/wikilinks

https://anagora.org/node/agora-actions

https://anagora.org/node/the-agora-is-a-markdown-convention
> who could be put into some of the unused hotels

Wowzers!!!! That’s the most insane idea I’ve heard in 2020. Let’s take a load of people from their homes and pen them all in together, removed from society whilst everyone else goes about their normal lives? You would have rioting on both sides, from those penned in and the relatives of those people on the outside.
On top of Hyper-V actually.
I don't think this is the proper metric.

Females tend not to approach either way.

And it's fine.

It wouldn't be fun that way.
At the current rate of infection, that would probably mean at least 80 million infected (more like 400-500 million in 1 year, since the infection rate now is much, much higher than that in February), and at least 1 million dead (again, more like 5-10 million due to the increased infection rate).

Even the worst vaccines we have had a defect/side effect rate much lower than that, I think the narcolepsy inducing one did it 1:10000 or even less. And it was narcolepsy, not death.

Bad vaccines seem to be better than Covid by several orders of magnitude...
Ask HN: What are the highest compounding life habits?
Anyone have any resources to read on how these things work?
Does longevity of immunity response depends on person's age?
Yeah we did that recently. Should have mentioned it. Some people sadly don’t read signs though.
It's not clear to me how they find the crucial picture of him (the one he holds the beer). The article says "user th0may used a reverse image search and discovered a photograph of a man holding a beer", but /u/th0may's thread on Reddit doesn't say anything like that [1].

If anything, /u/th0may himself said in thread, "maybe you already found this image", which implies that the image itself is already known (and likely NOT discovered by "reverse image search", but by other ways). /u/th0may then reverse-searched the image to find the website, which lead to the answer.

Anyway, I'm still curious how they find this beer image, since this looks to me is the most important step.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FindSatoshi/comments/kktjhc/found_s...
>Common thread: engineering hubris. (Source: https://threader.app/thread/1343969802080030720)

Hubris at Google isn't just on the engineering team.
Which often is terrible advice that mostly serves to limit liability. Most medical doctors will not have a good, evidence-based answer to such questions.

Better reply: Search the internet for authoritative sources (e.g., official guidance of governmental institutions) or medical guidelines.
Youtube still certainly does, from ads played before users without ad blockers can watch the videos.
Calling them flaws would seem to me to be a subjective position. Personality traits are perceived differently depending on what the observer is sensitive to. Somebody that is considered rude in a yoga clinic might not be perceived the same way on a construction site.
> Also that comment about midway being problematic.

It compares the "battle" between Sony and Microsoft to an actual war in which a lot of people died. It also sets up the XBox as some sort of patriotic push to defeat the agressors that attacked us without warning.

I'd be offended if I was working for the PS2 division at Sony at the time, I think. I also think I'd be offended if I was working on games for the XBox - it's entertainment, not war!
99% of the price of Microsoft Office is just the brand name as well.
Yes, I used services like Map24.
Once you get above 2 million it doesn't matter (2 million is enough to shed 70K per year which is widely thought to be the threshold where more money doesn't improve wellbeing).

If money is the motivator after that then you are in a race you can't win.
GlueDOM: JSX alternative to make non-trivial UI easier to maintain
A trivial thing that would became a mess really fast on a complex website.

A new subdomain for every different "website" is the clean solution in my opinion.
It's true that this is a problem for intermittently connected consumer networks and customers of flaky ISPs that change the prefix on you needlessly. Regulation for allocating PI space to flaky isp customers might help.
ahh ok all in the control arm
Why is it that so many like you spread lies like this? Are you feeling depressed from being in quarantine for a year so you try motivate that it was the right thing by "proving" that things would have gone worse if you didn't?

Or are you just trolling out of boredom?
Is there a list of those that were hip 10 years ago, and if they are still properly maintained today?
They're both paid by taxes ultimately, as the digital license fee is mandatory, so I don't see much difference.
In case others are wondering:

> Q: Is this related to Bitcoin?

> A: No. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the person who created Bitcoin, but it’s not the same Satoshi.

Weirdly this apparently pre-dates that other Satoshi puzzle by a few years.
Show HN: Traditional Japanese pattern generator for website's background
On the contrary, the eurozone is a massive reason for the Greek economy collapsing as catastrophically as it did in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis

It also doesn't matter how "many" of a currency is needed for a loaf of bread, as long as the supply is available. The Italian lira was extremely inexpensive, but as long as the government made sure the supply matched the demand there was no issue

Edit: I'd also say that Greece is not really a "smaller European country", being the 14th most populous European country
Fairphone actually does; their (screen) glass for the Fairphone 2 was from Korning. See https://open.sourcemap.com/maps/57bd640851c05c0a5b5a8be1.

Why did you say they “can't”?
When I lost the charger for my Nintendo DS, I was able to MacGyver one out of a piece of cardboard and two strips of aluminium foil.

A quick look at the USB-A port spec, and pin locations on the similar-to-USB-but-proprietary DS charging port indicated it was a very simple construction.

Amazingly, this hack worked successfully and I was able to have my yearly Elite Beat Agents binge. The hardest part was actually not building the "cable" but balancing and bending it all just right so that the pins actually maintained contact.

Now, in the days of complex calculated power delivery negotiation, a hack like this would be impossible.

And for good reason. Devices are safer now, more compatible with each other's chargers, and can charge faster. And the things we can do with USB-C/USB-PD are fantastic. I discovered yesterday that if for some reason I really want to, I can charge my MacBook Pro from my Android phone.

But my little foil hack was fun at the time.
Thank you for your feedback! I've tried to address it with the latest update to [[agora]]. In short, hopefully https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25577016 provides the gist of it.

Additionally I set up [[goals]] to try to answer this for future readers.

https://anagora.org/node/agora
https://anagora.org/node/goals
Impressionist Rory Bremner 'saved Sir John Major's bacon' amid MPs revolt
Efficiency vs. Resilience: lessons from Covid-19
Semantic web doesn’t assume people would label everything the same. You can relate two resources (you call them tags) as “the same thing” :) It’s just another relationship.

RDF models facts/knowledge as subject-predicate-object statements called triples. Each part of the triple is called a resource and has a URL.

You wouldn’t bookmark pages, you would state facts about them in RDF using a vocabulary of resources.

A hypothetical semantic note taking app would let you insert many facts (RDF triples) about something you find relevant into your own knowledge graph, and the facts you insert would be constructed from your chosen vocabularies (https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ontology).

Roam/bookmarks/hypertext is the Stone Age compared to RDF knowledge graphs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framewo...
The BSD's best feature that Linux won't rival is how boring they are (in a good way).
The virus will mutate, that has already been proven, so we might think that we can control the mutation but in reality we can't.

We can speculate all day long if the virus will change into something more lethal, but that is hardly beneficial to anyone.

Better to let the vaccine roll out and get our lives back instead of living in fear the next decade or so.
> Good technical descriptions are surprisingly hard to find

Totally agree. It seems many developers don't like writing documentation. Good documentation can save hours of work to tons of people. It's a great way to make a positive impact to a project.

I'd like to have counter points of view, but I feel that lack of documentation led to the demise of many open source projects.
Why the downvotes? I'm asking for a clarification.
Sure, you can say that ICU bed limit was never actually reached, because you prioritized.

From the very beginning of the epidemic it has been clear a person with serious case of corona would go to an ICU and put on a ventilator for the best treatment. Hospitals instead told care homes in Stockholm not to send seniors with severe corona in at all:

> Now, increasing numbers of workers are also coming forward to criticise regional healthcare authorities for protocols which they say discourage care home workers from sending residents into hospital [...]

> "They told us that we shouldn't send anyone to the hospital, even if they may be 65 and have many years to live. We were told not to send them in," says nurse who worked in several care homes around Gävle, north of Stockholm, at the beginning of the pandemic.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836
It wasn’t that Apple removed Google Maps from App Store. Maps.app on iPhone were using Google Maps data prior to iOS 6. Google Maps the app didn’t existed when Apple switched to use Apple Maps.

Timeline:

Sep 19, 2012 - iOS 6

Dec 13, 2012 - Google Maps launched on App Store
But you haven't showed it occurs; only that it's legal. Plenty of things are legal that nobody does, and plenty of things are illegal that people do all the time.

I happen to know a little bit about what goes on in US prisons, so it's confusing me why you're not providing any of the mountains of evidence to support your point.
How would you explain this part of your argument then:

> You can technically do the same with resonators but it would take much more board space, be less precise, require inductors which you want to avoid in the circuit, etc.
There is one major flaw in the presented approach. The base of any hearing aid is frequency compression (in each frequency band), as the hearing impairment induce, that a patient loss the ability to hear the soft sounds, but the loud sound cannot be amplified, as the threshold of pain remains the same. Usually, the gain curve resembles two linear lines. Feel free to reach out [redacted] if you wanna discuss the topic in more depth (i designed some algorithms for hearing aids)
One of the comments says:

I heard about the story a year ago, but forgot about it. Then I remembered and told my family about on Christmas. So I wanted to check out if this is still unsolved and found this reddit. I’m currently researching about AI and found a few image backwards search engines way more powerful then google image search. It turned out that I found the image of him holding the beer, when I fed in the card. Just wanted to play around, but it looks really promising now. ;D

https://www.reddit.com/r/FindSatoshi/comments/kktjhc/found_s...
I track all writing that I do specifically for content marketing (e.g. the guides I linked above) as marketing time toward the product.

I don't count time writing on my personal blog on this chart - though I do track it - since it's less clear how it benefits any individual product if at all.
Wait, what? I never said anything about "changing our global approach to Covid". And just to be clear, I have a PCR-confirmed diagnosis.
What about savings? What about salaries? Hyperinflation absolutely wrecks the lives of regular people.
Totally misses the point:

> as many are not deserving of a click

How do you do "due diligence" on a HN link without clicking on it? Do you use Google to look at the story and then click the link if it turns out not to be clickbait or other crap that you believe doesn't deserve a click?
Are bbox baby products good to use?
2x the initial rate, assuming we are constrained by supply right now but not so later on. In a few months supplies in developed countries will probably be sufficient for other things like logistics to be a bigger constraint.
My very first interaction with a computer was with the BBC Basic command prompt, 30 years ago when I was 7. If it hadn't been so accessible I doubt I'd be a programmer now, so I feel like I owe it a lot!
From a comment further down that thread:

"heard about the story a year ago, but forgot about it. Then I remembered and told my family about on Christmas. So I wanted to check out if this is still unsolved and found this reddit. I’m currently researching about AI and found a few image backwards search engines way more powerful then google image search. It turned out that I found the image of him holding the beer, when I fed in the card. Just wanted to play around, but it looks really promising now. ;D"
But people do use the road:

> Every year we get a few people who think that GPS can't be wrong.

A bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tom Devine, Legal Director at Government Accountability Project has several resources. https://whistleblower.org/gap-resources-publications/

One of his books might be helpful for a future whistlebower:
The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth. (2011) with Tarek Maassarani.

I have no association with GAP. They can be contacted at info@whistleblower.org. Heard an interview of Devine via podcast On The Media episode "Nice Democracy You've Got There..." Sept 19, 2019. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...
> if you are working for some company extracting value from you, why would you ever do this?

Because there can be massive monetary rewards for it? (Sorry if that’s the obvious answer we’re all pretending isn’t there.) We’re talking about the Xbox project, where one of the leaders is so rich he pays people to help him cook ancient Egyptian bread for something to do.