skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except those same startups are more than happy using FOSS tools paid with Facebook, Amazon and Google money.

The three heroes of ethics, ideal working conditions and examples of behaviour towards the society in general.
https://archive.is/a4ita
I thought the vaccine didn't stop the spread, just the disease? So the health care workers are going to keep spreading it either way.
The article says that "dreams are primarily visual". That might be true for most people (and for the researchers), but I'm aphantasic and I don't think I've ever had a visual dream. My visual cortex seems to work perfectly fine on waking (though I do find a sunrise alarm clock useful in winter). If this is typical among aphantasics then I don't see how the theory can possibly be correct.
yes and no, I think. The aggressive gatekeeping might have been popularized by them, but Xbox Live Arcade in late 2004 was probably the first mass-market implementation of that model even if iOS's store quickly became the biggest one once it launched in 2008.
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Hardcoded master password for thousands of Zyxel firewalls revealed
Do you honestly think that most people in the USA believe that?
Adventures in “Elder Delurking”
Lurked on forums like this for 40 years. Every decade I’d post for a while. There are folks my age still sharp enough to contribute on a platform like this. Should we?

My findings:

1. Stay anonymous - there is zero upside to IDing yourself, and major downside. No email, no personal identifiers, fuzz up your stories (as if we need help). Anonymous means you won’t become a target or an intimidation.

2. Post but don’t discuss - one and done. When you engage, you will enrage...yourself. Don’t read any responses. If you’re wrong on details, let the youngsters clean it up. It’s more about making an intellectual market than building a grand cathedral.

3. Upvotes aren’t your friend - don’t “manage” an online persona. Upvote totals show if the voters think you’re OK. Or you share the core values of their cult. Hard to tell sometimes. Channel your inner rebel, and model orthogonality for the young.

4. Keep it positive and kind - your race is almost done, their race has only just begun.

5. Critique, but keep to specifics - and support your criticisms with facts. Wise saws and modern instances. You have the time for it.

6. Perhaps a nice group activity - fun to discuss together a shared response. Easier to ignore downvotes.

The kids need training on critical thinking. There aren’t the cultural taboos against eye-rolling rhetorical devices. Probably because there is no common formal education requirement for rhetoric and media studies in high school. More projection (“this is that, thus saith me”) and “soiled diaper” (“here’s a problem...why isn’t someone else fixing it”) posts/comments, rather fewer facts.

It boils down to the moderators. They do OK here.

Now to return to lurking. Can I contribute my upvotes to charity? Need to get back to that book by sudo-Macarius...
I like that a lot! I obviously didn't read the whole thing, but the couple of pages I did read sound incredibly faithful to the original.

For those who may not know, Anglo Saxon poetry didn't rhyme in the same way modern English poetry tends to. It used alliteration, as well as initial, and, frequently, approximate rhymes, and relied heavily on meter. Initial rhyme is essentially a combination of alliteration with a rhyming initial vowel.
And Hammond Organs never went out of style.

...okay, maybe in the 80s. But in the 90s/2000s they were back in full force.

One of the best concerts of my life was The Mars Volta in the early 2000s, and Ikey, the keyboard player (RIP) left me speechless with his Hammond soloing.
The woman just fall asleep there and wake up again later.
The Future of Software Supply Chain Security
What do you call a pack / group / murder of Beowulfs?

A cluster.
> an interpreted bytecoded high-level language

Something C# never was, given that it always JITs before execution and AOT compilation to dynamic libraries has been available since version 1.0 via NGEN.

Plus lots of additional AOT alternatives like Windows 8.x Bartok compiler, .NET Native and CoreRT.

This on top of third party offerings like Mono AOT or IL2CPP, and the research compilers from Singularity and Midori projects.

Whereas for Java, while AOT has been available since around 2000, it has been for the most part only available on commercial JDKs, and free beer AOT only came with the release of GraalVM community, the addition of J/Rockit JIT caches into OpenJDK, and IBM releasing OpenJ9 as FOSS as well.
Aliens will make contact.
SwiftUI Cheatsheet
There has been a lot of chatter on how SwiftUI is generally lacking good documentation despite having come out of the Beta status for sometime now. Found this while specifically searching for UIKit cheatsheets. Does a decent job of comparing the two and also provides links to relevant apple docs(which can be hard to find sometimes)
With the right JDK you can do the same with Java as well.
If they had also inserted themselves into the update chain, things would've been a little worse.
Or labeled a foreign Agent like with Edward Snowden.

/sigh
third world war
The ridiculous rise of multiple types of HR people is nuts. And we are paying these people to make us all paranoid about anything we might accidentally say that could be misinterpreted as offensive.

We are turning our workplaces into identity politics re-education camps, and paying our own prison guards.
Big pharma is about to tune in to the potential of psychedelics
I think these examples still support the broader hypothesis that creators are outliers and not representative of everybody else. Normal people don’t write books. Reading only books and not talking to normal people will give you a skewed impression of reality.
>Could they be supernova remnants, the clouds of debris left behind when a star in our galaxy explodes? No. They are far from most of the stars in the Milky Way and there are too many of them.
> I think the TR-808 is the only one that might qualify.

Only? No way! :D

The Roland TR-909 is also extremely popular and was considered the sound of techno and house even after the TR-808 started to fade outside hip-hop. In the mid-90s it was one of the first drum machines to start being cloned by new manufacturers due to the demand. The bass drum is still used as the foundation for a lot of EDM. It never went away... while the 808 which is back but was considered passé even in hip-hop for a short while.

The TB-303 Bass Synth is also extremely sought after. It was the sound of Acid House in the late 80s and was also a mainstay in the 90s for a lot of producers, even though it's limited. Today it's kind of a novelty but you still hear it in some tracks. More recently Behringer made a clone and Roland reissued it.

Both of those two got in the vernacular of EDM fans at the time.

Also the TR-606 has some cult status due to being used by artists like Autechre, Aphex Twin and Plastikman among others, which are sort of "musician's musicians" among the electronic music crowd, although it wasn't as famous as 303/808/909 among general listeners.
This sounds actually very similar to what I am building, if you ignore the Chrome part [1] :)

The general idea is to have more persistent caching locally, so that peer offloading (and persistence of offline content) can be guaranteed.

Since yesterday the cache supports multiple versions of each file (with a timestamp), and it will get a UI that allows to navigate back in time for each URL.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
They were also thwarted by the GPL, had Linux never came into the scene, the BSDs would never been as big as Linux became.

If at all, they would just cherry pick stuff out of them as they were already doing anyway.
circular in two dimensions, spherical in more (re wormholes)
> [human hair is] even a part of the bagel-making process at Dunkin’ Donuts.

I'm not sure why this article indicates that a derivative of human hair is used in Dunkin' Donuts' bagels, since the source they cite doesn't back this up. In fact, the source cited (by the source they cite) says that Dunkin' specifically says that their L-cysteine comes from duck feathers, which is apparently another natural source.

> The L-cysteine in several items offered at Dunkin' Donuts is also derived from duck feathers

from: http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/faqingredients.htm#cystine
I guess I'll rephrase - if you can't understand a transfer function or a probability distribution without opening Matlab, then you've allowed your own expertise to be held hostage. Unfortunately, I know a large number of professionals for whom this is true.

If you're more productive in Matlab, that's fine. But if you're at a loss without it, that's not.

It doesn't belong in the education system or in educational books.
Happy New Year!

This is my first web dev side project and it's in early stage. As an interviewer in the tech industry, I often find myself cannot spot that subtle bug in candidates' code during phone screening, so I build this website which lets me do collaborative editing and also run the code. You may find it useful too.

Please help try it out and provide some feedback. No registration is required (because I have yet to implement the user system).
It's their planning and todo solution. I'd bookmark things and make notes in an actual agenda but to each his own I guess.
The most interesting Covid posts were in February. One was about how China was running the largest remote work experiment the world had ever seen. Ominous stuff if you go back and read it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22221507

Curated Coronavirus discussions from the beginning of the year is pure history, good stuff to examine a moment in time.
> its a crazy world that we live in

It’s a lazy world we live in. In times of fast journalism, there is not time waste of fact check. The news are bets to a large extent.
Why ML books should be so big? In many cases the books are various sub books pasted as one or extensive bibliography reviews that just list progress without any pedagogy. I would suggest splitting them in 200-250 pp format in parts that can serve independently.
Their theory says nothing about sleep, except that your visual cortex isn't receiving any input.

You're making a mistake in conflating dreams and sleep.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the people who created HEY had seen number two on his list.
KDE on Linux used to have something similar in the late 90s - it allowed you to open a website URL as a directory listing, so you could browse the site's asset directories and open image files, etc. Think like a client-side generated version of Apache's index pages, but using your local file manager. It was a plugin to the VFS framework (KIO) the desktop and all the apps use, so it would also work e.g. in Open File dialogs from anywhere within the toolset.

I remember using this regularly to mass-download the images embedded into a page - open the page this way by replacing http:// with a pseudo-protocol, copy all, paste, done.

KDE always came with a lot of VFS trickery like that. Ripping a music CD into MP3s was similar - you'd open the volume in the file manager and see your tracks along with a virtual folder full of MP3 files. The rip and encoding would happen on the fly, and you could do this e.g. straight from the file attach feature in an instant messenger.

Desktop Linux was a lot less friendly to get working smoothly back then compared to now, and feature discovery was by word of mouth more than anything, but it sure felt like living in the future early.
Everyone knows the proper conjunction is verbify and verbifies anyway.
These are the most depressing predictions but probably also most realistic given 2020's events.
He turned that into an entire book, Edgedancer !
Nim’s available argument parser library needs some more maturity, as compared to Python.

Python has a great argparse library, and it would be good if Nim could emulate that.
General consumers are now the beta testers for Microsoft Windows. With Windows built-in spyware features, they don't even need any user interaction to collect data from your computer.
I think this is why it will fail but some other cc will rise that actually has the characteristics of the original intent of bitcoin.
Agreed 100%.

Teles are easy to pick out in country tunes, and guitar-based country sounds very different when people use something else.

Same for Strats in blues-infused pop. I'm not a super fan but a lot of young people today would recognise the sound of John Mayer's clean Strat tones in pop-blues, for instance.
Yeah, I rarely learn of products before they're quite old; I only see a couple of banner ads a week and that's always jarring
As 2021 dawns, Israel becomes first country to vaccinate 10% of population
Why rogue_like_, why nit rogue itself? Or nethack, for that matter?
Yes, or to chicken
Huawei HarmonyOS Info
All the passport categories you quoted (BOTC, BOC, BPP, BS) relate to former colonies (think the status given to inhabitants of Hong Kong after it was turned over to China).

UK citizens could move around the EU freely.
I had been looking for a way to "scriptably" sort the Firefox tabs I have open. Unfortunately by cursory glance this would not allow us to change the order of tabs (AKA the index).

Very cool idea though and looking forward to seeing what comes of it.
Same in Australia - there was an ongoing law suit for years with James Hardie Industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hardie_Industries
Thanks a lot for explaining your perspective. It's interesting to me, since all the things you mention are not part of my experience at all, despite working with Python a lot. Even diffing, as you said, is easy because of the "ignore whitespace" you mention. Anyway, it's good for me to get a reminder that I can't so easily generalize from myself. :)
Sure but the de facto standard way of dealing with this issue is storing cash in a well-established fiat currency, like US dollar. Although I'm not sure what are you implying. I would assume buying US dollars is as easy as buying bitcoins in most cases. And more accepted too. The only problem being having to have either a bank account or physical notes somewhere stored.
HN won't let me edit my comment to clarify (after 2 hours?) but I was pleasantly surprised that Rust felt like C# to me and I didn't have to struggle much because I already know about references, pointers, stacks and heaps (from C and asm) Dictionaries and Lists were easy to work with. I grokked the borrow checker. I was motivated to make my post because I struggle with the various return types and syntax like

enum Result<T, E> {
Ok(T),
Err(E),
}

match header.get(0) {
None => Err("invalid header length"),
Some(&1) => Ok(Version::Version1),
Some(&2) => Ok(Version::Version2),
Some(_) => Err("invalid version"),
}

I wasn't saying it was bad, just a pain point for me.
Jony Ive, Shigeru Miyamoto are some of the greatest designers of our generation. Their takes on leading creative teams are always fascinating.
The article says that we’re not able to determine distance or put a size on whatever is radiating this, but doesn’t put a clear lower bound on that. What is the closest that this could be that is compatible with the data?
I used to mess around on here with this account I consider to be a throwaway one. Turns out I signed up in 2018 and I have ~1041 karma! Time sure does fly.
Of course. Articles such as the "OP" are simplistic bollocks. For starters, you'd be completely blind by now if the article had any merit. And deaf. And lost all memory.

Oh no, wait: we open our eyes every morning, so even if there was any effect, it would be the opposite: visual taking over everything else. Which also doesn't happen.

So take it with a grain of salt: yet another unprovable "theory" about the brain.
Of course there are details to figure out. Why wouldn't I want all the information from design and other teams in front of me when I'm figuring those details out? I'm struggling to see why a detailed ticket is a bad thing.
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Rip. Flash games were my childhood.
Alt-F4 closes the entire browser, and indeed Ctrl-F4 closes the current tab. (Just tried it out, I've always used Ctrl-W for that.)
A government requiring a license for publishing is censorship.
I'd add that both the Rickenbacker 360 and the Rickenbacker 360/12 are very distinctive, each one in a different way.
I had a similar reaction. I respect how bold it is, but I still think it's pretty fanciful. I suppose I could see the part about social media being a public health issue, but I don't think it's super realistic that the government would straight up be shutting down sites, which to me reads like some kind of bad fanfiction. More likely it would be the usual churn of testimony before congress, news about antitrust cases, new laws requiring some kind of new disclosure, etc.
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Hello HN

I've very proud to submit this great addition to the world of SPAM (just kidding, really, SPAM is a serious thing, don't play with spam people, it's bad. I mean that. Really, I do.)

If you want to send your own "mass emails" I created a single static page for you to do it by hand. Open

https://mail2merge.com

In the first tab position in your browser.

Then just paste in your CSV list, and put in your template, then focus the "Next Email" button and use your keyboard to submit it (spacebar or enter).

If you're with GMail setup to handle mailto it will open a new email with your templated mail and you can send that with Ctrl/Command+Enter

(and Gmail will automatically close the previously sent email tab after a few moments)

Then switch back to your mail2merge tab (Ctrl+1). The next recipient's email will already be templated for you, so just hit spacebar again, and you're off. You'll soon get the hang of it.

NB: You could always hire someone else to do it for you!

NB2: text emails only (mailto limitation), and the length is limited (to encourage good email practice, short mails get more responses and save people's time -- but if you really want you can edit the HTML maxlength attribute in your DevTools ;)
windows sandboxing btw. is barely at use. every program can basically read everything in user profiles, that is imo the same on linux.

only windows applications that do not run in full trust mode, like store apps won't do that. and even without store apps you can use something like msix or app-v to package your apps in a "small" sandbox, but you can breakout from the sandbox via runFullTrust
Believe me, there are worse topics.

The best way to get yelled at or down-voted on HN is having a basic understanding of how EU regulations and the EU legislative process work.
Customs are contingent truths and can only be learnt from others: which side of the road to drive on, language, laws, etiquette.
Neither pure reason nor empirical fact fully determine them. When you hear them in your social context, you adopt them unconsciously and uncritically.

Therefore people from a disjoint graph of social interaction have different customs, which aren't supported by fact or reason.

They are insane.
That hasn’t happened though - money has gone to corporations and asset holders. It hasn’t trickled down to consumers. Banks aren’t lending to small businesses.
Not all border control: non-Gibraltar UK citizens will still have to show passports at the Gibraltar-Spanish border.
I've used this extension for doing mass closes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sorted-tabs/

As a bonus you can arrange URLs by name, url, or time next to each other, so it's usually fast to churn through related or duplicate tabs.
For FM sounds I really enjoy the Neo Geo soundtracks of the 90s: Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown.

They were a combination of FM and early sample chips, but all super tasteful (as far as 90s game soundtracks go!) and exploiting the maximum of the chips.
>People who follow the rules and make a mistake are the most likely to be caught. They're probably also the least likely to cause trouble or run from the consequences of their actions.

Do you refer to drones only or in general? If in general you think car license plates are useless?

> They're probably also the least likely to cause trouble or run from the consequences of their actions

Any data or is an opinion?

Btw most car related accidents are happening when people do not follow the rules like respecting the speed limit, or not using a phone so why would they follow the "accept the consequences of your actions" rule if they could get away?
The observation about consumer inflation is very true, the massive inflation is actually in asset values (house prices, share prices, etc)
I also wonder how I reconcile the rest comment with others pointing out the vast amounts of money available, especially in the US, for startups in general. When seed rounds can be more than $3M, I’d say there was plenty of capital available for growth investments as well?
That’s not a ‘typical’ gun safe. It’s not uncommon, but it’s definitely it ‘typical’.
I want to believe, however I think Joe Manchin will stand in the way.

I also think Joe Biden won't do anything to stop the filibuster.
I got about 80 pages into it before I couldn't take it any longer.
Another prediction of this theory would be that naturally blind animals such as some moles would not need REM sleep or would have substantially less REM sleep.
I couldn't find any research in completely blind mammals, but in a mammal that has very poor eyesight "Cape mole rats sleep substantially less than other similarly sized terrestrial rodents but have a similar percentage of total sleep time occupied by REM sleep." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301482322_Sleep_in_...
Seems like there is still a lot of scope for research on REM sleep in non-human species.
> Outlier – Can structure your notes how you wish

Outliner[*]
Cumin: Structured Typed Configuration Language Written in Rust
What is the tool used in the example where they select files and then delete them?

https://omar.website/tabfs/doc/delete.mp4

Ah, I see now. It is called "dired". I wonder if it can be used standalone, without emacs.
How the CEO of ARM China Is Preventing the Nvida Takeover
SpaceX announces a one way mission:
"...to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!"

Jurassic Park will actually open.
The problems is they aren't building any power to deal with the decrease and no one is building nuke plants that haven't been in the works for 15+ years. I all for this if they want their rivers back though, but we can act like there won't be consequences.
Same here, currently sitting at 300 tabs ( Lost about 800 a few weeks ago from Safari crash again ). I just wish the Show All tabs on Safari put up a list of tabs so I could quickly navigate through them ( and selectively close them ). Right now Show All Tabs Reloads all the tabs. That is the same on macOS and iOS. Your phone gets quite warm doing it.
would you mind providing context /docs to some of your fixes and scripts so I can observe/install some of them?