skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two to share:

https://fastmap.io: A drop in replacement for map that makes your Python instantly scalable in the cloud

https://ffer.io: A comprehensive stock valuation ratio powered by machine learning (and just happens to use fastmap)
Yup, I don't like using mmap() for the reason alone that it means giving up a lot of control.
China must start to send these crocks to Gobi. Bunch of US backed snowflakes. By the way, when HN will start to post about US violations everywhere?
What Is Parler?
Ahh so the 20 refers to the number of categories?
You are right, some people just fail to see that the broken windows were just the beginning and what followed was even more vile. The mental gymnastics some people do to downplay violence only because it might look bad for their side is astonishing. The value of a human life for them is nothing more than a sacrificial pawn on their ideological chessboard.
I don't play video games for the most part, but the other day I was playing a demolition derby racing game with pedals and wheel and I found my lowest heart rate of the previous 4h (standard Garmin metric) was during the race (almost certainly during a 2min break between races though).

I do see how FPS can be really stressful and get you "amped up" but I find that doesn't tend to lead to a particularly high heart rate.
If those comments are in the context of his supporters having just stormed the US Capitol at his behest, killing several people and derailing the confirmation of his political enemy, then yes.
big tech platforms don't produce any content, they just host / publish what others create
I work mostly in PHP, and when I started this project, most of the libraries were very incomplete. Customer needs led me to develop a more complete library and it's only recently that I proposed this library as an API. But, yes, much more complete and easy-to-use packages have appeared since then, although they still focus on events and don't allow to manage tasks or notes.
have they? at the very least, they are not presenting a unified face.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
project: postcard.zone (https://postcard.zone), its a simple way to send a postcard to any address of your liking with fully customizable front and back of the postcard itself.

A long time on my todo list to make more out of it. It works as-is but I'm not happy with the current editor and some other things. Still, it gets some use on occasion which is nice :)
Seems to be nothing but a very very short blog post. Submitter of the post ought to leave a comment about what we are looking at and why.
> taking threads further into hell

Okay, you win, that's a good point. Tbh "don't take conversations further into hell" sounds like an excellent additional guideline, even if it can be read between the lines.
I disagree.

The forums that I used to use simply made the top shown comments/threads the most recent activity.

The default HN view is clearly based on some algorithm to calculate what is "worth" being on the front page. I read the high comment topics, and there is a ton of groupthink and pushing controversy.

This is also why the HN effect is even a concept. There are enough people here watching controversial topics to hug a modern website to death.
On the topic of unclear pronunciations, “new” is a poor choice for description of pronunciation, because accents are split on whether to pronounce that /njuː/ (“nyew”, which I think I’ve heard called “liquid u”, though I’m not sure how that gets spelled) or /nu/ (“noo”). Broadly speaking, the general American and Canadian accents omit the /j/, and the rest of the world includes it. But a particularly fun fact is that certain singing styles can alter adopted accent also: the classical singing style uses the /j/, so that even Americans who would say “noo” will sign “nyew” when operating in the classical/opera style.
> at some point countries are going to introduce legislation that sets criteria for when a private website must start acting like a public square

The US courts already apply existing standards for when private spaces have some of the same rules as public ones to online fora without needing separate legislation.
That's what the headline is trying to imply; yet, the article makes it clear that other EU countries have equally granted emergency authorisations, within EU provisions for doing so.
ICLN and TAN are two popular ones.
Why can't they use a non neonicotinoid pesticide instead?
I really wish I had the time to do this. I'll make sure to remember this for later!
I got hooked on building tools to assist in collective decision making. A decade back I built pyvotecore and https://modernballots.com to help folks run elections with fancier systems (e.g. SchulzeSTV). Years later, I built https://boardgamemenu.com to help reduce choice paralysis with boardgame selection (consensus). A few after that was https://sortmatch.ca to assist in Glicko tournaments.

Most recently, I built https://deckofnames.com to help new parents decide on a name they'd both like. I built it for myself, but figured others might find it useful. So it's a bit rough around the edges, but does the job pretty well, I think.

Part of the fun of implementing it was hunting down name statistics from various regional governments to compile a list of "which names are popular in which regions in which years". I really wish that kind of thing were standardized around the world, but that's life.
Indeed. Presumably if it is effective, you could study people who are using Fluvoxamine for its anti-depressive properties, and you'd find that (other things equal, using something like propensity score matching), they have less serious cases of COVID.
But they might "leak" it. What parent meant is that as an mmap() user you have no control how much of a mapping takes actual memory while you're visiting random memory-mapped file locations. Is that documented somewhere?
That fastmap.io looks pretty neat
There’s an analogy here with programming languages. It’s super hard for a new language to get popular. It might do some things objectively better, but if that doesn’t impact the majority of its users, it needs more or else it ends up populated by ideologues. An exception can sometimes be found in languages with solid interop/foreign function interfaces. Python gets to build on decades of C libraries easily. Likewise with clojure and the JVM. Or Gmail and a standardized email protocol.

So what’s the analogue for social networks? Tim Berners Lee’s pods? Would it be an app that pulls from and pushes to Twitter/insta/fb in addition to its own servers? That’s how apple’s iMessage has done so well. It falls back to SMS if the other person isn’t an adopter of their system.

New systems that can take advantage of existing network effects seem so much more likely to gain popularity. And we really need more of the open interop with social media.
Thanks for free Parler ads.

More people should be aware of free speech platforms.
Yes, I agree with you. I would also add the ‘spirit’ of the Defund the Police movement was that a lack of oversight created a safe environment for bad officers to victimize their community.

Now, many of the same champions of this cause are taking on the role of the police themselves. Across Reddit, Twitter, and elsewhere, people are creating open source documents with the names of anyone they believe was at the riot.

Most troubling of all, I am seeing many people openly advocating the police should have shot more protesters or brutalized them in some manner.

This seems highly contrary to the goals of the movement.
I know, but that's in error:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/#:~:tex....

Doctors correcting vitamin D levels are finding 10k IU is a good starter dose and that is often insufficient to arrive at optimal levels.
A lot of what you describe is attributable to resume-driven development, in my opinion. Complex solutions are used to insinuate that the engineers who implemented them are solving complex problems. This in turn improves their marketability by insinuating they've got the razzle dazzle and trendiness under their belt that justifies $500k a year.

Sometimes it's also not resume-driven development, at least not intentionally. Sometimes it's because the engineers just want to work on overcomplicated shit. For example I have my personal blog running on half a dozen AWS features - S3, Athena, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Lambda, SNS, SES, ...

I don't need any of that for a simple blog, and I write on it like once a year. And the site is still slow as shit (relatively) even though it's static because I haven't optimized the font and script loads to be non-blocking. But it was fun to set up!
I'm a bit of an idiot, when I think of AVX I think of something that speeds up computation (specifically matrice stuff), not memory access. How wrong am I?
Hm? I can't think of any recent projects with good design but bad presentation. The first half is true, but the second half seems mistaken in the context of the web.
A few threads popped up on HN a while ago about using Godot for application development and I just wanted to see how feasible it was. I like the basic idea, game frameworks are basically application frameworks already in theory.
The Paradox of Tolerance applies quite well here...

The segment being squeezed out wasn't willing to debate. There's been a year of debate and tolerance about the merits of masks, science, conspiracy, etc. The segment being deplatformed didn't listen to or learn from it. They were far from powerless during that time.

Not every side or segment has the rule about good faith like HN does.

I say the above as a Canadian, watching that segment spread it's toxic behavior here.
I am working on ht[0], a drop-in replacement for HTTPie[1] written in Rust.

Since I am not planning on writing an extensive documentation for ht, I wanted to port 99% of HTTPie's features so its docs applies to ht as well. So far I have been able to port around 60-70% of HTTPie's features.

[0] https://github.com/ducaale/ht

[1] https://httpie.org/
Seriously. The "diversity in all but thought" people are creepy.
It should be, I think, though it's a complicated question whose answer varies on so much, cpu architecture and how it is used. There is a great discussion on it here, too.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43343231/enhanced-rep-mo...
Cool, I’m looking forward to your store. Please post back when it’s ready!
Don't worry about it. Some people lose their marbles because they think females get erased when male language is used. Just erase both genders and you'll be fine. Use singular they.
> I don't know if private corporations should have to allow the president unfettered access to their platforms.

Hopefully republicans can get back in power in a few years and have the will to really 'break up' big tech. I can see trump running on this again and winning. I would vote for whoever can make this happen.
Sure, I believe the following:

1. As I stated above, I believe there is a militant faction of gun owners who are doing the community and the nation a disservice. I do not agree with their views, do not support them, and believe they should be monitored.

2. As an owner, I believe we need to make the following changes to gun regulation:

* We need a universal regulatory floor consisting of background checks, licensing, and training for ownership of any class of firearm.

* We should probably have some sort of red flag rule set to allow seizure of firearms if there is strong evidence that you are conspiring to commit a crime or are unstable.

* We need to standardize on what constitutes reasonable concealed carry as right now the state reciprocity rules are ridiculous. I shouldn't need 4-5 licenses to be able to possess firearms across the US, let alone concealed carry.

* We need to shift to computerized record keeping at the ATF, and all transactions need to be reported to the ATF. This would allow ATF to perform data mining to go after people making large straw purchases for resale here or transport to Mexico. This is where most guns being used illegally are coming from. If guns supposedly owned by you start showing up at crime scenes, someone should be able to flag that trivially and start asking questions about it. If you are buying 10 new firearms every few weeks, that should be investigated. There are ways we could implement this which protect individual privacy.

* It should be illegal to bring guns to a protest, and open carry in most situations should be banned as it makes people less safe, including the owners.

Those are the changes that I believe would have a meaningful impact on gun related violence. I do not believe assault weapons bans, magazine size limits, removal of "assault features", or other such regulations are necessary or particularly helpful as they largely only inhibit individuals who are trying to use their gun in legal self defense. These types of weapons are also relatively rarely used in gun violence, with pistols and shotguns contributing overwhelming to gun related homicides in the US.

As for how you deal with the cultural issues among some owners, I have no idea how to tackle that other than to open reasonable dialog and expose them to additional moderate owners.
This approach appears to work since we thrive as a species.
That was the month telegram launched? It's been 7 years. It was a new app. The same bug is still being used against it?

Do you have any recent bugs? Or 'backdoors'? All their official apps are open source and reproducible. Must be easy to find bugs for security researchers. They even offer much larger bounties compared to other apps.

Anything? I want to believe people saying bad crypto, but it looks like there's no actual proof.

Here's something that says it is good, published more recently.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180727070936/https://www.susan...

https://kryptera.se/assets/uploads/2015/12/Telegram-cryptana...
There are different degrees to losing a war. The end result of losing a conventional war could be (IMO "would be") much better than the result for that same side if it let loose nukes. A direct war between two nuclear powers need not lead to the use of nuclear weapons. Of course it's only rational to fear such a result.
In your article the person was taking this dose for 5 years, and probably without vitamin k2 and developed hypercalcemia.
'12 Monkeys' at 25
I dont understand the question. can you rephrase?
This is sophistry. They can and do decide what is trending or suppressed, what passes and what gets deleted. They don't have to write anything to steer the public debate - there are millions of posts being written, selection suffices.
Also error handling. read and write can return errors, but what happens when you write to a mmaped pointer and the underlying file system has some issue? Assigning a value to a variable cannot return an error.

So you get a fine SIGBUS to your application and it crashes. Just the other day I used imagemagick and it always crashed with a SIGBUS and just when I started googling the issue I remembered mmap, noticed that the partition ran out of space, freed up some more and the issue was gone.

So you might want to set up a handler for that signal, but now the control flow suddenly jumps to another function if an error occurs, and you have to somehow figure out where in your program the error occurred and then what? Then you remember that longjmp exists and you end up with a steaming pile of garbage code.

Only use mmap if you absolutely must. Don't just "mmap all teh files" as it's the new cool thing you learned about.
How to Build Voice Assistant to Control a Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Why doesn't Intel CPUs implement a modern version of Z80's LDIR instruction (a memmove in a single instruction)?

Then the kernel wouldn't have to save any registers. (I'd really like if she had documented exactly which CPU/system she used for benchmarking).
I think the context is key here. Independent of what happened on Wednesday they don’t constitute a real threat. But one has to update one’s prior.
Reading https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa.... and https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/114256v1.full.pdf (for instance - & many more) doesn't suggest BS to me but others can make up their own minds.
Just to add to this comment, strength increased with cross-sectional muscle area. Neural adaptation is not entirely separate, but yes the stimuli for increasing each can be generally separated into the low or high rep schemes. For those doing any sort of strength training, as long as you progress in weight for the first 3-4 years gaining muscle mass is unavoidable and not a bad thing at all. Hypertrophy is a well studied area of sport science and as long as you maintain a healthy diet, building muscle is not a negative thing in the least. It even helps with longevity by counteracting the muscle loss associated with aging.
Ha! Yes, New Atlas has lots of news about tiny houses too. I think they're pitched toward the well-educated but impecunious.
That's called a space leak not a memory leak.
Which day in Paris? Single accident did not increase overall air travel safety significantly, regardless of what impression you could get from the press.
The CSS the author uses (style.css) has both 'white-space: pre-line;' (line 6) and 'max-width: 640px;' (line 18).

https://inoads.com/style.css
"Defund the police" doesn't mean what you think it means.

I was glad the police, in this case, showed the restraint to not engage in violence due to an unruly crowd who seemed to pose no threat to their lives. They showed how it could be done, although due to planning failures, they were BADLY under-staffed, and it got perilously close to the VP and other leaders. Deadly force was only employed as a last resort.

And I fully support snitching on violent criminals.

There are many consistent positions a large number of people hold. Trying to make this an "us versus them" by proclaiming in your comment that the entirety of "red vs blue" are only out for their own interests is only feeding into a narrative of complete polarization where there is actually a ton of common ground.
Hmm.. do you know the size of the image? Also, there’s no loading wheel so it might take a second depending on the size of the image. Just tried on mobile with a 1.8mb image and the preview popped up.
Why would you want or expect the press to present a unified face?
This doesn't make much sense to me, given that coronaviruses, with spike proteins, have existed for eons, and humans have had lots of time to build up immunity to previous coronaviruses (ones that cause colds, for example). So there was something about the Covid-19 coronavirus spike proteins that was different enough where it didn't look like "familiar" coronaviruses, so I see no reason why it couldn't evolve further to evade whatever antibodies humans are able to build up to the vaccines.
Erdem (https://github.com/skytreader/erdem) is a small "media-center" webapp that I've been building. I'm also using this as an opportunity to learn React.

Over the years I've amassed a collection of video files with filenames similar but not exactly like, "Lionel Messi vs Miroslav Klose".

The actual data set is dirtier, can't be regexed, etc. A key property of my data set is that a name features in the filename of different files.

I made this to easily answer the question "Hey, I want to watch a video about Messi. I wonder what I have?"

So, being the computer scientist I am, I thought it'd be interesting to index the filenames. Hence, the indexer whose code I experiment with a lot; dirtier than usual, very "academic" style.

Then I realized all I need is a search function (which I have implemented already!). Life works. Maybe I'll keep with the indexer idea but just for something to play with.

P.S., I have words to say about React but this isn't the thread for it I guess. Been a frustrating experience so far. But well, that's why I used it in such a rough hack in the first place.
>maybe we don’t need armed people to give tickets to drivers with a busted headlight

There are endless videos of normal cops being executed by unhinged drivers who were pulled over for things like "a busted headlight." You don't know who you're dealing with, how close to the edge some people are, or if they are dangerous felons, when you pull them over. If those situations were a very real possibility in your daily job, would you perform that job unarmed? I wouldn't. Maybe some very brave mental health professionals would, for a time, until some of them are killed as well, as indiscriminately as the police, which is inevitable.

What then? Stop pulling people over altogether, because it's not worth risking anybody's life further? Just let people speed and drive drunk, or drive with an unsafe vehicle?

When I get this far in discussions with people, it eventually comes down to "well dangerous people shouldn't have guns." It's a nice thought, naive in my opinion, but regardless, how do we deal with the reality of right now until those ideals manifest in reality? The reality is that dangerous people make regular traffic stops too dangerous for normal people to behave in any other way that to exercise extreme caution.
this is a funny and thought provoking article. There's a bit of texture that I feel is missing, and I feel personally attacked, so I'm going to throw up a weak defense of category theory web servers.

Back in the day, in perl I'd bless regexes and use AUTOLOAD to provide the class implementations at runtime, as any good unicycle rider would. Changing the Rube Goldberg machine is hard. grep won't really help. I'd resort to even dirtier tricks to change behavior.

Later I worked in java. grep would work, but even better, I could make a class private, create an interface and just chase compiler errors. So much nicer than hunting down the right line of code to hijack in perl. It's pretty good, and I think go provides a similar level of support, but there's still a bunch of room for Class.forName(foo); //haha! grep will never find me! and it's cool, cause you'll only find out about it at runtime.

Anyway Haskell is neat because you can throw it all in a do in IO. hack away for days. When it's time to change, just change it. the compiler will help. The compiler will tell you everything you need to know to scope down to the finest level you want. It's super easy to be way too fancy up front, but any mistakes can be fixed.

Anyway, Haskell is probably never the right choice but it's the only thing I know of that lets you easily change the design whenever you feel like it.

It's Saturday, and I've thought about this too much. Time to put on my silver pants and go unicycling.
> They successfully detect 2 of 4 schemes, no better than a coin toss.

How would you go about detecting a pump and dump scheme by flipping a coin?
You can get good monitor arms to a Achieve this. Make sure to measure though because, as someone who is 6’, some have a max height lower than what I need. The nice thing about an arm is it’s easy to adjust when switching between sitting and standing.

But I agree I can’t believe how far I had to scroll town to see someone mention monitor height.
The Dual Numbers
The January Effect
This is completely an argument in good faith, based on a readily accessible hypothetical that almost everyone on HN can put themselves in the place of. This isnt a court of law, I dont need to be personally affected in order to offer an opinion.