skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The root-finding problem is not solvable in general.

Great, because nobody was asking for that either.

> Of course, I'm talking about the worst case. Your example is easier.

Which has been my entire point this whole time, which I already explained to you but which you conveniently prefer to totally ignore. The case I gave is not merely "easier"... it's utterly trivial. I literally even explained how they could solve it with the current algorithm too: by running multiple iterations of that exact algorithm to at least try to get some kind of convergence. Did I ever demand or expect it to solve arbitrary transcendentals? No, nobody was demanding it to magically solve everything. But producing flatly wrong outputs for even the simplest quadratics without any attempt to improve it, sanity check it, or issue a warning is just plain inexcusable and embarrassing.
Depends what kind of payload you have on your rocket. People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment? Or is it just a test rocket to see if it can land itself?
Expanding: it should be known when failure is tolerated. Situations where it isn’t (e.g. maiden flight with astronauts) should follow ones where it is.

Being the one learning through failure in an organisation not tolerating it isn’t fun.
Neither does the US or the UK or any other country that actually matters. And btw there is no such thing as international law.
And what restraints are in place on social media or app platforms when they police speech? Only the ones they place on themselves, so this analogy is broken.
Have been using it for a year. IMHO it is a nearly flawless service for the problem it aims to solve, and I wish it many many years of success before it crumbles under the weight of a buyout offer and VC fuckery, feature creep, or NSA letters. It truly is a "too-good-to-be-true" service (and severely under priced in my opinion). They say software is never finished but SL feels that way and I hope they don't get stretched too thin with bells and whistles.
On only a 10000 year arc sure but kind of hoping we buck the inborn tendency at some point. Humans won't make it very long (relatively of course) without that.
Hypersonic weapons changes that. Hypersonic weapons are very difficult to confuse with nuclear weapons. Combine that with cyber warfare and drone/robotic warfare... And it is now possible to have an all out conventional warfare style war again. MAD no longer applies here. MAD was relevant when "destruction" required nuclear weapons. It didn't really mean "you destroy me I destroy you." It meant, you launch nuclear weapons (which will destroy me) and I have enough left over to destroy you. That warfare no longer presents the likely scenario as would unfold between two superpowers.
I thought Facebook was too popular to ever fall down. And yet here we are, it's easier than ever to ignore it.

Also, installing an alternative doesn't make you lose contact with anyone. You can set up Signal and make yourself available there without removing Whatsapp.

Many people slowly stopped using Facebook without ever deleting it. Still has the same effect.
Ah, I found out why - %n prints out the number of characters printed up to the point where the %n is. Printf returns the total number of characters printed.
Who are the corporate backers that supported expanding medicaid in the ACA? They didn't agree so who was on which side?

If you want to talk about the 2008 financial crisis, ok. Why did Dodd-Frank pass? Why did the corporate backers allow for the creation of the CFPB? How is it that only once Trump came into office did it stop doing its job?

You are asserting that there is a cabal of corporations controlling politics in the USA, what do they actually agree on specifically? Why have things in many instances actually changed when administrations change?
Anti-US faux-liberals downvoting some sensible suggestions as to how we should counterbalance the growing influence of a fascistic authoritarian genocidal state. Why am I not surprised or even disappointed anymore?
re: でしょう, without seeing the original Japanese, my guess is that a more atural English translation for your first example would be "Your brother is supposed to be a man, right? He's supposed to be an adult, right?" or something more along those lines.
Elodie – The Dropbox Photo Assitant You've Always Wanted
Offer statehood first. If China attacks a US state, they've declared war.
Shareholders can't liquidate a company.
Show HN: Cloakbits - Headless web scraping with bypass for anti-bot WAFs
There is a growing number of companies offering anti-bot protection SaaS to protect websites from scraping by automated bots based on Puppeteer/Selenium. Most of them rely on browser properties such as headers, javascript properties (window., navigator.), behavior analysis, to build device/user fingerprints and match it against a database of "whitelisted" fingerprints (typical user
behavior/settings/device props etc).

For the past few months, together with two other devs I have worked on a customized Puppeteer/Playwright scraping backend. It's essentially a drop-in replacement for default Chrome/FF binaries. We managed to successfully go through Coinbase, Amazon, Aliexpress login pages in headless mode without getting captcha, or any other verification. We are planning to roll out a beta version. If you are interested in getting beta access leave us details about your use case here: https://a90eq67iroz.typeform.com/to/FAkWnrtv

The motivation for our project is that open-source solutions such as puppeteer-extra-stealth cover only a small portion of what popular anti-bot software such as Akamai Bot Manager or Imperva use to detect and ban emulated browsers.
A hand coded Android homescreen. It has

- App shortcuts on sidebar

- App drawer

- QOTD, TODO

- Any flutter widget that you can think off!

Why?

Having multiple apps just to customize my home screen was not working for me. So I decided to hand code my home screen. Implementing Flutter widgets is so fast and easy that I have replaced apps like TODO, Quotes, Grocery list with Flutter widgets on home screen. I am planning to add more functions to it like

- Drinking water reminders

- Solar panel output monitor

- Blog visitor counter

The downside of using Flutter for this is existing widgets and App Icons on home screen are not supported.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/quaintdev/anchor
> People or a billion-plus dollars of equipment?

Requiring no risk of failure for people is a large part of why we don’t launch astronauts much.

Space is risky. Setting the expectation that astronauts can never be lost, as opposed to that they are on an exciting frontier that has its dangers, is out of line with astronauts’ own risk preferences. This has been a failure of expectations setting by NASA.
"Does the E.U. have sufficient clout?"

Germany / Merkel (because she is the one who determines German foreign policy de facto) will not do anything that is against German business interests. As of 2021, Germany is neither left, nor right, neither liberal, nor conservative - on the international scene, it is a purely business-oriented nation.
How to make simple micro-fluidics using shrinky-dinks. They work pretty well for a simple DIY method.

https://hackaday.com/2019/04/23/making-microfluidics-simpler...
It is weird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_ma...
America Is Not Exceptional. Its History of Violence Cannot Be Denied
I like how the article provides examples, that's what I was always missing in the original articles; fortunately there are versions with examples now, e.g.: https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers... .

I wish there were more points though; at the moment there are only five, while the linked "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" had more than 30.
The industrial revolution and the 20th century consumer culture would not have left the mark on the world it did if not for the fuel on the fire of petroleum.

Pumping gas is a big deal.

It gave us private cars and suburbs and endless roads and parking lots that would not exist if we had to rely on coal.
My working hypothesis is that from 3 million years ago to 100,000 years ago, our ancestors primarily ate megafauna. The optimal diet that we evolved for is to nose-to-tail eating of megafauna, so basically cows and sheep, since we killed all the mammoths and deinotherium.

In more recent times, human diets have been under rapid selection pressure, with most human groups being able to tolerate grains, and some being able to thrive off of milk, and other human groups . These populations that underwent selection for certain diets then get mixed around a lot with various migrations, conquests, and intermarriage, and so it is a bit of crapshoot what kind of diet any given modern caucasian American can tolerate. Pretty much any American can thrive on a diet that is very heavy in cow meat, but what kind of dairy or plants can be tolerated is more random.

Heck a good friend of mine, if he follows exactly the same keto diet I do, felt physically sick and lethargic for 2 months before he gave up. Meanwhile I was out there doing 3 hour a day intense workouts.

Out of curiosity, what are the rough outlines of this diet that did not work for your friend?
Https://swapiverse.com/

It's just our pre-launch page for now. We are planning to match users and allow them to swap books with each other.

As of right now, I'm not sure how to avoid scammers... that's my biggest issue.
https://hyperscript.org

to compliment htmx, a language that embeds well in HTML, inspired by HyperTalk
Nice initiative!

I will publish my own book this year so it is great to see some love for indie publishing :-)

I would also be very much interested in finding some reviewers that would be willing to help review say 2-3 chapters of my book in exchange for getting the final version. Is anybody here interested in that or do you know of a place where I could get some interested beta-readers?
I have mixed feelings about CMake. Non trivial scripts look like an spaghetti ball, but it's an extremely powerful spaghetti ball.
Full archives of Game Developer magazine (1994-2013)
http://www.adama-lang.org/ is a programming language for board games. The language works, and I'm sorting out how I want to do UIs. Documentation and platform are half baked.
The US should be forming a closer relationship with India, to work with them strategically to increase their domestic investment and try to reach some type of parity, economically, with China as a ballast.

We, the US, simply don't have the literal bodies regardless of our economy.
20 decades ago would be 1821 A.D., four decades before the First American Civil War.
It sounds like you're really just mad because the big companies don't moderate evenly enough for you.

> replacing it with something that requires a reasonable level of moderation, or provides a little bit of protection for companies that have made a good attempt at moderation. That would be a much better incentive for companies than the incentive 230 currently provides.

I'll bite. I think TW/FB have done a reasonable job of moderating. Where do you set the bar? Where should the politically appointed judge hearing the case set the bar? Your solution is just moving the problem directly into the sites of the political party in power.
Here is one of mine: https://github.com/rbitr/ivc

Version control for ipython notebooks, the goal is to be able to use a Jupyter notebook in a hacky, iterative way, but track your versions and the output they produced in a searchable way so that you can capture what you've learned.
Still a lot of work and research to do to make it something people can use.
Car Designer Dilip Chhabria arrested for forgery
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530924
So there's a nuance there you're missing.

Newspaper publishing is opt in; that is, anything published they chose to publish.

Websites that allow third parties to post content on them is opt out; that is, anything published did so without initial moderation.

If a website operator posts their own statements, they can theoretically be found to be libelous. They can't be held accountable for posts by other people. Newspapers potentially can (though I've never seen a court case where a newspaper was sued for something in the Opinion section), but they -chose- to publish that item.

Realistically websites should be thought of as a public bulletin board. Should you be able to sue the person who put up the bulletin board, for content that was posted to the bulletin board by other people?
Oh thank god, this thread is making me feel much better about myself.

I've been trying to integrate OpenCV's C++ library with my own C++ code (not involving Python), with the additional contrib modules (meaning I have to compile OpenCV myself), for multiple platforms, and I got stuck on CMake for so long it made me question if I was just a total idiot and should give up on programming forever.
Huh? What's black hat about this?
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Thanks to deep pockets, Germany snaps up extra coronavirus jabs
https://github.com/aptrinh/Radio-Qt5

An Internet Radio app with local playlist (.xspf) support.

I still need to make a feasible .exe for Windows (preferably pyinstaller with --onefile but apparently assets are missing unless I place them right next to the .exe - in which case, it won't just be one .exe I will ship to users =( )
This is the #19 time you posted the same project. (9 times in the last 4 days). A few repost are ok, but reposting too much will make users unhappy and flag your posts and later make mods ban your site or your account.

I tried the live demo https://pixelcraft.web.app/

It is weird that the undo button undo the operation pixel by pixel, instead of a global operation.

It's very interesting the "eye" tool to jump to a previous version.
Looting is stealing the same way that storming the capitol is trespassing.
They're welcome to protest, but as a society we draw the line at terrorism. Don't do that.
My math shows the technology to be 22 years old.

DC-X: First flight (and first successful propulsive landing) 18 August 1993

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

"In December 2015, a Falcon 9 accomplished a propulsive vertical landing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTVL

Not mentioned in the above link was an amateur group developing VTVL tech around the San Francisco bay area in the 90's. IIRC, it was EPRS. FWIW, they also invented a multi-rotor platform to test their conrol system that evolved into the modern drone.

http://www.erps.org
How do people seriously not see the parallels here? The way that the CCP, and most Chinese people, view the protestors in Hong Kong, is exactly the same way that the US Government, as well as most of the US, view the protestors in DC on Weds.

HKers say they want democracy and fair elections. CCP and most Chinese think that's bullshit. MAGAs say they want democracy and fair elections. Most of the US Gov as well as most US citizens think that's bullshit.

CCP wants to ban "disharmonious activity" from social media. HKers think that's a front for suppression of dissent. US Gov wants to ban "hate speech" from social media. MAGA think that's just a front for suppression of dissent.

CCP runs pseudo-secret reeducation camps in Xianjian. US runs pseudo-secret detention camps at Guantanamo Bay.

Etc. etc. etc.
Generational References 2.3x faster than reference counting, unoptimized
oh boy this is the story of my life
Can’t you say the same of reddit? The reddit app is actually worse and supports les features than the web version.
The parent could have made the claim (that you believe they meant) without saying "crippling failure of an organism", and I would still think it was mildly homophobic:

- there's literally nothing to stop a homosexual person from biologically reproducing,

- it assumes that the only value of an organism is in its Darwinian fitness (its ability to reproduce), which is pretty gross. I reject this assumption.

The parent appears to be applying this heuristic of value only so far as it implies a moral failure of homosexuality: it's not a typical measure of value. Humans value other animals more highly than this, without regard to whether they have reproduced.
This is a project I built to help with my job search. It pulls Stack Overflow job listings (using the RSS feeds) and maps them based on the city. It only supports cities in the United States or fully remote companies at the moment. It's functional but definitely half baked.

Main tech: Rails and Leaflet.js

https://railsmap.tuckerchapman.com/

edit: I would love some feature suggestions if anybody has any
Computer Gaming World Museum gallery: all issues 1981-2006
I neglected my sitting position for years, now I pay the price for it. Every time I turn my head it makes unpleasant cracking noises (luckily no pain), I went to the doctor who was not able help me further.
Those exercise allow me to have some relief and to lessen the noise, but it's still there.

Anyone in the same situation here?
I think most programmers are aware of these. It's lawmakers who need a refresher.
Twitter, Google and Facebook are using Capitol Hill protest as an excuse to silence all conservatives, i.e. half the country.

I think Parler/CloutHub and Telegram/Signal will explode in popularity. It’s also a great opportunity to build alternatives.

@sama and @pg, YC should add free speech platform to their list of requests for startups.
That's not how international relations work. Appealing to some arbitrary set of conventions (that you prove in your own comment don't get followed) and then complaining that the other side is "uppity" does nothing.
http://thumbnail.ai

My first project of 2021. Just paste a blogpost link and it will build a thumbnail for you.
> There is zero chance we'll shut down their domestic growth. They're self sufficient.

China imports food and energy. They don't produce enough to meet their own needs.

Their population is largely male, old, and they're not having children. As more reach retirement age, growth will be diverted to take care of the elderly.

Their domestic economy is a mystery. Investing in Chinese companies is a risk. They like to show positive numbers, but can they be trusted?

Shut off their imports and stop buying from them, and they'll have lots of trouble.
Not if you don't add state/control flow. That's the key. That stuff is exiled to JS-land.

And by "state" I mean it in its proper sense: something where CSS itself can mutate its own state. The OP calls CSS custom properties "state", but they're really just "constants" in the context of CSS itself (they can only be mutated by JS).
Enough of these political posts on HN. If I want to see them I would head to r/news or NY Times. Strongly opinionated conclusion supported by piecemeal information aiming to inspire meaningless online battles with strangers? No thanks.
For a long time American policy was also that these "unfair" treaties made by Colonial Powers should go. Roosevelt was very much of that opinion that these treaties should be abbrograted in the aftermath of World War II, and his views did lead to some differences of opinion with Churchill.

Infact all other concessions except HK and Macau were returned to Chinese about the end of the war.
I don't think it's a good idea to nurse this idea for the following reasons:

1. I don't believe Taiwanese want to be part of the US. They already have their own country.
2. The US shouldn't counter the Chinese imperialist ambitions of annexing Taiwan by doing something that could be viewed as the same thing.
3. It's not really necessary for what you want. The US could enter an open alliance with Taiwan if it wanted to making a Chinese declaration of war against Taiwan a declaration of war against the US.
4. The US should make a stand that the independent country of Taiwan has a right to exist and support that right alone not precondition on joining the US.

I could go on, but I think this "Taiwan becomes a US state" thing that I see repeated a lot is just plain silly.
This is a perfectly sound hypothetical. Do you only allow discussion with people who have experienced a direct hardship? Is that your line for moderation? I'm being antagonistic, but that's part of your 230 fix right? You want judges to draw the magical cutoff line.

So what do you do about companies who run a shoestring budget? They can't play in this game?
https://documentation.page/

A documentation website generator for open source. No need to pollute your Github repo with html+css+etc etc files, just write markdown and point your domain there and it'll render it. Example output for a paid project (my own):

https://statux.dev/

The main fear from multiple people is that the project might "go evil" at some point and add ads or similar to project's documentation. I definitely don't plan on that (that's why I'll charge for premium features!) but totally understand the fears. The project is already "successful" for myself, so how can I dispel these fears from other devs?
Automatic fire other than for suppression isn’t effective if you want to kill people semi vs auto won’t make a big difference neither is 10 vs 30 rounds.

This is the problem with the gun control debate you either control all of them or none of them.

The assault weapons ban did absolutely squat to prevent gun violence in the US.

Being able to attach a bayonet or having to pin and weld a flash suppressor I mean sorry compensator or w/e they’ll call it to pass the requirements isn’t going to make a gun less deadly.

Honestly I don’t know what can be done in the US at this point there’s more guns than people, and despite the so called ammo shortages there are probably enough rounds out there to kill every person on the planet 10 times over.

There little that any gun control legislation other than a complete ban and confiscation campaign could do.

This is because if you look at gun violence you see essentially two groups neither of which could be prevented by stricter gun legislation.

One is people committing crimes/homicide with legally purchased firearms and passing all checks including any additional checks that any “sensible” gun legislation would introduce.

The other are people who obtain guns illegally by stealing them or buying them on the black or grey markets.

More background checks won’t stop them, especially not in the near term until guns become prohibitively expensive for most criminals to obtain but without confiscation that isn’t likely to happen.

There’s still gun violence in the UK as far as criminals go but that’s mostly limited to organized crime vs organized crime incidents other than that and the Irish border conflict related violence you can rally only get the odd crank that finds grandpa’s old shotgun with a few 50 year old hunting rounds.

Common criminals can’t afford to buy guns in the UK and many of them don’t want anything to do with firearms because of the response it would trigger.
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/covid-12-24-were-fed... from Christmas Eve is an early (secondary) source for some of this.
> The way that the CCP, and most Chinese people, view the protestors in Hong Kong, is exactly the same way that the US Government, as well as most of the US, view the protestors in DC on Weds.

We're not counting the President of the United States as part of the US Government?
Counterpoint. Everyone I meet in SF is against colonialism.

Have you considered that Hong Kong is part of China, was taken as a colony, Democracy was introduced and by supporting a different system of government, in a country that isn't yours, is a form of internalized colonialism?

Our country [The United States] is literally falling apart.

Our biggest problem in the west is our tendency to export our problems. China is internally focused, and will solve its internal problems in Hong Kong. Whether you like it or not. It's simply how they operate considering their 5,000 year history.
It's explicitly aimed at people with zero Elixir experience, as the description says. Every project is a game, also as the description says.

If you'd like a refund, just reply to the welcome email.