skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just spent some time searching for m4 opinions on HN and it's more like a love-hate than hate-hate.

It looks like if you dive head first into learning autotools, then m4 is going to look like nuisance.

But if you allocate time to learn m4 for what it is, instead of just something you have to put up with as part of your autotools adventure, then you'll hate m4.

m4 is the only (or one of a very few) well-known general-purpose language-agnostic macro processor I know of.
Black swan event? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

I can't remember the last air crash in SE Asia. Thousands of flights take off and land there safely every day...

Edit to add: they're highly publicized because they're so rare. One of the last crashes in Indonesia I can recall is the 737MAX, and that's [Edit: Wrong info! It crashed October 2018!] almost 2 years ago (March 2019).
Is it the one comment on your comments page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jcuenod

If so, it fell to page two of that thread! There is a "more" link hidden as blank text at the bottom of the page of the original thread.
Great for engagement
It's a different language with a different type system. I've also interacted with the API Server using a Ruby library that relied on metaprogramming. I could do things in a dozen lines that would require thousands of lines of checked-in Go.

Replying to your edit:

> It's just a bad idea to write something for Kubernetes that is not in Go, you have 0 support and k8s releases a new version every 6month, good luck keeping up with that.

Well, a few things.

First, using client-go doesn't save you from version shifts. It is explicitly unsupported, so if they break your downstream system, stiff shit.

Second, client-go is derived from code generators. The same generators also produce other clients. Unfortunately they are terrible, by virtue of OpenAPI generator being a hellish maze and because they leak Go-isms like a spiteful sieve. I've used that code generator to develop a proxy. It sucked.

Third, this library is derived independently. It uses the same OpenAPI definitions as client-go, client-java and so forth. It's as easy to keep up to date as any of the others.

Fourth, the Kubernetes API isn't fully tested. Not even close. Many libraries can rightfully claim to be just as conformant as client-go, despite being broken on ~66% of endpoints: https://apisnoop.cncf.io/
Yes, definitely. But signal is an optional person to person program. I think it’s pretty easy to switch, or even take the source and make something new.

Even with closed source stuff like Facebook, it seems dumb to claim they are authoritarian and try to change them. It’s their product, just leave.

Lego isn’t authoritarian because they don’t make sets and changes that I want. It’s their company and they make what they make.
Simple Storage Service - three S's.
Article seems to be implying at a big company you probably can't have #4 and may not even need #1.
Things have to get worse before they get better. What other word besides terrorist are you going to use to describe a group of people that break into the capitol, kill police officers and set pipe bombs? It’s quite literally the definition of a terrorist.

Also is that a threat of violence at the end there from a 15 minute old account?
https://sharehub.live

Indian social media platform I have been working on over the past several weeks. Still a long way to go, and a lot might change in the near future based on user feedback. Give it a try!!
Ugh the SIGPIPE behavior is rather unfortunate, but I don’t think partial consumption behavior is too common in most scripts. I usually run something that consumes a limited number of lines manually to test quickly when the entire input is large. Of course there are definitely cases where you’d want to do this in a script and it’s a good idea to be careful of.
I don't know, I guess each project fails in a different way (my experience was mostly with libcurl before it came with cmake support), but IME projects which come with a Makefile or use autoconf don't care about non-UNIX-y operating systems, while (again: IME) a CMakeLists.txt file is often a sign that the project will also build on Windows with MSVC.
How is that not a narrative? It certainly is not a fact.
I’ve “moved on” but I think my issue is with the people I’m trying to talk to who haven’t moved on.

I don’t think I need someone to clarify, but it does take me extra time to figure out if someone is taking about the literal or figurative “defund” idea.
Yes.

Early live video showed people who looked like tourists. Things escalated dramatically.

Zip cuff guy appears to have a gun on his hip in addition to the body armor & zip ties for taking hostages.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/

We’re now learning of pipe bombs.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pipe-bomb-reportedly-found-a...

The killed police officer was attacked with a fire extinguisher, so things other than guns can be used as weapons.

Many photos show body armor, riot shields, and staffs.

Photos show Members of Congress escorted to safety in CBRN hoods (protection against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear air pollution).

The C-SPAN live feed was cut off for the safety of Congress & the staff at the Capitol. You can watch the moment on YouTube, plus the subsequent audio only broadcast.

What do you think? Is that helpful?
Important to see whether the ban imposed by telecoms are to be permanent, or whether they will be lifted after the election. Great civil unrest may arise if people still don't have access to the digital infrastructure they feel they are entitled to after an election favorable to the current govt
I've built cpython, it's about as inconvenient as building the compiler and runtime for any other major language. What OS ships binaries for gcc/clang but not python? I can't say I've seen any Linux distros that don't have it.

>Well that just means CMake has nothing at all going for it, if they are as portable.

Sorry, just to be clear, Visual Studio does not have built in support for autotools. (Unless they added it recently and I wasn't aware) But, there are a number of other less convenient ways to get that to work on Windows.
Two huge challenges there: making such a car, and being able proeuce and service that many cars
Okay, the name gave me a giggle. Then I clicked the link. Then the picture of the device gave me a giggle. Then the tagline gave me a good laugh.

Well played sir. Well played!
What's next, they won't even sell you the rope at the hardware store?

Am I expected to grow my own lynching tree?

Should I accelerate the incubation of my own Mike Pence clone, in the basement of my own research lab!?
Both.

https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-pr...
If we're going to start enumerating domestic terrorist incidents, there's the Charleston church massacre, the Wal-Mart massacre in Texas, and the synagogue massacre in Pennsylvania. All of these incidents were linked to white supremacist ideas that the right has been flirting with for decades. Trump has just been dispensing with the dog whistles.

All four of these incidents had white perpetrators, btw. To extrapolate from mainstream Republican positions, we clearly need a complete and total shutdown of all white immigration until we figure out what is going on.

Back to the present day: the climate of lies about the election from Republican leadership up to and including Trump was obviously a factor in the violence in DC. On top of that Trump was there that day, speaking to that crowd immediately before they took action, directly inciting them to violence. There's no deniability to be had.

Appeasement has only emboldened these people to attack America, it's institutions, it's people, and it's values. We must have law and order, and that requires accountability for Trump and his enablers.
I also like the concept of picolisp, but ran into a lot of segfaults myself and eventually gave up. The learning material needs more handholding for sure. Also, I'll never be able to run that in production at my place of employment, so I could only use it for hobby projects.
This looks like it's got a lot of great potential.

I use Trello right now and one thing it's sorely missing is dependencies.

Like this to do depends on this other to do.

there's mods and all but it's pretty clumsy and I wish it was baked in.

Just something to think about.
No, it wouldn't be.
Out of curiosity, what monopolies are conservatives supporting these days? I am seriously drawing a blank.

But there's another hypocrisy to go around as well. The left used to talk about "the best way to combat speech is with more speech" and that monopolies were evil and that Big Oil had too much power and that the Patriot Act was undue surveillance.

We now have a Democratic party deeply committed to restricting speech in the public arena, whether that's academia, social media, or cancel culture in general. They are backing tech companies which are the closest things to monopolies and 10X bigger than Exxon Mobil ever was. They're advocating for new measures on domestic surveillance for terrorism.

Oh yeah, and Net Neutrality was overturned and the ISPs didn't ban things. It was the people who argued for Net Neutrality (Google, Twitter, Facebook) that are committing all the horror stories that were supposed to happen with deregulation.
Yeah, got me to click. After seeing enough of that, I stopped assuming the topic indicated support (or lack of support) for the idea it conveyed. They became less interesting to me at that point.
Yes, I agree, people should be doing the "easy, obvious, low risk" stuff first (if they can -- lots of people don't have the money, can't exercise adequately because of lock down, etc).

One of the problems is that is an inherently hard sell. People are terrible at measuring the disasters that should have happened but didn't.

If you convinced everyone to take their Vitamin D supplements, you would have an extremely hard time measuring the deaths that didn't happen but should have and an even harder time convincing the general public you weren't making up BS as click bait.

This is the bane of my existence. I have a serious medical condition and I know what the path not taken is supposed to look like and I've been getting better for nearly two decades when the condition is supposed to involve a steady and irreversible decline and I get told all the time that I am full of baloney and I can't possibly know that what I'm doing is effective and "X number of years of steady forward progress is just a wild coincidence -- stranger things have happened" and on and on.

Even people who believed me and took my advice have told me "I gave x, y and z nutritional things to my child and they are in the ER less but they aren't on less medication." by which this person meant the child's maintenance drugs were the same. But they implicitly failed to count the fewer antibiotics, steroids and other emergency treatment drugs as "less medication."

If you normally are in the ER every couple of months and need antibiotics for a month afterwards, being in the ER less constitutes a very significant reduction in use of medication. So this person was seeing results and going "But my child still needs just as much maintenance drugs, so the drug use is the same as before" when it absolutely wasn't the same as before.

So what you will see here is that the general public is much happier if you can tell them "X number of people were saved by a vaccine/antibiotic/ventilator/hospitalization" than if you tell them "We convinced the entire nation to take its vitamins and saw a dramatic reduction in incidence of disease."

If you tell them the second thing, the entire world will rise up and go "You are so full of shit. That's just a coincidence man. We didn't even need to take our vitamins. It just fucking died out for no apparent reason and you made me waste all this money on vitamins, you shit head, you."

So I've mostly quit trying to talk about "Things you -- yes, you as an individual -- can do to try to cope with this global pandemic." because I'm tired of being attacked with bullshit accusations of "practicing medicine without a license" and other crapola of that ilk.

I'm pretty damn sure I will survive this -- unless I stupidly try to be helpful, in which case an angry mob may decide I am somehow to blame for something. So: Whatever. "You fools do whatever the fuck makes sense to you and leave me the hell alone."
https://calmatters.org/politics/post-it/2020/10/california-a...
Yeah it was excellent foresight. But we’re lucky someone had that foresight!
This was a fascinating and funny read. What a great writing style and strong opinion. I had to agree with most of it!
LA Times story on this:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-08/black-wo...
I think what makes it murky is that it was trending because people were likely mostly critically quoting Wednesdays insurrectionists, not endorsing their words.
Article mentions Librem, KaiOS and Jolla but fails to mention PinePhone which is (IMO) the most promising echo system so far.

Also, there's PostMarketOS which is Google/Apple free, though you'd have to buy a Googled device and install it yourself (and ... it's not remotely close to being usable day-to-day last I heard)
> I can't help feeling that its cowardly big Tech cosying up to the new president

If that was how it worked, wouldn't they have done it before Wednesday, and wouldn't they have done similar after the previous election?
In a way we’re lucky SARS and MERS fired a warning shot since that’s what seems to hack kickstarted all that research.
Exactly.

I have no clue whether or not, and how, the bees will pick up this poison from this application. Maybe it gets diluted and never harms bees. Maybe it still gets out and to them.

I tried to look for papers and the first two I found came to opposing conclusions and both of them looked sketchy af.
What Trump was doing was extreme, but stories like might make you think twice about enthusiasm for censorship.
> Specifically, it says that you have to show that you have tried to prevent malevolent content in good faith.

No, it doesn't, for the type of liability for hosted content, rather than its removal/restriction, that it applies to at all.

> You can't just let it sit there and fester on your servers and pretend that you're covered.

Yes, you can. 230 has more than one area of protection. Two of them are:

(1) You (as a service provider or another user) aren't liable as a publisher for user-generated content that you aren't the origin of. 47 USC Sec. 230(c)(1)

(2) As a provider, you also aren't liable for good faith efforts to restrict access to offensive content or enable content providers the ability to restrict access to offensive content. 46 USC Sec 230(c)(2)

But, notably, Section 230 doesn't apply to criminal liability at all, and there is a real risk of criminal liability under the law against material support for terrorism for knowingly providing any service that you know is supporting some of the acts that have occurred or which have been reported to be now being publicly planned on social media platforms.
Eat fruit and take cold showers. The last time this was posted, someone said cold showers were the secret to looking young forever.

I can't find much convincing official research (just blogs) to support that cold showers are beneficial to skincare, but I've been taking them nonetheless, and honestly, my pores have looked better :)
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I'm not sure how one would come to that conclusion. Biden is regarded as a centrist, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/biden-cabinet... or https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-12/harris-bid... , so there's no love lost between his administration and the progressives. They might get a few things they want but Biden and the mainstream Democrats are probably going to keep their distance for the most part.
Cloudflare Calls for Sanctions over False Claims in Piracy Lawsuit
It’s a huge misunderstanding that the competitive advantage of China is cost of human resource, otherwise Tesla should build super factory in India or South Asia countries.
The amount recommended is insufficient for most people to get to the level where (correlation) has shown significantly reduced risk - that is >30 ng/ml (>75 nmol/l)

Another thing that is tricky is that it really depends how much you need to take on what your levels are personally. We know that the amounts they recommend are completely long term safe for everyone and long term good enough to avoid severe deficiency. But for most people there will still be insuficiency - the necessary average is actually around 2000 IU (for some people it should be up to 4000 IU, others less)
Oh, I meant strdup. Look for stdupIfMutable() calls in libobjc.
Is it enough for other news organizations or even more small time / personal sources to mirror the videos? Possibly something that can convey more context than 280 characters allows?
Bush Jr. did not attend.

He was on an aircraft flying to Texas. This is memorable because the FAA had to modify software to support the callsign of an aircraft changing during flight, in this case from Air Force One to something else.
Generating Lego Art with R
Usually neck problems are accompanied by stiffness in the upper ribs and spin. More flexibility in these structures that support the neck will lead to less demands on the neck and more comfortable movement overall.
Show HN: JavaScript Program Synthesis
This post is about one of the most simple and straightforward methods of automatic program synthesis: inductive synthesis based on input-output examples specification and brute-force enumerative search.
China is violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed between the UK and China in 1984. [0]

Not century old. And not at gunpoint.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
I think it's telling though that the one question that's very narrowly scoped in interpretation(in that first batch about who won etc), the question about what should happen if the electoral college votes for Joe Biden, has 51% of Trump voters saying that Trump should concede.

Seems like most voters were still holding out while there was some hope of a viable legal route to contest the election. But a majority of Trump voters, at the time of the poll anyway, made a clean break from contesting the election after the electoral college vote.
Sometimes I wonder if most or all of the problems with major social media sites come from trending pages and private groups. The concept of keeping up with people online isn't a bad one, but so many of the bad stories wouldn't be so terrible if they weren't amplified by trending pages or huge private groups. Trending pages most consistently, in my opinion.
For what it's worth, many government authorities already recommend vitamin D supplementation under varying criteria simply for general health. Because a lot of people in temperate-latitude countries really do have a mild to moderate deficiency:

> Just over two-thirds of Canadians (68%) had blood concentrations of vitamin D over 50 nmol/L -- a level that is sufficient for healthy bones for most people. About 32% of Canadians were below the cut-off. About 10% of Canadians were below the cut-off of 30 nmol/L -- a level that is considered a deficiency.

In Canada, everyone is advised to discuss it with their doctors in relation to the winter season. My doctor tests it with my routine blood work. Many people take a supplement over the winter, especially those with darker skin. And people over 50 have a blanket recommendation to take a 400 IU dose daily year-round.
...in China.
So? Just because a few people did something unacceptable doesn't all of them are like this. A while back a child got killed named Cannon Hinnant by a black person for no reason does that mean we should label all blacks as a terrorist?
As someone who grew up in a former Russian territory that speaks no Russian, even I knew that.
Not a problem. The author is a good writer. Not overly verbose or too terse.

I had to read two of her short stories in jr high. One was "those who walk away from omelas" and the other was "the power of a name". Those probably aren't the full titles, but should be close enough and should be available online.
Show HN: Research-Based Methods for Learning Japanese
I'm trying to say this carefully, because what they actually did was not okay. People died.

But the amount of "it could have been worse" attributable entirely to what the mob didn't do, is large. And I don't think I'm wrong to attribute a lot of that to the ordinary deterrents being in effect.
Watch this space! I've got a less publicly visible install that is going through "beta". Roadmap is foggy.
It's a satirical comment on Tesla's meteoric stock price growth. The traditional quote is "Buy the rumor, sell the news"[0]. But with $TSLA, there's been nearly unbounded investor optimism.

[0]: https://www.thebalance.com/what-does-buy-the-rumor-sell-the-...
I considered trying to get visa to USA and work there, but honestly last year makes me really worried about living there

is it safe to live there?
The way I read the article it's a car meant for the Chinese public.
I just submitted my own doctoral thesis in fluids to Manchester! This is absolutely stunning, and my day (and life) is better for it.
Open means the bed and staff are present, but not necessarily available because it might have a patient in it.

This is compared to beds that are not available because eg the hospital is in critcon4.
Even in a low level sense, this is an inherent calculation to the doing of moderation. If you let a hot button issue be spoken of freely, it dominates the timeline. If you cut it out, something else becomes the topic in its place, but that can actually help with discussing the issue by forcing it to be addressed only indirectly, linked into a larger narrative, instead of with reactive side-taking.

Blocking the trend, in this instance, is different from blocking the speech.
It is interesting that this comment is written in a specifically vague way so no one can tell if the "extreme position" you are talking about is hanging the sitting VP or censoring social media. Therefore lots of people are going to upvote this thinking you are on their side and it is the other side that uses "poorly reasoned arguments" to defend their "really extreme positions."
Why would a Trump supporter want to “hang Mike Pence” when he has been loyal to him for 4 years and just did his constitutional duty on the 6th ? I am lost for words
> Is it a cultural thing due to them being Japanese?

Definitely a factor. By default, Japanese companies tend to avoid or be reluctant to disclosing/sharing anything.
Some stock traders try to buy stocks based on news/rumors, other based on analyzing fundamentals about the company, others by looking at graphs and predicting patterns. They all hate each other.
What I did on my winter vacation
Build a Kubernetes Cluster with Linux and Windows Part 3 – Running Applications
They violated their contracts to be on the app stores. Remember that TOS are so powerful that now you can be forced to go into arbitration instead of courts.
Less quiet after you commented
On the context of Linux.
wow, an exceptional character

what caught my attention is that when asked about his secret to longevity, he said that he eats lots of fruit and takes cold showers

not the first time I'm hearing about cold showers being beneficial; been doing that myself regularly for a few months and I definitely find benefits

this is definitely encouraging to continue

does anybody have a longer experience with cold showers and can share any findings?