skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything

Currently can add and remove links (pinboard clone). But the big goal is more ambitious (https://docs.learn-anything.xyz/roadmap)

Hard to do without funding.
> "Kitboga" on YT manages to keep scammers on call for hours and hours, quite amusing that in the end he's the one gaining monetarily as his videos sometimes get millions of views.

At some point, you begin to wonder if they’ve started to script calls for max lols.
Seems like the whole “you have to bake my cake” argument went out the window. Do I have to feed the enemy?
https://github.com/ragnot/roost-hsm

I wanted a C++ hierarchical state machine library didn't require massive compile times like boost msm.
This timing is unsurprising; it’s clear there’s nobody at the wheel in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, lowering the odds of reprisal during this window of opportunity. What would shift this? Does the E.U. have sufficient clout?
That's a terrible example. She not only falsely accused, but also assaulted someone she had never seen before.

False accusation and assault should be crimes, period. If she had done the same thing to me you can be damn sure I would want her ass in jail regardless of my skin colour. Her arrest is a good thing. Actions that affect others negatively should have consequences.
I don't see this going down the path of "we wind up just like them". I see this going down the path of WW III. What we need is another cold war. Any hot war will be unimaginably costly and drawn out.
> obviously

Obviously to whom? I was taught that DNA has a chance of mutating each time it's copied, but that's certainly not "obvious".
Democrats have fought him tooth and nail for four years,tried to impeach him, claimed his presidency is not legit and a sham or worse. So why do they need or want some symbolic transfer of power from a foreign operative taking orders from Putin ;) It seems he is only now accepted as president at zero hour so he can symbolically pass the torch.
https://github.com/matiasvc/Toucan

I work in robotics and have for a long time been frustrated with how hard it is to visualize data in C++. I created Toucan to try to solve that. The project is still in a very early stage but has already started to become a useful tool.

The API still needs work but it’s getting there. Toucan can be called from anywhere in your code, and runs in its own thread to always remain interactive and responsive.
Thing is, U.S. and all of the civilised world does not have enough resources for a cold war with China. It will be simply defeated the way Soviet Union was defeated - just run out of money and overall steam.

It's time to adapt to Chinese leadership and extract benefits of democracy and freedom which they don't have. Too late to keep trying to oppose it.

Example: Chinese military shipbuilding delivers more tonnage per year than the rest of the world combined. And they don't even try all too hard.

China will simply own the world in the XXI century, probably concentrating the majority of worldwide economic output in every sector of production and consumption, in as little as a generation from now.

What's left to be done is to cave in - try to be as little dependent on them as possible, make hot war unattractive to them - by being as little of a threat to them as possible, and by having little of interest for them to take too, and in general self-isolate.

On the good side of things, Chinese are very unlikely to proselytize the way U.S. does or the way Soviet Union did: they understand very well that Maoism is linked to the traits of Chinese national character and will not work outside of East/Southeast Asia. They just seek to become, and will become what they always seen themselves as being: the Middle Kingdom where all interesting things happen, with the rest of the world being just a side story. Think 1960 USA. 30 years down the road, we will for sure see it happen.
>"Offer US statehood to Taiwan and build a base there"

>"police the area."

So you basically want to start a process that will most likely lead to a "hot" war. And you of course would not mind countless lives lost as the result on either side.

It is nice to know we have such peaceful and rational thinkers here on HN.
I absolutely despise cmake. But autotools is even worse, so it’s what I end up using. I haven’t found another approach which handles my needs.
I don't entirely trust Biden when it comes to this, however, you can't really compare Taiwan to Hong Kong. To take Taiwan, China needs to annex an entirely separate country. They can do that through soft influence (pretty sure everyone agrees that's totally a failure), through economic means (Taiwan has been diversifying it's economy so not sure how great that option is anymore), or militarily. Even if other countries were to stay out of it, it would extremely risky for China. They very well could fail. Comparing Taiwan to Hong Kong in this instance really is kind of ludicrous.
I remember writing a ray tracing in 1994 in Turbo Pascal 7.0 running on 286 under DOS 4.0 at the time. I did it with floating numbers, pure mathematical implementation. When it came to usability was something like 1 frame every 30 seconds for resolution of 640x480 with 256 colors only.

The problem with ray tracing isn't writing one, the problem is its usability, to get the most realistic AND fast enough. Mine was very realistic for that resolution but the snail FPS was something unbearable. Despite my best efforts at the time, hardware was not ready. I remember the talk between us (prof. assistant, basically a master student and rest of wanna be programmers) and we're so sure it would take maximum 5 years for ray tracing and photo-realism to become every day commodity. We were wrong only by 20 years. Good times.
What about lasers for emitting waste heat? Obviously there are practical issues with having powerful-enough lasers essentially powered by a heat engine, but are there thermodynamic reasons it couldn't work?

This question is not 'Expanse'-related but inspired by David Brin's 'Sundiver'.
Just wanted to point out that your cert for storage.communick.com has expired. I'm assuming yours (or at least related) because mentioned with a cough :P
BLS = Basic Life Support

https://cpr.heart.org/en/cpr-courses-and-kits/healthcare-pro...

From the linked page:

What does this course teach?

High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components

Important early use of an AED [Automated External Defibrillator]

Effective ventilations using a barrier device

Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR

Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
Why has this disinformation not been removed?
> I am pretty sure that most of South East Asia (dunno about India and Nepal) use YYYY/MM/DD.

I think you might have meant East Asia. I know Japan primarily uses YYYY/MM/DD.

Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, etc (South East Asia) conventionally use DD/MM/YYYY. Interestingly, the Philippines seems to use MM/DD/YYYY.

This looks useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
>Spoiler alert. It did not.

Really?

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
IIRC SunOS/Solaris always used TSO, but Linux originally used RMO, however they switched to TSO once chips that only supported TSO appeared on the market.
I've seen plenty of protest signs that say abolish police and prisons. I spent all summer locked inside studying the rhetoric and symbology of BLM and defund means defund to a non insignificant portion of the activists. Saying it means something else is pure gaslighting
corona cases have been traced back to at least Sept. 2019 in China.

Since most people who follow corona think there's about a 50% it came from the Wuhan virus lab, it's a shame they weren't working on a vaccine in Wuhan.
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The west needs to sanction China. This is violation of China's treaty obligations, it's not just a domestic issue, it's an international law issue, and it should have international consequences.
Calm down, it's a cold virus.
Sorry - Basic Life Support. It's the certification all medical practitioners must keep as a prerequisite for working with patients, and covers CPR, advanced airway management, defibrillation, and the chain of survival. Most countries issue two-year certifications, but every frontline service I ever worked with have monthly or fortnightly refresher training.
SpaceX Was Born Because Elon Musk Wanted to Grow Plants on Mars (2014)
Voltmeter: an application to quickly provide an overview of service health using simple service status endpoints.

https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/Voltmeter

Pretty much works for what we want at $workplace, I built it so that we can see if our platform services are up and running and healthy.

It uses scraping of a service status endpoint to collect service health and the health of the dependencies of that service.

Using that the app renders a graph with all services and dependencies which helps us quickly find services that are broken in prod.

Recently added inputs from our metrics back-end so that we can have auto-discovery of new services and to support services that don’t have a HTTP endpoint we can scrape
Proportions matter. I've eaten sushi a couple times, but I don't regularly do so. So, talking about my reducing calories in my diet, we'd say I never really eat sushi. It's technically untrue, but the proportion is what matters. I'll find where to cut calories elsewhere in things that I eat more than once a year.

If Russia provides a tiny fraction of 1% of us oil, it could be very special edge cases that don't affect the economy much at all.

Side note, HN comment guidelines state each comment should enrich discussion. This comment you made is very low effort and snarky.
I don't agree with statehood, but you could just as well argue that putting a base there is the best way to _avoid_ a war* between China and Taiwan. Doing so could be a _peaceful_ action.

*typo: "way" -> 'war"
IBM mainframes virtual machines saying hello => "It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/VM
> told police he had mason jars filled with "melted Styrofoam and gasoline." Federal investigators believe that combination, if exploded, would have the effect of napalm "insofar as it causes the flammable liquid to better stick to objects that it hits upon detonation," according to the court record.

That’s the recipe for napalm in the old Anarchist’s Handbook. I don’t recall it working very well.
And that's a good thing! Speech can be dangerous and freedom from speech does not mean freedom from consequences!

China is not subject to the first amendment, you don't like it, make your own country!
I am not from the US or from China. I sincerely feel like your opinion is born of propaganda, but not only that, your call to action is itself propaganda.
it is. some ppl say 2359 to avoid saying 12am/pm.
I'm sure this platform will support true free speech and will not censor criticism or "wrongthink" at all, because only leftists do that. Right?
>>Haskell is not too hard to learn.

Obviously he did no even that then.
And that's why we have Matrix.
https://www.quidsentio.com

The idea was a mix of personal journal and private social network. But social network features are hard. Notifications, discovery, create a habit.

I am the one only user (I use it as a habit tracker). Couldn’t convince even my wife to use it.
> What we need is another cold war.

I agree, but we need to show teeth. We have to shut down their domestic growth engine, crater nationalistic confidence, and make them understand they have no path forward but to concede to international pressures.

The Chinese people deserve freedom and liberty. The Uyghurs and Tibetan people deserve self-determination should they themselves choose it.

Look what playing nice and friendly has gotten us.
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So you thought there was a large group of vocal people who believed that literally zero law enforcement was a genuine wish?
https://www.namehunt.dev/

I've always struggled with finding domain names for new projects (all the good ones are taken!) that I decided to do something about it.

The suggestion engine isn't really fully working yet, but the idea is to input a desired word/name/set of keywords and see a list of available domain names.

Kind of following the "build what you yourself would use" philosophy.

P.S.: Love the idea of having a periodical post like this on HN
If you’re going to tell us what not to use then at least suggest an alternative.
Spot on. Some of the best teachers I've had never stopped being positive and encouraging, even when I was making a lot of mistakes. The goal was for me to see those mistakes, not the teacher. You're also spot on about the "asshole artist" myth. It takes a special person to spend four or six hours a day practicing the piano. I am not that person. The people I have met who are like that tend to be quite severe on themselves, otherwise they'd give up. That doesn't make them a jerk to others, though!

Put another way, I've seen a lot of bad writers. Every one of them is replete with self-encouragement and self-congratulation. (I am reminded of that little kid Ralphie writing his theme in the movie A Christmas Story) For the good writers I've seen, they don't carry that kind of self-reassured exuberance around. At best it's a measured competence.

Now that I've gotten older I've mostly given up on excelling at any kind of art. I still love and enjoy creating things, and I'm still aware of the myriad number of problem each of my works have. I just don't care as much. Instead I'm much more interested in creating things I personally find interesting or intriguing. When you catch a great picture, come up with a piece of music you love, or write an essay where it all comes together? You get a feeling of "Well hell. That's really interesting! I haven't seen those pieces like that arranged in that way. I wonder why it makes me curious and happy to contemplate?"

I joined a FB group that shared photos. I had to no-follow them. They were all really good photographers and they all took really good pictures. But how many times can you tell somebody they're good and you like their work? What I'm interested in when I look at a picture is conflict and tension. Why is that shadow there? Did you mean for the model to be in that awkward position? Those kinds of comments can easily be construed as cutting, but all I'm doing is just looking inside and riffing off the feelings I get. I don't know where the person is going, and I really don't know what they found in this image, so unless they're able to handle all of this tension, there's nothing for me to offer.

Great chat. Thanks!
Thanks to this now I know sciHub and can always find good research paper on topics I want.
That depends on who is stickying them. If it’s a user, then it would still just be users deciding what you see and storing the content. A newsfeed on Facebook is a curation of user content. I believe that it is still covered as anyone choosing to forward content or repost content is also a curation, but it is something that could be re-examined and changed.
I made a API introspection documentation tool for Python Flask. Mostly a learning experience and possibly redundant to other projects, but it's just about good enough to use for my own purposes. I might ShowHN at some point.

https://github.com/cliftbar/automd
MAD basically assures no hot war, it will be infrastructural hacks, IP theft, economic warfare, etc. moving forward.
I think the amount of instances that would want to distribute anything from Gab [0] which is based on Mastadon is very very limited.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
The question is whether or not we're confident enough to administer the latest vaccine variants without clinical trials.
I wouldn't even call it half baked yet, more like a tenth, but I'm working on a total conversion (with a few engine changes) to the DOS Rise of the Triad. You can see one example here: https://twitter.com/mysterydip/status/1345112757050486785?s=... I am changing all textures, adding some new ones, repurposing enemies and weapons, all new maps and features.

I think the engine really had some clever potential that didn't get fully realized in the end product, and I want to bring that out. Plus working on a DOS project has been very enjoyable for the simplicity and limitations.
If the plane was in a steep dive, the G-forces would be pushing you toward the tail of the aircraft making it very hard to get into the cockpit.
Can we get videos of these?
A different version of how EC2 came to be:

http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
Have you actually read the article? Because it continues with:

"You could conclude from this pair of assertions that the creator of shirky.com pronounces it "shoiky.com." This, unlike assertions about my physical location, is false. It would be easy to shrug this error off as Garbage In, Garbage Out, but it isn't so simple. The creator of shirky.com does live in Brooklyn, and some people who live in Brooklyn do speak with a Brooklyn accent, just not all of them (us)."

"Each of those statements is true, in other words, but each is true in a different way. It is tempting to note that the second statement is a generalization that can only be understood in context, but that way madness lies. Any requirement that a given statement be cross-checked against a library of context-giving statements, which would have still further context, would doom the system to death by scale."

And it continues a bit more about generalities.

You can agree or disagree with that take, but your comment makes it sound like the author used this dodgy reasoning, which only appears like that because you lifted a very narrow part of the article and removed the context. It's an extremely unfair characterisation you're making here. You can make almost any article look bad by this.
That’s what the CIA would have you believe.
I'll agree CMake is pretty rough to get into, but what makes you say it doesn't do it's one job?
From Elon Musk "failure is an option". My take, if you aren't failing then you aren't learning.
https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained

I wanted something better than Django. So I built this. IMO it's already there from a technical perspective but the documentation needs some more work. Would greatly appreciate any feedback!
I don't know. Here is a page[0] that will give you and idea of the pricing. Last column in USD.

[0]https://www.econet.co.zw/services/bundles/data
Bit sad that everyone forgets OCaml when comparing Haskell.
Pocket, in particular the server side of it
Wait until you are on the wrong side of these ideologues.

These are people not some principled institutions.
On the other hand, on Sun machines you could free() the same pointer twice, but on Linux, it would crash. This led to some small effort during early ports.
Unlike this relatively new approach adenovirus-based vaccines have been researched and used for over 50 years (350 studies) [1]. An Ebola vaccine has been developed using this same tech.

This is certainly important and impressive work, but the title is inaccurate stating these are the "the first" vaccines. These are definitely the most expensive ones and made for the first word countries with developed and reliable infrastructure able to meet storage requirements. So in some ways they are the first indeed.

1: https://sputnikvaccine.com/about-vaccine/human-adenoviral-va...
Fine with me. Thanks for the warning!
SpaceX did not develop a new launch vehicle for a human space program. SpaceX developed two new reusable launch vehicles for transfering cargo, whilst not cutting the corners that could not be cut if it were used for a human space program. Then when it came time to put humans on it, it already had a legacy.

Starship, however, is in fact designed for humans. But it is not part of a "human space program", rather it is a multi-purpose vehicle. It is yet to be seen towards which human space programs it will be applied, but even with the Artemis bid many aspects of Starship were clearly designed without the Artemis bid as a specific target.
Also, courts have a habit of leaving arcane technical details to regulators and then we end up back at government regulation of internet speech.
A difference between common carriers like the phone company and the post office vs. internet websites is that your communication on common carriers is usually private. There's no reason for any moderation to take place.

Whereas on a web forum such as this, moderation is necessary for conversations to not descend into chaos.

Frankly I don't understand why people think moderation has gone too far. Is it that e.g. Twitter shouldn't be allowed to silence unpopular opinions because silencing unpopular opinions is always bad? Or is it that it's bad because Twitter is huge and influential. Would you have a problem with someone silencing a gun control fanatic who has appeared unwelcome on their private little gun collectors' website?
"Tweet" sounded ridiculous at the beginning too. Everyone has just gotten used to it.
You're almost correct.

SQS I believe started in 2004, but in a very limited capacity. I think that MTurk also started in 2004.

Andy Jassy is the one that came up with the vision for AWS. S3 was called S4 at the beginning! There was a big vision on the payments part, but I think S3 + EC2 took off faster than anyone expected, and I credit these two as the main reason why (IMHO) AWS has been so incredibly successful.

I had the privilege to work and interact with Andy Jassy in my past (I was at AWS 2008-2014 and I met him and sat with him numerous times, despite I wasn't based in Seattle), and I can say that I'm pretty sure I've never seen a leader as focused, as effective, as visionary as Andy.

The "2 pizzas team" structure at Amazon and therefore at AWS was also very conducive to running many experiments and failing fast.
> There can be no argument that there wasn’t a segment of protestors that turned up to commit acts of terror.

okay, but you can say that about pretty much any sufficiently large protest. most people show up to be heard. a few arrive with bricks, molotovs, etc. it's always hard to tell whether the violent elements are aligned with the greater cause, false flags, or just people who saw an opportunity to create mayhem.
You can not put a base in a single day. This will be a process which you can not hide from China. You think they'll just swallow it and will not attack Taiwan at the first hint of event? In my opinion it is not a _peaceful_ action but an act of a lunatic who does not give a shit about human lives.
Sure, doesn't change that China is a threat on an international level. Look at their land projects for instance.
Public Transportation app: https://mappi.invisen.com/

Website is Spanish only for now but the app has multiple languages. Still adding new cities whenever I can but I've been too busy lately.

Started as a project to learn more about routing and public transportation in Madrid and GTFS data. It was fun and I learned a lot.
When the CCP invaded and annexed the Scarborough Shoal in 2012, the Obama administration ignored the defense treaty between the US and the Philippines and allowed the CCP to keep the land.

So now that Biden is practically in power, it makes sense that the CCP innitiates the process for the annexation of Hong Kong in the comming month.

My guess is that, before the end of the Biden term, the CCP will have made a move on Taiwan as well. And the West will not do anything about it other than "a strongly worded letter".