skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bayer bought Monsanto along with extensive internal discussions with legal on the liabilities facing Monsanto with RoundUp and these adverse findings on some pesticides. Yet, there are human beings who will use stealth and obscurity to sign these approvals and take the money home.

Those who profit are not those who are harmed -- is this not crystal clear that politics must resolve toxic (and highly profitable) chemical industry practices ?
hmm ok you are right. I wonder if there is a website where you can ask quick questions to immigrations attorneys
For the indie approach, you would need to automate the self-hosting setup to gain realistic traction with the masses. What about somehow utilizing wireless router hardware for the local hosting? Pretty much everyone has a similar router/modem setup that's always connected to the internet. Could create a script that sets up a file structure directly on the router (or a usb stick plugged into the router) that stores/hosts that person's data (and maybe even stores/hosts misc data of others to backup other people's data)
While correlation is not causation, I find it interesting that the human immune system only remembers the common cold and seasonal influenza for several months, but diseases like the polio for much longer.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/21802
Summary: Mostly syscalls and mmap do the same things just substituting a page fault for a syscall to get to kernel mode, but… In user space her code is using AVX optimized memory copy instructions which are not accessible in kernel mode yielding a significant speed up.

Bonus summary: She didn’t use the mmapped data in place in order to make a more apples-to-apples comparison. If you can use the data in place then you will get even better performance.
It seems like it favours memorizing things and certain patterns.

Humans aren’t great when dealing with complex systems like human bodies.

AI assistants for doctors (who learn to troubleshoot) can’t come soon enough.
> for private companies

what is the relevance of these companies being private?
Do they have ads? I don’t like to get my browser history dirty.
Totally agree. Learning the CDK is when AWS products really started making sense. And it gives you a lot of power in being able to create and manage resources so fast.
I was! And I worked on SCAMP II.
I have exactly the same thing. Plus last year (2020 was truly shitty) I developed a frozen shoulder, which now prevents me from doing many exercises that used to help me. My other shoulder is starting to hurt too now, and I’m mentally preparing myself to having both shoulders frozen this year.
I have been to many doctors, and had lots of tests (x-ray, MRI,ultrasound) but they cannot find anything. Doctors are mostly useless for things like this. They are only helpful when you have accidents with obvious broken or damaged bonuses and tissues etc.
It's like when you read something hilarious and respond with lol in chat, but you don't actually laugh or even smirk, or like reading an exciting book without ducking and weaving - over time you just increasingly get more efficient at separating mind from body for different types of activities/inputs.

It does vary by person/activity though - I can ride a rollercoaster with a unmoving body and blank face and be having the time of my life, but cannot watch cringe-worthy things on TV without physically seizing up. Others are the other way around.
Smugly declaring that your side is based in the "science" and the other side isn't doesn't automatically make it true. The question of whether to allow a pesticide that kills bees is a public policy question, not one of science, though science can certainly be used to inform decisions.
That's a good point! Could someone (or many someones) provide 'suggested' blogs/posts as a service on top of the existing infrastructure?
I use a protocol for a decentralised message board that builds on top of the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Initially it was developed for Bitcoin but it can only work on Bitcoin if transactions under 1 cent are possible.

The protocol is also used by various portal sides like memo.cash and member.cash

I prefer member.cash because it has that feel of reddit.

It's pretty cool actually, if somebody upvotes you instead of karma you get satoshis!
Build setups can get complicated and simple sites can send way to much javascript to the browser. But neither one of these are required outcomes.

I think it's ok to have build tools that do small automations to make writing more pleasant yet keep the markup semantic and accessible.
It's more likely a domino effect.

In other words, they've all wanted to do it for a long time, and now there's a social momentum that allows them to do it without having been the first firm to do it.

It's just optics.
corporate totalitarianism... but for good? 2020 is weird. The Government needs enough autonomy and power to regulate corporations. Of course, corps send in their lobbyists to control government. They'll live in a constant tug of war. What's scary is what happens when they're both evil.
Show HN: A storage agnostic, decentralised web app
Looks promising. How does it compare to Tekton?
Just a few weeks ago the German government introduced the requirement to upload fingerprints to national ID cards... Quite sad.
Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com

Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and snappy, doesn’t demand or abuse attention.

Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).
Humans have only been sitting in chairs for the last two or three thousand years, and I think our bodies would thank us if we got rid of them completely. Our natural postures include sitting and lying on the ground, and standing, walking, running, and squatting. Our natural movements are moving between those natural positions.

Chairs are probably hurting our posture in the same way running shoes are hurting our feet and knees.
I’m not really sure yet how I feel about this particular case of temporary emergency authorization (which is omitted from the title). I get the chemicals were banned for good reason, but in this case they are trying to prevent a whole commodity sector from collapsing. Tough situation to be in.

The larger issue to me is how warped the debate around saving bees and pollinators has become. I get very frustrated every time I read articles on this topic, because I feel like the way it is presented is very misleading.

It’s always presented in a way that makes it seem like these large farms are dependent on ‘wild’ bees and pollinators. They make it sound like the only thing that matters is our use of evil chemicals, and if you support their use the. You are a piece of shit who doesn’t care about the earth.

In reality, large commercial mono crop farms depend on bee keepers who provide their hives as a service. Their bees are the ones dying en mass, not wild bee populations. You’re not going to find many wild bees or anything else for that matter in these areas, the biome doesn’t support them.

Mono-croping as a practice is an environmental disaster just by it’s nature. There is no biodiversity by design. This in turn makes pests and diseases that harm the beehives brought in by beekeepers that much worse. Then of course, add large scale chemical application on top of that and we’ve created a huge mess.

So really, when you see these articles claiming huge percentages of bees dying, they aren’t wrong. They are just being purposefully misleading about which bees are dying. It is the bees brought in by the “Beekeepers as a service”, not wild bees.

As bad as that is, there is the good thing to remember. Those are ‘farmed’ bees. We can always farm more bees. That might be a hard challenge for the beekeepers, but it’s not the same thing as all the wild bees in the world dying and everyone starving to death. We need to stop confusing the topic with wild bees.
> just like it was in the blogosphere days

so if it's just like the blogosphere days, how exactly is this different from just advocating for a return to the blogosphere, which hasn't happened for many years and hence probably isn't happening for a reason?
Don't know about consoles but the mobile version has different game modes and those modes have differing levels of stress. For example, public deathmatch is a very mechanical live-die-repeat in contrast to Search and Destroy which is known to be particularly high stress throughout.
Zygote [1], started as bunch of ideas about programming languages, now it is in exploration/design phase, might end up becoming a new programming language.

Main goals: idiomatic translation (transpilation into readable code, with both imperative and functional targets possible, e.g. translating map-filter-reduce chain into a loop), restricted homoiconic syntax (with typed macros), advanced language concepts (dependent types, contracts, verification, effect systems) implemented as macros.

Target uses: GPU/heterogenous programming, neural networks model definitions, cryptography; everywhere where control is needed over how abstractions are translated into the low level code.

[1] https://github.com/krcz/zygote
> There's no way you don't have enough self awareness to notice how passive aggressive this sounds. Besides, you've posted 6 comments in the past hour. I posted 7 in the past day.

So then you're lying about being rate-limited?
I thought this was fascinating. They required final submissions to be exactly a certain resolution.
The article title purposefully leaves out the "emergency use authorization" part in order to drum up anger. I think that part should be put in.

11 other countries have joined in the emergency authorization so its not just a UK thing.

This is not a pro/against post about Thiamethoxam. The studies seem a bit divided, and the UK banned out of abundance of caution from a European Food Safety Authority study, versus a larger global study.
I was listening to a live interview (with a political analyst, about trump) on the radio when Trump made his final tweet. They mentioned that he'd tweeted, but said "we're not going to read that right away," and after a little bit they read an excerpt prepared by a producer.

Remember his Four Seasons (Landscaping) presser? There was a lot of news about it but the event itself didn't get much play. Even Fox News has been cutting away from his fact-free tirades.
Shoutout to Dr. Kathryn Weiss's great conference talk on Curiosity's Flight Software Architecture. I know of at least one other high availability robotic system that took a lot of inspiration from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jVt5vb68xA
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pace-workout-planner/id1478030...

I am a big fan of cross-functional fitness, and I learned a lot through a PT, but I struggled to find an exercise logging application that embraced complex exercise groupings beyond supersets, and could track my progress too.

So I've been building an iOS app in my spare time.

It's a little rough around the edges, and the progress pages are undergoing much needed TLC, but you can put together pretty decent workouts with it.
> There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.

There are only two hard things in computer science: off-by-one errors, cache invalidation, and naming things.
AI Smash Hits of 2020 [audio]
From the article: 'But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality.'

I am no fan of Donald Trump but this scares me to death. I mean that in the most literal sense.
Curiosity's FSW Architecture: A Platform for Mobility and Science
It's been confirmed and supported by other studies.
Yep, this is not my first run at blogging. Looking forward to writing more content.
> the opening <html> tag is optional too but I retained it in the above example to specify the lang

> <html lang="en">

Yeah, no. The text is in Latin (la), not in English (en).
Working on a private journaling app for iOS that opens ~instantly and feels like a private blog or Twitter page. Content is saved to your iCloud Drive and is totally private.

It’s still a bit buggy and the UI needs a bit of polish, but I’ve been using it for the past year and it’s been helpful for thought and introspection.

there’s a beta here: https://posting.app

privacy policy here: https://posting.app/privacy
I don't think there is deliberate coordination.

It is more like the dancefloor effect (is it the official term?). When the dancefloor is empty, no one dares to take the first step, even if they want to, the someone finally steps in, then another, then another, etc... Dancing becomes more and more acceptable as the dancefloor fills up. Past a certain point, the opposite happens, it becomes unacceptable not to dance, so people step in even if they don't really want to.
Ah, it seems this site is aware of my preference for a dark color scheme.

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
/* defaults to dark theme */
body {
background-color: #002B36;
color: #AAA;
}
}

You are seeing the bright color scheme and I am seeing the dark. So when ffpip said either "darken the text or brighten the background," and I'm looking at the dark theme, that would mean reduce the contrast.

I think we're all of the same opinion: the contrast should/could be higher.
It's not quite the same to lift the ban entirely (UK) than to give individual, temporary exemptions to farmers that have difficulties for whatever reason.

edit:Welp, I can't read. Seems it's also temporary emergency use.
Yeah, you're right, the original video I saw was tightly shot and only showed the weapon. There was a similar video released later where those officers where coming up a staircase from behind.
If violently installing someone to power who wasn’t legitimately elected isn’t overthrowing the government in your mind, I have to wonder what qualifies.

The entire premise of the rally was “stop the steal”. Clearly they weren’t all extremely coordinated, but to varying degrees, the people who stormed the Capitol did so with the stated goal of overturning the election. That they were inept of that they failed isn’t evidence to the contrary.
I'm angry for them. And these people own 70% of guns in the US. We will get what we deserve.
I turned off uBlock origin and didn't get ads (it also claimed to not block any ads). It does have embedded sharing links to Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, though. Not sure if these matter to you, but that's what I'm seeing on my end.
It's possible for people to simultaneously support the right of private companies to take legal actions that they want to take (including the IMO justified deplatforming of this individual) and to be somewhat bothered by the fact that big tech can get together over lunch and decide to substantially erase a significant slice of political discourse from the internet.

Mind you, they have various incentives--including potential anti-trust action--to maintain a light touch. But they have a huge ability to suppress if they chose to exercise it.
Especially with HTML as it's going to get minimized and hacked up to reduce the filesize. Including the closing tags makes the transpilers job easier and less error prone.
Sport cyclists and car culture collide in San Diego’s expansion of bike lanes
It’s an ad.
I wish cars came without stereo systems, just a DIN/2x DIN slot and you slip in your preferred system. But that kind of thinking is too modular for regulators and manufacturers.
So like DMA?
http://sci-map.org/

The idea's to build a collaborative graph-based learning map to learn seamlessly and optimally whatever's your learning goal.
It's open source, non profit and I'm looking for contributors ! The tech stack is Neo4j/Node.js/TypeScript/GraphQl on the backend, React/Typescript/Chakra UI/Apollo client on the frontend. I would also need help on the design.
My Twitter: @olivier_ramier, email: olivier@sci-map.org.
Hit me up if you're interested !
<body style="white-space: pre-line">
The idea is that an extra newline within a block with style="white-space:
pre-line" acts like &lt;p&gt; paragraph elements.

This is a separate paragraph.
</body>
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No, I used this estimate as simple way to calculate TNT equivalent. Of course energy of collision is proportional to delta-v. In solar system it’s tricky (or rather very energy-demanding) to achieve delta-v with Earth exceeding 30km/s. Which would require truly massive projectile to compare in energy with nuke.
Storm Filomena: Spain sees 'exceptional' snowfall
> It's impossible to prove there was no fraud

Why though. What makes this an unique problem.
If you’re looking to browse twitter with less of the privacy invasive tracking mechanisms ,

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Public instances:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
I think we’ll find that there was plenty of surveillance to detect the attack. Just no emphasis on the threat.
It's suspected to be a specific side effect, not a part of the reuptake inhibition.
This is definitely stealth [1] for me.

Peer-to-peer networking works (without TLS for peer-to-peer yet), cache and tabs/history works, UI interaction works (since a couple weeks ago).

Beacons and Echoes don't work, Parsers still don't work for CSS and HTML, filtering doesn't work again; and worked before... lots of things that need fixing.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
That’s a funny way of saying “I trust them because they were wrong.”
This was my experience...

1. Read first sentence,

Take a look at the source code of this page - I rely mostly on CSS for the rendering of this article.

2. Right click, "View Page Source" on Firefox (`84.0.2 (64-)bit)`)

Edit: adding that I do have `NoScript 11.1.8` and `uBlock origin 1.32.4` installed.

3. Close source pop-up/tab.

4. It takes ~10 seconds to re-render the page (with spinner gif running, in the meanwhile).

5. Tab completely frozen.
https://chaynring.herokuapp.com/

Made this app after having tons of people ask me during lockdowns about a "good bike" to buy. Idea is that Chaynring is the community driven backend to sites like CL, FB Marketplace, Ebay, etc. that gives localized prices of bike sales.

Still trying to figure out the incentives to make users post, but I feel like there's some potential here.
Vitamin D has been shown to reduce severity in several different studies. Everyone should consider taking it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/search?q=vitamin+D&restrict...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN30emwcNS4
Do people actually use UML in industry?

I've never actually seen it used (or mentioned for that matter) in the few years I've been a software engineer...
Thanks -- this definitely seems like a step up.
Heroku Like PaaS on AWS
Interesting. I've been wanting to brush up on my piano for a while and will give this a shot. :)
Is this censorship? Why was a post flagged? Is it a post shadow ban?
Why was the following post flagged and even so much disabled that we can't comment on it anymore and the title was blanked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25701651

( Original link:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/09/the-woke-purge/ )

Is this censorship?

As far as I can see, the article is not supporting Trump or its behavior, is not calling for violence or anything that would be reprehensible. I did not know the website but it does not look to be an extremist website also.

So, as far as I can see, this was just an opinion on the corporate censorship of free speech, and it looks like that the flagged/censorship of it here is kind of a proof of the point of the author...

So, please, I would really like to understand if there was something particular I did not see that would legitimately justify the ban of the post.

Thank you!
*She, not he
Thanks for this extremely detailed write up. I also appreciated the tips on compressing the dynamic range of audio.
To a first approximation: none.
I am not a frontend developer. I agree with you. I write my blog posts with handwritten HTML because that is how I began writing blog posts many years ago when Markdown was not as popular as it is now. Indeed I never omit any optional tags while writing my blog posts or blog layout.

I am not necessarily recommending that one should omit the optional tags. However, it is worth noting that the option to do so while conforming to the HTML5 spec is there. The "certain conditions" are not really much to worry about. I think they are drafted quite carefully and are quite sensible. If one is writing simple HTML documents, say, for blog posts, text-based articles, etc. one can safely omit the optional tags without running into issues due to the "certain conditions".
Are you sure of this? Here every time restrictions are lifted all restaurants are crowded the very same day.
HN and Reddit pipe dream, not even Telegram with all the features it adds makes people moved form WhatsApp.
I’d throw a note of caution in the opposite direction though: as a group, HN are very atypical users of social media. Every time there’s a post about Facebook one of the most upvoted comments is someone saying they deleted Facebook. Societally speaking that’s super weird.

I still have Facebook but even then, over the holidays I saw the feeds of some older relatives and it was unlike anything I’ve seen before. An absolute mess of corrosive disinformation. Even knowing about it, I still don’t know it well. I don’t live in it. I can’t speak about it authoritatively. And it’s not even like, say, a subreddit. You can’t wander in and take a look, it’s all private to the user.

I don’t know whether the current censorship moves are wise or not, but as a group we’re not exposed to the reason the censorship is taking place. The HN crowd tends to lean towards free speech absolutism (as does the internet at large), which feels like a good reflex in general. But there’s mitigating context here and I don’t know that we (as a group) are the best people to talk to it.
As I understand you mean a hidden kind of coordination, not the obvious one, like "look at the news, they banned Trump, good idea, don't you think? shouldn't we do the same?". Why the hypothesis of such a coordination seems to be requisite? The obvious one explains facts nicely, I believe. I feel not the trace of a cognitive dissonance remained, so why to invent more complex explanations?
thanks brewingcode :-) do you have any suggestions for improving or any nice features that you would like to see
Just a nitpick: "Alexandra" is the female version of the name "Alexander" in Russian, so it's a "she", not "he".
The piece starts out saying the iPhone is a commodity.

My chair is a commodity. The physical iPhone manufactured at a Foxconn factory has aspects of a commodity.

But is that physical iPhone device worth hundreds of dollars solely for its physical manufacture form? I know that teams of dozens/hundreds are working on software updates to push out over the network to fix problems and enhance the device. This helps make the high price worth it. But here the idea of the device as a traditional commodity breaks down. My chair does not get fixes and improvements pushed to it, at a very low cost, from a relatively small team.

I should note, this does not negate the idea that Foxconn workers are exploited, rather that the math is off. Because the iPhone price is from a mix of traditional manufacture, plus those programmers in Cupertino pushing out updates, and an analysis must take this difference into account.
A transpiler that gets confused when optional tags are missing (a feature explicitly allowed by the spec) is a broken transpiler and it needs to be fixed. This is like the automatic semicolon insertion of JavaScript debate[1][2] all over again. These things are spelled out in the standards and tools that do not adhere to the standards are broken.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201206065632/http://inimino.or...

[2] https://blog.izs.me/2010/12/an-open-letter-to-javascript-lea...