skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What did informing the cops about the burglary do, precisely?

It mostly just made me feel better - the chances of recovering items after a theft or burglary is nearly nil. However, after having my home invaded by a stranger and my personal belongings rifled through it was quite cathartic to report the crime, give all the information I could to try and make sure the criminals were eventually caught, and help restore my sanity by just seeing a system in place for these issues.

I received no recompense for the crime and, at the time, I wasn't insured, but I was also dirt poor and didn't have much to lose except my privacy.

On the topic of murders I agree that detectives and investigators are the ones that will end up catching murderers and beat/patrol police do very little to apprehend criminals but they do make the system dramatically more visible and do a lot to de-escalate situations[1] from becoming as dangerous. The chances that you will be mid-being-murdered and be rescued by the police are nearly zero - the chances that someone who may have murdered you decides not to do so is more significant and, I think, aided by a visible patrol police force - even if they don't significantly contribute to resolving justice.

So I both agree with you that police are pretty useless when it comes to dealing with crimes after the fact - but disagree with you about their general efficacy. They should exist to de-escalate situations before they become real problems and make visible the rules of society that we should all abide by.

Oh, this is all very much my opinion so I've not got a lot of sources or references to pull on as to how to make police into a force that does that.

1. In this point I'm speaking as a now-Canadian - I don't really feel qualified to speak on the US system as 1) I'm white and 2) I haven't lived there in over a decade. So please do excuse this statement if you (the reader) have personally suffered unreasonable escalation of force.
From the article:

> "Everyone has different needs so the places where serious money is getting poured into using Lua don't really have much of an incentive to standardize -- it wouldn't give them any benefit."

I really don't think that's true. It _is_ true that a standard library doesn't cater to single developers' or companies specific, custom needs and performance tradeoffs. But that's only true for limited parts of the code. Most of an application's code is not the critical "secret sauce", and typically, we are well served with standard library facilities. We simply don't use the small part where we need something different.

It's like that for basically any high-level language, I believe; and standardization is desirable and appreciated. Are we really to believe that most big LUA users need their own regex library for LUA? Their own sqlite library? etc.
It’s backbone but with jsx
All of the other "wake-up" calls were ignored, and it did not slow down their anything. I'm guessing this will just be another notch in their belt of blow back survival.
> Even parents I know who are solidly on the left are outraged by how completely inflexible teachers’ unions have been during the pandemic.

As a dueling anecdote, I know plenty of libertarian/right-leaning folks who privately tell me that they totally understand that teachers (regardless of unions) should not have to face a highly infectious disease in classrooms just so a bunch of double-income parents want to keep doing their office jobs over Zoom. The current problems have almost nothing to do with unions directly.
It's historical. IIRC WhatsApp started out as an app for people to post those statuses as they travel, to let know their family and friends their whereabouts. To that effect, the founder of Whatsapp was first talking about it in online frequent flyer forums such as FlyerTalk that he was already a member of. Chat came later.
Nope, that's why I'm so confident. The entire point of Bitcoin is to remove the need for trust and replace it with network consensus rules and proof-of-work, both of which you validate yourself. Since, to me, that's far superior to the current system - I just see it as an inevitable transition.
I know you mean well, and I understand the feeling, but how can you say in the same breath that the EU funds useless software and that you wish they funded more software?

Why would the newly-funded software be the useful kind instead of the useless kind?
When the database is down, no transactions occur. But as long as the storage medium (SSD, Spinning disks, PVC, whatever) - doesn't go down - then when the database comes back up - anything that needs to be rolled back is rolled back, and things just keep running along without any problem.

So - the user will see a "Pause" when using the application if the database is down - but that's it.

The great thing about architecting your application stack in such a way that every one of the servers/applications/databases can disappear in a moments notice, is that your application becomes super robust to hardware failure - because having a sever go "down" is Business As Usual in Kubernetes.
FDA and Big Pharma on CBD Guidance
Last Friday, the FDA released this statement - https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/better-data-better-understanding-use-and-safety-profile-cannabidiol-cbd-products - requiring the CBD industry to take it upon themselves and provide the necessary research and data before they are willing to offer further guidance as to its legality and uses. The two primary concerns being liver toxicity and drowsiness. Both legitimate concerns to be addressed. However, in a nation where nearly all pharmaceutical drug commercials spout off 15 potential side effects in a rapid and muffled voice, I can't help but laugh a bit at the lack of willingness from the FDA to see the obvious benefits of CBD and show a bit of urgency in moving the ball forward for the industry. Again, not taking away from the fact that studies need to be done.

In my opinion, the FDA's lack of urgency into the matter, screams at the leverage that Big Pharma has over the FDA, and their incredible ability to throw wrenches into the gears of the FDA processes when the intended outcome is not to the benefit of their bottom line.

The lack of effort from the FDA and the influence of Big Pharma has already caused some irreparable damage to a promising but fledgling industry, and to many lives along with it. I along with many people I know have seen extreme benefits to it's daily use, and to this point, not a single negative side effect.

Side bar - I'm partner in an operation in central Kentucky called Pawse. We are vertically integrated, from seed to shelf, with 100% organic farming and processing practices, making high quality CBD products specifically for pets. Try us out, if our products don't help your pet, we'll refund you in full, no questions.

www.pawse.pet

Again, this is all my personal opinion on the situation with CBD industry in the USA, in an attempt at constructive discourse and not a reflection of Pawse. Thanks
The paper cited for the 68.3% figure http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~lin.3021/file/SEC15.pdf says that third-party IMEs are also "very popular" in Japan and Korea, though they do not cite any statistics. (Their statistics for China are from 2014. The paper was published in 2015.)

Chinese orthography is just as standardized as Japanese and hanzi/pinyin dictionaries are not harder to maintain than kanji/hiragana ones. Some people have trouble with sound distinctions in Standard Mandarin that don't exist in their speech and enter incorrect pinyin (e.g. z instead of j or zh), but that can be treated as a typo, the same as phonetic misspellings in other languages.

Support for dialectal variations is essentially nonexistent in mainstream IMEs. People who want to use varieties other than Standard Mandarin would have to use shape-based input (including methods that decompose each character into smaller parts, like Cangjie) or send a voice message. (There are projects to create IMEs for other Sinitic languages, like https://hanhngiox.net/ but almost nobody uses them.)

(Do any Japanese IMEs support non-standard dialects or even other Japonic languages?)
My guess is the money to pay lawyers to enforce the NDA in court. (If I make you sign the NDA, but can't sue you when you break it, it's useless.))
Thanks, hadn't seen this prior art!
Bridging the Dres Canyon – Stock KSP 1.10.1 [video]
What I find interesting is that before mainstream dating apps, VCs were worried about churn (if dating apps succeed in their goal, users would delete it and never come back).

Realistically dating apps just need to attract females and provide a safe space for them to meet people online. The males will follow.
Excellent Excellent. I have been trying to explain this to people. Now i can just send a link to this. Excellent.
Magary: I tested the dumbest PPE of all time – the Rich Guy Covid Helmet
GNU is not in the public domain (RMS)
>Android -> iOS

This is just going out of the frying pan and into the fryer. (I assume you mean stock/Google powered Android here.) Replacing one user-hostile walled garden with another user-hostile walled garden is hardly an improvement.

I'd suggest Google Android -> Open-source Android ROM, though I know it can cause issues with some banking apps, annoyingly.
I've been a long time fan of Android but I still cannot be forced to swap it for the Apple ecosystem which really is no better than Android.

What I would like is a hardened, privacy focused distro of Android that is guaranteed to be independent from Google. Sounds like a tall order but here's hoping Samsung will come up with their own mobile OS although how unlikely this will be.
I know New Zealanders and Australians often like to brag that life is normal for them thanks to their country’s bold measures, but that is not the case: you still cannot travel internationally, nor can you receive international guests or do business with international tourists. You, too, have to wait for things to go back to normal.
This is really timely article for me. I just chose to use Lua in a brand new project (https://github.com/Hyperspace-Logistics/heart) and lot of the criticism so far has been “why Lua?”

Personally I think it’s very capable language. It’s such a comfortable scripting language that I think nearly anybody could pick it up and get up to speed pretty quickly. LuaJIT is also ridiculously powerful and so satisfyingly stable (Lua 5.1 for over a decade).

Heck Lua 5.1 even makes an excellent transpile target so you might not even need to use Lua to appreciate the software that runs Lua.
This guy and the pizza guy show up every time Bitcoin surges. At some point there will be a story of him throwing out over a billion dollars since Bitcoin is going to continue to go up.

If I were him I would try to make a business out of all the publicity he gets. That alone is worth millions. He can't get his coins back but he can make the best of what he has.
What is it with every post on HN having an almost 50/50 split along the cynical line.

Of course 9/10 founders are going to fail, some people have more privilege to take risks, and people with families have to take measured risks.

What's the point? Should people not try, keep crying about it, keep complaining that it's easy to say this when you have privilege, keep looking at the negative side? We all recognize life's a lottery and the odds are stacked in favor of some and not others. So?
Men answer like this because of bots/spammers. Nobody is going to message something serious first

And every conversation starts with a hello. Sure, if it gets boring after then it's a diff issue
> I was presently surprised at how easy the transition from Chrome onto Brave was

Mine was the move from Chrome/Firefox back to Opera.

I'm still puzzled what happened to Firefox. I was using the Developer Edition and the last two years the performance is really suspect. I don't have a million tabs open, don't have a ton of add-ons running and it still lags horribly, crashes and new tabs take forever to open

I thought at first it was either my network connection or maybe a system issue. Switched to Opera and was like, "Nah man, it was definitely the browser."

I'm in the same book with my calendar. I have multiple calendars several family members share. I tried using outlook.com calendars and although I prefer their UI, it wouldn't import Google calendars.

If you have any recommendations, I'm all ears. Its the last thing I need to rid myself of Google.
And the one for coronary disease? What do you find for that one? How about all the other studies positively linking coffee to diseases? I admit your assessment of the Parkinson's study is correct, but that doesn't really detract from my overall point. You moved the goalposts by changing the bar to all-cause mortality. I think my broader point stands.
Putting a 10-year time limit on regulations is actually a very good idea. We have an incredible number of regulations from the 1930s still on the books, 90 years later. These regulations come at a great cost. For example, Moderna's mRNA vaccine technology languished on the shelves, unused, for ten years before our present crisis forced its hasty validation. As the New York Times reported recently, mRNA-1273 was developed in just two days in January 2020. According to the Worldometer tracker, we just crossed over four hundred thousand COVID-19 deaths in the US (January 15th, 2020). Had fewer regulations impeded its development and testing, a great number of these lives might have been saved.

Before you reflexively downvote me, please note that I'm not a Trump supporter or even a conservative.
"Batteries included" doesn't mean you have to _use_ the included batteries... or like Lorenzo Donati says in the article:

> "But no one is suggesting that a set of batteries become a requirement for Lua—even the existing Lua standard library can be compiled out for use cases where it is not needed"
They said "It’s not anecdotes __about isolated abuses__". At a certain point, anecdotes become universal experiences, and therefore inform general political views.
I think they may be underestimating the interactions that scientists have with other perhaps lesser folks in their field.

For example, Einstein may not have been able to publish the special theory of relativity without the work produced by lesser known scientists such Lorentz, Michaelson, Morley, Maxwell, Grossman. And transitively all of those scientists were undoubtedly influenced by others who may be even lesser known or influential.
Dang, I'm.. a bit confused. The comment did not strike me as either flamebait nor nationalism (and I also didn't see any replies, either here or on the original, that took this "bait" and made a flamewar).

I posted it in good faith because I found it a witty highlight of the misery that a reader must ignore to be able to consider a story like this a feel-good tearjerker.

Obviously the comment is a commentary on a specific aspect of American culture, and obviously it takes some poetic liberties (such as suggesting that American culture is a singular thing at all, or that this is only an American thing, or using swear words). But it's not an attack. The way I read it, it neither idealizes nor rejects any country, and wouldn't at least one of those be required for it to be nationalistic flamebait?

For what it's worth, I have no beef with America and I strongly doubt the author has (I do not know them personally). HN is a US-dominated site run by an American organization. America exports a lot of a culture that I want a piece of (notably, SV/startup culture, which HN is a fantastic conduit for). That's what I'm here for.

Either way, I'll refrain from reproducing this particular comment in the future. But we clearly have different frames of reference, and I might take some time to fully understand yours. I believed I was well in the clear wrt HN guidelines and norms with this one.
Positions on unions should not be absolute. There are many people who are these anti-establishment, universally pro-union types, as if they improve everything they touch and there are no downsides. The reality is that unions are a big tradeoff. For grocery workers and warehouse workers and other low skill positions, they tend to make sense. Labor laws are definitely a better way to handle things.

Unions should also be a last resort. Folks need to stop assuming that their employer is oppressive and give them a chance to accommodate their grievances, and they should be reasonable in what they expect from an employer/employee relationship. The best possible outcome is having an employer who gives you what you want (within reason) without a union. Folks who make hundreds of K per year, get unlimited vacation, flexible working time, free gourmet meals, the best health benefits on the market have a lot less reason ti resort to such a blunt instrument than a factory worker in a one factory town.

They should also be sincere in their evaluation of rebuttals. It’s import to build trust on both sides. Sometimes threats of a plant closure are bluffing as a negotiating tactic, but sometimes they aren’t.

For what it’s worth, I have been a union member and many of my family members are in unions. I do not have good things to say about them at all, but it’s true that some places are even worse without them.
Yet no one else has given you a spacecraft and then just set you loose to go explore the natural wonders of our galaxy with it, thereby giving you a more embodied sort of window onto our staggeringly magnificent and terrifyingly immense universe than any planetarium can hope to create.

Honestly this was what I loved about the initial version of No Man's Sky. It didn't have any pretense to realism but it really worked well as a non-game about just being a tiny speck in a galaxy much, much larger than you can really begin to comprehend.

Every update added more "gameplay" and made the player feel more important. And I guess that's more of what people want. But there was a magic to the pre-patch NMS that it's lost, and it's pretty much what that quote describes.
This is surprising as it was a somewhat active mailing list. Any known and active replacements?
4D Digital Engineering and 'Authoritative Virtualization' in New US Fighter
Article is paywalled, but Google Cache has it: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MD6ykx...

Article by Dr. Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.

Exerpts: "Digital engineering takes computer creation technology to the next level, rendering not just the design of complex systems, but their assembly, environment, and even physical performance in high-powered virtual reality (VR). ... Digital engineering is transcending into a type of four-dimensional architecture — one that designs 3D systems and time-driven processes governing them in realistic VR, long before their physical twins are built."

"A good case and point is Formula 1 racing, where there are no physical prototypes today. Every car feature and all physics governing it—even the rubber literally meeting the road—is painstakingly virtualized and anchored by authoritative test data. The end result is hundreds of digital cars being explored each season, even optimizing for individual racetracks, all without bending a single piece of metal. Real-world checkered flags attest just how authoritative these “e-Cars” can be."

"The same breakthrough is now occurring for military systems. Our eT-7A successfully virtualized production, constructing hundreds of e-planes digitally to optimize their physical assembly. Our new ICBM used virtualized design to explore six billion digital missile variants in mere months. And our advanced sixth-generation e-Plane is adopting Formula 1-style practices to out-iterate pursuing adversaries using our so-called Digital Century Series approach."

Also link to US Air Force doc on this digital acquisition strategy: https://software.af.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/There-Is-...
I imagine they'll be replaced by an organization that holds closer to their original mandate.

Edit-by original mandate, I mean not the political action stuff.
I'm sold. If I pay $3/month can I migrate all of my dozen Google accounts? I have an email for each product in my portfolio and switching back and forth.

I would gladly pay a subscription fee if it means Google isn't reading my emails to sell me ads.
Yep, I've been a helper for 2 years now and I've only received 2 calls
Does anyone outside Signal Foundation know how's their architecture? There are a lot of references to AWS, GCP, and Azure in the source code hosted in GitHub so they probably use them all in one way or another. It would be super interesting know more details about the infrastructure.
It’s scientists all the way down
When you lost that you lost everything. Whatever you said would be on record to go after you. May be you can trust your national Gov. but the whole world. Would the record be leaked hacked or even required by the police.

Not believe there is totalitarian is the greatest myth one can have in today workd.
The FBI Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement (2017)
Quick Google search would suggest that the current status feature was only added in 2017.
Well, I didn't say to keep the world complicated and inefficient, I just thought it was funny to write a thank you to devs for saving their company when by some considerations their company could potentially hurt the employability of certain devs. But yeah, I am not trying to be a luddite, (not that I care about how history would judge me)
As someone that worked on LuaJIT for embeded devices (IE phones), I have some strong opinions / context.

Lua is designed to be small and portable and highly embeddable. It's not the greatest language in the world, but understanding it's interpreter and how to use it from your system side is pretty easy as these things go.

It's really REALLY well suited to be embedded into whatever system you need it in. The whole runtime is like nothing.

And it runs damn fast for an embedded language, there's like 10 opcodes or something? compared to pythons 100+ (at the time we did the comparison like 10 years ago).

Further context, I think we ported our android luaJIT to windows phone 7 in like, a day? It was super trivial.
Ultimately until all the loopholes are not fixed the companies will have to behave like Apple to survive (walled gardens, anti-repair agenda, data collection, Orwell's speak - e.g. touting being privacy oriented and at the same time collecting massive amount of data they don't need for other reasons than to manipulate consumers and so on).
Some mainstream media outlets seem to be going out of their way to spin a softer narrative on-behalf of Whatsapp/FB. They seem to believe that users may be too stupid to understand Facebook's moves and subsequent public relations. Looking at you New York Times.
> but it also does state management while not actually doing it

Very similar to how Mithril and Imba solve state management: just use vanilla objects/primitives.
>Maybe we should bring back Court Jester as a profession.

As a profession or as a title?
Saw some really ugly ness with a large company as late as 2019:

The company is trying to move to the cloud they think.

What they don't know is they have servers like this, running on internet facing machines, and the http servers are missing two years of patches!

All hanging by the thin thread of ip filtering using a geo ip database (that is also outdated) etc.

Yep: management and IT want Windows because maintainability, that particular dev wanted Apache server so Apache server on Windows it was.