skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am currently making my way through "The Fantasy Fiction Formula" by Deborah Chester. It's my first stab at this kind of thing, so it has been really eye opening. When I read any kind of fiction now, I can't help but map out all the elements of plot and scene described by Chester. (This has had the unpleasant side effect of making reading fiction less pleasurable. ah well)

So, I can see this kind of tool being very useful in structuring plots, sub-plots and scenes. I still haven't written that book though, so I am wondering if any seasoned writers here have a take on it.
Microsoft Bets on Driverless-Car Space with Investment in GM’s Cruise
You're looking for proselint. https://github.com/amperser/proselint
> IMO, forcing platforms to host content they disagree with is a free speech issue in the other direction.

How do you figure? I don't know a person who believes that Twitter endorses all content that is found on Twitter. How is it a speech issue in the other direction when Twitter is not saying anything?

Further, about broadcast media, the US still has the equal time rule [0] and used to have a fairness doctrine which required broadcasters to present both sides of a debate [1]. It's worth mentioning that when the FCC (all Reagan appointees) removed the fairness doctrine, Congress acted to enshrine it in law and it was vetoed by Regan.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
New Study by Citizen Scientists Tries to Make Sense of Long Covid Syndrome
> Wouldn't it be simpler to just use a part of the taxes already collected to go to BBC.

That would make the BBC dependent on the government for its revenue, which definitely isn't desirable. The current system, where the BBC collects its own revenue under the authority of a royal charter, is intended to help insulate it from political interference.
I think those are ok trade offs for a lot of projects but not for high performance and low latency applications such as databases. It seems to me that those project have shot themselves in the foot before even starting.
Indeed. Hence, not every Social Democrat can be considered a socialist - only progressive ones that still dream of a better world instead of having made peace with the status quo.
I've brought this argument forward many times since I moved to the UK, and everyone I've talked to hates the idea of turning the fee into a general tax. It's a weird refusal that I genuinely can't understand as someone not born here.

Everyone seems happy enough with the idea of paying tax for public libraries or parks or other social institutions they may never use because it benefits society, but bring up the tv license and it's like arguing with a brick wall.
I'm not aware of any other user scenario where launching htop and threads showing makes sense. Threads are details, while most people watch for OS processes first. That they are green doesn't help anyone if there's nobody to ask why or colours don't show properly. This is misguided newbie fixation that alienates those users who just need a reliable tool with sane defaults. Just another user feedback.

This is a lesson to all of us, that we might have very good reasons, but there's still a chance to be wrong about things.
The first key mistake of software estimation in industry is that we rarely talk about confidence (e.g “I’m 50% confident it’ll be shipped in 5 hours, but 99% confident it’ll ship before end of week”). The fact that this is not part of planning means it’s often not part of the conversation and that we seldom think about estimation as a tuple of value and confidence.

The second key mistake is forgetting that estimates (at least in software) are an upper bound. So high estimates are often “better”.
That’s true. I guess as an adult, I feel like I notice it more when the writing / photography blatantly and inorganically bring logos and certain products to the forefront.

A family member’s kids were watching a Christmas movie on Netflix, and while I wasn’t watching it, something jarring hit my ears. In the middle of the movie, Santa names the brand and model of a car, and then starts listing its specs as he gets into a car chase and praises its features. A literal car ad built right into the movie.
Soyuz spacecraft digital clock teardown
I mean, people collect stamps, coins, and many other things that seem completely ridiculous and useless to me, why not collect pictures of planes.

Chances are most of your hobbies are as ridiculous as that for most people out of the hobby
I wonder if there's a pain-tickling based program. Simply be very sensitive to your body signals, and cut when you hit 5% pain (absurd quantification but you get the idea)
Yes. Their content in BBC 4 and 2, History archives and Earth series has some quality there and is probably worth looking at.

Everything else on BBC Online (BBC 3, Reels, Entertainment section, Politics and Newsbeat) is not worth looking at.
Without the existence of Starship, that is difficult to say. I believe the launch cost per rocket (after the first) is roughly $500-600Mil? When you are the most capable rocket BY FAR, and simply the ONLY rocket in existence that can do the missions, it is hard to say if a significantly higher cost then the next best thing is worth it or not.

A sls block 1 has about 3x the lift capacity to the moon, and the block 2 about 5x the lift capacity. Short of a moon fly by, the falcon heavy would require multiple launches to perform the same mission of SLS.

So the SLS DOES indeed provide lift capability that doesnt already exist. Now if spacex beats Nasa to the moon with starship, all that goes out the window, as startship will be better for sure.
soooo. they are going to host censorship free content in a country accused of censorship itself against a govt which is supposedly most democratic and against censorship and for free speech... phew that was a mouthful...

/s.

edit. DDOS protection against free speech activists aiming to instill the values of free and uncensored speech on the rest of the ungrateful world
How one musician took on the world’s biggest TV network over copyright–and won
Show HN: Collaborative Workspace for Upskilling and Onboarding Your Teams
WatchOS Complications, Part 1 – Families, Templates
You can tell when they are negotiating time instead of scope. It will be something like "surely we can do this in 2 days not 5?" Instead of "we probably will take 2-5 days to do this but need it in 2 so something of 3 days needs to come out somewhere else". The first one is saying 'work harder and just do it.' The second is 'ok it may take 2-5 days but lets pull something else out to make up for the deadline we want'.

I found orgs that negotiate time did not talk to their team in the first place. Then went on to promise something on behalf of the team. Now they do not want to eat the humble pie of 'I ran the numbers and you only get half' instead they get it going and just overbudget on the thing. Which just makes everyone in the process mad.
True, but proxying an app you use heavily to transition to a new platform can be useful.

In any case, YouTube alternatives like LBRY have way better apps for android. Element (matrix chat) is also 100x better on android.

I can only imagine that android is easier to develop on and get approved, even for more experimental apps like Manyverse (secure-scuttlebutt twitter).
New features in Scikit-Learn 0.24
Just because people think an idea is bad is doesn't mean it's a billion dollar startup idea. Indeed, most ideas people think are bad are actually bad - it's only the few outliers that are actually successful. Even then I think there is a ton of mythologizing around this idea that the founders were able to see something nobody else did, usually to make the founders look like some sort of diamond-in-the-rough geniuses, when in reality what they built was just a natural evolution of tech that existed at the time (successful founders usually just execute better and faster than others).

I mean, despite all stuff I've heard on HN about how a lot of big VCs passed on AirBnB, when I first heard of it it seemed like a very natural evolution from sites like Couch Surfing and VRBO that had existed for years.
For example they bought Apple trademark from Apple records for undisclosed sum and now they're licensing it back to Apple Records.
The Cost of a Poor Pitch Deck
Removing the Timebomb from Adobe Flash Player
Proof? My understanding is that the Twitter block in 2016 had less to do with Twitter as a company and more to do with Tayipp not being able to control the flow of information.

Remember Wikipedia was blocked because Tayipp's page was painted honestly, which he found to be very unflattering, and because Wikimedia refused to remove references to the recorded/leaked conversations about money laundering with his (Berkeley-educated) nitwit song Bilal (There is a saying here when somebody does not understand what you are saying: "Explain it as if you are explaining it to Bilal".

This is also why soundcloud was blocked for 3 years, because people used it to post the recordings of him telling Bilal to remove all of the cash from the family houses in case they were searched.
Two people were murdered by Kyle Rittenhouse, a boogaloo adherent murdered a courthouse guard in California. There's three.
That's just a tax with extra steps of dealing with the voucher. The average replacement timespan is 7-8 years so what's the point of including it in the first year?
From the Science article you refer to: "When the percentage of infected people exceeds the herd immunity threshold of 60 to 67%, or 100 × [1 – (1/R0)], each infection generates fewer than one secondary case (case reproduction number Rt < 1) and incidence declines."
If anyone curious, here is the actual (rule of) text[0] (in Turkish) about advertising bans of social media platforms.

[0]: https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/ilanlar/eskiilanlar/2021/01/2...
Oh no the people shouldn't make artboards
Looks really good. Like a simplified version of Scrivener, which is awesome. Would be awesome if I can import it to Scrivener and the other way around.
Where is that semaphore struct from? I can't find sync.NewSemaphore in "sync" or "golang.org/x/sync".
Coronavirus Found in Ice Cream
Did you see the extra photos at https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTrv2.jpg ? That might help with the wheels question.
You're not wrong, and when the part being cut is worth 5 figures for the raw stock, it's probably a criticality, but it's important to not gatekeep this process, lest it become a no-true-scotsman kind of thing.

I built a couple of 3d printers from scratch BECAUSE the various components were cheap and approachable. Haven't done CNC because my interests haven't taken me there...but the thing about advancement is: While one fella is saying 'You can't do it that way!' someone comes around and does it that way, and the first person is left in the dust.

You can't really stop Laser printers from dropping to many thousands of dollars to $70...all you can do is ride the wave.
I'll give you one: David Patrick Underwood, May 29th. But that's not the point.

The point is: even if you count all of the deaths related to all the events around BLM protests - 19 [1] - these were over 7 months of protests, across the country, against the violence that black people see every day impacting their lives perpetrated by the people tasked to enforce the law and ensure security. On the other side you have 5 deaths in a few hours during a protest - supported by the sitting President - against the results of free and fair elections that they just didn't happen to like.

These are not the same - by any stretch of the imagination.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/16/santa-cruz-deputys-al...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...
The issue here is that if you examine most projects today, it requires effort to collect data about what happened. So much that happens is untracked. That untracked stuff is a source of error.
Thanks for the Hines Ward reference. I met him once and he seemed like a kind and humble person. Never knew he was half Korean but it makes sense now that I look back.
This is oddly addictive. Just typing in stuff and see what colors it gives me :)
In the UK, presumably the NHS is precisely the "distribution and vaccination system already in place", which the government re-used?

Although I don't actually know whether they handle the flu vaccine, or if this is something you get at private pharmacies instead.
That just sounds like paperwork. Legislation forcing people to pay a “TV license” and legislation forcing people to pay more tax and then transferring those tax funds to the BBC is effectively the same thing.

Except the latter is more efficient.
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>Don’t think Simons would have known he’d finance the far right - Simons himself is a leading progressive donor.

It could be that smart businesspeople realize that employees can have diverse political views, and those views don't have to be at the centre of every discussion.
Joplin has both atm it's quite nice.
People have clearly noticed the social and political issues with advertising for a very long time now. The issue is that it's hard to rally against one of the most lucrative businesses ever to exist that inherently has an extreme amount of messaging power to defend itself.
I'm not sure it was meant to be a tax on the rich; It was initially introduced in 1923 to cover radio broadcasts, and widened to become the television license in 1946.

Also, the appeal of this funding model makes it independent of Governmental cuts and the politicisation of programming.
Be careful with Google Takeout. I've found empty archives in there. Sometimes redownloading fixes it, sometimes not. (My chat messages from <2019 are permagone it seems)
WhatsApp has the same kind of info messages, except that it calls them as “security code” and doesn’t force a verification or show a verification button unless you tap to see more info.
Stop treating data as static. Datasets should behave like Git repositories
Almost no one starts a stamp collection in this day and age.

It used to be done simply because there weren't as many forms of superior entertainment as there are now.
For Windows only there exists Mouse without border [0] which works a lot better than synergy, including sharing of the clipboard. Of course not usable if you have different systems, but for Windows there is no better solution I'm aware of.

[0] https://aka.ms/MouseWithOutBorders
http://archive.is/aNcgw
I'm a Brit expat who is very fond of his VPN service and wishes he could give the BBC the money instead of them...
> What is absolutely clear from history is commercial media outlets fuel political bias, and it seems to be increasingly damaging to society.

Public broadcasting fuels political division a lot. The most worrying is that you don’t notice it.

It is increasingly worrying because when people are exposed to the other side, they immediately « catch fire », wonder why they have been lied to, and never trust public broadcasting anymore. With luck, they may smoothen their beliefs a bit later in life, for the most centrist ones.

To me, public TV, especially BBC, shouldn’t be one-sided as it is now.
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Makes sense when you consider -1 as a basement ;)
Excellent point.

Can you share your presentation or at least some of your thinking behind it?

Based on what you know, how do you frame this problem? Imagine you had an impressionable audience of 10,000 software professionals (C-level people, managers, developers, UX people, customer support, and so on).
I don't think lobbying is a symptom of centralization. You see large concentrations around power centers because lobbyists will go wherever the people in power are. In a decentralized system, you'd still have lobbyists, they'ed just be spread out more.

Lobbying is a consequence of a professional political class. Those who make and implement laws need to be knowledgeable about laws, which is why such large numbers are lawyers. In a government that values competence and experience, those in high positions get there by spending years if not decades doing similar, lower level jobs. But if you spend your life in government, when would you have the opportunity to learn the intricacies of non-government life? What fraction of congress has actually worked on a farm? How many cabinet members have ever worked in a factory? How would a president know what it's like to be a refugee? Politicians need information from non-politicians to form and implement coherent policies that work for the people. Enter the lobbyist.

At its core, that's all lobbying is: relaying the views of interest groups to the people in power. We talk about it as a dirty thing because it is so easy for it to become a dirty thing, but it isn't inherently one. Unfortunately it's a slippery slope from legitimate lobbying to graft: even an honest politician will be more easily swayed by better presentation, more money allows a lobbyist to make a better presentation, lobbyists seek to align themselves with those who have money so they can make their better presentations, and soon enough the original cause is an afterthought.

That said, there is nothing about a centralized governance which makes lobbying easier, nor anything about decentralized governance that makes lobbying less necessary. Your local city councilman is just as clueless about the infinite number of things they didn't do instead of pursuing their path, and they are generally just as open to being wined and dined. Indeed local governments tend to be much more prone to graft than the central ones (though this may simply be due to the fact that there are so many more people to potentially corrupt).

Getting professionals in government the information they need to govern without giving undo influence to those handing them that information is a serious open problem in modern democracy, but decentralization doesn't seem like a solution.
> More to the point, I am criticizing the reason for that.

Go's lack of generics is not due to ideological reasons. The designers are not particularly against them and are open to adding them given a good proposal. They always said that generics may well be added at some point.
Direct link to the AstriaGraph: http://astria.tacc.utexas.edu/AstriaGraph/
Sometimes I wonder if I should have did all that stub work on my own thing or is it nice to see it grow independent of me. It’s just a shame it’s always in a state of disrepair. But it’s funny when people link back stuff you wrote to yourself that you forgot writing
Engineers create 'smart' aerogel that extracts water from air
Maybe ghostwriter[0] is what you are looking for?

[0] http://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
is author here?

- Is it suitable for non-technical writers? is there any feedback on them baing able to use markdown, @pov tags etc?

- did you try some commercial competitors? How would you compare? I understand scrivener is one popular option
Thank you for sharing your experience.

Could you please elaborate more on this. Is it the long hours in front of a computer?

>> Then I slowly discovered how awful the graphic design industry is
I think the issue is people really like watching TV and movies, and continuing to watch the content shows they are OK with all the ads. Never have people had more access to other content, or other ways of entertaining themselves.

I have no idea how people put up with the NFL in the US.
I'll be hard on HN here. The more generic discussion is barely relevant to the article. It's a prime example of people seeing an article title as a chance to say something they've already been thinking rather than a chance to read something new.
Nobody gets this is a joke...hah
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As a tourist, Singapore seems to be highly efficient.
Actually this is not so clear. One can make arguments either way.
For example in feudal Europe and later on, Europe was divided into very small states ruled by tyrants. The power was highly local but this did not result in more freedom for the people. Freedom actually corresponds well with the rise of nation states that centralized power.
Even today it is not so clear. It is not hard to find local administrations that are extremely corrupt.
Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea with this weird trick

https://xkcd.com/1283/
That's entirely dependent on the country and political culture. At the very least I can guaranty that in Britain, France and Germany public networks and new agencies are far more neutral and independent than private ones. And that's a result of political parties being unable to co-opt the administrative machinery of the government system. So they end up co-opting businessmen, who themselves control private media for influence.

In a well designed democracy nobody is strong enough for long enough to take over public media, the school system, the judiciary, the army etc.
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Dnspooq Vulnerabilities in Dnsmasq
The full set of photos was found - it was landing

https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTrv2.jpg

The taxi-way is the foreground - the wheels do indeed seem like they have touched down or are millimetres away
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25760750
I think you underestimate them, most Turks know what to do with the addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 from the time they were an effective way to circumvent the old youtube block
The BBC would face significant cuts if that was the case. It would likely end up at a point where the quantity and quality of content was reduced due to less revenue, which then would cause additional people to cancel subscriptions.

This would be quite damaging for the UK as the BBC is a great way of projecting soft power, plus it provides quite a lot of great resources (as has been pointed out in other comments).

I'd be more in favour of a system like Germany has to be honest.
Yes, many of us are too likely to interpret the word "estimate" at face value. It is a wonderful idea to view this instead as only a starting point -- an information-gathering conversation -- as how to provide your customer or other stake-holders what they need.

If you are some combination of lucky, influential, and persuasive, you might have some ability to shape the contours of their expectations. :)
At this point just stay in your bed and wait for death. Everything you'll ever do has been done better in the past. Humans need to keep busy and build/do shit, most of it is useless in the grand scheme of things

Setting up a camera capable of taking quality pics of celestial bodies sounds like a fun hobby, see: https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/166334-debayering-a-dslrs...
> Some of it they hit right on the mark (like farming) others were way off on how easily they'd be automated.

I feel like many people here on HN are in the same spots. While ML has worked for few fields, there are some ML enthusiasts that believe most jobs, even creative ones will be automated within 10-20 years, which I find unlikely.
Well, there is Microsoft and the whole online Outlook stuff that comes with every Microsoft/OneDrive account ...
> "the value I get out is worth more than the data I put in". And that's a perfectly valid view.

Sure. But that is only a valid view if the seller of services is transparent about the price.

Currently, I have absolutely no idea what I am paying to use Google.
Being in the backcountry has an advantage/disadvantage: when you're days from the nearest trailhead you have little choice but to continue.* When you are, say, in a PhD program, every day you have the option of throwing in the towel. I feel like sticking through the latter is psychologically more difficult.

* I've only had to set a broken limb (arm) once in the backcountry. In that case we distributed that person's gear and spent three days getting out. On a different trip: very painful/bloody feet; luckily we were only about five miles from our destination so we took turns helping the victim walk out under his own power.
of course it got more Russian help.... Disgusting.