skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC is one of these implicit rules, you (or the OP) can ask the mods for more recommendations hn@ycombinator.com

Linking to other sites with a discussions is good. Every time there is airplane accident some link to an specialized forum (I don't remember which) and it's a good addition.

So linking to discussions with a lot of comments may fly under the radar. Even linking to a discussion with a single good comment may be welcome, but the comment must be really good. Perhaps it's even better to link to the good comment, instead of the whole discussion, unless most of the discussion is good. Anyway, except the first idea, the others look difficult to automate.
I also casually deploy diatomaceous earth and other methods to exterminate ants when I come across them in or around the house. I’m glad the wandering aliens have not yet decided to use this strategy. Especially if they would find earth a desirable location for some colonial purposes.
Thanks, I had it on my list. I will pick it up sooner, then.
I wonder if I'm the only one with better upload than download...

$ speedtest

Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Windstream - Chicago, IL (id = 17384)
ISP: Webpass
Latency: 0.93 ms (0.10 ms jitter)
Download: 847.27 Mbps (data used: 642.6 MB)
Upload: 936.79 Mbps (data used: 445.7 MB)

Packet Loss: 0.0%

(maybe this is because of other users in my building...)
Matt.Might.net has had many submissions to HN [1]. Professor Might pivoted from CS to medicine on account of his family's success figuring out Bertrand Might's (their first-born son) medical problem. Further context for this link is provided in HN-moderator dang's comment on a 2018 submission about the family's efforts to improve diagnosis and treatment for rare diseases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962575

I read Cristina and Matt Might's blog posts [2] in 2010, when they were in the midst of their search for a diagnosis for their son. In 2012 they determined [3] Bertrand had a glycolysation disorder caused by inheriting two malformed copies of the NGLY1 gene [4] [5]. The family moved from Utah to Alabama for the University of Alabama's medical school [6], and probably also for the change of weather (Utah: substantial snowfall every winter. Birmingham, Alabama: 1 inch snow/year). They eventually decided the odds of their having a second child with Bertrand's NGLY1 disorder were acceptably low; their other two children are not affected by Bertrand's genetic condition.

Bertrand Might suddenly passed away in late October 2020, not quite 13 years old.

***

Growing up is like getting to the Moon and back. Most people make it to adulthood, but we all need help getting there. Parents are our Mission Control. Matt and Cristina found themselves in an Apollo 13 scenario [7] -- "Houston, we have a problem" -- soon after Bertrand's birth. One of Bertrand's symptoms was lack of tears. Matt posted a writeup after they pinpointed the genetic cause of Bertrand's condition: "My Son's Killer" [3].

Matt added 'precision medicine' to his undertakings. They rose to their occasion, found their answers and almost had Bertrand back to Earth ("A significant gene therapy trial is on the horizon" [8]). Suddenly losing their son is tough (but not entirely unexpected), as it is for all parents who outlive their progeny.

My condolences to the family.

***

[This is a moderator-initiated repost of my November 2020 submission.]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=might.net

[2] http://www.overcomingmovementdisorder.com/

[3] http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGLY1_deficiency and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGLY1#Clinical_significance (Bertrand Might was the 2012 patient mentioned in this section -- references [40] and [46][47][48]).

[5] https://www.ngly1.org/

[6] https://www.uab.edu/medicine/pmi/matt-might

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

[8] http://bertrand.might.net/#glycocauses
2 that make me chuckle...

If you ask a programmer, 'Do you want tea or coffee?' he will reply 'yes'.

and

q: What's Benoit B. Mandelbrot's middle name?
a: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Reading the responses of people here that survived with a score of 1/10 it really didn't matter what the score was. Only that it got doctors to compete to raise the score.

It's a bit sad though that doctors apparently just didn't try to do anything about it before.
I generally learn a new language by cargo-culting my way through a few small-ish programs. I wouldn't put anything in production in a language that I didn't adequately understand, but I could certainly waste a bunch of time debugging if I got the meaning of & flipped.
I use this for video chats as well! surprisingly good, it prefers resolution over frames and never gets choppy.

Also on my Mac I use a dedicated browser to have a dedicated dock item to log into the web client for desktop notifications (Firefox in my case).
enlightening. ether switched to proof of stake, did you come across any metrics for that energy consumption? It's well past time all our costs include a carbon tax. The savers are subsiding the polluters, the polluters pollute at industrial scale you can't even accomplish without trying.
This is the cost of "extraneous hidden complexity", or as I like to think of it, "abstraction hides bugs". As others here have noted, it is all too tempting to use a language whose string type actually does something very fancy, and be unaware of it. Most of the time it "only" causes inefficiency.

I don't remember if the HTTP spec has it, but I clearly remember the HTML spec has some parts that explicitly say "case-insensitive in the ASCII range only" (i.e. 61-7a = 41-5a), presumably to prevent things like this from happening.
While it is possible relativity is wrong, anything that replaces it must fit all the observations we have about the universe that we currently use to prove relativity. That leaves very little room for the replacement for relativity to be different.

Newtonian physics is a special case of relativity when you keep relative speeds slow.

We don't know how quantum mechanics fits in. There is a known hole in current physics. However the size of the hole is small.
No, words have meaning, you don't get to turn the meanings to suit whatever you wish it is just because you don't want to accept another reality.

Going with that sort of attitude I can accuse you of supporting literal genocide and concentration camps, because you refuse to denounce the war on terror and the camps at the border.
I've been mulling writing a general "Common misunderstandings HN has about CRISPR" blog post. I'd like to see if confronting everything head-on can change the general nature of conversations here. Maybe you could try something similar for Em-Drives.
> Actually, they are explicitly specified as ASCII

They are not, only new headers added after RFC 7320 are ASCII, pre-existing ones may contain high-bit characters which implementations compliant with 7230 version of HTTP/1.1 SHOULD not parse. They stopped short from making it a MUST so that applications compliant with RFC 2616 (where they were to be treated as ISO-8859-1!) was allowed. Or, more simply, they stopped themselves from making RFC 7230 describe new, incompatible HTTP/1.2.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.2.4
Now multiply that by 2.53 (average US household size in 2020) and you'll see why 3 Mbps are probably not enough.
I see that they allow you to search through your messages across all platforms.
How do they achieve that, unless they're somehow storing all my messages in their backend (which I'm not really a fan of if that'd be the case)
Predicting Hard Drive Failure with Machine Learning
Avoiding the One Step Back
Not sure if it's non-human enough, but A Fire Upon the Deep had central characters that had a very non-human way of thinking, though perhaps it could be said that they still "thought" like humans in the end. (I recall the specifics were a slow reveal, so I'm reluctant to say much more.)
Show HN: Make a Mixtape for a Loved One
1. So GitHub should not have been sold to Microsoft.

2. Microsoft could spin off GitHub into a separate, non-US entity, outside its legal control for purposes of DMCA enforcement. Of course, it obviously won't do that, since it doesn't help the bottom line.
I'm surprised the screen-sharing bandwidth required is so low... I guess it must be quite low framerate? Because some of us have giant monitors...
First-generation ESP32 has an exceptionally weird low-power core. Retroactively, espressif called this "FSM ULP". For example, among other weirdness, this core has only one way to write memory that:

- writes only 32-bit words;

- only at 32-bit-aligned addresses;

- user program only controls lower 16 bits of the word;

- upper 16 bits are written with, basically, garbage (part of program counter).

Second-generation, ESP32-S2 is supposed to have a regular RISC-V low-power CPU core, in addition to the FSM.
Multi-year Heavy Threema User here.
They just made it fully open source. Which I greatly appreciate.

And though this comparison by them might be little biased I found it interesting especially with regards to Signal:
https://threema.ch/en/messenger-comparison
Cognitive Bias Can Explain Post-Truth
I believe this was done occasionally in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
There's plenty of precedent to requiring vaccinations, especially in schools. And the US government has already stated that employers requiring a vaccination in this case is generally OK.
The uptake in Germany was rather good at one point for years I think it was in the top paid apps in the apple app store. I've not looked recently as I bought it just incase anyone I knew got it and wanted to use it.

> I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4. There is some mental block beyond 'free', yet these same people decry WA's privacy changes.

Our culture is totally broken. I think it stems from our salaries being too low. People have less money than they should so need thinks to be free to get by which means investors need to pay for it which means the salaries need to be low so the investors make money.
I loved this book when I read it in college. Things people should know:

* It's funny.
* Benjy is just one of the characters. He has mental issues, which make his chapters more difficult, but the other characters' chapters are straight forward, give you context, and push the story forward.
* Benjy's chapters aren't really that difficult.
* It's been 20 years since I read this so everything I've written here may be wrong :)
Thanks for building this. Interestingly simple and Amazingly useful. Never found a user intuitive way to access muscle group and find stretches. Please don't change the home page.
This is confusing to me, because it seems very similar to repeated Catholic prayer. Isn't the effect similar?
Recently I had a bunch of snails appear out of nowhere all over the garden. And I spent a whole lot of time, trying to figure out what they were feeding on, cuz some were getting really big. The whole thing was quite fascinating...like how the hell were they producing these huge ass shells without tearing all the plants apart? So I call a good buddy over (PhD in bio something or the other) thinking he would be as fascinated. And guess what...he shows up and all he wanted to do was cook them. So much for higher minds.
(we didn't btw)
For me, the worst part is the booking. Dozens of websites promise tickets, only to tack on random fees, suddenly increase the price, or (most popular) randomly fail at the last step. The official airline website will make you pay at least $30 more than the next alternative, and there's no guarantee that it'll be any better/more reliable either - but if you book through a third party, you'll be extra-screwed if something goes wrong.

The airport comes second. You spend at least 30 minutes if you're super lucky and know the airport rushing through a crowded, annoying environment, often while carrying stuff, having either tight deadlines or a mind-numbing wait at the end, and until you reach your gate you may be forced to wait but never in a way that you could use the time productively.

Also, you need to get rid of your water, then re-acquire water after security, while carrying your hand luggage (because checked bags now cost money).

The flight itself, once I've stowed my luggage, settled into a seat, and set up my tablet? I don't care. I can sit and watch movies for hours. I'm even doing it voluntarily at home!
Disagree! The article explains something extremely cool: that there’s a layer in the ocean that acts like a megaphone, where sound that passes into it gets caught and propagates way further. That’s cool and specific.
Using Pandoc to create my programming eBooks
Only the crackpots thought train travel impossible. Anyone with experience of air moving at such speeds, ie the everyone in the navy, knew there wouldn't be a problem.
TUI is just another way of writing portable UIs. Cross platform UI libraries exist, each with its own look and benefits, web-based UIs are another solution.

TUI also tends to have a certain aesthetic. I cut my teeth on computers where it was common for the UI to be made from ASCII text.
We might as well be among the first ones. I find the idea quite fascinating, it kind of puts the Earth back into the center and makes us special in a way.
Top Security Breaches in HealthCare Apps in 2020
> Chances are just as good that the insect repellant is just a nice side effect of these cats getting high, not the other way around.

In evolution, couldn't it be that the trait of enjoying catnip made them more resilient to mosquitos and thus had a higher chance of surviving, or so?
Lindy-hoppers unite :)
It's probably a losing battle.

I shared the same thought as the OP and went clicking around to see if there were differences in the suggested exercises based on sex. If you intermix the videos you're going to have people wondering if the exercises demonstrated by a specific sex are recommended for that sex.

To put things in perspective, I think the fact that the muscle models had hair and the male was pigeon toed from behind bothered me more than anything else.
Yeah hopefully they do a reprint
Major Mapbox update – live data tiling
Any one of those services can instantly plug up the hole (especially the Apple one) and it's over. Building a business reliant on other company's platforms rarely ends well.
Maybe not quite a joke supposedly this happened for real

A bunch of programmers/sysadmins are sitting in a bar, one of them receives a phone call about some critical process on the server which appears unresponsive. He troubleshoots for a few seconds and then says "Well if its not cooperating just do a kill"

At that point, from the next table, a big bald gentleman with a huge golden chain and some missing teeth turns around, looks at the guy on the phone and says "Respect!"
> If Firefox dies, the Chromium implementation, which is controlled by Google, becomes the web standard

But this just isn’t true - just like Linux (which dominates the web server space) there are multiple parties working on and forking chromium - if google introduced something someone didn’t like they can maintain their own fork and plenty of people are.

Additionally there are other alternatives that enjoy 5x+ the market share of Firefox, most notably, safari/WebKit.
640K ought to be enough for anybody. And with 3Mbps you can send or receive the contents of your entire RAM in under two seconds.
Specifically coming from the assumption that it should be up to me what I put in my body. I understand there are exception e.g. vaccines mandated by the government (and conversely it is illegal to ingest substances), but that is very far cry from an employer requiring a vaccination. Especially for something like covid. Why not flu shots?
Knowing Melbourne, there surely must be lindy hop groups.
I was curious and looked the ESP32 up, seems as if there are some grave vulnerabilities: https://limitedresults.com/2019/11/pwn-the-esp32-forever-fla....
A take like this represents a woeful ignorance of American history.
Wow Syphon looks sweet. Gonna try it (knowing that it's not a finished product)
Medical insurance fraud occurs with private insurance as well.

Blaming the government here is a bit like blaming a life insurance company when someone murders a relative for the insurance money.
Me too, but use Opera for this.
OP of the tweet probably doesn't want the attention of the orange website. If something of mine got posted on HN I'd delete it too.
It's usually pretty easy to compress because you're so often sharing text on a solid background. I'm figuring that there's gotta be a higher bitrate for sharing, say, a movie or video game than sharing my jira board.
Server infrastructure is not Open Source (I guess). So, this might be a problem for some.
There are also people that pour liquid metal into ant colony to cast its internal structure.

It doesn't end well for ants.
None of those were designed less than one year ago or can cause any possibility of side effects.

Forced medication is not the same as forced clothing choice so your argument is technically a strawman.
The difference on the UK really comes down to the cost of defending oneself. Engaging in a court case is not a costly undertaking and this would likely be a quick in-and-out case, as long as you have the evidence to backup their claims.

I imagine either party in an email conversation have the right to publish the email, unless some terms were agreed in advance or the subject is expressly personal.
If time travel was possible, this proposition is the most logical (you put it very well,
by the way). But at the same time, it's almost useless for the time traveller. Imagine a man that suffered a terrible accident when we was 10 years old, and had a miserable life from that point on. When he is 60 time travel is possible, so he decides to travel 50 years back to prevent the accident. He succeeds, but this new timeline doesn't mean the previous timeline won't/didn't happen. This new him will have a better life but the other him will still be miserable.
Is this guy going to be replaced by someone new in the Biden administration? He's a disaster.
A storm in a glass of water – stitcher.io
This article was posted when it was new, and I still have the same opinion now as I did then.

Why was Netflix putting effort in to supporting a device that the vendor clearly didn't care about?

This unnamed vendor was, in late 2017, preparing to launch a new device running Android 5.0 which was EoL and had not seen an update since late 2015. Android 8.0 was already out at the time. There is no valid excuse, it's not like they were trying to offer continued support for a legacy device.

In a world that made sense, a company the size of Netflix should have the clout to say "hey hold up here, what are you trying to push this out of date crap for?"
In my scifi book(s), the only reason aliens have to come to earth than say any other planet is to party. There's no reason to dominate or steal our resources. Go to any other system and you have infinite amounts of resources. In fact most star systems will have planets with life but not necessarily intelligent life.

So fundamentally it's just tourism. They come to Earth to drink beer and have fun. Though tourism is very rare because we have been so violent to previous tourists at roswell.

Obviously there are antagonists who do want to destroy humanity but generally speaking its about tourism.
Unless you're streaming video games (high FPS, as you noted the inverse, and significantly larger portions of the screen being refreshed, usually the entire one) the 'deltas' are relatively small. Combined with low frame rates, your usual business presentation occupies a small share of the bandwidth.
> We also don't assume everyone builds megastructures or emits huge technosignatures

Popular culture skews our expectations towards two-legged creatures flying on saucers, roughly our size, but forms of intelligent life can manifest in radically different ways at micro and macro levels.

Perhaps, what looks like a sand particle to us might be a complex microorganism, in a complex interconnected self-regulating network, with no physical artifacts of "civilisation". Those microorganisms would also be able to form "mega-structures" by mutating the environment around them, just not at the pace and scale we are accustomed to.
Not all cats respond to catnip. Also, some don't care for it as kittens, but when older they enjoy it.
> You're wrong, there are, and this is well established.

You're wrong, you conveniently refuse to acknowledge the UN visit which said otherwise, and the muslim countries who testified otherwise. You conveniently ignore addressing the many other sources I cite that indicate otherwise. You are closing your eyes and supporting a false atrocity.

> Here's what China says is extremist:

I literally said that cases of wrong conviction exist and that I condemn wrong convictions. I literally said that I don't agree with their way of using too broad strokes. In your zeal to see nazis everywhere, you completely ignore everything I said that indicates otherwise.

While spending so much time accusing me, you still refuse to condemn the US war on terror and literal concentration camps at the US border. Now why's that?
Extensions in Firefox for Android Update
Be aware that there is still a license check. So open source != free.
You’ve made this same comment before in other posts and comments about China, but there’s absolutely zero proof to back up your claim. If it comes from Chinese state media, it absolutely cannot be trusted, and since there is no way to independently verify it, we cannot assume that it is correct. Not even in the general direction of being correct.
"Chuck Norris can instantiate an abstract class." :-)
Not wearing PPE on building site can lead to some very life altering effects.

And in construction if you refuse PPE your fired
Damn that was a VERY long read, but also a fantastic one. Thanks for sharing!
Lindy hopper from Italy! We keep following some Zoom lessons, although it's not like the real thing, but at least we spend some time dancing! :-)
and not only this, even among classified species, most colonies will never interact directly with a human. when ants do come into contact with things we have made, they do not comprehend it. and when they interact with us directly, even in a mode where we are identifiable to them as an entity, they can't identify much about us beyond the practical facts that we are dangerous or perhaps edible.
Apple’s first VR headset reportedly has fabric design, fan, and expensive price
I've only read book 1, but I'm inclined to believe this as well.

This video provides a neat complexity science view of intelligence: https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_...

I'm intrigued that it points toward a "curiosity" at the heart of all intelligences, that we will recognize.
>Why not flu shots?

I assume they could if they felt it was important enough. And, for all I know, some hospitals may.
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> I think a policy which stops upgrading cities until a baseline is met in the rest of the country is also appropriate.

What does one thing have to do with the other? Cities aren't in any way preventing improvements elsewhere.
No one is forcing you to put anything into your body. But at the same time, no one is forcing any employer to keep you employed. That seems fair.

And there are employers that require flu shots, especially in the healthcare/long term care industries. Hell, many (most?) public schools and universities require certain vaccinations to be allowed to attend.
There are many people these days that use formatting to further their writing, but a particular example that I enjoyed immensely was Danielewski's House of Leaves.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
And for travel plenty of countries require proof of vaccination or you don't get in the country.
Is it a good test case though? If the language is designed for writing compilers then sure, but I imagine most people using TypeScript (for example) just want to write full-stack web applications.