skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The logic I always thought was that if you are working at the console on a server and dealing with the default $EDITOR, you most likely are doing some kind of emergency maintenance. In this scenario, you want to throw the most gentle/easy-to-use editor at the user to ensure they don't accidentally overwrite a file or something else because they've been trying to bring prod back up all night and can't see straight.

If you use the box for more than 5 minutes a year, you'll probably change it to vim or whatever you prefer anyway.
>Think you hate poetry? Roller coasters? Banjo music? Thai food? Maybe you haven’t discovered the good 10% yet. Keep looking.

Maybe liking something means appreciating the average.

I like steaks. I mean, I really like dry aged t-bones, but I also like a simply seasoned sirloin. I wouldn't even turn down an well done hockey puck if it came with a baked potato.

I don't like movies. You would never find me indulging in the latest Sharknado nonsense. But I can enjoying myself while watching a critically-acclaimed film.
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The president was censored (for violating TOS) after he called for violence.

I experience linear time, how about you?
The main use is speculation not a store of value.
If BTC would counter inflation and keep its value (equal purchase power) even with high volatility no one would care about it. It would still be worth single digit dollar or more likely it would have died a few years after it went online.
People buy BTC because they want to sell for significant more to a later time.
I find Martin Parr’s Last Resort more controversial and they’re in colour. It really moved me as a kid when I first saw it.

Both are great in my opinion. I don’t care what Morrissey thinks, I love the British seaside.

These photos make me think of Malcolm Pryce‘s surreal Welsh noir books. I know they’re set in a different part of Wales but North Wales is definitely on my list of places to visit.
> The Fediverse solves the problem of authoritarian silencing

I would say it "addresses" the problem but you can't solve it. Battling powerful classes of people, whether businesses or governments, will be a constant fact of life. No resting or your laurels.
If not, where did our dna come from?
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I posited that the government should get in touch with Jeff Bezos to handle distribution of the vaccines (who has ever been better at distribution?). Bezos must be reading my posts!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25831736
In the HTML header:

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It’s more so the worship of the military that made me assume they’re part of it. Couple that with referring to everyone as the “American public” and the knowledge they imply they have of classified documents that won’t be made public for some time. Doesn’t seem like a stretch.
The machine was literally called a "Phone Tree". Presumably because it was intended as an automated replacement for an old-fashioned phone tree. And, back to the root point, telephony can be used to organize political activity, at least in the form of getting all the old gun nuts in town to show up for a luncheon with their state legislator.
While a valid use case, it feels like overkill. There are much less expensive and more stable ways to accomplish this.
> It’s notable that without this last-ditch effort we would have been effectively blocked from releasing a native Apple Silicon version for an indefinite period.

Effectively blocked from releasing it for the single-digit-percentage of people who run an antivirus on a Mac.

Does anyone have credible numbers on this?
The post talks about this in some length.
I heard a variant of this from musicians -- why is a drummer like a drum machine ...
Looks like Amazon is taking the lead!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-vaccine/amazon...
Funny enough GDScript, the internal scripting language of the Godot engine, is using a similar form for (optional) type declarations.

var damage: float = 10.5
var damage := 10.5
var dynamic_typed_damage = 10.5

If you use the colon you get a static typing, without it you get dynamic typing.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/scrip...
The opposite of something can still evoke the thing it opposes :-)
Their website is... blech.
I wonder how they'd feel about this Goldie Looking Chain joint, then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuxYxmlfrc
The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate
This is super minor but I really wish f-string formatting were the default behavior for `print` or that there were a `printf` command just for it. Typing that extra f character before the quotes is just annoying enough
>How many shipping containers would you need to feed a city of a million people?

I guess the aspiration for the people behind this kind of vertical farming companies is to have as many containers out there as possible. It seems like proximity of supply is one of their main purported selling points. It makes sense from their standpoint.
Sine majority of those dying are very old, and often in nursing home or bed ridden. Wouldn't vitamin D levels just correlate with age, since they spend less time outdoors
> CentOS streams is literally RHEL with fixed major version and rolling minor versions. So, in the past, you got CentOS 7.1, then 7.2, etc., with streams, you get CentOS 8.x.

> Saying that this is moving away from RHEL stability sounds highly disingenuous.

If it were so great, they'd do the same for paying customers. That they don't move RHEL to being just 8.X makes me think that Red Hat does in fact understand that that undermines the stability of the platform.
True, then Oracle made his own UEK...and now on OL you can choose between two Kernels....good job RH.
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Even safe systems programming languages, with unsafe code blocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWP

If you follow NEWP manual from Unisys (nowadays still selling Burroughs as ClearPath), you will see UNSAFE code blocks and how its use tainted binaries, which requires admin permission for execution.
Should you ever find yourself in a situation like that, https://github.com/python-rope/rope might help.
Few observations:

Cicada groups split off while they occupied glaciated territory.
The Appalachia mountain range is famously, formed by glaciers.
The Valley and Ridge part of Appalachia, was a major highway of immigration and colonization. It is more likely that territory borders respect the geography and that the brood respects geography, rather than to each other.

A rough inspection of the brood distribution and the continental divides shows approximate respect to the St. Lawrence and Eastern Continental Divide.

There also seems to be some respect to the division between Mississipi Flyway and Atlantic flyway, which are bird migration routes.

It is my understanding that an organism highly dependent on deciduous forests will respect those regions and this includes most of the South.

Turns out, humans like deciduous forests too. They're useful for timber, charcoal and potash (fertilizer). The borders of this territory lines up pretty squarely with the border to Canada. That makes civilization a predator of the cicada through deforestation. The Onondaga brood is named for the Onondaga people.

As I understand, the Brood distribution effort is done by crowdsourcing.

Given the longevity of the brood cycle and the inconsistency in historical record, it could very well just be the case that the recency of this effort has not synced with an emergence.

That's my guess why cicadas and humans line up.

More practically, cicada cycles provided a necessary evolutionary flush of nutrients, bacteria and fungi across the distributions. They breed in such overwhelming numbers that the entire ecosystem of predators is likely to prosper from their emergence. So perhaps humans settle where there is game and timber, and where there is game and timber it is likely that the area prospered from a cicada cycle.
While the guy from Dankpods is definitely an Apple devotee, I think his review of the Airpod max, while silly, made a good case for why they are expensive and why you might want them.

According to him you get the best fit, best build quality, best ANC, best sound stage, great microphone and near best audio of any wireless headphone (when they didn't break) - so of course they are going to be the most expensive wireless headphones and of course you can get better sounding heaphones - but then they need a preamp and a wire.

If nothing else, I think it is a funny review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReuDIYYk3fk
I'm always a bit sceptical of PolyMatter's videos indeed, thank you for pointing that out.

However, your link suggests a ratio of 17:1 with Chang Mai in the list, which is still quite high and also on the same page there is the contradictory mention of a 35:1 ratio with Nakhon Ratchasima (in the 'Examples' section). The Wikipedia 'Bangkok' page says the population (metro) is 14M, while this Wikipedia page says 17M.

Other sources have wildly different numbers too. 5M here for example, suggesting a ratio of 13:1 with Samut Prakan, yet another city: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/thailand-popu... ("includes boroughs, districts, urban agglomerations, etc.")
https://www.google.com/accessibility/products-features/#!#ch...
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> they cannot pardon state crimes

State governors have that power.
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Am I wrong, but is this more evidence of monopoly power by Google?
I know that some people here on hackernews don't have a good opinion of Jupyter Notebooks, but I expect them to be a very important step in how we publish scientific papers and experiment with ideas. There are probably other tools that are currently more influential, but the longer term the notebooks are going to replace the traditional papers.
I guestimate that the ratio to my eye is a bit better for HN on technology, but I'd also argue that anything outside business, science, and engineering the ratio is often worse - Political threads seem to really show off a lot of overstretching, both in issues of political economy and in often pretty blatantly tribal lack of due diligence that wouldn't fly if the thread were about (say) something just as easily google-able but technology (HN I love you, but you're bringing me down, and all that).
Better have a good team of lawyers though.
And b-strings.
And while they're at it, bring back the print statement.

It was a beautiful thing and made it possible to write the same "hello world" program in Python and BASIC:

print "hello, world"
The story with certificates is still quite up-to-date with docker, k8s and other stuff nowadays.

Just last December I was having similar fun with certificates and "modern" approaches.
Circular buffers using modulo on indexes, and accessing 2D and 3D image and volume data are things I end up doing a lot.
If you read the three books, you realize that the true message is that if you're considered a possible threat to an advanced species, they'll annihilate you, otherwise you'll be left alone. Maybe every other species which knows about us knows we can't even leave our own planet/moon right now, the most we can do is send useless robots to other planets over 30 years.
There's another security consideration here: whether you trust the webview not to peek at your https content.

With a known browser, you get reasonable guarantees that TLS is being handled properly. With an unknown browser, these guarantees are gone. Considering the average person has no idea what https/TLS is, banning all unknown browsers as a defense against phishing seems completely reasonable.
Wow that's actually true, but our comment are too ;)
When you consider the concept of home row keys and touch typing I find it very natural, actually. Its ergonomic and very fast if you get into the habit of resting your fingers on the home row.

Though you may have been alluding to more powerful movements!
Not a good piece. Total waste of time.
Not forgetting the notes-moded plug for analytics:

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Wait, did they do anything for the Matrix client? Their "Get Beeper" section makes it seem like they just use the normal Matrix client.

> Available on MacOS, Windows, Linux iOS and Android via Element

Which i assume is https://element.io/ ?
Agreed and since information volume will not decrease, how can incentives be aligned to overcome untrusted governance?
It was Agfa in Antwerp. Their guy was very polite but I had to explain to him what was going wrong. I think he was more tech support than anything else.

Edit: Apple also had to change the linker for the sake of Macromedia’s monolithic applications. Another story though.
Thanks everyone for all your positive comments and feedback, I was not expecting this much attention. Sorry for the problems with browser compatibility, the simulation kernel needs thread support, and this is fairly recent in WebAssembly.
I started this last April and spent many evenings tinkering away "on my project". Trying to chase Ben Eaters 6502 series as he released new videos each month or so gave me the motivation to try to catch him up with my digital twin version. I guess I was thinking it'd be cool to allow anyone to follow Ben's project armed only with another browser tab sitting alongside youtube.
Many thanks to all the authors of the OSS I've used, especially Dear ImGui, ImGuiColorTextEdit, cc65 & floooh/chips headers. The whole thing is done in C/C++ and I build and debug natively on a Raspberry Pi with Visual Code gcc/g++ before running through Emscripten and uploading to the web. SystemC is the simulation engine, the hardware models include a bit of timing to try to get close to the physical hardware behavior. I wrapped SystemC around the floooh/chips.
I find myself patronizing the fast-food locations that offer food prepared from fresh potatoes sliced every morning and grass-fed beef that apparently pay their workers a decent wage while costing about the same as the places that don't. The difference I suppose is that the local chains are not satisfying profit motives of stock speculators.
This looks like the COBOL of Markdown.
Great to hear your thoughts. I think the Loom platform is unique and easy to use especially for sharing short videos on a range of topics. The one downside is that it is not so easy to get subscribers / followers directly from Loom (unless a CTA is used). I am aiming to create short videos around the basics of the game and strategies (on opening themes, positional concepts, tactics, etc) that players can adopt to win. If you have any suggested topics that you are interested please do share.

Thank you very much.
The problem with that for me is I don't get up and go to the kitchen to talk to people -- I get up and go to the kitchen to {heat up lunch, make coffee, get a glass of water} -- and a serendipitous conversation happens as part of that. That sort of guiding activity makes the conversation lower-stakes, if it lulls you can focus on your pour-over or whatever, and it's timeboxed by the length of kitchen activity more or less, letting you get out of a conversation politely if you want. A virtual kitchen doesn't have that -- if I'm getting lunch I'm going to be in my IRL kitchen, not in the virtual one, and I'll be talking to my wife, not someone from the office. That means if I go to the virtual kitchen it will be expressly for the purpose of talking, and it's no longer a serendipitous conversation, and the dynamics become more akin to a language learning conversation group where you go to talk to people, and everyone knows how awkward those can be. (You could maybe more charitably compare it to meeting up at a bar as the OP does, but you only go to a bar to talk with people you're already close to, and getting close to people tends to happen first through repeated, unplanned serendipitous conversation. So these tools work OK for friends to keep in touch, but in my experience onboarding during COVID, not at all to get closer to coworkers.)
I had that thought, too. That’s the reason that stopped me from implementing sth like that.
I think a definitive solution to a cat-and-mice game would be an automated reverse-engineering of the chat apps.
You're right! I should've paid more attention to the headers. Still, this is only very basic support for the CPU. Much more work is needed.
The ending conclusion is so bizarre to me.

From the article:

> That’s a question to think about as you start to read this thing, whether for the first or fifty-first time. Daisy is this man’s objective, but she’s the wrong fantasy. It was never her he wanted. Not really. It was America. One that’s never existed. Just a movie of it. America.

My reading is the exact opposite. He falls deeply in love as a young man, cannot correctly frame this infatuation with Daisy, and spend his entire life in trying to win her back. The wealth was a means to an end. Rather than being purposeful about his love for her, he goes about it in an almost timeless fashion. Gatzby makes himself visible in the largest way he can, stretching out into the world, without actually directly aiming for her. Hence all the parties, so eventually Daisy must get caught up in his orbit, just by the sheer enormity of his presence. It was _exactly_ her he wanted, and the mansion across the water, the sports cars, were the elaborate mechanisms to get her. Not "america" or whatever. The ambiguity is if she truly loved him, or if Daisy just got caught up by the sheer gravitational pull of it all.

It's happened to be set in the roaring 20s because that's when the book was written, the self-made man was already a trope in american literature, as was the excess of the nouveau riche. It's a book - quite simply - about (mostly) unrequited love, and the length men equate achievement with desirability.
> "the data isn't about actual Vitamin D levels", when MR is specifically a study method used to step around direct measurements t

Yeah, this would make sense if you ignored all dietary and solar variations in Vitamin D productions. So yeah, this person has a bias towards high or low levels but you're not actually measuring it

I don't think it's an honest assessment
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Thanks for that! It's kind of funny to me, but also kind of cool. I guess you just have to be sure to charge the iPhone every now and then.
Trying to survive I guess, hunting for the portfolio that will keep them afloat.
Are Jupyter notebooks slow.
Yes, I can understand being upset about it, but think such anger should be tempered by no fee being paid and no contractual obligation being breeched. It seems to me if you're in a situation where you truly depend on such a commitment, you should be paying for a contract with someone, not hoping for the best. Had Red Hat not been supporting CentOS for over 6 years, it may have fallen apart even sooner. Who knows.

So while this is disruptive and bound to be upsetting, Red Hat are still being quite generous with their new offerings. And as far as I know, they are not standing in the way of CentOS replacements such as Rocky[0] or Lenix[1].

[0] https://rockylinux.org/
[1] https://www.projectlenix.org/
Thanks for the downvote, but imho, I'd prefer a reply as to why.
Duchamp's art also (arguably) marks the beginning of the transition from modernism to postmodernism - our current era. It's definitely modern, but it has little hints of postmodernism in it.

I've never taken an art history class, but I do know of Duchamp, and I do think his name is known by anyone with even a passing curiosity with the world of art.

The fact that he's relatively unknown here says a lot about the users of this site: highly knowledgeable folks, whose knowledge is probably much more specialized that they realize.
There really isn't much difference, the quality of a frozen white castle burger is about the same as fresh made by humans, and I doubt fresh made by robots would be much better. All three are going to be pretty crap.

The robot pizza company in particular was a joke. Viewed with a critical eye, the whole thing was technophiles blinded to obvious reality by their love for high tech gadgetry. Why else would you use a sophisticated robotic arm to transfer a pizza from one machine to another when a simple conveyor belt can do the job faster and need less space to do it?

White Castle is doubtlessly being smarter about it, but I'm pretty sure you could replace their restaurant employees with a microwave oven. BTW, automated restaurants are not new; look up 'automat'. If you're retrofitting a kitchen designed for humans, systems like what White Castle is experimenting with might make sense, but if you were to design an automatic kitchen from the ground up, I think it makes little sense.
>90% of everything is crap

Perhaps to someone who considers them things.
>Web standards merely describe the current world of web browsers and attempt to retroactively take credit for it.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here by "take credit" but, that aside, are you suggesting that it would have been easier for Netscape and Microsoft to cooperate (or for gmail to support both) without some standards?
I'm not affiliated with either but I've used Faust a lot. I believe SOUL intends to be directly supported by various platforms, whereas Faust compiles to whatever kind of code runs on different platforms. So if you like Faust, you might end up compiling Faust to SOUL for some platforms.

Faust also has a more advanced syntax. SOUL basically looks like C, while Faust is more functional and designed from the ground up to represent graphs, as such it can look pretty alien. In particular, partial application in Faust is great for graphs but it also means there are 100 ways of writing a program.
I host a single user instance that's purely social.

I'm not sure what your point is.
Interesting question. I looked at the source code to understand that.

SQLite knows where to look for when you open a SQLite database and you run a query, right? It just asks the underlying filesystem to provide N bytes starting from an offset using a C function, then it repeats the same operation on different portions of the file, it does its computation and everybody is happy.

The software relies on sqltorrent, which is a custom VFS for SQLite. That means that SQLite function to read data from a file stored in the filesystem is replaced by a custom function. Such custom code computes which Torrent block(s) should have the highest priority, by dividing the offset and the number of bytes that SQLite wants to read by the size of the torrent blocks. It is just a division.

See: https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorrent/blob/master/sqltorr...
Yeah it's a backwards compatibility issue, wouldn't be surprised if they make this change in Python4
Would you say the same of Mark Felt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt
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Do you know if about any simulations of what it would look like if there were alien radio operators?

If there were 50 other Earths scattered around the galaxy (ones that have been broadcasting like us but for longer) should the first television have imnediately picked up interstellar "I Love Lucy" or would it be faint anomalies from SETI? Somewhere in between?
Does the act of paying for admission sign away my rights to the photos I take while inside?
In today's world of a thousand package managers, why isn't there a package manager for datatype schemas? Then, when I'm looking for an "addressbook" schema, I can just download the most popular one. It could include tooling/plugins to convert schemas to different data or programming languages, so create a Haskell datatype for "addressbook" or create the JSON representation of "addressbook".
HTTPS isn't even the largest concern - it's the browser being some malicious app asking to 'sign in to Google to load your profile' and stealing either the password or auth token.