skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it needs some QA!

Edit: I just realized that "high QA" meant "on marijuana"... I thought he was referencing particularly good QA or something.
I feel this is posted as a joke (it might not be), but as a Dutchie, I've seen the following when people were stoned:

* Being fully capable of programming C++ (my friend, he's an expert at the language)

* Talking about quantum immortality (another friend)

* Losing one's English (me)

So My feedback to your text: you need to state how the experience is affecting you. I know how it'd affect me, when I'm too stoned I don't even understand what eating is, let alone use a website.
If this is a joke referencing that the site is down, that's clever. If the site has interesting content, does anyone have a mirror?
I’m a sober devops guy if you need help keeping your site up.
I grew up with a globe, which is less of a lie than this. Granted, it had the USSR and some other defunct countries on it.
It's also still the common term in some places (e.g. UK, iirc) so you may find it in current recipes.
Data show rich cities are failing the Bay Area on housing
WsLv2
Wallstreetbets.com just went up for sale on Flippa
When I was able to load it, it was pretty bare bones. It was like “I’ll give you a usability report from a stoner’s perspective for $99”
Yeah, updates in Anaconda can be bumpy. That's why we decided to create our own installers for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v4.2.1
WRT to the last point, just put what you can in a PR and we'll review it - always tell someone if you think they're wrong, but work just hard when helping them be right and the world ends up a better place.
If you are interested you should dig in. The very best thing about this book or at least its previous edition is that it is really really fun. The only other textbook I've enjoyed as much is PG's ANSI Common Lisp.
On a black and white Kindle, I rather like Linear Algebra Abridged. That might be different on paper and in color (always overrated).
The search engine isn't currently open sourced as we're still a small project and don't want to get wrecked by competitors at such an early stage, but you can contribute by creating packages that layer on top of the search engine - you can see a few of those here - https://presearch.io/packages. You can search any cryptocurrency through presearch.org and see a community package that one of our community members made. Here's the github link to the community package code as well!

https://github.com/PresearchOfficial/presearch-packages
Nice. I hadn't heard of write.as before. Very minimalist feel to it.
This is unnecessarily dismissive. IIRC, Josiah Zayner home brewed a vaccine which led to a positive antibody test, which is in and of itself a pretty impressive outcome given the resources he had available to deploy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210205233124/http://www.highqa...
I would grant that it has a lot of the trapping of the scientific method, and uses a lot of the terminology. But I think we're kidding ourselves if we pretend that there's much knowledge to be gained here. It's a non-controlled trial with n=2 using ingredients of uncertain purity and a loose experimental protocol ("We’ll add the other three peptides, take another few weeks of boosters, maybe adjust frequency and/or dosage - we’ll consider exactly what changes to make if and when the optimistic test comes back negative."). I'd certainly put the net contribution to scientific knowledge below that of someone who just signs up for a clinical trial.

It's like a scientific method LARP.
Those who downvoted me think I support such behavior; I don't!

You know what they say: what goes around, comes around.

Those who go after anyone who has a different opinion than theirs, will face their own actions eventually, one way or another.

What I have stated is a realization: you are not allowed to make mistakes anymore, because you are immediately condemned; period!

This downvoting here proves my point 100%.

Welcome to the era of "Cancel everything because we say so".
I think you really hit on something with the integration between code and animation and vector art creation. That's not something you really see anywhere else and it instantly made me understand what was compelling about Flash.

If you want to discuss this further, my email is in my bio!
DeFi Project ArmorFi Pays Hacker $1.5M Bug Bounty for Critical Exploit
Constant? I only got asked once, on first use. I said no. I still consider it a bit rude in an open source program though.
Maps are not the world, they are an interpretation of the world, made with a set of constraints, with an objective and a purpose.

Maps are a tool and you need to know the weaknesses and strengths of the tool to use it appropriately.

No map will ever be 'true' and at the same time all are.
I'm not, I evolved as an omnivore. I also generally don't like meat though because I'm weird.
I guess it might seem that way from a distance.

My now-wife and I stumbled upon original Ample Hills location while looking for my first apartment in Brooklyn. It was quite literally the best ice cream I'd ever had. And I like my ice cream. Turned out, they had just opened the week before.

Pretty quickly, the word of mouth spread, and maybe there's a point after which you could call it "marketing-driven", but at the core of it was a truly excellent product.
California town pays tourists $100 to come visit
AHK is a programming language that does text expansion and a lot more. Check it out.
If no one operates in X, X feels pressure to either compete themselves with subpar service as you have said, or they lose out on revenue by opening up for free trade and no longer restricting access on search engines to politics.

If you are asking how best to help their population in general, there are a lot better things you could do to help their people out. At a minimum, you could start your own private search business that refuses to limit your searches and fill in a niche and make an even better search algorithm rather than dictate what you think a private business should be able to do with their platform.

If this were a public right or utility, then you have an argument maybe, but last time I checked, private businesses aren't in the business of serving a public right, only try to make a profit.
I would also like to know if you are hiring.
Many of the negative comments here seem to have missed something important:

> Consider this a pre-registration. I intend to share my test results here.

How about, instead of totally dismissing this - in classic HN fashion - with "this can never work" or "this is magical thinking", we let the guy share his results?

If it works, that will be a massively important result. If not, it won't be surprising, but _at least he will have tried_. I for one think the expected value leans overwhelmingly in favor of at least one person actually trying.
Is this somehow news to people? Don't they teach map projections in school anymore?
>Some stories are bigger than sources.

Absolutely. However, is it bigger than every story you're ever going to run? Because if I'm a potential source, and I see that you're rag is fine with sending sources to jail for a source, I'm not going to talk to you. Worse, if I'm a guerrilla group with an embedded journalist, I may very logically decide that they are a threat.
Google did exit the Chinese market though and its stock price has since under-performed the competitors that did not.
MVC Song
Related:

"The User is Drunk" (2013) https://youtu.be/r2CbbBLVaPk

"The User is Drunk"-as-a-Service (2015): https://theuserisdrunk.com/
> but from a North American standpoint (and probably most western cultures), it's not something people are lining up for.

I’m an Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent and I’ve always been keen to try “weird” foods. Never had cow feet soup, but sounds tasty. I’m sure I’m not the only Westerner with this attitude either
No it’s not remotely connected.

There is no international sanctions campaign aimed at forcing Pakistan to support freedom of religion.

There isn’t even any significant international response.

The argument is that in the absence of any international action against Pakistan that might actually cause change, it is better for the people to continue to have smartphones, access to Google search, etc.

If there was any international political movement for change in Pakistan, and Apple or
Google were arguing against sanctions, then you would have a point.
They funded us to implement this feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042582

But we also consider it a nice suggestion to our users, for a feature they've asked for years to make more reliable and robust.
This futile quest for cosmic justice is making people believe that discrimination is, somehow, equality.

Many blacks have slaves as their ancestors. Some immigrated more recently. Jews have had it uphill for most of the past two millennia. Poor whites in rural South would be right to chase you away with their guns if you tried to tell them about their alleged privileges.

Why stop at race? Short men are disadvantaged in the dating market. Beautiful people have an enormous advantage in life.

The past is full of discrimination, persecution, and prejudice. But we cannot right the old wrongs by creating new ones. Let’s treat everyone equally instead.
It needs lighting speed factorization to break Bitcoin. The public key of a bitcoin address is exposed only when the transaction is broadcasted on the network. The attacker would have about 10 minutes to factorize the public key before the transaction is validated and the original address's balance is cleared.
By the same guy: https://theuserismymom.com/

Edit: Really bizarre that I'm getting downvoted. It's relevant and entertaining supplemental info. Chill out, people.
Specifically, the kernel strives to never break Userspace - not necessarily the kernel's API.
Such great advice.
For a US company to do business in another country, if they are unable to conduct business without breaking US law, then the answer is clear. They simply cannot do business without incorporating separately as a new entity in the foreign country. In the case of a national, they may have to change their citizenship if they wish to take up that job, etc. Yes, it totally sucks that the world cannot agree on certain basic principles, but I believe we must promote change peacefully without threats/force.

In any case, I think we're way off topic here, trying to solve the worlds problems in the comment section. The last word is yours :)
The Mercator projection was not so much a 'lie' but an essential aid to navigation because a straight line on the map projected on to a geodesic, or the equivalent of a straight line, on the actual globe.
The US must have some secret trump cards up their sleeves? How could they be so far ahead by the 1990's and now we in the situation it looks like we're in? They must've been investing and planning...
I have 20 hours playing with biters, and 1600 on peaceful.
Just publish static html for view page and you will render in < 20ms
7-Zip. It does a lot more than just 7z archives. I don’t want to see adware naggy WinRAR ever again.
> Finding a high quality doctor is extremely difficult

I'm pretty sure you meant "donor" there, no?
This seems like a startup opportunity for a group with the chemistry / food science / mechanical engineering chops. Build machinery that can make consistent ice cream at scale in a turn key operation. Sounds incredibly hard and capital intensive.
It's also being studied as a treatment for autism:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190409093725.h...
How I Fixed My Copyright Strike Takedowns
I only heard about the ones from the 1990s. Thanks for adding context. He’s still canceled yet does a creepy Christmas vid considering the history. I’m not defending him at all. More attacking the process of which those allegations were brought to light.
Building the Entrepreneur with Andrew Hutton
Nah, it's fine. It just needs to keep the fire burning long-term.
Stryd | Front End Engineer | Full-time Boulder, CO | https://stryd.com/

Stryd is a talented, multidisciplinary team that is redesigning how runners train and race, bringing together the human desire to move, and the science to do it smarter. Our informative and guiding technologies are integrated into wearables that people are excited and proud to wear.

Interested in wearable and fitness technology? We are looking for a Front End Engineer to join our team!

See full description and apply here: https://angel.co/company/strydrunning/jobs/127298-frontend-e...
This reminds me of https://thetruesize.com/ which I find endlessly entertaining
Aside from being a generally well-designed modern language with good tooling, I think the most interesting thing about Rust is that it accomplishes something that I wouldn't have thought was even possible until Rust came along: they made a memory-safe language that doesn't use garbage collection. The end result is that if you want to write high performance code, you don't have to do it in a language that's difficult to use correctly.
Calls for Bank of America boycott grow after data given to FBI
I'd be interested in this as well. I assume/hope this is a temporary thing, same as the reason someone mentioned why you haven't open sourced the project?
So this is what purism was talking about. Seems like the wait will be longer yet again. They don't have much luck those guys, do they?
I feel like this must have been the inspiration for the mine cart section of super Mario rpg. Some of the music is really similar.
I’m happy to field the drunk QA team. I’ve found so many bugs while drinking and I’d love to just report them instead of trying to fix them.

Edit: nevermind I see they covered that first
Right. Daly City is next door and crime gets prosecuted there therefore fewer of these types of crimes.
While interesting, even if anti-bodies are detected in the end we have an N=1. The average random person doesn't get this. A single result is not generalizable. It kind of reminds me of the @justsaysinmice twitter account [1] which replies to relevant studies with "IN MICE".

So many factors can confound this type of work. Some big ones:

1) Does this work in general population?

2) How long does the antibody response last?

3) Does this work on variants?

4) Are there cases when this should not be used?

I remember a reference to one of the early SARS vaccines. It was promising, until they found it caused immune responses resulting in lung damage on people who had SARS (can’t find the exact paper but [2] highlights some of the concerns then and now).

[1] https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318931/#!po=2....
This map and the animated version is weird, it applies the scaling uniformly to each country, but the size error is concentrated in the extreme north and south.

It makes it look like the projection is exaggerating specific countries (like it was politically corrupted to do so intentionally) rather than exaggerating particular latitudes.

... and who didn't grow up with access to a globe that is reading this article?
If you could record yourself getting high, and then doing the QA, that'd be worth it. I just want to make sure you're plenty ripped before you start the process.
Anecdotally the premium ice creams (McConnell's, Haagen Daaz, Strauss, etc.) taste better to me than Ben and Jerry's.

If it's covered up by flavoring/sugar, then it may be hard to notice the difference. But if you just have vanilla or chocolate (with chips, nuts, etc.) then I think it's pretty easy to tell the difference.
I donate money to other Twitter campaigns
Accellerates the dev process by removing a whole bunch of steps: terminating the running program, relaunching the running program, repeating any steps to get back to the code in question.

While these things only take maybe a few seconds each, thats a few seconds that you’ll perform maybe hundreds of times. Reducing context switches is always a good thing.
> If we're going to go through the rigmarole of passing new regulations in order to solve some problem, the problem should be of sufficient magnitude to justify the associated costs

Agreed.

> Evidence or reason hasn't been provided that this is even a problem

Strongly disagree. I realize there's lots of noise right now, but the signal is starting to shake out in the news.

> let alone a problem of any meaningful magnitude deserving of regulation

This is the interesting part I'm hoping is actually debated. But somehow I don't think it's ever really going to be discussed by the SEC, the same way I feel like 2008 was just a bunch of slaps on the wrist (what happened in 2008 was much, much, much worse than what happened recently with GME to my knowledge and I am not saying they are equivalent).
I remember being stoned out of my mind, trying to grab an Uber back home.

I realized how terrible the Uber UI is. There's a shitton of confusing information and buttons competing for attention, all at an equally ambiguous grayish tone. I just want to go home. I was with a friend who was equally high, and we kept laughing at how absurdly bad and confusing the UI is. Eventually the Uber arrived and I got home safe.
IBM Algorithm Can Tell Who’s Going to Get Alzheimer’s by Reading Their Writing
What if someone made a bible that claimed Jesus was not the son of god, but just a man. I assume you would be ok with that?

What if someone makes a bible that says Jesus was engaged in a homosexual relationship with his disciples?

I'm curious if you can draw the lines on those or if that's harder to say "this is clearly allowed".
> How about, instead of totally dismissing this - in classic HN fashion - with "this can never work" or "this is magical thinking", we let the guy share his results?

Sure. How about instead of sharing wishful thinking covered in "this will work because science" OP waits until there are actual results before posting?

Anyone can make a vaccine candidate. Few can make a vaccine. Even fewer can make a safe vaccine.
Scientists Invented Freeze-Dried Vaccines That Can Be Rehydrated on Demand
More common in some northern states than in south India.
As a random QA guy, I must mention that the cost effectiveness of determining whether a website is usable when high is questionable at best unless we are talking about a snack or pizza ordering website.

You're much more likely to have a visitor base that is likely to be intoxicated, and Browsing Under the Influence is still legal. I would thus offer my services as fellow QA to determine website usability while under the heavily intoxicated; client may specify desired level of user intoxication from mildly tipsy to fall over drunk.
Graphics card prices really are something. In late 2019 I purchased an nvidia gtx 1060 used for $120. Now just yesterday I sold that same card with an additional year of wear on it for $220. This is a four-year-old card design that can barely run modern games at 1080p/60fps/medium settings.

I'd also been keeping track of used i7-4790k CPU prices, looking to upgrade from my i5-4670k. They started out at $120-$130 earlier in 2020 and are up to $160-$170 now. For an eight-year-old CPU!

It used to be the case that computer components aged like milk, price wise, but with the death of Moore's law in the 2010s that is less and less the case. I remember RAM prices spiked a couple years back too.
I think that is nearly exactly the purpose of this book though. It is not to teach you how modern computers work. That may even be an impossible task (as in I'm not sure any one person could hold all of that in their head at once). But by giving you a version of a computer you can completely understand, you can begin to relate to how various pieces of the technology you work with on a daily basis might work.

For example, the portions on virtual machines do not explicitly show you how the JVM works but they give you an idea for the conerns involved such as managing object lifetimes and whatnot.
My exploding to-do list 2.0
Oh absolutely. I loved it. Just wanted to make sure anyone else who read it was unsure that my comment would remove all doubt.
But reading the article at least, the founders were a huge part of the failure, ignoring fundamentals for flash and growth, and (allegedly) rejected offers of capital or investment from people who weren't willing to let them remain the monarchs.
It seems there is an obvious answer here. Have the US Government make it clear to the Pakistan Government that if they wish to start Trade Sanctions targetted against US companies then the USA will promptly place Trade Sanctions on Pakistan.

Actions have consequences.
It’s also the way SF deals with crime. Daly City borders SF and they don’t suffer these crimes at the same rate. Their prosecutors prosecute. They don’t play the restorative justice game —which SF pushes on victims.
Day Flat Belly Diet
Festivals are around the corner and there could be no time better than this to start that much thought about diet plan. And it is actually possible within a week. Wondering how to lose weight in 7 days? Give this diet plan a try and see the difference on your own. After all, being a women you want to fit in that lehenga of yours and show off that much dreamt of flat belly.
Sherlock Jr. is unbelievably deep and profound. For Keaton's more lightheaded humor, I recommend The Goat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXjhVZPYYRU
> you're Andy's next victim.

I don't know anything about any of this but I am wondering, if believing his story makes me his next victim, who are his previous victims?
Federal executions likely a Covid superspreader
Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas (mostly CSS and one-line JavaScript:O)
I routinely use the Uber app while entirely sober and have the exact same reaction. It's utterly terrible and I can't imagine what it's like for my parents to use it.
The video is on the linked site, too, unless it’s region locked to Canada or something.
How is this guy high? If it's pot, aka marajuana, then this is waste of time and money.

There are some drugs that can help think outside the box in QA testing, some will not work out at all.

Whisky drunk development and QA are time tested processes. Classic xkcd, https://xkcd.com/323/
Genius. We used to call this an interactive agency.

'echo "fiverr for the impaired" | mail apply@ycombinator.com'
I've never had an issue with it. I just add ~/brew/bin to my PATH and everything works fine.
That would be nice, my dev environment gets wiped every night, so I see the message everyday. That and the one time I did install Kite, Kite kept bothering me about buying some enterprise plan.

I do appreciate the work you do on Spyder though!
Are you equating this dude to Kevin Spacey?
CookieModels.com+Video+Influencers+Forum+&+Voiceover+Artist+Casting
The Software Rewrite – How to Avoid, and If You Have to Do It How to Do It Right
The Mercator projection is the only 2D map projection where:

- North is always up
- Angles are correct

If that's your criteria for correctness, then Mercator is the most correct map projection. If you want a map that shows correct right-angle grids in cities when zoomed in, for instance, you don't care about country d̶i̶c̶k̶-̶m̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ area-measuring contests.
Mozilla employee here. A donation to Mozilla Foundation can't be spent on Firefox development. So if you want to specifically help Firefox then yes, pocket or VPN are the best ways to do that. It still won't go 100% towards Firefox development, but rather just in to the corporation's "pot", the majority of which is spent on Firefox development. (Donations to the foundation are kept separate, but are also spent on very worthwhile causes in my opinion.)
Apple doesn't give one without the other. I think they could though; software could be sandboxed without an American corporation exerting authoritarian control over the distribution of software. But Apple has no interest in providing something like that, they like money too much.
That's good news.

Maybe you could let Quansight know their homepage is a bit broken (at least on Firefox on Android): The "READ MORE" link shows up on top of the text.