skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New York Times had an article last month about his donation of his archives archives to the New York Historical Society:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/nyregion/robert-caro-arch...

It was very important to him that they be accessible for further research:

Louise Mirrer, the president of the historical society, made a generous offer and said a few magical words that clinched the deal. At a dinner with the Caros a few nights later, she elaborated: The papers would be processed quickly, made part of a permanent, rotating Caro exhibit and be easily available to future scholars in a dedicated study area — a stipulation dear to a man who had been told too often in his research that so-and-so’s papers were unavailable.

I can't begin to imagine how much treasure there is to be found in there. Each of his mini-biographies (readers will know what I'm talking about)* probably have a book each worth of interviews and research behind them. I read once that he lamented the lack of any good books on Robert Moses's mentor, Belle Moskowitz; he might posthumously bring such a work to light. He had to cut his chapter on Jane Jacobs from the Power Broker. If that didn't make it, I can only imagine what else didn't. He's conducted thousands of interviews in his lifetime. There are large swaths of the history of government in 20th-Century America that will be preserved thanks to him.

* For the record, my personal favorite is Al Smith.
Because Raspbian is made for mainly educational purposes, and VS Code is the most user-friendly text editor, so they are shipping it. The lite image uses the same patches/base the full educational image uses, so the repo was also installed there.

If you plan to run it as a server, you should probably pick another distro or live with that fact.

The forum threads were closed because they were duplicates.
And at 250tb passing by every second
Considering they do intercept, as widely documented, question is how do they see if traffic is encrypted?
No Intelligence in South Africa
> - Used gas against Iraqis

Proposed the use of tear gas. Didn't carry it out.

> - Exacerbated the Bengal famine

Its more the japanese cutting off the rice supply, However I have some sympathy with exacerbate.

> - Used anthrax bombs against Nazi Germany

No. Planned to use it in retaliation. The Nazis were keen to avoid using chemical weapons because they were aware that the british had a far greater capacity to create and deploy them compared to the Nazis. (well in 1939-42)

There are very real faults we can lay at churchill's career.

1) the bombing campaign. lots of "dehoming" (ie attacking civilians instead of industrial targets)

2) dresden

3) hamburg

4) fucking up Galipoli
> in many countries he wouldn't be able to drink

But in most countries they would be able to drink (especially in a private setting), just not purchase. In Europe for instance less than half a dozen countries have a minimum drinking age for private settings, and a dozen more have an MDA in public (but not private), though for some 16 is enough to drink fermented alcohols (alongside a meal with adults for the UK, regardless for Germany and Austria).
Covid-19 data on men and women is critical
It was _wildly_ successful.

The goal posts of an exit were successfully moved several times in the course of the rise. From 100 to 200 to 300. Some of the initial traders successfully exited at the original meme price of $420.69. The fact that it was _so_ successful is why people even then began to beat the drum of a $1000/share exit. Even now the price has has settled around $90 which is probably at least twice its "fair" value of $20-$40.

So yeah, some people purely chasing a hype lost but a lot of retail investors that had their finger on the pulse before the hype successfully called their shot and made it out the other end much richer than when they started.
Or they might be billionaires and are worried that if the birth rate continues dropping they might have to modernize their facilities or pay higher wages.
Implementing garbage collection into the storage of the TezEdge node
I don’t know.

Browsers are already huge beasts, but I feel like their large feature set mostly benefit the cloud services than the user. I am not advocating for even bigger browser, but I would welcome a better local-first integration with surrounding apps.

As of now, extensions are pretty limited in what they can do around the browser UI.

On desktop, extensions can merely add icons to a toolbar and inject content to the current page. Vertical sidebars are gone.

On mobile, it’s even more limited to adding actions to a menu and some background tasks.

Browsers escaped from the crazy and sometimes fragile extension system that could interact with the browser chrome, maybe for the better, but nowadays, they are mostly sandbox screen readers or huge cloud only monoliths à la chromeOS.
$3k Apple mixed-reality visor could debut in 2022 with premium features
I popped a link in my profile. It would be good if it were a nice smallish community so I am trying not to spam it around.
- compiler prevents use of uninitialised or freed memory

- langage actually uses safety features in api design (good luck updating libc to use this)
If you do nothing, then it is logical ;)
Introducing Microsoft Viva
You don't need to do much to be wrong, especially in the context of selling highly addictive drugs.
In addition to the features given by others, I believe AirPlay 2 significantly re-worked the way timing and sync works.

Previously I believe AirPlay (1) had a fixed 2 second delay, which was not a great UX and also caused issues in syncing multi-room (or multi-output) audio.

AirPlay 2 does this in a much more dynamic way that reduces the latency (anecdotally, maybe 100-200ms is typical) and improves the sync. I have no idea how it achieves this though.
Are we still talking about factual comment of them requiring IDs or the completely unfounded speculation of them using it for all manner of things beyond regulatory compliance?

The former is a fairly defensible position. PCI standards for this sort of data collection should be a government matter as they are the ones requiring this information to begin with. The latter isn't based on reality and not worth arguing about.
Pre-COVID some restaurants in the US had started moving away from tips (and adjusting wages). In Japan it's very refreshing to not be expected to tip.
yes, kinda lame to post either before there's any news/blog about it or without a clearer ask about it's status

That being said for anyone keeping up on these things there was an update over the course of last year that said it would be back (it was offline/there was no login page for years) so this appears to be new.
React AutoComplete
I think there are times when this disclaimer makes sense. Industry regulation can be quite complicated and nuanced enough that an action might be illegal despite not seeming so on the surface. They also can vary between jurisdiction.

Having an experienced industry lawyer review future business plans is just good sense.
I get the sense that you may not be old enough to remember when the majority of people who used the internet used RSS feeds to consume their news and information consumption. That all changed with mostly facebook and Zuckerberg's charge to have "Facebook replace the internet". We are now totally shifted from a distributed consumer driven information market to a centralized autocratic supplier system (it's not even a market, but rather just centralized propagation of regime approved narrative).

I totally agree with the subject author and likely you, but I would go even further, that RSS or a similar user controlled distributed source subscription model is the only way that humanity can regain control over its freedom of information. And time is clearly running out. Regardless of what people may think of the likes of Elon Musk, the clear move (regardless of why) to the privatization of the internet through his skynet, or was it skylink???, project will lead to the atrophy of what is at least theoretically still a public internet, even though corporations have essentially totally coöpted it.
Recently came across a related article in a series on design pattern equivalents in FP, "Visitor as a sum type".[0]

[0] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2018/06/25/visitor-as-a-sum-type/
Most environmentalists are in it for the religion.

For example, wind turbine blades are composite components that are too expensive to recycle and wear our much faster than most people realize, so there are vast garbage dumps filled with buried giant wind turbine blades made of petrochemicals.

Most electric vehicles are charged with electricity made from burning carbon (coal & natural gas).

Reusable plastic bags need to be used like 28 times before they have less of an impact than disposable ones. Cotton bags need to be used over 7000 times before they are better than disposable.
random -- you just decided to load up the url to see what was there one day? or did you get a tip it was coming online again finally
I popped a link in my profile :)
> Just post something you know will offend someone. Et viola: you just killed a company.

Except that's not how it works in the slightest. You have moderation in place to work to prevent that. You are doing your due diligence. You are making an honest effort to solve this problem. Mistakes will happen. Nothing is perfect, but you are making an honest attempt, and it's reasonably effective.

Parler was not doing anything close to that.

Your comment operates under the belief that these things are binary. Simply post one thing someone can find offensive, and "I win!"

But most people, most successful companies, are smarter than that and operate in reality.
You'll probably have the choice of abandoning your account or consenting to let them use at least the new data. I know a lot of people who have decided they've had enough only to realize that so much of their life has been integrated into their Google/Apple account that they can't actually leave.
That was one of my points as well. Our testers weren’t technicians flipping switches. They were engineers and computer scientists who designed test cases, maintained them, ran them, and analyzed the results. I wanted to free them from running the test cases (which could take weeks when the full suite was executed) so they could do more of the rest.
> Everybody knows it, and they're just too afraid to say so because they're worried they will get put on a list. Some conspicuously unarmed people trespassed and even managed to bring camera crews.

Can you spell out what exactly you are implying here? I don't feel included in the "everybody knows it".
Google isn't helping anymore than Facebook. Apple is dipping their toes into privacy focused features that hurt Facebook and Amazon but I suspect they're making a long adtech play.
Its all well and good to sit there and say "get a dedicated graph database".

But there are two problems with that :

(a) In many cases, running a graph database will require getting involved with the monstrosity that is managing Java (since that is what most of them are written in). Managing Java is all well and good if you (or your team) have experience. For mere mortals its a nightmare to manage.

(b) In the case of pretty much all graph databases, you only get basic features in the free / open-source version. If you want access to any genuinely useful features, you have to pay for "enterprise" with the associated $$$$$$$$$$.

Meanwhile Postgres gives everyone a solid database, with all the features included out of the box, no pay to play.

So what if you need to - shock horror - actually learn how a database works and write some proper SQL queries. The reason so many people have horror stories about SQL databases is because they let some inept developers loose on their RDBMS who treat a database like a black box dumping ground with zero thought about table design, index design, SQL queries or anything else.

Rant over. ;-)
It's Facebook library, not FE framework, enough for me. Never spent so much time configuring Angular app as React one.
Perhaps I haven't had enough caffeine yet, but this sounds exactly like what we get in the latest versions of C# w/ its pattern matching feature:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/pattern-match...
That's not the point; you can't say their advice is ineffective, while also condemning them for being effective.

The top comment derisively states:

"The whole business is a scam built around sending in some 26 year-old with an Ivy League degree and $100 haircut to regurgitate snippets from articles in HBR"

In the context of fining the company $500MM for being too effective.

At least in the US, where the punishment is relative to the crime; the court clearly agrees about their efficacy.
Record-breaking roller coaster will travel more than 155 miles per hour
Popped a link in my profile, trying not to be spammy!
I'm guessing they're coming from C++ or similar where the copy constructors already take care of making a deep copy.
If the goal is smaller code then show me a benchmark on the size of the code.
If having bad service sometimes is the price to pay for service personnel having decent lives, it's fine by me.
This would be the announcement/post that should have been submitted here

https://twitter.com/Delicious/status/1357065549436518400

Pinboard dude has resurrected Delicious finally
Furniture that puts gaming first
Making the Case for a Higher Minimum Wage (2019)
The cable itself? Almost certainly not. They don't need to. It terminates in the US.
Its a people problem. Actually solving problems takes a particular kind of mind. A degree is just a piece of paper which certifies the fact that you sat through lectures on subjects and you successfully regurgitated said lecture material on another piece of paper from memory.

The issue with the MBA field is that it tends to attract power hungry narcissists/psychopaths who enjoy holding power over others. Engineers like to tinker with stuff and be left alone.
Delicious back online in read-only mode
These iterative queries convert hierarchical (not graph) data into relational data. That means queries can perform aggregations and joins against other relations, which is obviously useful in a relational database.
This is exactly right. The relevant quote from the article is this:

> The reason we care about Church-encoding is because not all programming languages natively support sum types or recursion (although most programming languages support product types in the form of records / structs).

> However, most programming languages do support functions, so if we have functions then we can use them as a “backdoor” to introduce support for sum types or recursion into our language. This is the essence of the visitor pattern: using functions to Church-encode sum types or recursion into a language that does not natively support sum types or recursion.
Launch: Pinocchio – an open source application for Puppeteer testing
Hi HN! A small team of engineers and myself recently launched Pinocchio (in beta): an open source application for generating Puppeteer tests. This user friendly GUI allows users to identify selectors for their tests and preview their code in the provided code editor. Once the tests have been created, an exportation of the test suites into the user's application is only a button click away. Any support, feedback, and suggestions would be enormously appreciated.

Our site: http://pinocchio.dev/

Github: https://github.com/oslabs-beta/pinocchio

Medium article: https://medium.com/pinocchio-for-developers/play-with-pinocchio-a-puppeteer-test-generation-gui-8a9f9f501a7a

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinocchio-dev/
That being said, tolerating hate is the same as espousing it oneself.
Another question for knowledgeable people here:

Can I not just run two GNSS receivers 10 meters apart (on a ship), and if they report as having the same position, then I know someone is spoofing?

It should be really hard to beamform the spoofing to spoof two different locations, at least from a distance because of the precise angles needed.

Yes, this assumes that my real GNSS signal is good enough that they normally are 10M apart.
Congress Trading
McKinsey has 27,000 employees. That's the population of an entire town. I'm not saying that the things described in the links you posted here aren't bad, but I think it's important to remember with this many employees, there will always be someone doing something that you don't agree with.
I recall seeing a story in the past about how the NSA planted a misleadingly weak encryption library.

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/10/new_evidence_of...

If the encryption used is flawed, they could see whatever they want.
> Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you

This can't be an oversight, the feature is too obvious, too easy to implement. This has to be a deliberate choice.

Does anyone know why HN made this choice?
Source, destination, message length, etc. Lots of interesting meta data to play with.
That doesn't change the fact that they still also belong to someone else who may very well want to keep them.
It's not a massive leverage point, but the consensus is generally that shorter is better

https://blog.close.com/saas-startups-why-your-free-trials-ar...
Large Study Reveals Prevalence, Health Benefits of Brown Fat
What configuring do you need to do to use React?

Install Node, run `npx create-react-app my-site` and you're all configured.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26020143
Note that the only other place it works like this law. Lawyers are always "providing advice" about complex legal matters, with no actual responsibility for the outcome (with limited exceptions). So the idea that lawyers would apply similar logic to a reasonably-similar circumstance (in terms of complexity, difficulty, potential liability, etc.) is not unreasonable.
Although your statement is generally true, I think the remaining flaw in that consideration is the subscription model. It makes you and your information source totally dependent on the whims of others. Sure, maybe they won't shut down, but maybe they will not refuse some insane buyout from a tech tyrant to capture the market and you and the information about you, if they aren't already selling that.

The general internet/application model of pre-fb is probably the only viable option going forward, where you pay or invest or buy into development projects like you would in one of those gofundme type things.
I'm a big fan of Weave/knitr/Rmd style notebooks over Jupyter for reproducibility. I've had a great experience with parameterized Weave.jl reports.

My one complaint is that a streamlined dev workflow depends on good caching. knitr nailed that part, checking code hashes and checking dependencies between chunks. Weave.jl caching has been... finicky.

For a completely different style of notebook, folks should check out Pluto.jl https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl
Castle Wolfenstein, '81, Leisure Suit Larry, '87 and Duke Nukem, '91 .. better?
They're not 'gimped' by any sort of conspiracy.

It's just extremely hard to make a pure INS navigation system.

Even if you could measure your acceleration accurate to 0.00001 m/s/s, because it gets integrated twice to give position even that tiny error is going to give you a position that's out by 100m after an hour.

And measuring acceleration precise to 0.00001 m/s/s is a demanding task - like weighing a car so precisely you could count the pages of a book on the back seat.

That level of precision simply isn't available in the affordable MEMS market segment.
> I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader.

Then again, staying on top of everything is overrated.

For example, knowing every time someone responded to you on HN is most likely a net negative. They're likely to just be arguing with you. Better to navigate to your comment history on HN when you feel like arguing than getting notified on each reply.

This comment is a good example. You were just enjoying your Thursday and I found a bone to pick with your comment. Why would you want this pushed into your life instead of pulled into your life when you're in the mood to deal with it? ;)

You of course can open your RSS reader only when you're in the mood for it. But I think there's value in the disorganization of distractions. You forgot to check NYTimes or HN replies or whatever in 2 months? It's not like you missed anything important.

I found it nice to just have a list of links in a Notes.app file that I check every once in a while for leisure.
That's awesome. How did you do that?
Ask HN: What do product managers think makes a product great?
Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business
This sounds rather dismissive. The company (and others like it) has been around for decades. Most of Fortune 500 has leaned on their advice multiple times, and their advice doesn't come cheap. So your implication is that these companies are being scammed into repeatedly wasting their money and are apparently not smart enough to figure this out. To me, that feels hard to believe.

It's conceivable McK and other actually do offer some value. A 26 year-old may not have tons of real world experience, but working at McK would allow him/her to have exposure to a global team that has worked across many companies in the industry. Having an understanding of best practices across multiple companies in the industry is valuable. It's also valuable to come in with a fresh perspective that is not heavily influenced by working at the same company for decades.
Apple mixed-reality headset: Two 8K displays, $3k price tag
I think the question was what if the music is stolen.

E.g. imagine clone of a GPL github repo but with MIT slapped on it.
Slides that are text only distract the audience.

They read the text.

Slides that are non-self-explanatory images, _require_ the audience to listen to the speaker.

Try it. Put two circles on the screen and see what people do. They look at you for explanation.
Articles like https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/mckinsey-purdue-... have some details.

A quote from that shows some details :-

"
In a 2017 presentation, according to the records, which were filed in court on behalf of multiple state attorneys general, McKinsey laid out several options to shore up sales. One was to give Purdue’s distributors a rebate for every OxyContin overdose attributable to pills they sold.

The presentation estimated how many customers of companies including CVS and Anthem might overdose. It projected that in 2019, for example, 2,484 CVS customers would either have an overdose or develop an opioid use disorder. A rebate of $14,810 per “event” meant that Purdue would pay CVS $36.8 million that year.
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I think this is too small of a time window. On the thousand-year horizon, centralization has been consistently increasing.

We may fluctuate a bit to more decentralized in the next decade. If bitcoin "wins", then on one hand it's a story of decentralization - no one controls it! - but on the other it compresses a bunch of currencies and wealth assets into one.

And hopefully the miners don't eventually become centralized...
Seems like a massive gap that you guys are addressing - especially in the enterprise space, I'll be watching closely!
So is it illegal to host the Menlo font on github? It's my preferred monospace font, but can be sometimes hard to find and there several "open" copies. That claim to not be encumbered. Isn't there also "non-free" font repos in debian?
Popped a link in my profile!
This is misleading. The ID requirements were there to provide a 'verified' account status similar to Twitter's blue check mark. It wasn't some arbitrary requirement. I bet Twitter requires this as well for the verified status.
Sadly I don't have any information on that, but I assume if they did want to outsource given the ridiculous budget it should be feasible.