skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world would have done nothing about Hitler if he hadn't started invading the rest of Europe [1]. And the CCP is smart enough to focus on economic domination instead of land-war.

This is my greatest fear for humanity right now.

[1] https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/britain-ado...

Edit: Why would this get downvoted? Do you disagree with the interpretation of history (and extrapolation to our current situation), or do you disagree that this prospect is a bad thing?
Facebook, Google, Twitter release industry code to fight disinformation
Any book recommendations about this (the defection story)?
Lockdowns didn’t stop the spread of Covid-19 after all
The historical significance of it is a hell of a lot more than that
Because for all the crap people give America for conducting foreign policy according to its economic interests, everybody else does the same. And right now, doing business with China is lucrative because of their human misery arbitrage.
>Two hundred football fields is absolutely trifling even now and much less on the scale of 10 000 years.

Yet today, there's about a quarter of a million tonnes of waste in holding storage at various locations awaiting proper disposal. The only deep geological disposal facility currently operational is WIPP and of the three that have ever existed in the world, the other two in Germany have permanently closed. It should be noted that both those sites have major issues with long-term stability and significant ongoing investment is occurring to attempt to remediate them.

The issues at WIPP in 2014 are a clear example of how non-trifling the task is: Underground truck fire, followed a few days later by (unrelated) airborne release of radioactive materials due to a waste barrel being packed with, and I am not making this up, the wrong kind of kitty litter. After a three-year hiatus and at a cost of five hundy million to remediate, it's been running again for a couple of years and due to permanently close in as little as three years.

This will be a good thing because ceasing operations and permanently sealing the site drastically reduces the risk of incidents due to human fallibility. Now in fairness it's a pilot site even in name, so procedures should be improved on the next iterations. But this is a field clearly in it's infancy, it's not yet matured.

I just can't agree that disposal even of the waste generated so far is trifling. When the waste of today is on track for secure, permanent, safe storage I'll be a bit more optimistic.

>You're also ignoring the fact that reactors that recycle spent fuel have been made and can be drastically improved, so demand for storage of waste as well as how hard they are to contain can very realistically go down.

Yeah I hope so. Re-processing of a significant chunk of the existing waste would be an encouraging sign.
The states didn't agree on anything - when a state had an outbreak other states independently chose to close the border to them and administered border passes until the outbreak subsided.
It’s interesting how people like the OP single out the two cures for the diseases of hatred & oppression: censorship and cancellation. And yet lack the courage to couch their ask in plain language: Let us say anything we want but never face any consequence for doing so.
It's generally used on bytes, but as others have said, it can be any symbol. Even on complete words!

https://www.nayuki.io/page/huffman-coding-english-words
> The problem is that you're not thinking about the context of the word and instead are using it in a different context to be offended by it.

Please be a bit more careful. Please don't assume you know what or how much I'm thinking.

I think the situation isn't as binary as you seem to be presenting it. The context of the word is a metaphor. The metaphor is commonly used for 'good versus bad'. This being a common metaphor in western language might not be helpful to some people. It's not difficult to be more explicit or to use a different metaphor.

> you are the one who needs to think about ... I am able to think on my own.

:) You know the classic idea: "I know I'm right, therefore you are either less intelligent or haven't thought hard enough!"?

You know how easy that is to think and why our brain gets us to think that way?
the symbolism is the problem and you need to account for it if you desire to cater to other ppls perception. You can also not care and just put it the way you think describes something.

the joke if you like is in the intend. If you chose not to correct your language it becomes intentional.

i offer no solutions
>Only election-truthers and violence peddlers

Did you read the parent comment?
If a road accident victim dies due to not getting ICU because all are full, one could say he died of secondary causes of covid. No Covid and he'd have survived.
Did you target JP or EN language audience? Or else can you target by geolocation?
I don't really agree that if you're in the social majority you can be upset about racism against your empowered majority position... it just doesn't make sense.

That said, if you're white in China/India/Kenya/etc... 100% there is a heap of racism directed at you and I feel for you
There's a credible case it's just a happy coincidence. The large single economy with, until recently, open immigration policy were possibly bigger factors.
It's much more acceptable / justifiable creating positive perception (brain washing) in broad audience. Old repetition marketing rule.

In advertising, the effective frequency is the number of times a person must be exposed to an advertising message before a response is made and before exposure is considered wasteful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_frequency
Wow that was a really good interview. I especially liked his poignant quote at the end.

"It's been very lonely. but I've been absolutely sure of what I've been doing all the time. One of the main definitions of paranoia is believing what nobody else believes; so, one cure is for the patient to change his mind and believe what the rest of the world believes: that is the low road. the other, by which I hope to cure myself, is to persuade everybody else. And, then I will no longer be paranoid [...]"
Cost is certainly relevant. Its the reason that older plants are shutting down in the US, because even though they are already operating they can't compete with gas.

Cost is also the reason that what was supposed to be the reactor of the US's nuclear renaissance, the AP1000, has had all its projects cancelled. The two projects that started construction under Obama were financial failures, with one getting cancelled after spending $9B on a hole in the ground, the other is about to go online after going 2x+ over budget for time and money.
You should check out the work done by Kaze Emanuar. He's made a number of demakes, new maps, new games, and much more in Mario 64

https://mario64hacks.fandom.com/wiki/Kaze_Emanuar
https://www.youtube.com/user/KazeBG0
DOS32pae – a DOS extender using PAE paging
Efficient trade benefits everyone, including Americans. But Americans aren't the only ones who pay for it.
The tech world, while seen as largely as being left wing, has had a strong right-wing libertarian streak. This streak seems to have followed the same right-ward march and increase in rhetoric as your standard conservatism.
What about the “context” of, say, Japanese American internment camps makes them something we should excuse Roosevelt for, if you don’t mind me asking?
I wish they had the capability to issue virtual card numbers. I don't even need temporary ones, just want the capability to segregate my spending into separate accounts.
>data from the first quarantined cities in Italy showing 60% of asymptomaticity[2]

Asympomaticity or pre-symptomacity?

>Experts had data from cruise ships showing a low infection fatality rate [1], data from the first quarantined cities in Italy showing 60% of asymptomaticity[2], data showing that the average Covid victim is 80 years old and has three comorbidities[3].

Yet Italy had crowded ICUs and Sweden had to beg neighboring countries to take some ICU patients from them. It'd have been all much much worse without lockdown. Your CFR assumes good critical care.
Decided to make this after this thread[0] earlier today, thinking it would be an easy way to see what it takes to make a web extension. It ended up being pretty underwhelming, but it works so I decided to release it.

It hides karma from the header and profile pages, removes comment points, and un-fades any comments that are faded.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26205576
How exactly are you approaching this conversation with your Chinese coworkers?
You have to go meta and publish a blog post about what getting to the front page of HN does to your plays?
There is an old shipping container hidden behind our 7-11[0]. Only way to tell what it is, is by the excess venting and security. They popped up everywhere but no one knows what they are. Most are in really rundown, old, or temporary buildings.

Another one that they learned some very expensive lessons about heating and cooling is inside this big tower [1] that used to be where they made apple juice by the millions of gallons.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/PEbm8qqVKDL5fnRf8
[1] https://goo.gl/maps/6HfgNELGKxwRJiJE6
Wow, I wonder if that’s really for a two mile wave or if it’s coiled to really be far bigger.
That is a very odd question, as it could hardly be clearer that the point here is that as there have been no special constraints preventing Texas from following the rest of the world's example in improving its energy infrastructure over the decades, your reply to my original point is irrelevant.
The former may require the latter.
I think it depends,I was transferring for a year my money overseas and then yes rarely used it. I would think they want to capture the people that send money from high income countries to lower income and freelancers. Those are probably the core customers
Incidentally, table-based canonical Huffman works best when the "root" of the Huffman codes is stored in the more significant bits, as that simplifies the algorithm from having to do a bit string reversal and the codes remain in order in the table.

...but I believe DEFLATE goes the exact opposite way, for reasons unknown.
like anything in life, there are tradeoffs. the US passport is great because it allows easy employment access to US tech companies, who pay absurd amounts of money; if you live outside the US for at least 330 days, you aren't taxed federally on the first $105K or so. this allows one to, for example, work 20-30 hrs/week while paying zero federal income taxes to take home around $105K. compare that to NYC: you'd need about $160K to take home $105K (!!), plus your post tax costs aro going to be high as hell - rent, restaurants, and so forth. worse, you're probably pulling 45ish hrs a week for that. i imagine SF is similar or worse.

such a setup allows one to build wealth and live an extraordinary life. i'd highly recommend it if you can swing it.
After looking online I believe we're playing a Hong Kong / Chinese ruleset. I think my original comment implied I introduced the game to my family but I did not. One of my aunts is a Buddhist monk and she learned the game at her temple. We play with a photocopy of a photocopy of rules with American boards. The game was popular in the 40s and 50s so finding a set at an estate sale or flea market is possible, you just have to be careful that it's a full set and all tiles are included.

You're right in that there is some complexity if people are going for named hands. But it's the matter of minutes to teach someone the basics and the classic winning Mahjong hand that stops the game. You can usually get through a few games repeating the rules for scoring at the end to emphasize the basics and then let new players add complexity as they get comfortable.

I think the other reason it's popular is because although you might be the person who called out Mahjong to stop the game, someone else can easily beat your score. Plus there are no alliances to be made and broken: everyone stands on their own.

If you teach someone the game my suggestion is just hand them a copy of the scoring rules and score their hand with them a few times until they're comfortable. This is not (IMHO) a game you teach in one session.

For anyone who has played computer mahjong and is scratching their head wondering what the heck we're talking about this is not just pairs matching. The game when played with humans is very different. Same tiles, but different rules.
Only way to do it somewhat safely is with a whole aircraft parachute.
But those aren't the kinds of things I'm talking about. I'm talking about things that only happen because we locked down, and that wouldn't have happened had we let the virus run completely unchecked.
An MX record is a mail authority delegation.

The History Department at a major university could delegate mail to be handled by the schools IT department and need not be involved in the movement of a mail server from one IP to another.

This decision was made in a time when running mail involved lots of external coordination and was best delegated to a single central group, whereas a simple web server could be spun up by a technical person within the History dept.
California haa effectively had no lockdowns, since state and county public health orders are enforced by county sheriffs and most have not only not done so but also announced policies of not doing so.

Small businesses may have been hurt by people voluntarily taking steps to protect themselves or their community despite the absence of lockdowns, but a recall isn't going to effect that.

OTOH, nothing here indicates that this is a general sentiment among small business owners, just “some”, which in a state with 4.1 million small businesses is going to be true of support for (or opposition to) almost any idea imaginable.
Turning a wireless keyboard into a wired keyboard
They made a TV show of that right? Haven’t seen it but may check it out. Was the book any good?
Interview with Ryan Dahl, Node.js and Deno Creator
might try this out just because I like birds
People often watch YouTube videos at 2x speeds, it’s part of their app to select 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2x because you can generally listen to most speakers at that speed just fine. Let alone 11 hours of ocean waves etc.

Only averaging 1.3x assumed significant overhead and going back to re listen to segments, have an escalation queue for flagged videos, and randomly assigning multiple people to the same videos to ensure people are paying attention not just playing solitaire while the video is on. Plus other random crap, in other words ~30% overhead.
MacLynx beta 3 for classic Mac OS
Superintelligence is a very interesting book.

Here is a well written, accessible summary of some of the issues it highlights:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
> If someone tries to dismiss an opinion by calling someone a "privileged white male" how would that be any better than dismissing someone's opinion for being black?

Context matters... if you are in the position of privilege and saying things that you can only say because of your position. Then I can see why some people would dismiss it.

The difference is: if you try to dismiss someone in a minority position for saying things that would be okay to say in a privileged position. Then you are just doubling down on that privilege.

This isn't about "white privilege" vs "black privilege" this about privilege in general. Really empathy is the answer and understanding where they are coming from will help you not inadvertently offend them.
Ask HN: Simple static site generator for basic templating?
I've been looking for a simple static site generator just to add basic metatags/CSS/scripts and a consistent header to existing HTML via templating, but google has failed me. In the past I've just written a simple script to do it but I'm sure there's something better.
Even in the same call. You’d be surprised how often people say “I got it” and then stumble when you ask them to explain what they just “got”.
> at any given time at least 1 person is day dreaming

I dunno, I'd maybe weaken that a bit before putting money on it:

> at any given time at least 1 person isn't day dreaming.
Yes. The async/await in JS is totally different from Await in plain Scala (without any frameworks)
Cryptocurrency/blockchain is a valuable concept the way the internet is, but Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a nice proof of concept, but as a currency it has big problems that look like they won't be solved. Pets.com was also a good proof of concept.
Are there any examples of the audio it produces?
you can't just say that and not tell me how he put his nose up (the exact opposite of what you are supposed to do in a stall warning) and even overrode the automatic stick-pusher, leaving the poor plane to gyrate like this https://youtu.be/lxywEE1kK6I?t=120

(and confusing the poor airport ATC who didn't understand where the plane went)
Agadmator may be "mediocre" (aka still better at chess than anyone I've ever met in person) and his analysis simplistic, but that might actually help him on his mission. Which seems to be to make chess as consumable as a mainstream sport: nearly immediately following a game, he gives you the highlights - just enough so that the game has an exciting narrative, even if the analysis is not extensive.
It’s decentralized. Why does it need “a killer app?”
It is fascinating to witness tech giants and the academy move towards a singular focus on melanin and gonads in the name of wokeness.
I looked at buying a company that does this, called Visionect. They have a consumer product called getjoan (at getjoan.com) that is some direct competition for what you want to do.

Here's my quick summary:

* They were using the tech for low power conference room calendars, which was a good use case pre-COVID.

* They said consumers really liked Joan, and that it was a popular product internally for employees.

* It renders pretty much any web view, which I think is the right idea

Overall, my assessment is that generally the market is small, and building a 'good' version, e.g. something that feels as good as a remarkable 2, is going to be really expensive.

Joan as a product is very thick, and also has terrible connectivity - no wifi-based configuration, needs out of date USB drivers downloaded in order to talk to it, etc. etc.

So, in answer to your question, as a hobby, yes. As an actual product for sale, I do not think it is a large market. If you find a large market you will be fighting companies like visionect that have deep supply chain roots to Eink directly.

If it were larger and lighter, I think putting one up on the fridge showing the family calendar, or other use cases like the conference room where it's nice to have updating information without running power are good ideas. But this is a very small market. And you are fighting the fact that people usually prefer bright colorful displays except in niche applications.

In summary, I would urge you to look at a different hardware niche.
Because Australia (and Wuhan) had strict lockdowns and finees whereas other countries had barely any enforcement or punishments.
What was expired was the domain `transl.in`. Perhaps that was set up just for NFC/QR links or something? Maybe other "short url" use?

That is not the main domain or website for Translink, the public transit authority for the state of Queensland. Which is at https://translink.com.au/, with a "contact us" link at the top.

If Translink's entire web presence had disappeared, due to a domain renewal problem or anything else, I am confident it would have been noticed and fixed quickly. It's the public transit authority for the whole dang state!

It's possible(? not very likely?) there are QR and/or NFC using customers who without QR/NFC links working can't figure out any other way to contact Translink to let them know.

I think it's also possible that few actually use QR codes/NFC links.
What a perfect domain name for a conservative news site :D

/scnr
In the US, the States are explicitly prohibited from closing their borders as a matter of Constitutional law. For different reasons, neither the States nor the Federal government are allowed to prohibit free travel between the States. This has been to the Supreme Court many times, it is mostly settled law at this point.

The right to travel within the US, like free speech, is near absolute. The due process hurdles to temporarily remove that right from an individual are very high; you can't do it with an edict nor de facto travel restrictions by abusing regulatory power (which has also been tested in the US Supreme Court).

Australia has significantly weaker individual freedoms than the US. This is one of those cases where those differences become apparent. Everyone asserting that the US should restrict travel like everyone else is ignoring that it is expressly illegal for the government to mandate such at thing in the US. No one in the US government is interested in dealing with the backlash such an attempt would elicit.
Canonical Huffman can be thought of as a pre-determined tree shape that's easy to re-construct. First, decide your bit lengths from your probabilities (something the most probable should get the shortest code-length, choose wisely), and then add 1s to the start of each longer to make it unambiguous.

If we have three symbols, A, B, and C, and let's say we assign bit lengths of A=1, B=2, C=2, meaning A is the most probable then we count:

A = 0
B = 10
C = 11

For code lengths A=1, B=2, C=4, D=4, E=4, then we have:

A = 0
B = 10
C = 1100
D = 1101
E = 1110

Note that all we need to send is the bit lengths (1, 2, 4, 4, 4) to the other side, and we have an algorithm to assign the bits. Though, even (1, 2, 4, 4, 4) is actually too much information, we just need to send the number of symbols for each given length: (1, 1, 0, 3)

Much faster, smaller, and generally better than sending over a whole tree.
Surely there's some space between "Recommend" and "Ban"?
That pain is so huge I just can't forget it. I am a Canadian resident , a dual Canadian-Hungarian citizen, my brother has accounts in Austria and Hungary, my clients are in the USA chiefly but also all over the EU. So international wires are quite a thing.

Here in Canada, the traditional way I could send money was going to a bank branch , fill out a very long form to be able to do a SWIFT transfer and pay through the nose for it.

Then came VBCE online, an FX company which was OK-ish except you needed to ask them to add everyone wiring you beforehands. And they demanded to have an up to date passport on file.

Then came transferwise and the world turned into a happy place.
I think you're really under-rating how important it is to be able to do something like "pip install 'requests==1.0.5'" or whatever, in order to reconstruct the past state of a project. If requests hasn't pinned its dependencies, that command will simply not work. The only way you'll be able to install that version of requests is to manually go back and piece together the whole dependency snapshot at that point in time.

There's pretty much no point in setuptools automatically installing library dependencies for you if you expect the library dependencies to be unpinned. In fact it would be actively harmful --- it just leads people to rely on a workflow that works today but will break tomorrow.

You're asking for an ecosystem where there's no easy way to go back and install a particular version of a particular library. That's not better than having version conflicts.

The other thing I'd note is that it's quite an understatement to say that pinning dependencies makes life "slightly easier" for library developers. We're not going to accept builds just breaking overnight, and libraries that depend on us aren't going to accept us breaking their builds either.
Their actual customers, aka advertisers, want to avoid being associated with some things. It’s the same reason you don’t see Pepsi etc advertised on porn websites.
Single header, no dependencies, cross platform, immediate mode, and the GUI examples actually look good... that’s wild.