skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>apparently there were female viking warriors

This is a MUCH more controversial idea than pop-history would have you believe. There have been Viking women found buried with weapons and armour; however, there are also men who weren't warriors found buried with arms and armour as well. Scholarship on the matter isn't really sure if the women found buried that way were warriors being honored as such, or rich/wealthy/politically powerful people who were buried in the trappings of a martial society. Also, the extrapolation of "a shockingly small number of women were buried with swords" to "the Vikings had gender equality and badass warrior women in every port" is great Netflix fodder, but not really backed up anywhere else.

>Never mind of course that vikings weren't big on "consent" or that they're darlings of far right groups.

Vikings also literally had a slave based economy; the only thing that got the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to unite was "hey, we don't want to be slaves/the main event of excruciatingly brutal human sacrifices."

>compared to those awful Anglo-Saxon Christians

Interestingly enough, almost all the Vikings converted peacefully to Christianity within a decade or two of settling in Britan.
The unmasked? Those with differing opinions on the pandemic? Fellow shoppers? People outside your immeadiate family circle? Consumers of non-essential services?

At this point the divisions have been potentially driven to a point where each individual is atomized. Of course that it is the extreme case, but you needn't look far if you are looking to personify the target of the fear campaign.
Ohmygit – An open source game about learning Git
Sorry I might've missed it, where did you see NPCI (the payments body) mentioned? The organization mentioned repeatedly in the post is NCIIPC.
I know I'm venturing off-topic here, but I believe "above the fold" in the newspaper world referred to story prominence on the front page rather than advertising.

I don't recall, even long ago, seeing ads on real newspapers that were both front-page and "above the fold". I imagine "above the fold" wasn't related to advertising until the web existed.
Except inflation is by no means guaranteed. We've been fighting deflation for years now.

For the decade following 2008, the last time there was a big warning about how stimulus spending would lead to Weimar-style hyper-inflation, our inflation rate has averaged 1.47%. The Fed is trying to raise that to 2%, worried that it's too low!
Daft Punk – Epilogue
So... in layman terms, can I buy this, strap on the Boeing 737 instead of turbine and fly? Will I need 2 units, for each wing? Or how does it work?
This is why it's so problematic when people don't make a distinction between "virus" and "Trojan".

If we trusted that people, particularly a supposed tech site, made the distinction, the article would be MUCH more useful.

A new Trojan out there? I don't care much.

An actual virus that fits the definition of computer virus (that is, it infects and spreads without user interaction)? That's a huge deal.

Too bad they don't make a distinction.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07350 already calls it "metaprompt" :) I gave it a quick stab a while ago but I think prompt programming is too new, and you can't easily cram demonstrations into an existing prompt, for it to really work well. It's more promising to train models on examples of tasks from instructions, or work on directly optimizing prompts for a goal (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00190) - it's a differentiable model and a whitebox, so use that power!
What is QA if it cannot be blamed for low quality?
The other almost-certain win would be half-doses of the mRNA vaccines (ie, double supply) given the antibody responses we saw with lower doses, but that's probably asking for too much...
University of Southampton/ECS, in the UK. It's understandable as IBM have a large campus about 30 minutes away in Hursley near Winchester. I know 2 people who interned there and whos fathers also worked there, 3 who were hired (plus more from my course).

They would run tours for undergrad CS students where we'd get on a coach to Hursley, tour around some flashy mainframes behind big windows, have a talk from someone senior, and then hear about their hiring/internship processes.
you can return urls that guarantee proper pagination with your response, if the output is more than the limit. this way you can incorporate your logic (id of the last returned item is a starting point) in pagination and make sure as your API evolves, client applications pagination logic doesn't have to change as long as you provide proper pagination links

for example GET /customer/1/orders/

response:

{'orders': [order1, order2, order3],

'navigation': {

'firstpage': '/get/customer/1/orders/',

'nextpage': '/get/customer/1/orders/?query=orderId^GT4',

'lastpage': '/get/customer/1/orders/?query=orderId^GT990',

'totalrows': 1000

}

GT means greater than
Interesting!

> Unfortunately that's not possible with vanilla pytransitions

Can you elaborate?
Without GMO foods you'd already be starving. Also GMO is another great example about emotional based arguments - corn is GMO grass from cross breading. Yes, they did it over hundreds of years instead of a few dozen in a lab - but it's still GMO.

As for nuclear, molten salt reactors are also well understood technology. There are new designs that address many of the issues with current reactors. And the burn the existing waste. Instead of arguing about where to bury it, let's use it for energy!

More smaller distributed reactors also help dramatically lower transmission costs and reduce our vulnerability we currently have with our fragile electrical grid.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/2020/10/13/new-de...

That's just one article - there is plenty more out there. Pretty sad when China is the biggest proponent of molten salt reactors.

Energy drove the industrial revolution. Access to abundant and plentiful energy did more to lift the majority of the world population out of poverty and into relative opulence. Think opulence is outlandish? We can walk over to a thing on a wall and adjust the temperature of our dwellings - if you don't appreciate how significant that is just consider as little as a few hundred years ago even Kings didn't have that luxury.

Nuclear is here. It's well understood. It works all the time - whether the sun is out or the wind is blowing. It doesn't require acres of space nor does it kill millions of birds. It doesn't generate noise pollution. Yes it has some maintenance costs - every technology does. If you truly look at it holistically, it's pretty hard to argue against it.
Neither the staff or inmates know who qualifies or what their release date should be.

Apparently, they can let them out on time if they calculate the release date and enter it into the system manually.
Rainbow delimiters mode kind of does this, but doesn't maintain the scope color of referenced variables.
Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app
Hello HN!

After years of activity in the main threads I am jumping in with an note taking application I wrote over the last few days.

Why another note taking application? Because the ones I tried are really great but lack the simplicity I need. I finally decided to write one to get rid of the zillions of paper scraps with cryptic things like "7654" or "go to JK to get RF". What I needed:

- create a note directly from the command line: `<Win Key>note q my first /oh a title/ note #france<Enter>`

- quickly edit a note via its serial number or title: `note e todo`

- use my favourite editor which is much better than the one I could write

- shorten my suffering when choosing a title for a one shot note - just press enter and a readable date will be used

- tags!

- search, delete

I have many more ideas (they are in the README) and hope that this 1.0 version will be useful to someone.

I would greatly appreciate any feedback - I am an amateur developer so the code is far from nice but I tried to keep it clean and with a minimal amount of excellent ideas that later become hieroglyphic studies to understand what I meant then.

Thanks!
It creates artificial scarcity for a digital product
> I hate that every HN post about academia ends with an anecdote describing some rare edge-case they've heard about

This isn’t a rare edge case, this is very common in software projects. I’ve heard of it because I was part of the team brought in to fix the situation.

Intentional fraud only is rare when it’s recognized as fraud. P-hacking was incredibly widespread (and to some extent still is) because it wasn’t recognized as a form of fraud. Do you really think not delivering on a software project has any consequences? Who is going to go in and say what’s fraud, what’s incompetence, and what’s bad luck?

The problem is that the bar for getting software grants isn’t high, it’s nonsensical. As far as I can tell, ability to produce or manage software development isn’t factored in at all. As with everything else, it’s judged on papers, and the grant application. In some cases, having working software models and preexisting users end up being detrimental to the process, since it shows less of a “need” for the money. You get “stars” in their field, who end up with massive grants and no idea of how to implement their proposals. Conversely, plenty of scientists who slave away on their own time on personal projects that hundreds of other scientists depend on get no funding whatsoever.
Apple beats Samsung in phone sales for first time since 2016
Well, that link is about solar thermal electric plants, whereas TFA is about photovoltaic plants. It seems quite logical that the climate impact of the 2 technologies would be different.
A few years ago I took an XC clinic from a pro woman mountain biker. A big focus was on descending. On one particular hill she got down first - MINUTES ahead of me (the first student). This was on a descent where there was basically no pedaling. She did this to us all day. During that season I won a local mens cat 2 race series. I was no slouch, but she destroyed us. All technique.
BTW, did you check this?

https://github.com/pytransitions/transitions/blob/master/exa...
Individual actions make a huge difference for an individual's risk level.

The lockdowns that each state imposed were largely ineffective at a macro level in my opinion.
Not to mention the superb gardening column
Gorillaz are a virtual band. The humans are just their avatars.
General feedback:

- I want to try this but I'm not sure how much it will cost in total. I see a lot of hints, but no clear pricing on the total treatment cost. I know from experience with a local allergy clinic, this treatment is ridiculously expensive.

- I also see no claims around how long the treatment will last (on average)

- I'm not sure I understand how an at home allergy test works or suffices for diagnosis. I'm also fairly skeptical on how allergies are diagnosed in general--when I have had the skin tests performed, they were highly "subjective" to the point of lunacy--drawing circles, measuring with a ruler, etc.

- Can you treat food allergies?

- There are quite a few UI issues--lack of borders, padding, and clutter. You're going for trust here, you should make sure your website looks the part.

- I also keep getting a cookie request thing from a separate domain, wtf?
Honestly, as a founder...it is. Dumb money is, in effect, pretty useless, whereas 'smart money' comes with additional benefits (provided you and the partner get along, etc.). It isn't guaranteed, but we leaned heavily on our investors for advice and help, especially in those times when we were either at a crossroads or dealing with a situation we had never seen before (b2b enterprise contracts when all our customers were SMB, etc.).

Some of them were also helpful just as the equivalent of 'executive coaches.' Being in the weeds constantly means it's hard to be objective sometimes. Good VCs and good angels are usually experienced and helpful, even if the incentives aren't perfectly aligned. They mostly are though; growth helps both the VC and the founder, so in that sense they're aligned.

But when deciding how big your option pool should be, your incentives are no longer directly aligned. :)
I'm guessing you're referring to DJ Ashba? One thing about GnR is they always had talented guitarists.

Yea Axl's voice definitely isn't what it once was. Corey Glover (Living Colour) is another singer from that time period whose voice isn't the same.
I do have to say that environmental harm from bitcoin vs any other dumb thing people use computers for seems somewhat odd, but I'm happy to admit that I definitely haven't looked into it enough to argue. That's not what I was arguing though, I only ever commented to specifically refute that any environmental damage was deliberate, because it struck me as an especially absurd statement. I can totally see how it may have come across as an argument that because the harm wasn't deliberate it isn't bad, that was my bad. I should have made that more clear.
The argument is, if that were the case, it would be sharper than the natural charts of corona viruses otherwise.

To be clear, I first saw this pushed by some epis on Twitter as caution to get to hopeful that we are seeing the vaccines as a resounding success so early in their rollout. It is expected that the vaccines are needed, but the dramatic drop was pushed as likely unrelated.

I will try and dig up the tweets. Could be they have changed their minds with more data.

Also, my first sentence was a question as I am not sure that is what the opening post meant.

Edit: https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1363866144029949952?s=19 had a recent discussion where this came up. (Looking for epis in this one, but not finding them.:( )

Edit: https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1363551912021221377?s=1... is a look at a drop without vaccines
That's true in general, but very common surnames, usually those ending in -ez, are ommitted for brevity in informal situations.
This is kind of out there, but this book provides a cross-cultural overview of the idea of collective beings created by human religious practices, nationalisms, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Egregores-Occult-Entities-Watch-Desti....
Self-driving companies are inching toward fully driverless service
Anyone here have a self-driving car?
Flash loans aren't really; nobody will lend you money against zero collateral that you pay back instantaneously after a transaction, because in the traditional banking system there's always a risk of default and a transaction cost for enforcing your rights in case of default. With a flash loan the whole transaction fails if at the end of the transaction you don't have sufficient funds to pay it back, while you're guaranteed payback if it succeeds.
I used to hate all that nonsense, then at some point in the last 15 years I got assimilated. Though, I still can't understand anything an executive says.
Arguably the "new kind of Amish" are... just the Amish; they've continued to adopt new technologies when they comport with their particular values. Other intensional communities may have different values.

Love "Seinfeldians" :)
This is not a new phenomenon. From 2008 to 2017, our inflation rate averaged 1.47%, lower than is widely considered healthy.
> The inmate who lost their phone privileges for 30 days is an example. They did nothing wrong but the computer says so and nothing can be done. The computer is right in the sense that its decision cannot be undone, and solely to blame since no human can undo its edict or be held accountable, apparently. It is tragic and absurd.

All government software should be open source and anyone should be able to investigate the code and submit bug reports, including inmates. If they know there is something wrong, they have a lot of time on their hands to learn a useful skill to fix these issues.

The government should then not be allowed to close a bug as wontfix or invalid without approval from other citizen watchdogs verifying if a bug report is legitimate.
This WSJ article mention herd immunity. Covid spread really fast, so herd immunity through a combination of the large amount of people that already had covid and vaccination of the vulnerable should make a big difference.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-apri...
I in turn don't understand this sentiment. What are you trying to say? That you don't care about the continued survival of humanity beyond your own demise? You would be perfectly happy for everyone to be wiped out the day after you die?
I expect that Arizona will end up paying in restitution to prisoners who served too much time more than it would have cost to have the software patch implemented by their vendor with a significant bonus offered, that decreases each week the vendor fails to deliver a working solution.
(Feb 4, 2020)
Steve-O from Jackass was world famous and pretty much broke at the same time after their first season.
I think the challenge is encroachment. As the tech companies need to squeeze more revenue to continue growth they'll try to monetize increasingly hard.

What does that lead to? Banning 2000 "altright" subreddits, even heavily moderated ones like /r/the_donald (now patriots.win). Facebook adding advertisements to messenger. Twitter letting half their users (i.e. bots) to continue to use the platform; while banning alternative opinions.

The reality is they want cash, anything with that motive is going to guide conversations.
Nope. That's the sort of argument that makes your position weaker. You see, USD has a government that asserts it is legal tender for all debts within its borders and military power to back up those assertions.

These are the sort of real-world constraints that you can't just ignore. Attempting to do so makes me less charitable towards other assertions you might make. You come across as an idealist talking about their perfect dream world, not someone describing reality. Now don't get me wrong - it's important to have a perfect dream world. If you aren't working towards something, what are you doing?

But at the same time, you have to accept that "this system is perfect, if you also change these thousand other things" is not compelling to someone who doesn't share your idea of utopia. To convince someone like me, you have to explain how the system improves the world as it exists now.
Is there any reason these PV panels would have to be black?
Desktop software. I'm not affiliated with the authors (https://twitter.com/blinry https://twitter.com/Bleeptrack).

Talk given by the authors at FOSDEM 2021 online conference https://morr.cc/building-a-git-learning-game/ Video http://bofh.nikhef.nl/events/FOSDEM/2021/L.lightningtalks/gi...
Yep. OpenAPI spec is not rich enough to represent relations like this so its rubbish for FE dev to use to generate models/api client.

In general, the tooling/spec has thousands of open bugs, isnt going anywhere, moves very slowly and is missing fundamental features.

https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/1998 heres the ticket where it will inevitably be ignored and die. But even if it was supported in the spec, the open source generators wont support it anyways.

Said generators also uses "logic less" templates to generate something that very much needs logic. As a FE dev, I love nothing more than to fork a an archaic Java based generator to get the client gen working...not.
It was not contained. A blade went though the lower wing root.

https://twitter.com/breakingavnews/status/136379347594735616...
It might have bad effects, but I guess it would still be better than out current climate-change trajectory.
Do you know what year and/or city this was? I would like to look this up
Implementing "the law" is anything and everything but simple.
All this to say it’s somehow necessary to know about the palooza to not be sheltered? Why would the bar for comfort zone be going to popular events of a specific niche?

There’s many influential things that won’t matter to individuals. It’s not possible to know about all influential things any way.

The only way to even perform about bigger paloozas is to be a big name. Being a big name doesn’t mean influential. Someone could be very into specific influential music that doesn’t overlap with palooza events.

I’m sure any one who’s geeky into pop media like music, film, tv, can look at your history and call you sheltered under your constraints. Meaning everyone is sheltered to some others based off your meaning of sheltered.
@jjsylvestre - what are your thoughts on ZeroAvia?
I have this discussion at least once a week. What would you build if you could deploy an uninterruptible, transparently verifiable, fully autonomous software application? I promise you that we can discuss many examples (any kind of marketplace or platform but with community governance and no rents, decentralized exchanges, global-by-default payments, highly interoperable and efficient financial infrastructure), but what would you build?

That's the answer to your question.
My point is that this virus spreads unbelievably fast and even with the most optimistic vaccine scenarios it has literally billions of hosts in the developing world to infect who have 0 zero chance of getting a shot anytime in the next few years.

Of course the vaccines might be good enough to ward off infection from all future variants but that's just luck.
Tether/Bitfinex submitted something like 2.5 million documents. Reviewing them and taking a public position takes more than a few days.
We've been subject to the fear-cannon for two decades. They had to sell many disastrous wars, and after all brown people are scary. A fatigue has set in. At this point they've turned the knob so far they're worried they may have broken it. They hype up tanker explosions and everybody starts googling "Tonkin Gulf". Significant numbers of Americans actually remember dumb advice they got from leading health officials an entire year ago. Now that we've had a 9/11 every day for a year, a new 9/11 won't land the same. If e.g. Xinjiang and Hong Kong were both leveled by atomic bombs tomorrow, the average American would change the channel. Popular news just doesn't have the effect it used to have; it's back to the drawing board for the media firms and their owners.
How timely!

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/02/22/choosing-java-instead-...

I do believe that there is nothing better tuned for performance vs developer productivity than the JVM.

The language semantics may be a question for personal distaste..but then you do have Kotlin (https://jooby.io/ ) which ranks fairly near the top on techempower benchmarks https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
With Amazon S3 Select, you can use simple structured query language (SQL) statements to filter the contents of Amazon S3 objects and retrieve just the subset of data that you need. By using Amazon S3 Select to filter this data, you can reduce the amount of data that Amazon S3 transfers, which reduces the cost and latency to retrieve this data.

Amazon S3 Select works on objects stored in CSV, JSON, or Apache Parquet format. It also works with objects that are compressed with GZIP or BZIP2 (for CSV and JSON objects only), and server-side encrypted objects. You can specify the format of the results as either CSV or JSON, and you can determine how the records in the result are delimited.

You pass SQL expressions to Amazon S3 in the request. Amazon S3 Select supports a subset of SQL. For more information about the SQL elements that are supported by Amazon S3 Select, see SQL reference for Amazon S3 Select and S3 Glacier Select.

You can perform SQL queries using AWS SDKs, the SELECT Object Content REST API, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the Amazon S3 console. The Amazon S3 console limits the amount of data returned to 40 MB. To retrieve more data, use the AWS CLI or the API.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/s3-gla...
I've lost count the amount of Rolling Stones "farewell tour" concerts I've been too.