skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a very similar situation - I basically just slept through almost all of Good Friday. I really regret not spending a bit more for a flat with a garden or terrace - I used to mock my friends in London for being so proud of their pathetic little gardens, but since the lockdowns it doesn't seem so silly at all.
Nice! I like some concepts that this format proposes, but the `@` and `|` modifier feels a bit too "loaded".
I don't know how far the cat got, but I had a similar experience with moving into a new house. The previous owners had to leave without the cat because it mysteriously left about a week before they had to move and didn't show back up.

Three weeks later, a very scrawny cat showed up at my door and wouldn't leave. I let it in and fed it and then got in contact with the previous owners. They drove two hours back to get the cat. The wife was beside herself with joy. The husband told me quietly he'd hoped he'd never see the cat again. Sorry, buddy.
Why "in Finland" has been removed from the title? As it stands, it suggests there is some global decline whereas no evidence has been presented for it - at least not in this article.
I think he means that people are complacent when things degrade slowly
Kennth Rogoff actually wrote a book called: this time it is different.

For USA and Europe COVID-19 has been really expensive whereas China in particular has grown through it. The US relies on Asia - in particular China and Japan to cover that cost by buying US treasuries in an slowly inflating currency. At the same time the relationship between China and the west is increasingly antagonistic. This creates a different dynamic from 2008 - how different - time will tell.
If ISRIB works as well as research seems to suggest then we all need to keep an eye on it to make sure big pharma doesn't suppress it so then their own patentable products can exist in the market.
So you want to have a lucid dream?
Reading this with 50+ tabs open... I need to get my s*t together
There are pirates (thieves, but I like Pirate better?) whom were renting luxury boats in the Mediterranean, and stealing them.

They would fly to Europe, and dress like rich fancy boys.

They would then rent the ships for vacation.

They would take the transponder off the luxury vessel, and put it on a toy boat. The owner would check on his vessel, and it all looked fine.

Meanwhile, the thieves would have the boat in Russia in a few days.

(I believe they got 100 boats. This article reminded me of the caper.)
China is sneaking in massive changes, which happen so slowly that complacent populations do not notice it before it is too late.

This is my interpretation of what was said.
Screen tearing is typically very difficult to avoid with proprietary NVIDIA, but I have no issues with my AMD setups running Linux. I suspect that is usually the main difference.
Changing app icons was the big thing for me. I learned about that as a tiny child at computer camp, and I thought the high school kid who introduced me to it must be just about the coolest guy in the world.
This relates to how I learnt about ISO8601 as a teenager (c. 2005)

My parents had an oven manufactured by Neff (part of the BSH group including Bosch and Siemens). This oven displayed midnight as 24:00. I was rarely in the kitchen at midnight, so it was years until I just happened to walk into the kitchen at the right time to 24:00 on the display. It was so weird I think I continued to stare at it for the remainder of the minute until it ticked over to 0:01.

I wrote directly to Neff to ask them about it. I speculated that it was a design decision to reduce ambiguity between the clock and the timer countdown, which shared the same display, and asked them if this was the case.

I can't remember what email address I used, but after a bit of bouncing around and piquing people's curiosity it ended up with someone in their engineering department. They looked into it and actually quoted ISO8601 to me. They said, while they agree it is a bit strange, it's not actually out of spec and therefore not technically a bug. They didn't agree with my theory about ambiguity since many other times would still be ambiguous (e.g. 0:01). But since the clock circuit is a sourced component they could only speculate on why 24:00 was chosen over 0:00. They also confirmed that Bosch and Siemens ovens both display 0:00 and only Neff displays 24:00.

I've since noticed that 24:00 is used on train timetables when the time of arrival is midnight.
DuckDuckGo is perfectly sufficient, but the above poster uses Google. So I used Google to demonstrate.
There could be elements of that as well as it being a real thing.
"at country for so long under conditions that simply cannot be compared to those of most democratized countries"

Well let's compare Cuba to most democratized countries in the Caribbean. Or in South America. Or to any place that is not US or EU+Switzerland and Norway.
> Cheering on a todays stalin or hitler, because you are in opposition to some factions of your democratic society, makes you a complicit in their atrocities.

Absolutely. I see really hard to fathom log from fellows who scream "There is no Democracy in America!," and then decide to run to China.

Never met such personally, but I know such are all around the tech industry here. Chinese medias are exhilariating about them day, and night.

They are your new Earl Browders, and Zara Witkins. Not poor people, not unpriveleged people, not marginalised people, who go bark at America, and its system, while making tons of money in China very much thanks to their priveleged status, and opportunities America gave them.
For one thing, it is extremely slow. Every time open file meny appears, or need to search for something, prepare to wait 15-30 seconds. File management is a pain, renaming, viewing properties, etc are likely the worst of all file managers I've ever seen. Nautilus is so much better (but it changed for the worse since 2008, too).

(I'd prefer a Far Manager version for linux / iOS to manage files, but I have accepted that this will never happen, unfortunately)
The attacker would probably make much more money selling his time and expertise once in a while instead of doing bullshit like this.
See this follow apology of sorts from Amazon for the Tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26678604
> Expertise/intelligence/whatever you call it is the ability to handle more complex tasks because you can place the less complex tasks as background tasks.

No it isn't. I have seen otherwise quite smart people completely fail to do the most basic tasks especially when it comes to repair.

You can work it out (I for example can do many home DIY projects now). But just because you can do a complex task in one domain it does not mean you can do a relative simple task in another domain. You can see this in this industry. The number of C# programmers that cannot do simple CSS.

The fact the you can't give it a proper name means that you cannot quantify it properly.

> This follows whether it is due to better education, better training, better tools, or better nutrition.

No it doesn't. Better training for doing X just means you will be better at doing X. It does not say anything about how well you may perform in other taks.

> Are programmers "smarter" than they were 50 years ago? They can certainly create much more complex programs that do MUCH more than we could 50 years ago.

More complex doesn't mean it is better. In fact if you are a good engineer you will know that unnecessarily complexity is a sign of a poor design. So this does not follow what-so-ever.

Also most of the literature written 50 years or more ago from the pioneers of the field are constantly being re-discovered.

So no.

> Are chess players "smarter" than they were 100 years ago? ELO ratings sure suggest they are.

No. No. No. Just because a number goes up, doesn't mean that everyone is getting better. It could be because weaker players may not bother at all with such matches where they are rated, while better players are more likely to participate in any ranked or scoring system. So you cannot draw that conclusion.

> Would those people of 100 years ago been able to do the tasks we can now given our current society? Maybe. But that indicates that "intelligence" is also a function of "current environment". And, if the current environment is better, then the humans are "smarter", to

No I am sorry that conclusion is incorrect. There are many here that would struggle doing some very basic things in other fields especially if it involved their hands (carpentry, joining, brick laying) because they have no expertise in it and those fields have been around a very long time. So you cannot come to that conclusion at all.
People should google some (night) videos from Chinese cities like Shanghai or Wuhan.

You might be shocked by how they look like.

I think few in the West realize how fast China is moving.
Thank you and siblings.
There is some deep philosophy behind this. Actually reminds me about Anathem which is a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson about alternate realities. He goes out of his way to create a world that has a very similar mathematical and philosophical history as earth. But everything is of course very different. Philosphers have different names, history is completely different, etc. A lot of the fun part of reading the book is figuring out what is what.

It touches a lot of topics; including causality, quantum physics (and some popular interpretations of that like parallel universes), which is of course a fun topic to explore in a novel like this.

One of the premises in the book is that consciousness is basically a form of quantum computing guided by causal relations between "nearby" universes. Which would explain why the brain is so quick at taking decisions. Probably not true but it's a fun thing to explore in a novel like this.

But the notion that events are connected in time and that our brains are very good at spotting causal patterns between past, current, and future state of the observable world is a useful mental model.

Most programmers are familiar with the notion of solving problems in their sleep or have experienced the magical "solved it in the shower" kind of moment that comes from having immersed yourself in the problem and your brain adapting to fit the problem and produce a solution while you were sleeping. We don't understand how it happens; it seems to be connected to our brains just doing some kind of garbage collecting and processing while we sleep. But somehow after that happens we have a clear notion of what caused what and why and what to do to rectify the situation.

Once computers will be able to do this, the singularity might be a little bit closer.
To do what, cover up an ongoing totalitarian oppression of millions of people on the basis of their ethnicity?
There was a very narrow attempt at this where t-shirts with messaging on them were given out to people going to sit and watch NBA games that would be broadcast [in China]. They'd remove people initially if they didn't take off the shirts but in places like Toronto where you'd have many people wearing them and too much backlash, they just stopped having cameras showing the spectators in the stands.
I have been an Linux and open source software user for over a decade. I will be getting a Mac from work and it feels weird to jump on the proprietary bandwagon.

That being said one can get used to most of the complainants about the app space. But system continues to have problems with hibernation/resume and memory management. App updates, critical, and system updates should be separated. If one opens a large apps then slowly the system load will increase to a level which will render the system unusable.
Bloo Lo-Fi Wireframe Kit
I'd not consider bash a

1. mainstream

2. programming language

(of course technically it is a programming language, but it is also more precisely a scripting language)
We're not talking about replacing the register of deeds here, and the government isn't going to maintain ownership records of random collectibles.

We trust online brokerages to maintain our ownership on securities with databases alone, but those are heavily regulated. The government isn't likely to enact regulation on baseball cards and action figures either.

So for safety we're pretty much down to paper documentation and a cumbersome sale process. That's slow and expensive, which is why rich people do it and regular people don't. Until now.

I don't see why people think blockchains have to exclusively do new and unprecedented things. It's productive to do old things more efficiently.
A bullish outlook for the global fine wine market
I work on the deserialisation. This is a one-liner in many programming languages.
The point being, multi-touch was what got the the smartphone revolution going, especially on the Web. Whereas now…
Yes, you'll probably need more information-theory and statistics than linear algebra. The focus seems to be in the wrong place.
The CCP has China's economy integrated heavily with economies around the world. A multi-lateral trade agreement between the parties that will replace the goods provided by hardworking Chinese - to curb away funding to the CCP.
TCP/IP is still strong with us today. The whole web is built on top of that. Given that browsers today already support HTTP/2, it is hard to imagine that in 25 years the web would have moved to something else. HTTP/1 has been around for longer than that and it's still strong. The only change that made things incompatible was SSL, but it is unlikely that will change anytime soon either.

I think the take away from that blog post is that the user experience from 95 is not that drastically different from the experience from today. The leap from the 80s UI to 90s was drastic, but it has been getting more stable since. To the point that I would call it stagnated for at least the past 10 years. The web UI did change a lot and, as noticed, it is completely incompatible with browsers from 95. But that's largely because it was catching up with the native apps/ui. I think we are there already, though. So I expect the web to be as stable as the native protocols and graphical toolkits have been for the past 25 years. Probably even more so, since keeping backwards compatibility is much more important in the web.
I asked this question previously[0] but why are random PRs ran by CIs by default without user intervention? It would make more sense that by default PRs aren't ran by default and an explicit whitelist or configuration option needs to be set.

[0] in a discussion about the dangers of running your own CI server. I thought it were sensible if there was a permission config file which specified who can trigger which actions, where the CI uses the permissions of the last ran commit.
Cryptocurrency might not be seizable, but it's also not spendable if the gov says so.

Just try bartering for something with cocaine to see what I mean.
and using a website takes seconds, for a app I need to consider downloading it, giving it permissions to do stuff/track me only to be disappointed half the time.
What does "metabolizing carbohydrates correctly" mean in this context? What are the effects when carbohydrates do not metabolize correctly?
Modern vessels are required to have a AIS transponder. This is a radio that sends the ships speed, position, angle and optionally their destination around by marine (VHF) radio. These maps are probably made by having thousands of receivers recording the AIS data.
Misrepresentation and lack of appreciation is common to plenty of companies; nothing to do with startups particularly, so I'm confused as to the reason for that specific targeting.

I think as much as anything its just (unfortunately) part of the system; some people lack ethics, some are just under pressure to recruit without anything to distinguish them to the employee beyond what they can conjure up as a goal and hope it sticks.

Needless to say, there are plenty of recruiters who could point their fingers at employees not fulfilling their part of the deal as well.
nice approach, though it looks like you have to know enough latin to understand the first pages
Satisfy Your First User
The first and main mistake any OS switchers do, regardless from where they come and to which OS they go is the fact that they expect the new OS to provide the same experience like the one they come from. Switching from Windows to Linux, people expect great GUI and hand holding. Switching from Linux to Windows, people expect a lot of customization and are annoyed by hand holding Microsoft does. Switching from Mac to Windows, people expect the Apple's way of hand holding, which is done differently by Microsoft and thus is annoying.

Before doing such a drastic move maybe do a parallel of your most menial everyday task on both OS'es and then decide how to move about on the new OS regarding that. Also read about the philosophy behind each OS and understand it's strengths and weaknesses. Only after that you can complete and/or adjust to this switch.

As an example, I was first a Windows user. Then I started to go about with Linux. And I loved the style of pipe one program to next to complete a task using nothing but bash/batch (whatever terminology you prefer). This was before Windows implemented same using PowerShell, hence why I love and use to this very day CygWin. On many of my customers systems CygWin is installed and used for production.

The article's author mistake is exactly this lack of adjusting and instead trying to force Mac style on Linux. My 2 cents.
Actually its better, Chrome just displays a silent notification that says "this website just updated in background". I personally would rather know that a app did something behind my back. But I can see some users getting the wrong idea.

Though I think it ia fair since chrome is a web browser and shouldn't be making requests to random websites without my knowledge. cough cough
I recently ran Mac OS 9 on an emulator, out of curiosity, after having been using modern macOS/OS X/whatever you call it for the last 10 years. Now, to set the context, I'm Russian, and back when classic Mac OS was current, Apple computers were generally stuff of legends. "Insanely expensive beautifully made things, very good with colors and fonts, that professional designers sometimes use and most people can't afford". Macs only started gaining popularity around the very end of 00s — probably not least because of the Intel transition and the ability to try out the OS as hackintosh.

Anyway. It was interesting to see how it evolved. There definitely are familiar elements and patterns, but it's... different. There's no dock. You can't minimize windows. The menu bar is there, but the item with the current app name is to the right and it's an app switcher; what is now in that item, is under File, so you do File -> Quit. There are no status/tray icons in the menu bar, they're instead in a separate bar at the bottom left. There are desktop shortcuts to programs, something that feels Windows-only to me because no one does that in the modern macOS. Files don't have extensions, but instead rely heavily on extended attributes in the file system to remember what type the file is and what program it opens in. There's some third-party software installed with the system, and craploads more bundled on the installation CD for you to install manually. Inclusion of third-party software with the OS felt very un-Apple to me. And, the most perplexing thing, there's no support for scroll wheel and right mouse button! I understand that Macs of the time came with single-button mice, but c'mon.
XFCE + Classic95 from Github = heaven.
It seems like we need to treat yaml like json and quote all strings. Would that help resolve these issues? Just trying to figure out a rule I can implement to prevent these issues.
The only pure NFTs are those which does not rely on external third party website for image file and metadata like Avastar or cryptoghost.art
I guess it would make sense if you want to archive it and save some disk space. It also not always clear to the system that you are sharing a directory, if you drop it on a network drive, for instance. But yes, I think zipping a directory is not the most compelling use case.
Proper folder view: yes!

It won my heart instantly.

This option to chose a folder to search for is so obvious and useful too: yes, I do have a music folder....like every android phone out there and I do use it to put my music in.
In praise of property-based testing (2019)
> Yes, python has the semicolon but you'll only ever use it to put multiple statements on a single line.

This is also true of Haskell btw.
He mentions this right here:
"So, what is wrong with three world currencies – the euro, the renminbi, and the dollar – sharing the spotlight?
...
US government borrowing rates would almost certainly be affected"

USG owes $28 trillion, borrowing at an increasing volume. If switching to 3 reserve currencies happens as you say, rates will go up. How exactly do you service $28 trillion and beyond debt with higher rates? So no, it won't be as joyous for everyone as you suggest.
Goto for Python
I wrote the following comment before I read yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26679988

Don't you understand? The savings glut is actively causing unemployment. Investments of any kind will bring unemployment down, but people have this weird misconception that green investments will increase unemployment because of lack of competitiveness or whatever weird pet theory they come up. The entire reasoning behind any government investment program is to bring down unemployment. The fact that this lines up with the ability to fight climate change is absolutely fantastic but Trump and other republicans create the exact opposite perception and I honestly don't understand why. There is no logical or economic reason for that stance. It's purely perception/tribal thinking driven. There is no money to be earned by denying climate change. It's just reducing the number of options available.
The problem is what is illegal then? Numbers? Cryptography? Because nobody buy sell or own crypto technically, there just happen to be transactions on a distributed network, with some people knowing private keys to generate new transactions. It could be possible to regulate exchanges dealing with fiat, but I feel like the regulable surface area is thin. Also I hope Proof of stake take over so that a big part of these issues will be non existent in a few years.
Oh right I missed that, I was still waking up. Anything up to (24h-epsilon) would be fine mathematically, but a full 24h can of course be called an anomaly.

I retract the statement, but it's too late to add this as an edit now.
Oh for sure, for sure. A country where there's systemic bias against a racial group in the judicial system, and a famous activist who was murdered 50 years ago is *totally* the same thing as an ongoing totalitarian system of high-tech cultural genocide and mass incarceration/'reeducation' of an ethnic group.

It's unbelievable that PRC partisans think this shameless nonsense will elicit anything but incredulous fury in anyone familiar with the facts and not, well, a PRC partisan.
On two different Debian 10 boxes bash seems to have it enabled:

Terminal 1
$ echo hi > /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/9999

Terminal 2
$ nc -vvvlp 9999
Listening on [0.0.0.0] (family 2, port 9999)
Connection from 127.0.0.1 57540 received!
hi
$
Let's Compose Software with Functions
Waiting for a study showing exercise does not improve outcome X.

Seriously, do we need any more positive exercise studies? If you are a mammal, then exercise is good for you, let’s be done with it.
Then you can retrieve salt, do hash on server, and use the stored procedure to compare. More requests, but a tradeoff for security \o/
There seems to be some space for flooding Twitter, Instagram and Facebook with photos and short clips taken by activist fans. The NBA bosses would then have to attempt to ban people from carrying their mobile phones to a game - a measure very unlikely to succeed.
Ah. I have AMD GPUs on desktop, and integrated graphics on laptops.