skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem. Part of life. She is doing fine and out of the hospital for now. Thanks.

One of the issues I have with trying to have longer discussions on HN is that there are a lot of non-participants who have nothing better to do than to downvote rather than participate. I don't care about the little karma counter, could not care less. What I do care about is being able to have reasonably intelligent discussions where people might not necessarily agree without using karma violence to silence one or more participants by eventually having posts flagged, etc.

HN, for the most part, is a decent community and they have done a great job of maintaining order. As someone who has been participating on discussion communities since the days of USNET I am equipped to fully appreciate the effort that has gone into HN.

That said --and I know this is hard-- I wish they could figure out a way to eliminate what I perceive as sophomoric punitive down-voting that is generally devoid of any substance and has, from my perspective, no value at all.

The only way we learn anything is to engage in substantive conversations where we openly explore ideas we might necessarily agree with. Canceling those we might not align with serves nobody, does not lead to anyone learning and all sides of an argument lose.

Yes, I know this is a hard problem.

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My general view of what government can accomplish and how tends to be very negative because I have seen them muck-up just about everything they touch. People will demand more from a fast food restaurant than the politicians they elected. It's crazy.

For example: Why is it that politicians suffer absolutely no consequences for lying to us? None. In fact, as a matter of law, if you or I lie to the federal government we go to jail. They can lie to us on a daily basis without consequences. How is that possible. You lie to a police officer and, same thing, the consequences to you are severe. The opposite is not true.

This asymmetry is very, very wrong. And yet, as I mentioned, we demand more of a fast food eatery than the politicians we elect. How does that happen? Lack of education? Lack of information? Indifference?

Same with the freedom of the press. Do we really think the bill of rights created this protection to include lies, fabrication and manipulation? I know this isn't an easy problem to solve. Sure. Well, how many centuries do we need to sort it out?

Oh, wait, these are things that require politicians to do their jobs. Never mind.

Yeah, the idea of having these people have full control of healthcare terrifies me.
At least they didn't say, "up to 82k or more"... like Tesla likes to say [0].

0. https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q1-2021-vehicle-pro...
The 10 digit number space is completely filled up, so you can just call/text numbers at random and be almost sure it reaches someone.

So I think it's time to use UUIDs instead. They're hard to type, but you hardly ever need that.

What am I missing?
It is not. There's only this constant spamming done by julia advocates on HN.
It is getting annoying TBF
So if I use HTTPS and encrypted DNS what's my risk here? What are they able to record?
I'm replying-to-myself, because I think this text from YAML 1.2 (explaining its changes) are key:

> The primary objective of this revision is to bring YAML into compliance with JSON as an official subset. YAML 1.2 is compatible with 1.1 for most practical applications - this is a minor revision. An expected source of incompatibility with prior versions of YAML, especially the syck implementation, is the change in implicit typing rules. We have removed unique implicit typing rules and have updated these rules to align them with JSON's productions. In this version of YAML, boolean values may be serialized as “true” or “false”; the empty scalar as “null”. Unquoted numeric values are a superset of JSON's numeric production. Other changes in the specification were the removal of the Unicode line breaks and production bug fixes. We also define 3 built-in implicit typing rule sets: untyped, strict JSON, and a more flexible YAML rule set that extends JSON typing."

Since "no" is not the same as false, the Norway problem disappears. It's safer to always quote single-word strings like 'this', just like you always have to quote all strings in JSON.
> Each kid should get their best outcome regardless of whether they enter 1st grade on that track or not.

I can agree with that as a goal. Their best outcome is going to be different from everyone else's.
A Weird Trade War Rages Between India and the Pacific Northwest over Apples
> Why pay devs to write fast code when you can buy faster computers faster and cheaper?

Because you can do more in the same time. Speed and responsiveness are features, the issue is, the general population has come to accept that bugs are not only acceptable, but just that, 'bugs' that you can shoo away by restarting the machine/program.

> I wonder when the trend reverses. It must, at some point, mustn't it?

I hope so. As we have seen with spectre and now AMD's equivalent, speculative execution is risky and very complex to get right. We can't rely on ever increasing complexity on CPUs and fabrication processes, at some point quantum mechanics will bite back.
"As has been pointed out on HN before, "identity theft" is a made-up concept to make it seem as if you had something stolen from you, when the real problem is banks and other service providers do an absolute shit job of identity verification. They're the ones at fault, and they try to shift the onus onto you to fix things when they screw up."
‘Like a Miracle’: Israel’s Vaccine Success Allows Easter Crowds in Jerusalem
Keep your dogma off HN please
Because as a member of the community, He is trying to shape the discourse and culture here. We all should be doing that, to maintain the high quality content.
One benefit of PDFs for research papers is that you can easily save them to your own computer, build up a library of them, highlight lines with functionality built into most PDF readers. I generally prefer HTML for reading, but PDF has some benefits, too. Granted, most of these features are also available for HTML. But for some reason you need to look for browser plugins in order to highlight HTML pages, whereas in PDF you can just use the feature. And PDF is always about the content whereas HTML also typically contains navigation and other distractors.
The gold standard for computer text justification is the TeX algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Hyphenation_and_justificat...
I wonder if there is any open source frontend library to make such interactive mobile friendly experiences?
Anecdotally, I went to kindergarten and I don’t think it really had much of an impact on me, and I definitely don’t think it would work remotely.

Most of what I did there were hands on activities (arts and crafts, stuff with play dough, explorations into non Newtonian fluids) and socialising. Oh I talked to a police officer for the first, and so far only time.

I wasn’t doing much academic learning, which is a the part of school that translates to online the best.

Not to mention I simply wouldn’t have been able to focus on a teacher on a screen, although I suppose that part is changing as children’s relationships with technology advance.
Actually, there's one more usecase for a html to pdf converter: making a book-style copy of a multipage website. I'm looking right now at a scientific site with content spread over multiple pages and it's tiring to find and click all the links to make sure I don't miss anything.
"poetry is compression" - William Goldman

easily the most profound three words I had ever encountered as an aspirational teenage writer, though it would be several decades before my understanding of "compression" developed sufficiently to fully recognize and appreciate the depth of that insight.

One wonders what Goldman would have thought of Claude Shannon.
No. But we do have some evidence of causation-- e.g. children offered Head Start programs do better than children that were not. E.g. Ludwig and Miller (2007) showed a 3% increase in high school graduation rates and a 4% increase in college attendance in disadvantaged youth offered early education. That's a big difference for a treatment 15 years later.
Based on the title, I thought this was going to be about finding, archiving and curating those lost apps. Instead, it's just a complaint about how "it was better in the old days."

What gets me about this line of thought is that the technology didn't disappear. Anyone who wants to recreate "the lost apps of the 80s" just needs to grab a text editor and start coding.

Everyone has the power to create any app they like. Stop pointing the finger at other people asking why they don't do the work for you.
Please be aware that this is not true for all countries. I can, for example, not get a SIM without submitting ID and proof of residence (if not already covered by ID).
There is, the Google own teams cannot be bothered to use what outsiders are forced to use when targeting Android.
More or less. Insert mRNA instructions for creating or triggering antibodies that target cancer cells specifically.
interesting, the "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator" MSKLC seems to be moved, I just downloaded it one month ago to setup US English Internaitional to be identical as what is found on linux.

New link is here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102...
Remember to turn on windows features for old .NET before you install MSKLC
> Waldorf kindergartens don't have anything which resembles standard Prussian pedagogy. No desks, no assignments, none of that, and you aren't expected to read or write. It's mostly freeform play, we also learned to bake bread.

Your Waldorf experience was my Kindergarten experience in a US public school in the 80s.

I still have the cookbook we made and remember fondly making all the recipes in class.

Marigolds are still one of my favorite flowers because we planted them in milk cartons to bring home on Mother's day.

I also remember looking up the teacher's skirt because we all sat on a rug in the middle of class rather than desks.
May I recommend Prince? https://www.princexml.com/

I created a PDF exporter for a manual test tracking app using this -- render to (pretty simple) HTML, pass to the prince executable, and out comes a beautifully typeset PDF.

Prince has its own rendering engine that is purpose-built for PDF rendering. It's actually very good - a lot of professional books and documents have been typeset using Prince.
>I’m still on board with Uniquiti

Freudian slip?
At ~$50/Tonne, that is more than than current carbon prices, as far as I can tell.

The cheapest way is to not produce it in the first place.

Deepening topsoil is my favourite way of sequestering carbon.
if it's what i think they are, they are essentially batteries with a radioactive source. It relies on the gradual decay of the source to create energy which is somehow harnessed and used as a power source. I have learnt here on HN that they last many years, are used on space projects such as the voyager probes, and more recently, the mars rover. They are impractical for other uses, such as powering your fridge and home. And their price is.... astronomical.
Vitalik Buterin: On Free Speech(2019)
Should be able to - somebody with intermediate Wordpress knowledge (unfortunately I don’t know php) should be able to integrate within a day in my opinion, based on my understanding of web development
I don't see there that the suicides have anything to do with the SCO Linux case in particular.
With @system by default it is harder to track down uses of .ptr
You've posted a lot of assertions across several comments in this thread. You've raised government and media boogeymen and criticized everyone's emotional response and lack of focus on science, all without a single citation of your own.

Sure. Now go and look up a dozen scientific journal articles on Hydroxychloroquine, then see if I'm pushing a false narrative about government and media pushing narratives, or if that's a pretty reasonable one. I'm fine with letting the numbers speak for themselves.

You're not even discussing the article at hand, just posting a lot of both-sides rhetoric and platitudes that will be popular because everyone that reads it will think you're talking about other people.

This both-sides stuff is actually true. Also, if everyone realizes I could just as well be talking about the other side, then they take that thinking a step further, then the philosophes win. Those who are so biased, that they can't see this, are probably unreachable anyways.

If just one person changes their mind because of actually looking at something they didn't see, or saw in a different way, we all win. I think that's very relevant.

In the long arc of history with regards to the truth, "sides" are irrelevant.

(Seriously, how is getting HN readers to ask some questions and do their own research a bad thing? That's kind of head scratchy.)
In addition to price, I would like to see, for any CO2 capture tech, the estimated CO2 emission amount with scope 3 accounting (i.e., including the CO2 emitted in the entire supply chain, amortized by the estimated non-infinite lifetime).
I am looking forward to my cheque in three years for $5.37.
Cheapest Bookkeeper Ever
We mixed technology with good old bookkeepers to give you the best price ever for the back-office.....$5,000/year no more.
- OCR technology.
- Full Accounting database.
- All bookkeepers have a BA in accounting.
Afaik performance will be abysmal on edge router series as the npu isn't used.
It hints that someone doesn’t understand these confidence values at all.

Why $47.10 and not $47.1032471?
SARS-2 was always destined to become yet another endemic seasonal respiratory virus, just to be clear.

Also, it basically is a cold virus already. For the majority of the population it’s a mild respiratory virus. For the very elderly it is quite deadly. I wish more people appreciated this fact.

Interestingly OC43, one of the already-extant human CoVs, seems pretty comparable in mortality for the elderly last time I checked.
I wonder how much improved robotics will change the picture. Labor intensive practices and crops might become more feasible if we can get robots to do that labor. Afaik agriculture is already moving in that direction with very fancy advanced tractors etc (I don't actually know anything about ag).

One issue that I foresee is that if something needs a very specialized robot, then the market might not be big enough to warrant the development cost. Undoubtedly it makes lot of sense to automate something like wheat or whatnot bulk crop because there is just tons of that around. But asparagus or something might be too niche?
I REALLY do not like seeing the uptick in articles from arstechnica.
Not only are they shallow in their coverage, they are insanely biased in their reporting, as well as tolerating their employees disgusting behavior:
https://nationalfile.com/left-wing-ars-technica-journalist-d...

Ref: I’ve been reading Arstechnica since it was green and black.
“Remote learning” is completely fucking useless for kids under a certain age. That age varies by child but covers almost nobody at age 5. If I had a 5-year-old during a pandemic and no school to send them to I’d get them some art supplies and a stick and some musical instruments and tell them to play in the backyard.
couldnt find dream machine support there unfortunately, shame since I have one gathering dust now
> hilarious

Indeed. Also part of the reason the Navy has sued both the manufacturer and the company who vetted the design plans[1].

Time will tell if that pans out for the Navy or not.

[1]: https://militaryleak.com/2020/11/08/norway-sues-dnv-certific...
I think it works similarly as kids who get tracked early into art, music, or a particular sport. The more they do it, the better they get, and the better they get, the more they do it. Then, in addition to the personal satisfaction, they get praise from people they care about, so they continue. Then their closest school friends are all in the earlier-achieving cohort, may have parents with similar feelings about education, etc.

It's not like the schools are saying "you stumbled over your th-words when entering first grade, so no AP English for you 11 years later", but rather that small differences within the kids themselves becoming self-reinforcing. As WB says in a sibling thread, the only way to break the cycle is to slow these kids down, which is antithetical to me (and hopefully everyone who cares about the kids).
Aaaand it's all banned. Enhancing your performance? Heresy!

That's assuming such research is allowed in the first place. Humans are innately repulsed by biology, by organisms. Imagine an arm with its skin ripped open to the bone, gushing blood everywhere. Imagine your guts hanging out from your belly.

And the ethical/moral rules we built over thousands of years will not allow the majority to sit by and watch some atrocious (from their POV) experiments.
Those studies were on disadvantaged kids. Which already makes them possibly irrelevant to HN crowd kids.

If you take disadvataged kid and give him good kidergarten, first years in school are easier. 8 years later, those kids are basically product of their elementary school. You can't conclude anything else.

You cant conclude what will happen if all the kids are less prepared, or what would happen with kids who have great support whole time.
Looks interesting, good luck!
Facebook knows where you live, where you shop, who you meet, what you say, what you buy, where you go – perhaps when you wake and sleep –… and in exchange, you get some chat rooms, a MySpace page, advertised at, and to be a non-consensual subject in psychological experiments. (Libel notice: they might not do the last one much any more.)
> FB & Instagram present a perfectly acceptable entertainment vs privacy trade off.

I'm glad you're here to establish this objective fact for those of us who didn't know ;-)
Ubiquiti has lost my business. And with the recent issues with Netgate/PfSense [1], it looks like OpnSense is the way to go.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
Hey, I dig this and may bring it up at work tomorrow.

- Does it break if your product goes away? How long can I expect support?

- Does this have theming options? CSS?

- You should prevent the "click to read" function from reading the toolbar itself. Or have it read what the button does.
A friend of my boss recommended Ubiquity semi-recently. We're a small IT company, plenty of theoretical expertise but no dedicated network admins, so it made sense to go on a recommendation.

The fact that doing anything, for example assigning a VLAN to a switch port, requires you to first setup a mongodb server on your machine before you can install the controller software tipped me off to the quality of what we had bought. The device also gets like 80°C while idle.

This controller software is now on isolated hardware, we trust the thing about as much as an old Android phone, and that was just from our impression as security people without knowing of any breach.

I see it as a good thing that other friends of $friend will be spared that recommendation after this news.
Everyone complains that this and that guy was "responsible for millions of deaths" yet they would have probably mismanaged an empire into far worse shape if they were given the reins
I think it's possible for a medical+legal panel to resolve issues like that, but the thing that would probably cause me to chicken (should it happen to me down the line) out would be actually doing it sufficiently long after the initial screening (I don't have a statistic but it isn't uncommon for the result to come long before the really nasty symptoms) but before said symptoms set in. In future we can hopefully spot things like this much earlier (I don't know what came of it but I heard a brain scanning hat similar in mapping capability to an MRI - passive only apparently - being discussed in a physics department, apparently past prototype stage)

I think the same argument can be made for terminal illnesses also but I think the issue there is extreme pain rather than loss of mental faculties which is potentially not the same thing in the eyes of a court.
Im trying to hack my girlfriends phone??????
I'm not sure how long the sad shell that is now Xinuos can last. I poked around their website, and it's like a ghost town with empty employment pages, partner list pages that require a login, and the last news item prior to this lawsuit is "Xinuos Releases 2019 Year in Review".
Steiner had all sorts of insane theories about children's development, specifically that they are inhabited by specific spirits according to a 7 year age progression. I'd not consider his esoteric teachings as any valid contribution.
Haven't you ever been forced to stop reading in the middle of a chapter? It happens to me all the time.
2016 elections and many events that followed showed that we are poorly equipped to defend against state sponsored propaganda attacks. Having a fee would make it so much more difficult to orchestrate such attacks.
Elsewhere you say that kids don't need to learn those things until age 6, so parents don't need to worry about prioritizing it.

Here, the concern is that if the kids learn them around age 6, their trajectory could be permanently altered-- never having a chance to catch up even if capable-- because of the system's tracking of learners.
Interested to hear from people in the know: how good does this look?
I'm curious, what would a solution look like that's even safer than a touch interface (mouse, keyboard, screen) or voice?
I wouldn't say it's ridiculous. This is generally how a scientific study is done. One "object" per study. An article like this is not made to stand alone and should in general not be used for non-science purposes, such as policy-making. First order comparative studies (such as experiments) of course exists, but comparisons are generally done to my knowledge in meta-studies.

For laypeople and policy makers we of course need comparisons and validations before we let them guide our choices.
Maybe depression brought by the case.
I would be against it, I'd rather live in a forest and hunt wild rabbits and...

> smooths out volatile emotions

I volunteer!

Seriously, that's how one would buy me. Reduce my emotions? Maybe remove them? Plug me in, buddy :D
Hangul: A Korean vocabulary building Chrome extension
It has to do with milkshakes.

Here’s a video for context:

https://youtu.be/GX-9wXFQRgA
It seems impressive in general. But are users still going to be stuck with the awful pox that is an important hold-to-use modifier key, Alt Gr, that appears on only one side of the spacebar? All this statistical analysis and the result is another layout which is deeply incompatible with proper touch-typing?