skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm late with this, but wow -- thanks for pointing out Alex's glaring conflicts of interests there. It's disclosed in his bio, but definitely not on that page.
Ah of course and that makes far more sense.

Adding this prime to the end of a number guarantees a composite.

I wonder if that is a property the belongs to primes, or if there are non-trivial composite examples (any number ending in 2 has this property).
Ask HN: Advice for a Law Student
Hi HN!

I’m an African web developer wedded to Linux. This whole pandemic thing set off something in me and I realised I couldn’t just continue producing web applications for clients and be happy. After the 100th Django/Wordpress app I didn’t really want to continue that way.

Privacy and security have been top of mind for a while (thanks to many advocates here) and so I decided to get into a law degree, also appreciating the maxim that being a programmer in a non-programmer field often is more beneficial to oneself and the field.

So now I’m doing a full time degree whilst trying to manage my client load (I’m a freelancer), thankfully the client I’ve booked for this year has been understanding and we’ve adjusted the timelines for their project. All this to say, I need to be as efficient and productive as possible.

So, what are some of tools (Linux only please) that you can recommend for a relatively tech savvy person doing a law degree? Right now I’m quite proficient in vim and tmux, and I’ve also found Zotero which seems to be useful for storing papers and references and the like. Then there’s obviously Libreoffice, but beyond that I’m a bit stuck. Should I use latex at all? Note taking?

All these questions point to the need for some advice on a workflow and combination of tools, and I thought this would be the best place to ask.

Thanks in advance!
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SQL Server Training Cost – An Insight You Need to Read
I used Tmux as my tiling window manager for a while and I didn't know this.
Bro: Just Get the Point
If it is a joke, the README does a poor job of conveying that. It is a bit funny at first but then gets relatively serious and recommends the project for use with up to 20 containers, with the beta caveat.

Either way, setting aside the laudable amount of work put into this, talking about the issues of complexity and different forms it takes seems quite on topic. (I don't have a cow in this fight, not using K8s or anything of the sort.)
I first encountered the fuzzy search command bar shortly after I started using Mac OS X 20 years ago when I discovered LaunchBar. This revolutionized my computer usage. Basically bringing the power of CLI to GUI

It took quite a few years fir this to be picked up by SublimeText, but wow that was another huge boost. No longer needing to learn tons of keyboard commands to navigate an application.

I wish an OS would deeply bake this idea in. Apple has done good job with Spotlight for the system level (I still use LaunchBar on my own systems) , but I want this functionality to be shared between System and Apps
I'm assuming he is calling DirectX or something through Assembly, right? Or did he write a graphics library in Assembly as well???
Israel has much more robust data than the trials for pfizer (monster study group size of 600k per group). They have seen hospitalizations and death in fully immunized individuals. There’s more papers out there but here’s one.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765
TIL that my bank app on my A10 device has permissions like change your audio settings, view wifi connections, prevent phone from sleeping, run at start up, control vibration, access extra location information...

And there is no user interface to revoke or manage these permissions. What the heck!
Warning: long-winded story with catchy title which is misleading. The only reference to weather is that the service was "dropping out during wet weather." No further explanation is provided. They also cite another problem due to "tree foliage", but this has nothing to do with weather.
Not that old-school. It’s not depreciated or anything.
I have a dumb idea/question.

Has anybody ever implemented zero-terminated arrays within spreadsheets. Or in this case blank-cell-terminated arrays?

A 1-D array as a base-cell plus direction, not a cell range?
I am clever and ambitious. I want to try to cure cancer. Where do I start?(2012)
What are you talking about? This is a language server, it doesn't have a UI.
LG had removable batteries which was great, but it was clear that they had poor brand recognition in the west.
Utah is saying they're at 22% fully vaccinated according to their site: https://coronavirus.utah.gov/vaccine
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Personally I’m not in favor of CSS in classes, so I wouldn’t use tailwind given the choice. But tailwind does look like a perfectly fine framework if you are into that sort of thing. I don’t claim to understand people that want to write all their styles in the class attribute. But if you do, I don’t see a reason why Tailwind would be garbage. In fact it looks like a perfectly fine tool for a workflow that I personally don’t use.

Do you have a personal experience you would like to share?
That almost works verbatim in GNU units (TNT must be made lowercase, and natural_gas’ underscore must be removed, not including “Advanced Farting” which IIUC would require editing a definition file): http://ix.io/2UMx

So for basic conversions like that, Fink isn’t worth reaching outside of my package manager (and I don’t want to use a web interface, I want a light, portable CLI tool). What I do find interesting is the date/time math (https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#DateTimeHandling, that and maybe the text translation https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#TextTranslation). I can use GNU date for some basic stuff, eg.…

# 2001-08-12 04:00 UTC #

can become

date -d'2001-08-12 04:00 UTC'

…but IIUC date is too dumb to take something like `# 6:00 PM Bosnia #` and assume today, or do math like `#2002-12-25# - now[] -> days`. I’ve previously ended up resorting to fairly ugly shell like `units -t $(( $(date +%s) - $(date -d '2002-12-25' +%s) ))seconds days`. I feel like I’m missing some useful units or date feature … or maybe I should use qalculate or python or something? (IDK, I need to sleep now, sorry if this sleepy comment is dumb)
I sincerely hope it’s not a jump from deers this time. I know folks eat deer and moose meat quite often here in parts of Canada.

Prion disease has been rampaging deer, elk, and moose stocks for a few years now: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/02/fatal-brain-disease-i...
I don’t care about Kubernetes, but someone might read this post and decide that it is a good idea to “simplify” an existing project by rewriting it in 17000 lines bash script.

And some hapless person will be stuck maintaining and debugging it. It could be me, or you, your friend. You don’t want this to happen.
Like they did for web browsers?
I think it's worse than that; it looks like Filecoin's PoRep proves that multiple copies of the data are stored on the same server. I don't understand why this is useful.
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“It would be a shame if someone used this vulnerability”
I had two LGs (LG Nexus 4, LG G3) and both failed during the second year.
I think in this case, worse is better, so I'm not gonna try to produce something better, thanks.

These editors that have supposedly embraced LSP are perhaps throwing a bone to people who want to turn them into IDEs. If people don't use the LSPs, they keep the integrity of the editor - it is an editor, not an IDE. Whereas people who set up an LSP can go nuts. I'd like to see some stats about what % of neovim users are using an LSP plugin. I'm not.
Plugin developers do care, there are so many active maintained plugins now dead, for me the 2 Go official plugins had been abandoned for years, they didn’t even bother to merge bugfixes.
Perl is not a good developer experience.

Try working with a database such as sql server. If the sybase driver gets the string encoding wrong good luck debugging the problem.

Perl has a syntax that appears to be designed to make a google search impossible.

I'm not sure why they want you to explicitly work with references. Constantly having to dereference is nothing but noise.

Tooling is non existent. Want to step by step debug, good luck.

It's just not fun.
As the other response pointed out it’s not a big deal. Needing a runtime is a small bummer though node is easily installable everywhere now.

What I really like about blessed was it’s api. At one point I made my own fork and was going to try to maintain it. Then I thought I’d try to port it to nim. These days I just use one of the excellent text ui libs in go which is great mostly because of the ecosystem.
Some value between the cost of not fixing it and the value of exploiting it
Yeah, I get that. Willingness to trust the method gets you the results. We went (Australia) pretty hard on ensuring people were held accountable (e.g huge fines, charges and gaol time for
L those breaking lock down).

Edit: on accountability, the rich were also stopped. I can't recall the gentleman but a billionaire on his private yacht back during the biggest part of lock down bounced between states on the east coast last year.

When Queensland Police found out, they went to his yacht and forced him into hotel quarantine for the duration that everyone else is expected to.

There are exceptions. Some other billionaires and wealthy members of society have sought exceptions to quarantine at home. But even then it was with the caveat that they are willing to pay for 24/7 surveillance from security/police to ensure compliance.
Very impressive, excited to try this out!
Seconded, thirded, and fourthed. My favorite is "NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS", where he dismisses 0 and 1 as being too ugly to be the foundation of all computation and reinvents computing via the beauty of rational numbers, which is to say, the horror of IEEE754 floating point (along with a working hardware implementation!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFDG-y-EHs
No, I specifically said in my original post, "Does that mean it's more secure than Android devices? Not necessarily."

My ultimate point is that the biggest liability is the user, and those "security updates" don't really matter when the biggest attack vectors don't even consider these exploits in the first place.
Same thing. I started working on a financial statement excel sheet like 4 years ago, refining it, then standardizing it, then decided to make data entry in a sheet. Then added more stuff.

4 years later I have import data from old file, previous year data import, PDF output, customised displays, multi page PDFs and I am just getting started. Come financial year, this is my most cherished work and I do it all the time. (Staff has to keep up with version updates every next week)
Appeal to authority based on points.
You can rephrase that conjecture to say... given any sequence of digits not ending in 2 (or 0), is there a prime number that ends in that sequence. That's an interesting conjecture!
There's a BSD version of this story. It terminates in "and then I decided I needed to work mostly with binary release mainly|only software which was starting to struggle with the Linux compatibility shim, and decided to just move to osx"

And, like Icaza you will wind up using BSD for in rack server purposes and interact fine with it via terminal access, and be productive and capable.

Unlike Icaza you aren't so worried about Open vs Free vs Net vs Dragonfly vs TrueNAS. There are issues, things like pledge() and unveil() which can trap you up, but mostly it's ok. The inter BSD compatibility is not perfect but it's pretty good. OSX being the outlier, but home-brew fixes many problems.

That OSX-as-an-Xstation/O365/terminal model, I like.
Ask HN: How advanced is military AI?
I was watching a documentary about military defense systems and the autonomous capabilities of some of the US weapons caught me off guard. For example, the Phalanx CIWS is a minigun that protects ships from incoming missiles. It can identify and destroy planes and missiles on its own without human intervention. It makes me wonder about how the military achieves this economically. I thought government jobs pay less than a cushy job at Google. But at the same time, you need to keep your brightest minds working on defense. How do they do it?
Yes. There aren't many people on there, but pretty much anyone who makes content related to Linux is, so it's worthwhile for me.
Visual studio also largely trended towards an MVC model + ORM which made implementing forms on a front end an absolute nightmare and led to a lot of security issues, poor usability issues, and lack of agility in changing and updating complex forms with conditional form logic etc. Not to mention that user security integration using identity providers is also an epic headache.

There is a middle ground, and that’s why low code / no code is so popular. Often a business does not need the full flexibility and nonsense that comes along with something like that.

Horses for courses. If off the shelf drag and drop helps you build enough to get your idea up and running and start using it / making money, then that’s far better than being lost neck deep in a code pile and not getting up and running. Once you’ve got the funds, then look at transitioning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26112751

Here's an example of a thread where somebody was fruitlessly trying to argue that a spreadsheet isn't a visual programming language:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22984831

>lmm 9 months ago | on: Maybe visual programming is the answer, maybe not

>If there was a visual programming language with anywhere near the popularity of Ruby, I'd be willing to consider that maybe the idea has some merit.

>DonHopkins 9 months ago [–]

>Excel.

>I could turn your argument around: If Ruby were anywhere near as popular, widely used, and successful as Excel, I'd be willing to consider that maybe the idea that Ruby is a viable programming language has some merit.

>But I won't, because whether or not something is a visual programming language isn't up to a popularity contest.

>Can you come up with a plausible definition of visual programming languages that excludes Excel, without being so hopelessly contrived and gerrymandered that it also arbitrarily excludes other visual programming languages?

[...] (TL;DR: he couldn't, since he was under the mistaken impression that Excel not programmable, and was less popular than Ruby...)

That thread was on an earlier discussion about a blog posting from 2020 about the same 1989 paper by Brad Myers that we're currently discussing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978454

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/maybe-visual-programming...

>Maybe Visual Programming is The Answer. Maybe Not

>Whenever discussing problems with programming today and potential solutions, invariably someone will pop up and declare that the problem is obviously the fact that programs are linear text and if only programming were visual, all problems would immediately disappear in some unspecified way.

>I understand the attraction of visual programming, particularly for visual thinkers. However, it's not as if this hasn't been tried, with so far very limited success. Brad Myers, in his 1989 paper Taxonomies of Visual Programming gave, along with the titular taxonomy, a non-exhaustive summary of the problems, starting with visual languages in general:

[...]
How does rate of community spread impact efficacy calculations? The placebo and treatment group should be operating in similar areas w/ similar case rates. If there were 10,000 cases in placebo and 1,000 in vaccine, how is that different from 1,000 in placebo vs 100 in vaccine? Not read out to the same efficacy.
For me, the killer feature of tmux is actually the mouse support (e.g. clickable window names, pane selection, scrolling, copy/paste), which works even over ssh.
that's awesome, pretty much exactly what i wanted! thanks
I think Svelte does something like that by default. I would love to see more frameworks pick this up. I think it wouldn’t bee hard for e.g. Vue or Stencil to do something similar since they have their own compilers.
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Maybe a company so large it can’t track its own finances is too large to be responsible for its obligations and should be held to standards at least as strict as its less capable business and human peers. And I’m an Apple fan to be clear. But their wealth is the opposite of an excuse.
Listen, generally the left excoriates "profit-driven" medicine, but now we're all instructed to have complete faith in capitalist mega-corps!

Also it's been maybe only 6 months since Kamala Harris argued she'd never take a vaccine at the instruction of Trump cause he was rushing the approval process.
Just hold still and avoid gravity wells. It’ll work out.
As long as Java still insists on everything being a class, a lot of its shortcomings will remain in place.
Private Equity firm is acquiring a lot of currency conversion APIs
I'm working on a side project that needed a currency conversion API, and I'd originally started using https://exchangeratesapi.io/ which until a few days ago was a free API - https://web.archive.org/web/20210328014153/https://exchangeratesapi.io/

As of today, it is now a paid API, and says it's operated by apilayer (which was recently acquired by a private equity firm).

It seems like they've acquired a decent number of currency conversion APIs:

1. https://openrates.io/
2. https://currencystack.io/
3. https://fixer.io

And probably a few more.

It's almost amazing how private equity strategy works :)
Like OpenBSD, it’s user friendly, but it’s particular about who it’s friends are.
Sure, in a magical world where we suddenly switch to a perfect utopian medical system, the problems will go away. But none of the concrete proposals in this thread will make the problems go away.
It has a signed plaque and everything!
That's not the kind of irrational I'm talking about, which is why I put the word in quotes and then explained exactly what I meant in the same sentence.
I wish tmux had the ability to pipe the buffer to some external program, e.g. vim. Their vi-mode is okay, but it's never going to be the same as native vim with my configs, plugins, etc.

That aside, I do really enjoy tmux and appreciate the hard work of the devs!
They still treat PDF files as “safe” to automatically open when downloaded so nope.
Did you mean to add this comment to the nearby "tmux lets you select and copy text with you keyboard" post?
Every time I'm reading these letter or the mega-wide numbers in Japanese uploads on youtube, I'm having a heart attack thinking my font cache is broken again.

Not. funny.
See also the state of the art for finding similar artists (works even for niches)
https://www.music-map.com
I'm using extrakto[0] for it, so far it works nice.

[0]: https://github.com/laktak/extrakto
Can you be a bit more clear on what you're implying? Genuinely curious. I thought Zerodium was selling to government agencies.. so I'm not sure what you mean by sliced up bodies in embassies. Perhaps I'm just not thinking creatively/pessimistically enough.
Even with that, we had controls on state lines, country boundaries and county boundaries. Literal army check points on these state lines during the harshest lock downs.

There's a reason why the Melbourne/Victorian outbreak which was the worst we've seen in Australia was kept to that city. Noting that exceptions were managed, we still allowed domestic travel for freight and similar so food and goods were still received and sent albeit with delays.

I'm not suggesting the US, Europe and other countries would been as successful as we have been. It's too difficult to say. But what I am saying, is the US and Europe didn't even fucking try.

One thing Australia does have in its favour, is every single state has its own separate state ran government. And each state held others accountable, there's been a lot of political mud slinging but our states enforced those borders and enforced them well. Where the Federal government did the same for international borders (with less success than state borders, e.g New South Wales and Federal Government made a mess of the Ruby Princess:
https://theconversation.com/ruby-princess-inquiry-blames-nsw...).

As I mentioned in my grand fathered comment. An anecdote for sure, but I know of people who literally went to Europe from the US for a holiday over the 2020/2021 Christmas. Little to no controls were used. This is why Covid was and is spreading. There's absolutely no desire for either Europe or the US to stop international travellers and Covid spreading events.

I was galled to find the UK didn't make international travel even difficult until the more/highly infectious UK Covid variant came to be and that was only in the last few months. What the fuck was happening prior to then?

I am sympathetic. Countries like Spain have been economically destroyed by Covid because they're so reliant on tourism.

Australia's regions where tourism is the largest part of the local GDP (Far North Queensland, Cairns as an example) are really struggling and even with the Federal Government printing money like there's no tomorrow. That relief is being wound down and it's now starting to bite. But even here we provided more support to business and local people more than what I've seen from other countries internationally.

It's appalling really. There just seems so little appetite from people on the ground or the countries ruling parties to commit to lock down and providing financial support to their workers so they can afford to not go to work.

But, I abhore the 'what you did wouldn't work here' rhetoric. It's bullshit. No one fucking tried.
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I guess pulsars may be our best bet for a universally coordinated time? We can detect the passage of time in a gravity well and create a well-centric system if need be!
There are, but generally for specific interests, and not nearly enough to challenge youtube's market domination. Without something dramatic youtube effectively has monopoly control of supply and demand.