skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistically speaking, your individual story says next to nothing about what we should do regarding screening. And screening strategies are all about statistical analysis.
From what I heard, while InfluxDB is a great product it may struggle with processing big volumes of data - see https://blog.cloudera.com/benchmarking-time-series-workloads...
This also changed my perspective on Isis cutting heads off and filming it. The act of filiming it is just of medial relevance. Of actual relevance is the suffering caused to the victim. Having said that - our media tries to sell the idea of a clean war. Air strike -> Bad people dead. First of all if a bomb goes off more often than not also innocent civilians are hurt and killed. Further more - and that is my main point - if a rocket goes off somewhere not everybody is dead immediately. Instead people will get random parts of their body ripped off and will bleed miserably to death. It's arguably more painful to die that way compared to getting one's head cut off within twenty-three seconds.
Well you can certainly call the 4 hour work week overhyped (it was also largely a marketing exercise by Tim Ferris), though I guess back in the 2000s when the book was first published, hiring helpers was something that many in developed countries hadn't considered but was perfectly viable (if you're willing to live such a lifestyle), so it's also not like the info was complete garbage/only applicable to rich people.
Are there no widely used flak/AoE weapons that heavily punish tight formations?
Show HN: A 1.5H crash course on stable Bootstrap 5 that was released yesterday
Apple already tried the "open hardware" thing once (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Licensed_Macin...), and it didn't go really well for them...
That is a good point, there is nothing stopping them from setting one.

There are no LTE contracts without one (in the UK) so I guess just have to hope.
It doesn't stop you from having a PWA app, it just makes it less useful, harder to implement correctly, and overall a worse experience for both devs and users.

> If you have something worth preserving beyond 7 days of inactivity, put it on the damn server and reload it when you have to.

It could be also true about native apps, heck, why do we even have any storage option beyond 7 days except on servers? If what you said were true, why would they not have the same policy for native apps? It's just an excuse to cover up how they knee cap PWAs.

Their actions result in PWAs that can replace native apps even less often than today. PWAs had the potential to be free and platform independent, whereas Apple has much more control over their native apps. See your own example with the local storage: it doesn't make it completely impossible to make PWAs, it just makes it overall a worse option, for both devs and users, so it's easier to go ahead with the native app.
I start with a prototype, ensuring that there is a solid foundation to expand on later. once i get a working prototype I hire a designer to re-design it.
Yeah, but this isn't like living in Tornado alley or the east coast where there is a hurricane season. I live in Portland and we don't have any natural disasters unless a major earthquake does happen or a volcano comes to life. But let's be realistic, what are the chances of that happening in our lifetimes? It's not like this is an every year thing like tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, etc. Complete devastation from hurricanes and tornadoes and flooding is much more likely than huge earthquakes and volcanoes.
Of course miners would not oppose (usually) what developers propose because they have highly aligned and interlocked incentives.

This is an open system, but it's also very undemocratic, and it's design and direction are determined by the financial incentives of the beneficiaries and the developers.
There are already (by analogue) programming languages for law, natural human language. A contract for instance, or the law itself.

The problem with the law is interpretation. It is not deterministic and that is because only a small subset of human language is deterministic.

A programming language alone does not solve interpretation (what does this statement mean) and trust (can I trust that THE [because there should only be one] interpretation of this statement has been executed). A programming language (interpretation) and a runtime (trust) are both required.
> But if in France, stay below the 40ha limit to not have to deal with massive costs of having your forest to be managed

I read about that a while ago! To me it seems like good-intent at first that turned out a complete bureaucratic creep! My question is: Can we decide to "manage" the forest ourselves and be registered as an official "forest manager", draft a management plan, publish any outstanding paperwork, etc ? I'm not sure about which administrative body would enforce the planning and management (municipalities, ONF, ...)

I won't go above 40ha for any foreseeable future, so it's probably not an issue!
This reminded me of an initiative that the Swedish government had going for a number of years, where they distributed a very graphic (lots of pictures) and cold description of the Holocaust to middle school students. The whole point of it was (as far as I can tell) to establish a compass of what true evil looks like, to never let history repeat itself. The title of the book was literally "Tell Ye Your Children", and I remember being given it when I was ten or something. It was an interesting initiative. Highly controversial.
This is very relevant insight, thank you!
Probability-Based Sudoku Solver
Thanks for the great work on collecting this material. There are many gems here!

Chapter 18. speaks about "Manual Testing". Do you have any references on how to manage test plans? These are helpful if
It's not really mobile specific, but I could not find advice in the references provided and the tooling landscape looks rather grim.
Show HN: Launching the speech recognition AI to assist your daily work
I'm surprised he only took a sample. Where I live, anything suspected of being melanoma gets removed immediately, it's still sent off for testing to see whether it was cancerous or not but if you're taking a biopsy might as well just take it out entirely.
The point of PWA'S are, that if I develope one, I don't have to go to Apples app store. I as a web developer don't know how it works and I don't want to have to know, how it works specifically. Neither do I want to target Microsoft's plattform nor Googles Playstore and figure them out.

I want to target the web.

So anyone with a decent browser can use my app.
PWA'S are not simple websites. They are more. A plattform independent application with web technology.
Numbers are also spoken using words, and the words for digits 1-9 have fairly distinct sounds with the possible exception of five and nine. W3w's advantage is more in the small number of words required.

I can't think of many use cases where w3w would be more convenient than an app/protocol for simply transmitting your GPS location to another person. Maybe if you had a GPS connection and mobile signal but no internet connection.
They took the zfsonlinux-code into OpenZFS, so OpenZFS is based on the zfsonLinux features and NOT the illumos (solaris) one:

https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page

>The OpenZFS project brings together developers from the Linux, FreeBSD, illumos, MacOS, and Windows platforms. OpenZFS is supported by a wide range of companies.
CMST is the most up to date GUI for connman, but the upstream is far ahead of current GUI features.
Getting your head cut off and die within few seconds isn't more cruel than getting half your face ripped off and a leg due to an airstrike and then bleeding to death over the course of several minutes. Isis was just more honest with their inhumanity.
I haven’t actually watched anything but just browsed around, so take the following with a grain of salt:

They distribute the movies through both YouTube and their own website, kmdb.

On YouTube they have a playlist called “with English subtitles”

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL28d5JImIlH7-gMEGxxH-nzUp...

On kmdb I couldn’t find any subtitle information and you need to register to play movies and the registration page is seemingly in Korean only ...
This is great. Congratulations.

Is there a way I can look at sample chapters before buying it?
Designing a game around PvE is hard though. It's difficult to create an AI challenge that's interesting and can simultaneously challenge extremely good and mediocre players without feeling impossible.

I think the future of PvE games is going to be in AI. If game developers could put a DeepMind-playing-StarCraft level of AI into games without immense cost, then it's going to change games quite a lot. It wouldn't be perfect, but you could have AI offer a challenge to players for longer without feeling unfair. (It's still AI that doesn't learn based on the player though, which means that the players would eventually figure out the puzzle of the AI.)
The author's explanations of UFOs:

(A) Honest mistakes

(B) New Govt. Tech

(C) Hoaxes & Lies

(D) Aliens, Etc.

It seems an obvious oversight to me that unexplained physical phenomena are missing, e.g. weather/atmospheric effects that are extremely rare and wait to be discovered.

In terms of likelihood the complementary event is "we have discovered all existing weather/atmospheric effects" which has probability zero.

That's the exciting thing about UFOs - rule out mistakes, hoaxes and aliens and you are left with new tech and new physical phenomena!
Ask HN: Why aren't you a digital nomad?
The past year has proven to a lot of us that we can do our jobs from anywhere in the world.

And for a lot of us, the idea of working from a cafe in Buenos Aires or a beach in Thailand or a cottage in the Swiss Alps etc is in theory very appealing.

So what are the reasons for not going for it?
I heard about Pyston in the python podcast

https://www.pythonpodcast.com/pyston-fast-python-interpreter...
I always start with the fantasy that I can get an application built in two weeks.
>These levels of tension and distrust don't just arise out of nowhere.

You may be underestimating the power of modern day PC.

I also think partly this is because being a remote company, these discussions, even with a Web Cam just dont convey the message much. Some of these message could have been in private with different colleague during coffee break or in pantry. So I felt it is also a failure or remote work. Remote doesn't work ALL the time, which is something DHH dont get. And VC are required for many businesses, which is something DHH dont get as well.

Another problem was that most of his political message, I guess you could also argue are glorified ads for Basecamp, attract the same people with similar political views. And many of them were sold into the vision, cult of whatever that might be as Basecamp. And the new policy was felt more like a betrayal of their belief. Hence the huge reaction and backlash that happened.
My suspicion is that the field is a fixed size for serialization inside a database table or something. Truly variable length fields are trickier to store and then subsequently iterate over non-sequentially.

When you say rational numbers, do you literally mean a fraction, or are you talking about a floating point representation? I'm not sure what a fraction would do over fixed point in this usage, and floating point is best avoided for anything finance related due to the fact that they're approximate.

They probably regret not just using 64-bit from the start, but on the other hand somebody likely saved a measurable amount of money on storage over the years. Potentially not worth the cost to figure out a workaround now, though.

Perhaps they could implement a rule where if the field equals MAX_UINT32, then the value must be looked up in an auxiliary database table. Depending on how much crufty code there is assuming 32-bit though, it may be their equivalent of y2k.
Either Go is a horrible language that did not learn anything or it is a language developed by some of the best engineers for a long time. If you are claiming that both things are true, then how do you explain it?
Wood frame does just as well. In some cases better. I've been in wood framed buildings in Europe that are more than 300 years old.

Brick is harder to the touch, but that doesn't translate into anything useful for mechanical strength.
Ask HN: Which paid SaaS do you use?
I would like to know which SaaS you are paying for and how much features you are actual using from this service. I think this could be interesting for me and other people to understand for which service people are willing to spend money. And which services are actual useful for others. Thanks!

Template:

Name of service / Cost per year / Type of usage (company or private) / Approx. used features

Example:

1. Rubymine / 199$ / private / 80% (features like database explorer, version control etc. are not used)

2. iCloud Storage 200 GB / 36$ / private / 70% (only 140 GB)

3. Google Workspace Business Standard / 113$ / company / 90% (nearly all core features)
It depends a lot on the UV index. If you're near the hole in the ozone layer you get cancer before you get that tanned.
The purpose of the "hybrid working" pitch is to force those who would prefer to work remote back into the central location using "Fear Of Missing Out" (FOMO)

It's essentially another of the very popular nudge tricks that are all the rage at the moment, and will result in everybody being back in the office. The 'choice' on offer isn't a choice at all. It's a management device to all but eliminate remote working and allow them back into their comfort zone.

For remote to work everybody has to be remote and work via a central communication device. That way everybody is in the same 'office space' and the culture evolves around that to get the work done. Management then changes natures to suit the remote environment. (Note you can do 'all remote' on a campus - you give everybody an office!)

I can guarantee you that if firms were required by law to pay for the time spent commuting, they would all choose to go remote permanently unless there was a physical reason to be in the same space.

But it is for the workers to see commuting as part of work time, and calculate what they are getting paid per hour accordingly.
Recibidos – Alejandro.munoz Sgonline.es – Correo de Colegio San Gabriel – Madrid
More search engines and/or algorithms is the answer IMO. Having one singular page and answer for a query describing the world's online information is far from ideal, particularly when some search engines have the predisposition of showing their own datasets over organic results wherever possible.

Anecdotally, Google tends to favour newer content so there's a lot of content recycling going on serving no purpose other than pleasing the algorithm.

And of course if you're say, a UK retail site and you suffer an algorithmic penalty, that's potentially half of your traffic gone (G has 95% of the UK search market, around 50% of information discovery is via search). A lot of power for one company to have, too much.
> What is crazy is that if the people in this movie are not lying, then every person on earth should be trying to solve this mystery

To be fair that's also true of Lord of the Rings :)

But being serious, the scientific mindedness of army personnel and politicians is not widely reputed. I find it still far more likely that they are overblowing simple flukes for fear of dismissing a legitimate threat, than I find it that we are occasionally stumbling into high-technology that contradicts our understanding of physics.

The fact that these sightings are almost always happening at high altitudes and in stressful situations makes it even more likely that they are instrument or human blips, or rare weather-related phenomena.
> Good thing is that I made no such implication

Most people simply attribute the author of the quote without qualifying or emphasizing some aspect of their life. So it seems arbitrary to mention this without any rhetorical motivation. Could have well said Greek Stoic Philosopher, which is mostly what he's known for and what the hive-mind of Wikipedia settled on
How does that constitute an evolutionary model? The genes for depression reach a dead end in the people who didn't reproduce; they aren't being passed on in the children of the people who did. Is this a kin or group selection model?
as a tech savvy 93/98/109/138 year old man/woman/undisclosed in this security focused world we live in, I have yet to be quizzed by any provider of online services to verify my A/S/L other than that one time your mother was in IRC
Does a quantum computer's output vary depending on who reads it?
I've had a suspicion for awhile that quantum computers are empty boxes (read: scams) that appear to yield eerily slightly higher than 50% accurate results as long as they're observed by someone who wants to see accuracy and the results are post-processed by a machine that requires far more power and time. I know the conundrum is how to verify results without actually using the extreme error-checking to classically verify them, but, not as a philosophical question, but as a physical one: Isn't any error-checking you do after a quantum calculation dependent on the wave collapse when you observe that empty box, and therefore subject to your own observation? Is there any reason at all to believe that such a thing is more accurate than the expectations of the majority of people observing it?
Well done on spotting it! I have hundreds of moles. I can't even imagine how I'd be able to keep track of any increases in size, there are more than I can remember.
> Of course so does the creator of the site,

I find it very debatable that putting information on the internet does not come with associated mandatory responsibilities
To answer your second question: Most to all public companies release annual reports (e.g. 10-K) where they explain what they do and what they are planning to do. To deepen your understanding of other sectors I would recommend reading/skimming a couple of these annual reports. I think this will give you a good start understanding what a sector is doing and also specifically how a company in the sector is doing.

For example, you want to know more about oil? Read some of the annual reports of the biggest oil companies:

1. SNP - https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/527622/0-Assets/Inv...

2. PTR - http://www.petrochina.com.cn/ptr/ndbg/202104/eafc059543d2429...

3. RDSA - https://reports.shell.com/annual-report/2020/

4. BP - https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/c...

5. XOM - https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/Global/Files/invest...
The A in PWA stands for Apps. They’re specifically meant to be more than just websites and more like native apps that can be delivered and rendered by existing web tech.

Setting the same limitations as a website for a PWA defeats a major purpose for using them.
This may be absolutely the most niche joke I've ever read in my life, and I am absolutely loving every word of it!
FreeBSD is a first-class citizen in the OpenZFS project. It's not a hack or compatibility layer on top of the linux codebase.

It makes a great deal of sense for the Linux and FreeBSD communities to collaborate on ZFS rather than both maintaining their own separate forks and merging back and forth. It means you much more easily maintain feature & bugfix parity, and makes migrating filesystems between OSes easier.

It's a win for everyone involved, not a negative.
UFOs exist. Alien spaceships do not.

Occam's Razor.

Also, having the technology to fly light years through interstellar space, means that you should surely be able to construct a craft that doesn't crash on Earth (Roswell), or waste your time flying for years to dip into the atmosphere, do a little light show and fly off, or harassing a farmer in the middle of nowhere vs landing in Central Park.

The gimbal video and others have all be plausibly explained.

Everyone on planet Earth now carries the best photographic equipment in human history in their pockets. Where are 20MP pictures of flying saucers? Similarly Bigfoot (Bigfeet?), Yetis, the Loch Ness monster, and so on.
SpaceX Starship prototype makes clean landing
I like the idea of using a formal language to actually aide development of a law. Similar to how when I code, the compiler will tell me if a default clause in a switch statement is missing or help me consider the edge cases when a value is missing. A formal language can help lawmakers consider edges cases that they might not have thought about initially. It may even help them re-consider the entire purpose of the law from a higher level once they actually experience the reality of putting into language. I don't think every law can be programmed in a formal way but I like the idea that formal thinking can potentially help make better laws.
The danger zone in Western Oregon is places like the Tualatin Basin (which is all West of I-5). This is the location of things like all of the Intel Fabrication plants in Oregon, Nike World Headquarters, etc. The entire basin will liquefy in the event of a giant earthquake.
I know it has become fashionable to have "Deep dive on xxx", but this was a very shallow piece that was not at all the expected deep dive.
> The point of PWA'S are, that if I develope one, I don't have to go to Apples app store. I as a web developer don't know how it works and I don't want to have to know

Unfortunately that's often what it comes down to. Developers who don't care about the devices they target and their software stack.

Developers should be open to learn new tech, before they reject it. Sure, go the web app route, but don't do it because you look at iOS and the App Store and you "don't know how it works and don't want to have to know".

To me it's not surprising Google wants everything to be a browser with rich permissions that easy to track, search index, put ads on and monetize. This is why they want powerful PWA. This is why Chromebooks are basically... a browser.

Apple on the other hand has crafted a platform optimized for their philosophy of UX and design. And which is often incompatible with these PWA standards that have emerged, which are often honestly sloppy and indiscriminate in wasting a user's power, bandwidth and leeching their private data.

Apple and Google have diametrically opposed goals here.

- Apple wants a free and powerful web, but not a web so powerful it takes over your entire phone, because let's face it, the web is a giant balls of kludges, it's a miracle they work at all.

- Apple wants to save battery, to value user's privacy, and to allow the device to use its full potential through native APIs that are integrated with hardware functions etc. but not abused (which happens without at least cursory review process).

- Google doesn't care about wasting power, doesn't care about privacy, they run an ad business and a search engine. They want three things:

1. Everything everywhere should be the web.

2. The web should have access to everything on your device.

3. Google should own the web.
A superconductor that can be synthesized in the lab
its a bit flaky, sometimes it just does not work, and its hard to debug, css is a hard language to debug and get right.

https://jaeh.at works fine when reloading, no layout changes, and the layout changed slightly before i fixed it using width & height.

https://noncon.org does not (and i had no time to fix, might be because width of images is not set, might be something with the css position/float layout, we had about a week to setup the whole conference infrastructure, including the streaming server, layout flashing was my last concern at the time and i kept myself too busy since then to fix something so trivial...)

sorry for the personal links, just examples i knew from the top of my head because i built them ;)