skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a love for fruit, don't you? But that's not apples and oranges, nor are they cherries. That's the most specific data you can find in that report on the actual birth rate. You're more than welcome to share more data and maybe we can examine.
Hopefully VR will end up with a more permanent footprint than 3d cinema.

It is hard to evaluate VR with just the perception of what we have today and fantasies about how good the tech will be.
WebRTC: The end of an era (and the dawn of a new one)
Thanks, I didn't know about this. It's been about a decade since I actually used Gentoo and I was writing from the hip.

I've published a correction: https://zeroindexed.com/nix-ejection-problem#on-gentoo
I'm not sure about that. His generals really screwed up the Eastern theatre in the late 1940s. Hitler knew they needed to secure the oil in the Caucasus but the generals were myopically focused on an Eastern advance and on securing useless symbolic military wins that contributed nothing towards the oil effort. It's because they weren't capable of understanding the dire economic need for oil and were too zoned in on their domain of expertise (military engagement). Hitler for all his faults was one of the few who knew that the only important stratetic objective at that point was oil. He failed to get a number of his generals on that same understanding, and in some cases these generals sabotaged the oil effort.
It's also worth noting nicotine has interesting "nootropic" properties. You don't really have to quit your addiction to quit smoking, and there can be some advantages to continuing if you can afford it in safer forms.
Show HN: Baldur's Gate 2 online demo reimplemented in WASM
> Yes, they are guessable but your application should not rely solely on the "secrecy" of the ID to authorize access to a record

Any information you give to a potentially malicious actor can help them attack you. If you have a choice between leaking information and not leaking information, I can’t imagine why you would ever intentionally go with the former, unless you didn’t actually have a choice (feasibility, etc.).

As an example, maybe I needed to CSRF someone but needed their ID (say, in a b2b app where IDs are not generally public) - with sequential IDs I have a decent chance of cracking it with a small number of requests, especially if it’s a small userbase. Sure, the CSRF was the main issue, but this is a contrived example to illustrate the point.

Admittedly, IDs are oftentimes public information by necessity - but there’s no need to allow them to leak extra information.
Snappy and instant loading for me
Facebook could be hit with fines if MI5 is denied access to secret messages
It's probably not the place. But I'd like to say still that my opinion is not based on ignorance. The more I read (and I mean books too, not just rando's blogs and tweetstorms) on this, listen to pro-coin as well as anti, and talk to actual lawyers and economists about what problems the space actually has, the more I see it's just a scam.

Well, almost. Probably cryptocurrencies have more of a chance of actually succeeding in providing realistic microtransactions. Not BTC (PoW and way WAY too few tps, too slow, too high fees, etc...), but it's something traditional finance has failed to provide.

(cryptocurrencies have, for a decade now, also failed though. So I'm not getting my hopes up)
What's your experience of drug dealers? I'm really curious where this new age anti police pro drug peddler mentality is coming from because I've had multiple friends over my 40 years lost to drugs so what the fuck is the defence of these people about? Many people that can be sold drugs are victims.. so yeah these drug dealer cretins are low status.
If you want to avoid Economist business practices, but still access the coverage, I found DiscountMags to be fairly pain-free experience. They manage the customer info and billing, and have a "rate protect" feature, where they promise to get you exact same (or lower) price next year, or cancel the subscription otherwise.

Their regular prices are somewhat inflated, but registering a deal alert on slickdeals/etc. would get you annual pricing similar to https://slickdeals.net/f/14599963-1-year-of-the-economist-ma...
It really depends, my old man smoked for like 20~ years and now he doesn't even remembers that he used to smoke like 1 box a day, only when someone else points it out
+1
This is pretty much how I feel too.
"Scientists discover technology can be used for evil too". Whao, never thought about that, yo.
I used WordStar on CP/M for a good many homework assignments in elementary and high school.

JOE (Joe's Own Editor) has WordStar-inspired key bindings. I used that just a very little bit thirty years ago.
My concern is for people who take Apple's marketing (what's really in Apple's DNA) at face value, not Google or especially Facebook.
Has anyone else tried writing under some arbitrary restrictions? In case you did not notice, the blog subtitle is 11 sentence essays. The post as well, unsurprisingly, is 11 sentences (... I guess, but it has a number of complicated ones).
Don't be like me and end up addicted to the lozenges... Still using them after 5 years since I quit smoking.
Could it be you've been interacting with the "parents" generation which supplies the internet for the kids but does not get WEIRDed. Kids soaking in YouTube, gaming - it's creating a geek monoculture. There are backlashes, sure, but I don't know how well they can keep the tide at bay.

Anyway as a parent of 11 and 13 year olds this is the vibe I get. They are much more familiar with memes and internet "things" than anything I would call 'traditional' culture in my country (Finland). Of course we are in the west, so not sure what the situation is elsewhere. But it sure looks like getting more WEIRD (I mean rural folk not speaking english creating youtube channels to present their traditions to a global audience - how can you hold it back (unless you are a large authoritarian nation state).
I don't even smoke. Never have in any capacity. I purchased a single pack once as a teenager, and gave most of it away.

But from the stray cigarettes bummed off friends in a drunken mood, or that time smoking hookah till i puked... I have that light switch now.

You gave a VERY apt description of nicotine.
Not only in writing but also in plain English.
I see situations like described below over and over.

Example 1 - too much details.
Morning stand up.
Manager: what's the status of that new feature.
Senior Engineer: well I tried to call that service but it was timing out so I spoke to Bob and he said to check with DBA on why that stored procedure but it's so slow and turns out index is missing so we tried to add it but mysql and varchar something fckn something...

Dude couldn't you just tell it's delayed due to DB and then expand if needed.

Example 2 - insufficient details
I return from the meeting and discover avalanche of emails, chat messages and urgent meeting invite, all with same topic - "Blah service fails, we are blocked" but no details apart from that. On the call I get description of the problem - blah service fails and how everyone is blocked and how infinitely critical it is and what ETA for resolution would be.
What endpoint? How does it fail - timeout, connection aborted, 503 response, 200 response but with error message?
You can probably argue that the Americans' singular lack of essentially any success early on was a bit unlucky. But the ultimate decisiveness of Midway was very much a case of everything going right at a couple points for the US. Probably wouldn't have altered the course of the war given US manufacturing power (and the upcoming atomic bomb). But keeping Midway saved an airfield much closer to Japan than Hawaii was.
You might want to put the ! back into the title as it appears to me that it serves as logical-not operator.
Better than being addicted to cigarettes though.
A while back I did some research related to this, and while I wouldn't want to get into the uninhabitable house part of it, there do appear to be habitable and in fairly good condition 3BD size houses in very rural areas for sale in some small midwest towns in the USA for around $40-50k. If you go look at some small towns in southern IL and set the zillow max price to 50-60k you'll see them.

At the very lowest end of the scale I found habitable houses in the 20-30k range in KS, OK and that area in small farming towns that have seen significant post-1960s exodus and population decline.

If you have the budget to build your own custom house and do something like an off grid solar setup, there's plenty of places in rural eastern WA state where you can buy 20 or 40 acres for $1k per acre.
Yeah it really is time for the Mexican federal government to start training elite military forces to take out these guys and treat them as full on terrorists and kill on sight orders. War is ugly.
I am extremely skeptical in anything Google states that they aren't using for ads and / or user tracking. There's plentiful of examples proving the opposites and it is littered with "whoopsies". Remember the time they "accidentally" equipped their google street view cars with Wi-Fi scanners? It's old but still is true. That happens to me too every now and then. Or how they see themselves above the law with their Google Analytics opt-out plugin that is the complete opposite of what the GDPR states.
Cool that's what I thought, thanks!
That makes sense. I remember reading about that, but I guess it didn't sink in.

Oil was very important to a mechanized army.
That hardly masks anything TBH. You smell the same with some hint of mint on top. Most of the smell comes from your lungs, your clothing and your hair. You need to stay outside for a good 10 minutes to make a significant difference in perceived smell. Anything else is mostly wishful thinking...
They seem like what I'm looking for. I was looking at moving to something more random because our current UUIDs (uuid1) are too easy to mistake for one another at a glance.
This is such a perfect description. I quit years ago but still whenever I see someone smoking I get a craving and when I'm stressed I find myself wishing for a cigarette. I've accepted that it's just something that'll be with me the rest of my life.

Seriously, don't start smoking. It's a mistake that you really can't undo.
It's a very nice x86 laptop, but it's still throttling a lot when it gets warm.
I would suspect that Denmark also helped European gather data on US officials as well.
I don't disagree, but the target audience knows exactly what IK means
Is this a real interview?
That's nice. I just wanted to know what makes it a better machine. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Sound alike you need some critical thinking. Roughly speaking, what percentage of your household products are manufactured in China?
In case anyone else is confused like I was, "WEIRD" here stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic.
> As Venkatesh says in the calculus of grit - release work often, reference your own thinking & rework the same ideas again and again. That’s the small b blogging model.

This is basically my M.O wrt blogging. Problem is that my stuff ends up being difficult to read because "technical terms" have been invented over the years.

Another problem I have is that I'm somewhat shy about plugging it on relevant Twitter threads, or even here. I don't want to be spammy.
I know the principles, but it's not that easy.

AFAICU (I'm not a lawyer), if we only considered the cookie law, it was perfectly ok not to give access to my website until the user had clicked "ok" on my terms and accepted my cookies. Nothing forced the website owner to offer a "partial acceptance of terms". The user just had to be informed.

Then GDPR happened. Now the marketing consent must be given freely, so "marketing cookies" need to be excluded.

I use very few cookies on my website, but I employ Google Analytics (with some privacy options set) and Disqus (which has changed ownership some years ago).

Should I let people use the website without GA or Disqus even though I, personally, don't do any marketing through those?
Many Faces of Go by David Fotland is good for learning but there are stronger opponent bots out there these days for playing against thanks to community efforts such as Leela Zero and KataGo.

However if you’re going to play a bot it helps if it’s sufficiently strong even if it doesn’t teach you, since you won’t end up copying it’s potentially questionable moves.
> MI5’s director general Ken McCallum last week accused the social media giant of giving terrorists a ‘free pass’ with its plan.

Presumably he's equally annoyed that Facebook's "Portal" device isn't constantly streaming video and audio from people's homes straight to MI5's servers.
My guess it is just analytics, but as recent events have shown they are then one misconfiguration away from sending highly sensitive data to Facebook or someone else.
Osaka is the highest paid player, but only because of her endorsement deals. She's risking those.

On the other hand we have the very same miserable interview theatre in film. Actors and directors are obliged to appear and entertain the media. Famous is Lars von Trier's Cannes interview which was hysterically blown out if proportions by some extremely stupid press lady and their colleagues, destroying his career.
But there exceptions are allowed. A notorious instable psycho is Teddy Mallick who successfully refuses all press obligations. He does not get fined. It's his own risk. If you don't give interviews people have to actually critizise the film, which is too hard for some folks.
If you continue watching the moon's position in the sky through full lunar months, the path is sinusoidal.
> Car bombs are a thing that happens, they happen thankfully quite rarely but destroying a suspicious device is probably the best general course of action.

Why would you destroy something you think is possibly a car bomb or a detonator?

Wouldn’t the best general course of action be to call the police? Possibly unless you’re a meth dealer as pointed out in a sibling comment, of course.
In addition to the points above I have heard that you need to pass the Japanese reading/writing/verbal equivalent of a TOEFL test with a fairly high score.
>The core pursuit of computer science is how to best design and harness computers"

This is why I've been quite happy with the Information Science major. I joke that it's "watered down compsi", as it avoids higher level topics like OS design and anything beyond the introductory Data Structures. Instead, the major uses that time to introduce psychology, sociology, and user experience/interface design. As a professional, I've found that focus on "how we interact and best use technology" to be useful.
I didn't realize Intel had shipped a mobile chip with AVX-512.

Also, Intel for the love of God sort out your product names, use a proper system rather than /dev/random Lake
Agreed. The article mentions becoming a new person - for me, it's different, I'm still a smoker, I just don't smoke anymore. I quit 10 years ago, and I won't start again, but I still want to smoke every day.

I rarely see this discussed when people talk about addiction. You can't un-ring the bell so to speak, and once you know you can do something you enjoy, you don't just forget about it. The cliche of the addict tied to the bed for a few weeks and then back to normal is not my experience at all. Acute withdrawal is easy compared to the hole that is left in your life. And I'm just talking about cigarettes, happily i never got involved with anything even more addictive.
What history? American?
When were children ever a profitable venture? Atleast in my country having children was never a profit loss statement.
Where I'm from its was considered an extension of the family tree.
Though some communities considered girls chikd a burden because of dowry, this was tried to overcome by trying to have a boy.
If your statement has any weight many underdeveloped nations would've never had children.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/naomi-osaka-withdraws-f...

The vultures won. She's pulled out of the French Open.

A natural introvert, Osaka has a history of depression and suffers from imposter syndrome. It's sad, and actually quite disgusting, to see a lot of the comments here trivializing her mental health issues, especially considering how many people in the tech community also suffer from depression (and especially from imposter syndrome.
Sorry, I’ll add it to the comment.
How do you cheat at Go? The only thing I can think of is cheating by self-playing thus gaining illegitimate rank?
Is your username a play on charcuterie?
Novorossiysk?
Another useful trick is opening Preview’s thumbnails sidebar to edit PDFs. You can command-delete to remove PDF pages, and drag-and-drop to reorder or copy pages between different PDFs.
One of the things that has led to widespread gigabit class FTTH in Japan is that they're not averse to using overhead utility poles and lines almost everywhere. As an ISP it's much less costly and complicated to do real FTTH if your infrastructure can be purely aerial.
The Magic Leap (2019)
I just started a little side project and chose to use UUID for Postgresql keys. The schema is highly generic and I anticipate the possibility of merging instances. UUID precludes collisions in such a case.
Urban Kchoze: Japanese Zoning
Most of full stack web devs I know know everything but know it anywhere between poorly and ok-ish. It works more or less fine until there is some issue which requires deep knowledge of either of the stacks.

Generally I'd prefer to have front end dev + backend dev in my team over two full stack devs.
Yes, that was bad. Submitted title was "Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct". That spawned a whole school of complaints and offtopicness in its own right. We've changed it now.

Submitters: please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Exactly. Most people think the Eastern front was an act of lunacy. In reality it was an act of utter necessity. Hitler's only chance of potentially winning WW2 (if there ever was a real chance) was to capture more oil in Eastern Europe. They were running on the fumes of synthetic oil created from coal at that point.

Stalin knew Hitler's objectives well because of how hard Hitler was pushing for oil in negotiations before they became foes, and strategically positioned Russia's army in a way to block Hitler's advance specifically to key oil locations, while leaving other locations relatively weaker.
Google preps new web platform APIs
"Facebook _could_ still fingerprint users using BlueTooth"

This article's title and narrative makes it sound like Facebook is using bluetooth fingerprinting to geolocate users against their wishes, and that Android's new permission will end that. However reading the text carefully it never actually claims Facebook is currently doing that. Are they or not? Is this article a hypothetical? That seems very disingenuous but also very typical of the kind of stories on privacy and advertising I see online.
Not available in Europe.. Do you have other link?
I once had a very bad night and chain smoked 3-4 cigarettes. Since then I've never experienced the "light switch" you describe. The experience of smoking was not unpleasant, but not something I crave either. My sister seems to be the same way and smokes a few cigarettes once every few years when things are particularly stressful but never habitually.

I wonder if there are physiological differences that account for this difference of experience.
https://archive.is/6ppXT
Well, it's probably like this for some, and totally different for others. I smoked for ten+ years, a pack a day, and quit cold turkey in three days, and don't miss it any tiny little bit. Light switch was ripped off the wall, and the place it had been hanging (nice easily reachable convenient place) has been levelled off, painted clean , and is now perfectly empty
has vaping been out of question?
No, I wouldn’t say I’m only interacting with the parents generation. While the kids are definitely “online”, I don’t think this will trend toward them necessarily being more Western or Democratic.

Andreessen’s mistake seems similar to the one pundits made about China in the 80s and 90s. “Once they adopt markets and our communications technology, they’ll inevitably think like us.”
Yes, definitely, even if they're not perfect, they can give you some stomach ache, bloating, mouth sores, etc, but overall, I don't regret the trade.
This actually feeds in to why I think the article is bad. I don't think that the fire in a crowded theatre argument is an appeal to authority or rather I think there are versions of it that are and versions that aren't - but that's exactly the problem with these kinds of articles, they make arguments in a way in which they want to argue against. The likelihood is that the person who disagrees with you actually probably isn't making the argument you've constructed in a way that you can debunk.

It's far better to actually hear what someone who disagrees with you has to say than to line up what you want them to say.
Fair enough. I'm personally not a fan of the mobile site, even on mobile. https://en.wikipedia.org/?useskin=timeless is another option (for that link to work on mobile, you have to first click the use desktop button to have desktop cookies)
What a terrible interview. Where is the substance?
Pro athletes have done basic media days, outreach, and non-antagonizing interviews. Why do they need to do more than that? Why does the default need to be for the public to obsess over them?
We've replaced the title with a sentence from the abstract of the study, shortened to fit HN's 80 char limit.
The Dream of the Truly Driverless, Autonomous Car Is Officially Dead
Sounds a lot like peer review for commercial publishers like Elsevier!
"During the planning phase for the project, drawbridges, ferries, and tunnels were considered as likely solutions to allowing the road to fully cross the lake. However, these were decided against, and the novel approach of building a short aqueduct over the road was selected."

If you look on Google maps, the same road has a bridge over the same body of water only about a quarter of a mile from this acqeduct. Given that, I don't understand the quote above, nor do I understand why there was a need for this aqueduct. Maybe they built the aqueduct first, and later decided there was a need for larger boats to pass so then they built the bridge? Although the article states the aqueduct is only from 2002, which seems not that old for this kind of infrastructure.
It's the result of the influx of young western kids smoking weed. They think they will go to prison for 800 years if they are caught, so they become anti police to feel better about their bad habits.
Smoking your first cigarette implants that light switch on your mind

I don't think that's true in general, at least not for me or many of my friends. We never got hooked. Please don't try though ;)
I appreciate the post, but I don't think it's constructive to argue that the Gwangju Uprising was bloodier than June 4. That's only true if you go by official numbers put out by the CCP.