skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is keeping nice with the Saudi family so important? Why does the US government bend over backwards to cover up for them?

Because they spawn outfits who ram airplanes into skyscrapers. I see no logic in this, but some "expert geopolitical strategists" do. Same with Israel, sinks USS Liberty, and then people on the hill go orgasmic, because "higher meaning" — whatever that means.

A simpler explanation which seems to be much more believable: great amounts of money spent by them to keep the whole US political establishment wined, dined, well moneyed, and happy.
Yep, I see the same problems. Since our PMs never needed beefy machines before (they don't do software development and Teams is new for us), I'm the one who ends up being the JIRA pilot :)

The fun part is that I could be using my personal stone-age 2GB/i3 MB Air if I were doing only development and e-mail.
Malicious PyPI packages hijack dev devices to mine cryptocurrency
For sure, but trad/big wall climbers are the 1-5%. A lot of people who climb probably don't even own a rope. Of those that do, the vast majority just sport climb.

I climb ~50 days a year and I've got 5 year old draws that I'd still whip on.

I don't think soccer and climbing are even in the same ballpark when it comes to market size. I hope they never are because outdoor areas literally couldn't survive that level of popularity.

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Radiolab did an interesting piece on gender and sports a couple years back.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dutee

Gender is a nuanced thing, and there's no way to definitively divide people into the male and female categories.

The episode explores the story of Dutee Chand, a professional sprinter who for a time was not allowed to compete as a women due to her hyperandrogenism, a condition that leads to unusually high levels of testosterone.
How is right to trial in the UK codified in terms of their legal tradition? Is that covered in the (implicit) English Constitution, or their case law somewhere?
> There is a large culture among C++ users of distributing pre-compiled binaries of dependencies. See every Linux distribution, or the MSVC ecosystem where sharing precompiled .dll's is the norm.

That is why I can code on the go in C++ on my travel netbook, while I mostly use Rust when plugged, or have to do a full build before leaving.
It depends, for short input you're right. But if you're filling a whole form with multiple inputs the pen definitely helps.
In python 3.9 you don't need to implement extended euclidean and inv, you can just do `pow(x, -1, mod)`
Betting on Bezos' survival in space for charity
This is really helpful info. I've been looking at this stuff a lot and I learned these things from you:

- COBRA and private health insurance are comparable in cost (I always assumed it was way more expensive)

- HSAs can be used to pay premiums

These are important pieces of information for figuring this out for me. I don't have four dependents, but I have two and don't have the option of jumping to a spouse's plan, so thanks for the additional context.
Can someone please downvote this nonsense conspiracy theory? Would rather not feed the troll beyond that.
I think in fine the PWA problem stems from a lack of education: some developers were exposed only to Javascript and think of it at the alpha and omega of programming. Ironically the web isn't even a platform for developing software to begin with. And because they can't be bothered to even try any other programming toolkit, they want everything else to come in the browser (GPU, SQL, USB, etc), duplicating existing OS functions in a weird half-assed, incomplete, buggy and security-wise questionable way. I don't know what the fix for that is, but probably taking what pure web developers say less seriously would be a good start (in this thread for example, the reference to NPM, a package manager known for the vulnerabilities it enable, is laughable).
The fact I "understood the intent" doesn't make it grate any less, whenever I set this phrase misused time after time by Americans. "I could care less" is literally the opposite of the sentiment you are trying to express.
Covid: Ivermectin to be studied as possible treatment in UK
Geothermal energy is the way to go for this kind of worlds.
Almost everybody at olympic level takes testosterone and other "supplements". They either dodge testing, use untestable substances or take it right up to the allowed thresholds.

Given that, categories in competitions should be based on different bands of hormone levels etc, taking gender/sex out the discussion completely and also helping with this ridiculous projected view that there's no doping going on.
I'm sorry I don't quite understand.
In one instance he's like

> Seriously? On iOS, you cannot install another web browser. Well, you can install an application named "Chrome", but it's only Safari with another skin. Because Apple forbids creating a web browser on iOS.

And then later they say:

> I'll add a banner asking the user to switch to a more modern browser, like Chrome or Firefox, if he's on a Mac. Just like IE.

If they're all just Safari, what's changing browser going to do if they're on iOS and your above statement is correct????
Right, it has signals and almost no one ever bothers to test for EINTR.
Unfortunately, not nearly as affordable for a sole breadwinner supporting a family.
Interestingly I think I had the opposite experience, in that I found only a small minority of people worth swiping right for and even then still managed a good match ratio.

I'd always rated myself quite low before trying Tinder, but it gave me a much better perspective on my datability. I haven't used it in a while now, thanks to lockdown ending meetups, but I've since partnered with someone who I previously would have considered out of my league.
Today's reality in the US is one where <snip> ... <snip> ... <snip> ... <snip> ... <snip> ... <snip>.

Yeah. No comment.
If by "regime change" you are referring to how the latest round of elections resulted in a new prime minister along with a new, shaky coalition consisting of a motley crew of anti-Netanyahu parties...I'm curious why you believe this was driven by outside criticism of Israel.

It's hard to know why people vote the way they do, but my feeling is that if anything, external criticism and increased global isolation is good for the Netanyahu camp and plays into his political strategy. The anti-Netanyahu camp is driven by frustration with corruption (and his efforts to fight a police investigation from office) and perhaps lack of progress on domestic issues.

I don't think international criticism can take much, if any credit for the new government.
Nobody writes asterisks like that in handwriting - is that to help the ocr? We just use an × for multiplication, really.
Yeah, that is until you don’t want a webpage as an app. Proper accessibility, controls, behaviors, memory usage.

I can only applaud Apple. Please do that Cordova stuff on your own phone. There are enough frameworks that aren’t that bloated if you really don’t want to develop for a platform
Repin, Surikov and other painters of end of XIX century drew many paintings with such historic plots, and we had them as illustrations in the History of Russia schoolbook. Only when I came to the Russian Museum (paintings gallery), did I realize these were celebrated masterpieces, not just drawings for the book.

Surikov drew in his Petersburg (IIRC) apartment and stood close to the paintings, hence they're packed with characters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Surikov
I don't love the NHS. I think it has shown what happens when you combine the potentially endless expense of healthcare with the beauraucracy of government.

How many other countries justified their Covid lockdowns with statements like "we need to protect our healthcare service"?? Our healthcare service is to protect us.

I live in Wales, where the Labour party has been in power at all levels of government for decades, and the Welsh NHS is practically non-functional.

Personally, I think an ordered transition to something like every other European country has (a mix of very basic public healthcare and various levels of private healthcare) is the best way forwards.
I'm getting close to checking my email in the morning, answer or affirm critical items, and then shut it down till ~4pm to answer in depth.

Seconding paper and pen, the kinaesthetic action of doing a tangible thing helps me connect with the less tangible.

And most of the 'presenting as organized' folk will definitely have some chaos in their lives somewhere.
The chosen country is important. `uva` may be more commonly associated with the University of Virginia in the US. For Netherlands (same query) https://search.brave.com/search?q=uva&country=nl will correctly point to Universiteit van Amsterdam.

At present we default to country US. We're looking to implement better defaults soon.

We do hope you stick around!
Ask HN: How would you manage several gRPC connections?
Let's image we have a distributed system where:

1) communications are built on top of gRPC
2) nodes sporadically connect to other nodes to send some data
3) the amount of data to be sent can vary from a few Kbytes to something much larger (streams?? GBytes??)

Thinking about the best way to manage the connections in every node I firstly came up with two possible options:

Op. 1) Open and close a connection every time we have to send data to a node. Issue: potential overload due to the continuous open/close.
Op. 2) Maintain some connection manager to operate these connections for us. Issue: additional complexity.

I would love hearing your experiences and opinions on this topic.
> Regarding the author's username: yes, it's that one.

Curious to know who the author is or what he is famous for? I searched his posts, it looks like there were no post for a decade before last year.
Have you considered Obsidian?

https://obsidian.md/
>young people gave up a year of their lives to "save grandmas"

It's disingenuous to suggest that throughout all of this, elderly people were somehow welcome to do as they pleased while the young were locked at home. Don't cast aside the immense suffering and loneliness of elderly people throughout this.
A.operator=(B)

Hardly any different that knowing what func(A, B) does.
There seems to be a "perpetual surprise" around Saudi Arabia. Its a shitty regime, we support, train, arm and cover for their shitty behaviour. That's how it is. We're 2nd-order responsible for crushing any move towards democracy, for radicalising the population, for the horrific treatment for women and lgbt+, for their war against Yeman, all of it. None of this should be "news" any more than its news that the navy had ships.
If this trend keeps accelerating as it has been, most of the lower 48 will be largely uninhabitable and hostile to agriculture at scale by 2050 or 2060.

Even large chunks of lower Canada will be similarly affected. I fear for the habitability of south-central British Columbia, which is also feeling the heat and drying conditions.
"quite a few"

How does in the incidence in non-lockdown states and countries compare to, say, car accidents?
Any language with 40 years of history, and great care for backwards compatibility, shares a similar mess.
I’m just pointing out that landlords are exploiting tenants and other arrangements are possible and have existed.

Building social housing, removing incentives for buy-to-rent, taxing second homes and capping rents to a fraction of minimum wage are all measures that can be introduced gradually on the way to de-commodifying housing.
> You can rip off a chunk of an object by accident... and nothing happens whatsoever. There's no warning from the compiler.

Slicing is a bad name for this phenomenon, because what you've described is what the name implies, but that is not what is happening. The original object is completely unchanged. Nothing was ripped off of it. Constructors create new objects.
Are you similarly confident that the dramatic rise in left-handedness in western cultures over the past ~200 years is due to factors other than awareness and perception?
So you admit you want to abolish women's sports?
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> Notability and Soulver and most other apps don't recognize the pencil at all.

I may have misunderstood your comment, but Notability uses pen-pressure to regulate stroke width, so it must know the pen is there. Conversion from handwritten strokes to text is very far from perfect (unusable for code snippets and math formulas), but it is good enough for writing "human speak", like say forum comments or a CV intro.
Not if you bought an M96 before they released the M96C

"The Onyx Boox M96 is an Android-powered ereader with a 9.7-inch E Ink screen. Up until recently it was only available with a touchscreen that requires using a stylus pen for input."
These comments highlight the need for balance between the two extremes. We are currently at one extreme, and need to find a way back to the middle.
It's worth remembering though that the "fair market" for certain things wouldn't even exist without the government. Land ownership and tenancy aren't natural laws - they're established by a framework of government policies and the ability of the government's employees to use force to restrict property use.
London and Dublin famously both have large numbers of luxury homes entirely unoccupied, used as investment vehicles. The number of empty homes in fact exceeds the number of homeless people.
You can't make that question in the general sense and draw useful conclusions.

Eg, it's an "unpleasant Truth" that you're at a risk of dying in a car accident. But yeah, we just decide it's worth going out anyway, and ignore it.

But that isn't applicable to a similar "unpleasant Truth" that welding on a gas tank could get you killed. The task is different, the risks are different, the tradeoffs are different, the ways to compensate for danger are different.

All such things are very contextual. Trying to divine some sort of general rule or philosophy doesn't really work.
Who do you think finances US debt, public and private?

Who do you think pours money into defense contractors, financial services and politicians pockets?

Who do we rely on to control the oil price for us?

Who else is an important ally in the region for Israel?

I dispise the Saudis, we should drop them and warm up to Iran, but that above 3 points are why no one has done it yet (plus momentum/tradition).
> It's still practiced today, though not so "profoundly" as a form of public policy in Chiapas

That is one of, if not THE poorest region in Mexico. It also receives a LOT of federal aid. Not sure how it serves an example of anything desirable.
Not sure about what you mean with 'oblivious' here, but Jobs' opening email is indeed flawless--taking into consideration that Apple's CEO allocated some time amidst the frenzy to write it: no trivialities, no redundancies, no chance of not being taken seriously or of being misunderstood.

I wonder how much mental debt would be eliminated if all of the world's emails were that clear. Note that, in essence, we're talking about the major means of human communication--and thus information exchange--at least in the tech industry and academia. Pretty important and impactful stuff.
I use Safari for development and the compatibility is great across all browsers.
Then don’t buy an iPhone, and don’t develop for it.

Create the BEST Android and Linux desktop experience you can.
Are you sure about "nobody"? As a corollary, I've only ever used × to indicate the cross product of two vectors. For scalar multiplication, ⋅ is the standard symbol in my country (and many others).
I never expected the top minds of our generation to spend their skills manipulating me into pressing buttons on behalf of other people trying to make me buy things I don’t need.

I knew video game worlds would get bigger and more realistic than the wire renders of the BBC Elite, but I didn’t expect them to be full of loot boxes and other people.
People know most will just not say anything to you and work around you..I work with someone like this and the team is well aware that he does the bare minimum, but we just don't say anything because nothing good will come of it.
Is this page resource usage on the browser or the total? Else, you used the browser's (about:performance in Firefox) or you system's task manager to get this figure? If the later, that is exactly what I meant with engine overhead. You should consider that initial figure shared among tabs/apps.
US gov seized 33 Iranian state linked news sites over alleged disinformation
I had no idea reader view existed… it’s pretty awesome actually. Is there a way to prompt a user to use it?
Which side do you think has a larger base of support for the death penalty or for prison reform?
Applications work just fine. Developers have to be a bit more precise.
For features not supported, really a non issue, considering the Android update and support cycles
https://jitsi.org/

try this
Depends on the country. In Poland it's usually nothing for multiplication:

(x+3)(10-y)

then dot, then asterisk. Nobody writes "x" for scalar multiplication cause it's easy to mistake it for the variable x. What do you mean by 2xy? 2 * y or 2 * x * y?

Another cultural difference is how 7 and 1 is written - in USA you write 7 with 2 strokes and 1 with 1 stroke. In my country 7 is always crossed (always has 3 strokes) and 1 has 2 strokes.

And variable z is usually crossed in equations to distinguish it from 2 (but that varies regionally).
Where I live, at least 25% of lead climbers do at least some trad climbing (there's just so much of it in Squamish and you'd be missing out on most of the multi pitch if you're just doing sport).

But for argument's sake, let's say 5%. That's still 5% of climbers who are likely to spend more in a year on equipment than 99% of people who play soccer ever will. That's why I'm saying it's a sizable industry when you look at what people are spending.
A fact is that the downfall of the UK was postponed. Yes, it will hit exporting industry and probably put some people out of job. It will probably also make it a country that skips on raising taxes for large corporations to stay competitive to the detriment of everyone.

This is not the time to accuse people of irrationality, that will fall very short, and try to understand why people dislike the EU that much that they take this disadvantages.

Especially now, since the EU dropped all attempts for fiscal responsibility, it can just plainly be beneficial to leave the EU. Either you make it a better deal or people will continue to dislike it.

I was quite the fan of it at first, but lost all my passion to the degree that I don't really care if it survives or not. It strengthened surveillance adn allows politician to implement unpopular domestic policies. Those often are also serving special interests.

You can hate me for my dislike, but you really concentrate on improving it. Because it can indeed be a bad deal for people. There is nothing stupid or irrational about it.

I am not from the UK but there are times I am a bit jealous.
There were protests in Israel over the last month over the “damaged image” that helped emboldened the coalition to act against Netanyahu. Thats their only job and they will likely fail at anything else.
Impressive video or so I thought but just demonstrates how much room for progress there is to automate the 'boring' tasks we humans do all day long.
Chrome wouldn’t even exist without WebKit/ apples push and contributions.
Your experiences seem to be based on subjective choices. I don’t see how opening an app is less of a temporary experience than being at a bar. If you choose to be always in the app, that’s your choice.
Same guy, Ken Shirriff
Peak indifference, big tobacco, disinformation and death
A home that later becomes too big could be exchanged for one that is appropriately sized, so a larger family could have a home available. However you spin it, you can’t get away from the exploitation.

And don’t be disingenuous, I get paid for labour while landlords get paid for ownership.
> But for any other app, which doesn't require a lot of rendering and simulation, PWAs are actually a great option.

Slack and Spotify are both resource-hungry applications that would benefit immensely from being native applications. Yet we are stuck with the worlds laggiest IRC client and an application that you’re actually better off running in the browser so it doesn’t destroy your SSD (again).
They basically just nuked the whole thing. I had my nick for over 17 years and was kind of clinging to it...just pathetic.
The argument is that even hrt isn't enough to transfer someone from one class to another.
Are there any research papers or publications (like blogs) detailing Facebook's efforts in this space?
It's not quite that simple. In a push for unionization it isn't rare at all to see management come down hard on those that favored it, so unless there is an overwhelming chance of success there could easily be a large chunk of people who abstain from voting. Otherwise in the next round of lay-offs your number could easily have a higher chance of popping up, and as the organizers it isn't rare at all to be fired on some pretext. The reported outcome is typically only for those who did vote.

Personally I think that unions should be open to membership regardless of whether the company has a majority of the people there that want to be part of a union, and that companies should never be able to deny employees the right to unionize.
I call on theoretical physicists to do theoretical physics. “AI” has already attracted huge number of people (driven by meaningless buzzwords, and hoping to cash in).
I am Groot

-- Groot
Just because a concept of forgiveness exists doesn't mean that Christians actually do any of it and some folks simply will never, ever get such a thing: You are expected to start "acting right" before you can consider getting forgiveness. Some churches will banish you from their church if you do the wrong thing, all the while claiming that forgiveness exists.

So, you know, don't be gay or bisexual. Don't be trans. Don't, for any reason, have an abortion. Don't even use birth control. Don't have the audacity to explore other religions or be atheist. If you live in some parts of the world, this stuff might be codified into law. I'm not sure how jail time for abortions shows any sort of forgiveness.

Not exactly forgiveness, but if you happen to have the crime of being poor, you might have forced religion and forced work in a thrift store to earn your charity.

Forgiveness? Hardly.
> In my opinion people often speak incoherently on this topic because they are trying to be politically correct.

Yes, they are trying to be politically correct, since you are basically forced to talk about it only in a politically correct way. Her statement reads to me like she is not allowed to tell directly what she thinks about it, so needs to describe it in a roundabout way. And that worries me more than the women's weightlifting itself.
Disinformation just isn't a reason to take anything down. Especially if these are Iranian sites, people should really take a closer look.