skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of building massive apartment complexes in the Bay Area. It was a PITA place to live 30 years ago and it's worse now

The thing is, if we can build giant ant mounds in just a few places it'll save the central coast and California north of the Golden Gate from destruction.

Step two would be to connect the giant metro areas to the rest of the state via a dirt road.
> Vedic ळ

There is strong evidence that the ळ came from Substratum languages (Dravidian or Munda) and many Indo-Aryan languages still retain it e.g. Marathi, Gujarati.
For the most part, but had a soft spot for sushi. I used to work in Infinite Loop and remember when Steve’s favourite sushi restaurant closed so the chef was hired to work in the canteen instead.
> As an Arabic speaker, I can totally read a text the way it was pronounced 14 centuries ago and also perfectly understand it.

I may be able to do something similar in Spanish. I've read Emilianensian /Glosas/ in Navarrese-Aragonese and understand near the 95% of it. That being a close Romance to Castillian Spanish.

Scroll down and compare, you don't need to understand Spanish:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glosas_Emilianenses

Also, I can perfectly read Don Quixote. My main issues would be the old Medieval slang with things that do not exist anymore or they changed a lot. But without the footer annotations, I had no issues at all to understand the 80% of it.

But, spelling it? Heck, it didn't change at all, our Spanish standards (Nebrija's grammar) date back to that era.
This reminds me of something that would be included in a JS engineering interview. I find questions like this to be ridiculous. Knowing the answer to a question about this 'gotcha' would be a pretty terrible signal about future engineering performance. I'll focus on writing good software and solving complex problems, thanks.

After reading this article, I feel slight annoyance. But maybe that is just me.
> Unfortunately, we don't have great records of pre-Columbian food in the Americas

Yeah but that's all irrelevant.

They didn't say pie in Europe predated pie in the Americas. The said the idea of pie predated the Americas... entirely. Like we were eating pies before the existence of the continents of the Americas.

> both sweet and savory pies predate the Americas

Clearly, it didn't. The Americas didn't pop into existence when Europeans reached them. They were there before humans started to cultivate grasses to make pie crusts from.
Oof. You can confirm it pretty much everywhere. Qualifying just ended for the Austrian Grand Prix, and many people will/would be paying attention to their phones for news relating to that.

Someone at FOM/Liberty Media (holder of the commercial rights for Formula 1, thus the responsible parties for the app)[1] is not having a pleasant Saturday evening in Austria.

A head or two should roll up the IT chain, but who knows ... might be a credential leak. An event was held at this same track last weekend, an oddity of the COVID-affected race schedule for the sport. Perhaps they re-used some credentials from last week, that were leaked/identified in the layover between race weekends.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_Group
There’s no plausible scenario where sending a DMCA notice gets you into a lawsuit you don’t want to be in.
I sometimes make hue a meaningful attribute in data visualizations, but try to keep chroma roughly consistent for various hues, so that varying chroma does not cause visual artifacts unrelated to the data. RGB gamuts are very limited in blue–green colors (when you additively mix purplish blue “B” and yellowish green “G”, it’s hard to make a bright blue–green), and as a result my whole data visualization ends up with relatively lower chroma than I would like. With an additional few primaries (say, adding a greenish blue primary and a bluish green primary), the chroma-width of the gamut would be much more consistent across various hues, which would let these visualizations be something like twice as intense. It would make a huge difference.

You probably haven’t seen any “wide gamut” demos with fundamentally different primaries involved; display manufacturers have been expanding their gamuts by making the three RGB primaries have narrower and narrower spectral power distributions, rather than by adding additional primaries.

For a while Sharp made a “4-primary” display, but the additional “yellow” primary was more or less created by an additive mixture of existing “R” and “G” spectra, so didn’t really make as much practical difference as one would hope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattron

You can get a display with like 8 or 10 primaries if you run a color science research lab and can spend tens of thousands of dollars on it (or maybe more? dunno).
How is traffic on social networks doubled?
About to sign up for Nord VPN in quest of obtaining some ultra rare bob dylan bootlegs not even sold in most record stores

Does anyone have a fav go-to source for torrenting these days? My last longterm success torrenting was with Demonoid but haven’t used it in the past 5 years or so.

Any feedback super appreciated
Neither Portland nor Seattle can match the Bay Area in terms of overall culture. Neither has a world-class orchestra or opera, to say nothing of the early-music scene in the Bay Area, which is easily the best in the US. Neither measures up to the Bay Area in the art scene, either. Or the restaurant scene. Or the wine scene.

Neither comes very close in terms of climate, although that argument is muted lately due to California being on fire for 4 months out of each year now. But Portland and Seattle are already experiencing their own climate-change-related impacts.

And no, neither measures up economically either. Comparing the tech industry in Portland or Seattle to the Bay Area (Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and basically all of the startup scene) is a joke.

I could go on, but really, there is no competition.
I have heard variations on this many times but never a definitive expert assertion of its truth rooted in confirmed facts. Did he forego cure, or was he merely quirky and uncured as two independent truths?

A bit of searching did not bring me complete clarity.

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j...

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/

- https://www.livescience.com/16551-steve-jobs-alternative-med...

The undisputed fact of his liver transplant in TN suggests a sophisticated deployment of his considerable means to me. Given this it seems to me that he may have been as described above at the time of diagnosis but he probably was not by the time of transplantation.
I use merge commits as the “clean” history and non-merge commits as the “true” history. Are there problems that this approach doesn’t solve? My only gripe is that apps like GitHub don’t give me the option to display commits how I want, but that’s a problem with inflexible tooling in general.
Any workflow that alters history is dangerous. Just merge things normally, and don't get fancy.

If you want to futz with stuff and squash commits and rewrite commit messages because you didn't write good ones on a feature branch, fine, whatever makes you happy.

But just merge to master, don't rebase.
Netflix seems OS agnostic. As far as I know, they run Linux in AWS, and FreeBSD for their CDN.
Emphatically agree.

The git cli UX is terrible, cryptic, and forces one to think way too much. The number of GUI tools that wrap the git cli should tell us all something.

I Mercurial. It
- manipulates the identical data structure (the DAG)
- interops just fine with git (thanks hg-git plugin!)
- its cli manages to use common sense verb names, by default, for all its functions
- includes no unnecessary concepts/models (read: git's index)
> The people that deify him mostly forget that actually running a company like him means requiring a bailout from your primary competitor, which means failure.

There's plenty to criticize Jobs for, but this one doesn't make sense to me. Gates bailed out Apple in August 1997.

Jobs departed Apple in 1985 and returned when the NeXT acquisition in February 1997.

Do you think that the reason Apple sorely needed capital was primarily down to Jobs' decisions between February and August? Or was it some critical misstep in 1983-1984 manifesting 13 years later?
In Some States, the Boon of To-Go Cocktails Is Going, Going, Gone
Honestly, I don't see why any of these things require such terrible performance characteristics.
You can tell the high crime neighborhoods in the Seattle area by the banks. High crime areas place the tellers behind bulletproof glass with an interlock tray. Low crime areas, the tellers are just behind a counter.

This neighborhood-by-neighborhood variation even happens for branches of the same bank.
Except for the massive spread paved over most of the marshland and waterways in the area. Resulting in much of the city being under water (literally) for days in 2017 when a class 1 hurricane, which is pretty common, hit the area.
One example: "If the licensing agreement states that a licensee will have to pay additional fees for use beyond the scope of the agreement, a breach of the licensing agreement on these grounds generally will be considered a breach of contract, rather than copyright infringement."

https://www.romanolaw.com/2020/01/13/is-breach-of-a-licensin...
This is category error, at a minimum. 'highly progressive people' is an abstraction and cannot take action. It's imagine it's also inductive reasoning and out group bias.
It can take 250k in permits and 5 years just to renovate a duplex. It is insane
I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot
That's overly dramatic. We just go to another company brand chain to shop. Plenty of those, so no worries, at least until all food shops run out of food... :)
One of the few benefits of an authoritarian regime… usually they’re great at reducing crime.

Of course it’s not the only way. While replicated almost no where else, Japan avoids crime while not being authoritarian. Group think becomes cultural identity, which has its own issues, but crime isn’t one of them.
You are correct here. The conversion from one color space to another when the gamuts are not identical is an artistic decision, and there is no scientifically "correct" way to do it.

There can be standards so a content creator can know what to expect, and there's an awful lot of weight put into attaching metadata to source images so the transform can be informed by the metadata, but I also think it's fair to say the entire thing is a mess and that in 99+% of the cases there's a good chance trying to do fancy color management will cause something to go wrong (if not least, inconsistent results on some clients), whereas keeping everything in sRGB gives you a baseline of quality; the only thing you don't get are those super-bright colors.
I get where you are coming from but even then, a large portion of the population already depends on government directly for their income (7-8%) + all the government contractors, etc. Plus the government decides if a lot of business live or die (import tax, regulations, etc.) That's not including all the obtuse tax laws that affect people's income to a huge degree (see the recent article on how billionaires get around to not paying taxes).

It's hard to argue most people are not already mostly dependent on the whims of the government for their income (although imo the utilities the government provides are more important than the income).
it was more of a thing before they started adding it to salt, yeah
I genuinely don't think modern OS's are any better at multitasking with heavy loads. Particularly Linux and Windows are terrible at heavy mtitasking loads, at least as a software developer working with both environments.

I also don't see why the security improvements lead to such a massive decrease in performance.
> every drop of which had be trucked from Karachi

There were multiple supply routes used in Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_logistics_in_the_Afghan_W...

In particular, the Pakistan routes were not used at all for many months after the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan and "by February 2012 85% of coalition fuel supplies were being shipped through the northern routes".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16154331
What do you tell the children? (2015)
Marrying is for chumps, if you're racking debt.
> Following the removal, he appeared on Fox News and claimed that the CDC was yet to conduct “risk benefit analyses”

Claim you're being censored while appearing on the largest US news channel. Classic.

This guy is essentially using the news as a megaphone to complain that his megaphone isn't loud enough. Presumably to advertise his consulting business. He's making a lot of money doing news appearances.

The only source I can find for his claim that he "invented mRNA vaccines" is his own website. I can't even find his name on Wikipedia's article about mRNA vaccine history.

This guy is just stirring up shit to make money. He's not a complete charlatan, but he's purposely sowing doubts about vaccine technology he hasn't worked on for 30 years. Notice that he keeps producing soundbites but hasn't produced a single shred of scientific study behind any of it.

He deserved his ban.
That's definitely too defensive and that makes it a bit annoying. I'm sure the page would work very well with the html lazy loading, the images are small enough.
> If you know the shape of common RGB gamuts, you’ll start to notice [...]

I'm interested in exploratory questions of the form "If education content about mumble wasn't such a disaster, then... what? What might doing it well look like? How might doing it well then be used to teach other topics better?"

Color is widely taught preK-6. And yet first-tier physical-sciences graduate students not infrequently reply to "What color is the Sun?", with something like "it doesn't have a color; it's rainbow color". Suggesting that teaching is very not going well.

One might imagine perhaps adapting tablet/phone clip-on spectroscopes down towards K, and developing a spectra-centered content and learning progression for color. So let's hypothesize students with a firm grasp of color. What might they do with it?

> [...] you’ll start to notice how much all of our RGB-displayed visual media is constrained and nudged toward particular choices. There are e.g. color choices made in some paintings that can’t be effectively used in films. There are plenty of physical scenes that can’t be effectively reproduced. And on the flip side, areas of the RGB gamut where there is more available contrast get used a lot, even when they don’t quite fit the mood.

Any suggestions on resources for exploring these further? Any other favorite stories or examples, useful or fun, where understanding color well gives insight or skill? Any other thoughts? Thanks!
So like some kind of separate sequence of commits that can have its own name.
I frequently try to express this to people and I don't know how to get it across sometimes. Our representative republic has been so clogged up by corporate interests that we can't even pass infrastructure that would benefit most of those same corporate interests at this point. I have basically zero faith that we will be able to address climate change in any meaningful way.
At least with AWS, auto scaling is biased towards aggressive scale-outs and conservative scale-ins, under the general principle that customers would prefer to err on the side of providing service and meeting their SLAs over conserving every last dollar of spend.

It makes sense that GCE would adopt the same attitude.
"stunting growth" = large, ignorantly sized companies with multi-100% profit margins can't be sustained?

Or actually stunting growth?
Note that i n the case of SolarWinds, there was no demands for ransoms. It was good old state level spying, not a job to get few bitcoins.
An appearance elsewhere does not erase the deliberate removal off of linkedin, though.
The official reason is that they want to control crime. The unofficial reason is that they want to be able to track everything people do with money.
HN loves notes applications and I always click through and am almost always disappointed. Am I unusual here in that my notes are not all text? If you look in my notebooks (digital or physical) there are sketches and images on almost every page.
> This would solve the problem as I see it as you could truly view a branch history; typically for example you'd be asking for logs of the "master" branch history.

Which "master"? Since git is fully distributed, there's no central repository which contains the true "master" branch. It's perfectly valid to have two independent lines of development, both naming its current branch "master" (in separate clones of the repository), and later merge one of them into the other. As another example, consider the branch named "for-linus"; take a look at the Linux kernel git history, and see how many independent branches all named "for-linus" are merged on each release.
First, I work at Google and its onboard training explicitly mentions Stack Overflow as a forbidden example due to CC-BY-SA license (SA is the problematic part). The following link is the official reference.

https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#restrict...
Since we've chosen a basis of the vector space (east, north) we can think of it as two 1-dimensional vector spaces. So we're dividing meters east by meters north.
He wasn't even at Apple for the entire decade preceding that bailout. People probably 'forgot' because it's not true at all!
I suppose you could always paste in a base64 image URL and make a UI for it?
Thought process:

> WASM to PS compiler. Huh, PS meaning PowerShell?

> Oh, PS meaning PostScript.

> Wait, PS meaning PostScript?!
But the forks often DO come back. At my employer, we open source our work on FreeBSD.

In addition to being full participants in the community, contributing our work back gives us a lot of other advantages. These include a wider audience for code review which improves code quality, much, much, much easier integration of fixes and features from upstream, the ability to collaborate with people from other employers, the ability hire contractors who are familiar with our code, etc.

Note that I don't speak for my employer.
Ashton Kutcher landed in hospital after following Steve Jobs's fruitarian diet

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/28/ashton-kutcher-...
> The ARM desktop lead will last about 18 months I'd guess.

I believe this claim is going to age poorly. Who’s there to take new ARM chips (from Qualcomm) for a desktop and provide an OS and apps?
How to Automatically Change iPhone’s Wallpaper
> I got a lesson that month in planning

What a great perspective. Many would turn to self-pity, you've turned to learning.
Target closing San Francisco stores early to theft and safety concerns
The better question, given Covid and the climate crisis, is 'Will we ever fly again? Is the age of affordable air travel over?'
His accounts have been suspended by spreading BS to make money. If he really cared or thought the vaccines were dangerous he would be doing scientific studies, not getting paid to show up on Tucker Carlson
I don't doubt that part of the pronunciation problem is the deeper meanings that creep in.

'CAESAR' sounds positively German and Legio VI Victrix has an effeminate sound. I'm afraid that Biggus Dickus had at least a little to do with attitudes towards proper Latin.
One issue (of many) in California compared to other locations is the requirement for water sprinkler fire suppression systems in new buildings. This eats a lot of money and space in each building.

Between California and Bay Area regulations it is very challenging to turn a profit on demolitions except at the highest echelons of the housing market.
It's संस्कृतम् not संस्कृतम
On elks, I miss three things:

- A gopher client. Delve or cgo should compile near straight.
- Audio support.
- AWK.
DangitBobby, this is comedy.
I said program synthesis good enough to replace programmers requires AGI. Program synthesis based off of informal specifications in natural language. Not talking about highly constrained environments with formal specs.

I am not belittling the work going in this space, and I’m sure for highly constrained and narrow use cases a lot can be done even now. But I believe solving the general problem of program synthesis based on informal spec requires AGI. I am hardly the only one who thinks this.
Forgot to add... They want to be able to make anyone unable to buy anything at the click of a button. Sweden is pretty much there already so now we are hoping the government doesn't turn into fascism because then we are completely unable to do anything. Keep your guns, America.
For git, is there any reason you can't copy the host key to your balanced servers and then either use DNS based balancing or HAProxy/some other TCP load balancer?

It might be nice to be able to do layer 7 partitioning of load, but that doesn't seem essential.
Correct, the common person in the US suffers immensely due to the resources being poured into the military, leading to wealth, health care, and education outcomes far below many other countries with smaller GDP per Capita.
No, you don't feel like you are accomplishing something difficult. I've been on both sides, coding and managing coders. To the extent that the team is doing something difficult, there's often no specific point that is "job done".

When you're coding, there's a specific thing that you're trying to do that gives a certain satisfaction: there are stages of completeness that you hit (eg all the tests pass) which feel like natural checkpoints. Passing them makes you feel good. You struggle with nature, you prevail, you feel good. Before you did your thing it was broken, now it is fixed.

When you're arranging stuff for a team, the actual thing you're doing doesn't provide satisfaction in the same way. Arranging meetings, setting goals, that sort of thing is a softer level of completeness. For one, there's no real failure: the meeting will happen sooner or later, the goals are kinda obvious even though they are vague (grow revenues, make a roadmap). You can't mess this up, so you can't succeed. Yes there are reckonings when you're a manager, but they're not little ones that come every day on a timescale of a few hours.

With flow you need to feel like the thing you're doing is challenging. You need to be strong to break your PB in weightlifting. You need to be smart to fix that bug. There's nothing in powerpointing a slide deck where you are challenging yourself, it's mostly grind.
The desire for a non-gpl compiler is part of what drove the development of llvm. llvm is the default compiler on FreeBSD. Compilers are hard, and it took a while.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718204
Sometimes. But look at all the forks Amazon has done to various databases for instance. None of that work is ever coming back. And worse, they've fragmented the ecosystem by building incompatible features with the originals.

If those systems were GPL everyone would reap the benefits
> Antitrust is pretty much dead from what I can tell

It has just been defined to mean 'thing that harms consumer prices'.
I wouldn’t confuse this incident and the solution with libertarianism or any other government system because it would take a large systematic and philosophical analysis to really arrive at an agreed-upon “what is causing this” consensus.

Annnnd from the perspective of the person you’re complaining about this is an incentive for libertarianism, you are making their life worse by enacting arbitrary rules that make you happy and enforcing those rules with violence.

And it could be that some other inane government rule made it so that they had to park trucks where they did in the first place.
Yes this would definitely be a way to shut up the “squash merge all the nuances of all the commits for this feature into a single commit called “implement feature XYZ”” crowd.
Not really at all what I said, but good try.