skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. Personally, I've hesitated releasing designs and code that was messy, even if useful. It takes some work to release something. Maybe not much, but when it's a hobby project it's easy to put it off.
> There are so many things I'd love to do

Like what?
I suspect the answer will be paying a bit more for internet and having ISPs forward that fee onto websites.
I don't think an M1 version would make much difference. It's just a horrifically bloated, sluggish garbage fire.

VS Code and Teams are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum for what an Electron app can be.
Sure, I'm not saying these journals should be abolished, i merely want the papers to be available for free.
You might still want to browse the journal to see what is hot right now.
Centering a div is hard!
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> People’s diets were “worse” in the past — full of lard and bread — because diet doesn’t cause obesity. The ~1% of people who were obese in the past were people with one of the various medical conditions known to cause obesity, such as Prader-Willi Syndrome, hypothyroidism, or hypothalamic lesions.

This is a very strong claim that is lacking a source. There are entire groups of people in history that were documented to be obese, especially in religion or sports.
Why not, though? Millimeters are trivial to convert to meters in your head, since you don't need to calculate anything; just move the decimal point.

Using millimeters gives you a "standard precision" which is a boon for interoperability.
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I would suggest “An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics” by Bradley W Carroll and Dale A Ostlie.
I've been to SIGMOD and I've seen plenty of database industry people there, I don't think that the knowledge is not being transferred. I guess it is more about business priorities or choosing the known unknown over unknown unknown for support.
The whole point of a system of units is that the vast majority of people working with them don't need to deal with the fundamental definitions. For those who do, there's no system that's any less bad than SI anyway (except natural units, but those wouldn't work for day to day things).
TLDR "Secretive" means "big providers could dictate terms and conditions - as well as prices - to key financial firms."
> The pavement, you mean?

I think the pavement just disappeared on contact.
> Re-writing it in C wouldn't automatically make much of a difference.

It probably would even with a line-for-line translation: you’d save all the interpreter overhead, function calls if there are any (I did not look), and most refcount traffic.
Google is an outlier among outliers.
When I did some pedagogical stuff for teaching at a University, we were told that overwhelmingly the evidence pointed that writing notes led to better recall than when using computers for taking notes, and it was thought that it was because it requires some degree of processing - many people are able to type fast enough to almost verbatim copy down what is being said in lectures but almost nobody (aside from those who can do shorthand proficiently) can do so with writing. So people have to select the important parts to note, and in doing so that seems to help people remember it better.
Hi, I'm a landscape architect and ecologist in NZ, late 50's cauc. male, on HN (mainly) to learn about scripting, cmd/cli. Use a lot of diff. software to do design.
That's a discrete space, no?
Now draw the same triangle on a curved surface.
No matter how the idea of area comes from logic, the fundamental assumption for the commonly known formula to calculate area is that we are doing euclidean geometry.

We do not yet know if there is some similar assumption hiding behind our ignorance of physics.
Furthermore, he posted in a comment one year after the article of this thread:

> I still haven’t found anything in life that really pulls at me other than basic day to day stuff. Honestly I’m pretty content with consistent, enjoyable routines with occasional novelty (travel, a trip to an old arcade, etc) thrown into the mix. I thought by now that I’d feel passionate about — something? That I’d have a pull in one direction or another.
But it’s absent — the drive to really want to do something new that requires a lot of effort is just not there.
> I take pretty strong precautions, including proper masks

Will you take this strong precautions forever?

I may be wrong (because what do I know?), but my assumption is that COVID will become endemic and sooner or later we'll all get it. I don't know that for sure, I didn't spend a lot of time following the numbers and reading right and left about this topic. I just can't devote significant time into doing a "proper study" of the matter. So, instead I'm going to apply my personal heuristic, like everybody else.

In my previous comment I shared my personal heuristics about "can the government effectively hide the dangers of the vaccine?"

Here I'll respond to whether I believe it's rational to not get vaccinated because other people will be vaccinated and the problem will go away without me risking it:

From what I could see, COVID seemed to be very transmissible; despite strong social distancing and lockdowns the contagions kept going. The only way to stop it would be to either doing a prolonged and airtight global lockdown (hard to implement) or to have a vaccination rate that exceeds the herd immunity threshold.

And this vaccination level has to be maintained throughout the world, or else we have to lock down travel in perpetuity, which is again, IMO hard to implement.

Currently we do observe regional variation in covid spread; my intuition is that a lot that can be attributed to the "reverse tinkerbell effect": we're avoiding travel, in some cases forbidding travel, testing people who travels; we cannot reach the conclusion that if you live in an area where vaccination level is high you're going to be fine; as soon as travel resumes you'll encounter unvaccinated people more often.

As I said, I don't know; it's just a heuristic. I think it's possible that I'll catch covid in the next few years. Let's put a generously low probability of 0.1%. Then let's attach a generously low probability of having serious problems if I do catch it, again 0.1% (probably higher than that, but lets be generious). With those number I'd have a chance of one in a million to get severe problems of covid in the near future.

There have been 3.4 billion doses of vaccine administered so far; if 1 in a million of them had severe side effects, that would mean 3.4 million people would be affected; I think somebody would have noticed. This is why I was focusing on addressing whether the governments can actively hiding this problem. That's the main counterarguments I hear to my heuristic about pros/cons of getting the vaccine now, namely that there are indeed million of people who're suffering from the vaccine but we don't know about them because the government is lying (I find this hard to believe; I cannot rule that out logically, but my credence in that proposition is quite low)
At least with the company I'm at, I'm supposed to talk to my boss before releasing code from side projects.
At that point technology really is magic. You live in an environment where spirits that you can't understand daily influence you in weird ways and you try to appease them.
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But it's hosted on Github. And some distros have ghidra in official repos.
> It seems to me that this was a corporate coup with assistance from the prosecutors office.

You couldn't be more right here. Been working with japanese companies for years so those things do not come as a surprise.

There is a lot of corporate fraud happening in Japan, particularly at large corporations. No way Ghosn was innocent - however at the same time all japanese at Nissan board were well aware of what was happening and benefitted from that. Were they arrested you may ask? Certainly no. They took the power and if you ask me, I can't be more bearish on Nissan's future.
Sad story, wrong conclusion. I bet there're many wrongly convicted people in prisons, but we don't ban those.
If I understand correctly it's mainly the effect of the moon's nodal precession [0] in combination with climate-change induced rising sea levels.

I am curious about its effects on non-US coastal cities as well (also personally, as I happen to live in one). Hopefully it will be repeated/extended in the future.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_precession#Nodal_prece...
Another option would be to publish an AMQP endpoint, I'm not sure what the security implications of this are though.
I don't have time for this sh**t A not interesting post on HTTP timeouts
> in the world

I disapprove that. While jokes there indeed packs some hilarity and/or creativity, the title implies its real world UI misdesign, not just stuff made for giggles.

Seriously, we have tons of terrible UI solutions actually deployed and used. It might be much less funny to find them and make a gallery, tho.
It could even enable competition. Small companies have no chance to compete with the huge data collections of Google and friends.
A big difference is that Apple makes money by selling me devices. Google and Facebook make money by manipulating me into buying their customer's products.

Incentives matter.
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I'm still convinced that the internet would benefit from a standard for (micro)payments straight from the browser, without all the friction that comes with current online payments. "Read this article, pay €0.05 [OK] [Cancel]".

And for everything else, I really wish we would go back to smaller websites which are run out of a desire to share. I don't get why every blog has to have ads and affiliate links. Web hosting is cheaper than dirt in 2021. I colocated a server out of my allowance when I was 13, simply because I had a desire to share some of the things I was tinkering with. If you can't afford the €1/month it costs to host something in 2021, maybe you just shouldn't.
There are lots of known people on HN. I started tagging HN usernames with a browser extension some time ago and sometimes I spot some really interesting exchanges given the context of what the posters worked on.
You do realize that your answer is based on the premise that your ISP knows what and when are you visiting and the duration of that, right?
>Our use of technology threw nature out of balance and we need to use technology to get the balance back again.

The notion being that nature or even the climate is balanced/stable ?

I think the focus should be on increasing resiliency not hoping everything is going to be alright "if we just undo this one thing".

Having said that I'm all for reverting CO2 emissions, just dislike this implicit notion that nature is harmonious by default and humans fucked it up - there's speculation about weather related disasters pre industrial era, so even very recently in human context. Or the disruptions we have with relatively minor volcanic activity. So many natural thing could screw us way worse than global warming and for the first time in history we're getting technologically advanced enough to protect against it.
It's a huge code base, of course there are security issues. Same way IDA and radare have security issues. People who reverse malware take that into account.
Social engineering can be highly effective. However, from what we know about the NSA, especially from the Snowden leaks, it appears to be mainly a technical agency. It seems likely that the NSA does not use social engineering on a large scale itself but hands it off to other agencies like the CIA or the FBI.
We've been using Teams since the pandemic started and we switched to WFH. It started off awful, and in that time, it hasn't got better in any material way.

Interactions still feel like your mouse pointer is moving through molasses. Notifications are misbehaved trash. Video calls make your CPU beg for mercy (useful if you want to fry eggs on your laptop though). Switching between multiple organisations is still miserable (although at least now you get notifications for other orgs instead of them just getting lost in the aether, never to be seen).

The funny thing is, none of these problems exist on the mobile apps, which are actually quite well-behaved. I guess that's because they have to use system APIs.
Github link: https://github.com/TrevorAttema/OTGMessenger
Even in a non-Euclidean geometry, wouldn't π still emerge (or be approached in the limit) in "flat" areas?
Why not call murder an extraordinary death? Provides different, possibly misleading, information.
Anyone who works in film/media industry will advise their kids against it. Or to at least learn a trade that is completely unrelated first, then do media arts if your heart is set on it. Even Denzel Washington got his kid to do other things.

Im 31 and working in the field I’ve just been enjoying the first few months of professional stability. In my career. Yes it’s great that I can finally do that, but like someone else said I wouldn’t recommend the first 10 years to anyone.
Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
Was that a new account where you'd already paid money? Never heard of that before, I've been a customer at Hetzner for years with considerable volume. So far their support was always great.
Prompt design / learning how to talk to and communicate effectively with AIs is going to be the next decade’s programming superpower.

As an aside, are there any good approaches for producing this kind of generative art on a CPU only system that lacks a GPU?
1. How common is it to search outside nixpkgs?

2. How common is it to install from outside nixpkgs?

Depending on the answers to the above:

`nix install packagename` should default to nixpkgs and install into currently active profile (if auch a thing as currently active profile is a thing in nix, of course)

`nix search packagename` should default to searching nixpkgs

Boom. You improved developer/user experience 100-fold with little effort.

Edit: 99.9% of examples in the linked page have nixpkgs# prefix for packages. Just drop it, and make it default. Everyone will thank you.
I believe Google assistant has some optional mode where it makes children say please.
Afaik they repossesed it from the original creator, then decided they didn't want it after all, and killed it.
Telegram is people, not a company, unlike Facebook.

Durov brothers and a small core team live in Dubai. Other developers are working remotely.

And I guess they have a bunch of legal entities all over the world to bootstrap the advertising accounts they recently announced.
POSIX permissions are way too crude to be properly functional.

SELinux sort of solves that part of the equation with additional labels given to each file, but eg. Android only uses selinux for the base of the system. Modern security requires sandboxed applications with user-controllable permissions.
20% more hardware for google isn't the same as for your local IT biz rocking a small data center. If google can save 1% on hw cost they can feed an army of devs for 6 months.
> with a silver Apple logo as the icon

This is somewhat concerning, to be honest, since it seems like you're impersonating Apple/system software.
how do you get "important stuff" from your Atari on a USB stick?
Or perhaps you guys just need a history lesson, this is all very mild stuff as far as repressive regimes go.

It’s not like as if they’re deliberately blowing up passenger aircraft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
Desperate? That's a positive spin to put on this. I'd say they're getting bold. They've always done stuff like this, but now they seem to care less about hiding it.
Suppose you want to look at a couple of rows from a particular table in your database.

This tool will make those rows available locally along with all of the rows from all of the tables that might have a dependency on those initial rows, so that you can explore the entire space.

Equivalently, it's doing for your data what a package manager does for dependency management.

Equivalently, it's building a subgraph from a set of root nodes in the graph that is your database.
In a 1-dimensional spring-mass system there are no circles, but π emerges nonetheless.

Edit: natural frequency ω = Sqrt(k/m).
ω comes out in rad/s, to convert to more natural units (cycles per second) π is required.
I think it's important to realise that it's not only the US-hostile regimes that do this.
One of the weaknesses of applying an American or European mentality to Iran is that the political culture is fundamentally different. In an undemocratic system where protest is put down violently, you can't apply the logic that the government is a manifestation of the political ethos of the people. That is not the case in a country where the government is willing to kill hundreds of its own citizens every time its grip on power is threatened, and where people are not permitted free access to information. Hell, the people are not even permitted to dance at concerts.

Those who currently run the government in Iran are veterans of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Khamenei in particular. There is an unmistakeable mafia character to the present government, and a very large problem with corruption. The government of Iran is not an artifact of the people, and that pile of cash will not be distributed evenly amongst the citizens.

If Obama chose to give cash to the Islamic regime, I am sure he believed it was the right thing to do. But the idea that a group of kleptocrats is entitled to settlement money paid to reimburse funds frozen from the regime that they ran out of town is misguided, because it assumes that money which came from the Iranian people will go to the Iranian people.
The biggest issue for me is that the M1 Macbooks can't drive two external displays. A GPU improvement (or whatever else is holding it back here) is sorely needed for a "Pro" device. 32GB RAM would be nice as well.
You don't need any geometry to define pi. At uni, I had it defined as the smallest positive zero of sin(x). And sin(x) was defined axiomatically (in terms of real analysis) in conjunction with cos(x) (and then shown to be equal to its Maclaurin expansion).
"Average" on HN obviously means average SV software engineer, if not average FAANG employee (slightly joking).

But seriously it can also get tiresome when people constantly have to call out others for failing to formulate every observation in globally inclusive terms that cover all humans rich and poor.
Careful, they'll give the VLC developers ideas!
How is that not possible in the exchanges + queues model that Rabbit has supported forever?
Poor investigative work leads to bad conclusions. Maybe the answer is a combination of re-forming law enforcement departments, adversarial processes for attaching warrants to suspects (with a judge and defender, etc), and to stop blindly trusting processes that at best reduce the size of a probable suspect pool (of everyone) as being capable of positively identifying a single individual.
So what will coastal cities (eg Bay Area) do?
While I appreciate your taking the time to make suggestions, these suggestions aren't very useful without context. I'm not saying that it's up to you to provide the context. But I don't know much about Flink or Heron, and looking at their respective websites doesn't tell me whether they'd be a good fit for a specific use case.

At this point, all of these frameworks would probably benefit from a flowchart (or questionnaire tool) that can guide someone towards an informed decision. "Do you need redundancy?" - "Can you afford to lose some messages in situation XYZ?" - "How many events/sec do you want to process?" - "How much hardware can you throw at the problem?" etc.
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The funny thing is that in 30 years there will be a new generation of people convinced that nobody needs generics because they happened not to need them in their command line tool replacing a bash script that has grown too large for comfort.
Lately I think a lot about stuff like that (luckily I start a new job tomorrow so I will less time for that). And to me it seems that the West / Nato opened the gates with the war on terror, Guantanamo Bay, secret prisons and everything else. Nobody opposed that, even when own citizens were affected, like happened in Germany.
Now a whole lot of people that are a lot more ruthless are using these measures, and the democratic west has no ground to stand on to do anything about it.
I didn't know "Facial Recognition" has arresting powers...
It's hard to know what your current knowledge level is without more information, but it sounds like you're trying to develop a good background more just to dive into areas that seem fun to explore as a hobby, rather than focused study-- so I'm suggesting things that lead to more exploration.

A few of the resources below are good backgrounds, and Wikipedia is great for filling in your knowledge. Then to find interesting things to spark your hobby interest, I'd recommend following astronomers and astrophysicists on twitter, which will also help point you to interesting papers (which may take a lot of referencing Wikipedia to understand).

You'll need at least a little quantum physics to have some things make sense, so it's worth getting that from some of the links people mentioned below if you don't already.

If you don't know the topics below in detail, learn it from wikipedia to make sure you understand topics well enough to explore (in rough order):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics - links to all the rabbit hole topics you may want to explore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzsprung%E2%80%93Russell_di...
then look at all the "see also" topics on the last one to go over basic star physics
Then for dramatic events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_red_nova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

Some twitter folks for key topics (and you can find interesting papers and other twitter folks from there):
@badastronomer (great for pointers/explanations for lots of topics)
@astrokatie (cosmology)
@nasaSun (the Sun)
@jannaLevin (black holes, gravity astronomy)
@matt_of_earth (host of PBS Spacetime, which someone else mentioned)
@ajpizzuto (neutrino astronomy)
I have native mac notifications? Menu / Settings / Notifications / Notification style / Mac.
Er... Most email is encrypted [1]. But since there is only a handful of big email providers in the world, and they are all in US, your Montenegro / North Corean / Birman governments won't be able to spy on these email providers, but US government will.

[1] https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...