skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes the blockers are not purely money-based, and greasing palms can do more harm than good. And sometimes you run out of palms to grease.
Stanford Researchers Use AI to Unlock Extreme Weather Mysteries
There was a good write up to this a few months ago with a step by step breakdown of how they went about it - https://sick.codes/leaky-john-deere-apis-serious-food-supply... - well worth a read.
You're still linking the retconned article. In the original it is as I said.

This new article is also extremely disingenuous. It argues "there's no evidence Wuhan isolated RaTG13". Well no shit, since the best evidence is that RaTG13 is completely made up, never existed in reality, and never existed on paper until early 2020. For snopes to take that evidence and turn it around and say it's evidence for the Wuhan Institute being totally reliable and trustworthy is perverse.
The difference is if you don’t use these characters a lot, compose+accent, letter is a lot easier to remember than altgr+random key.

Especially when it’s not printed on your keyboard.
The most irritating part of this is the "requirement" that the test car be in the drivers name or rented from the DMV.

I cant find this "requirement" anywhere, and common sense indicates that most first time drivers will be using a family/parent registered car, not one in their own name.

Sounds like someone at the DMV was on a power trip.
Walter Duranty has a Pulitzer as well, the New York Times that he worked for when he wrote what he is known for writing has many.

A brand is a brand and an organization is an organization. If they're truly that separate they wouldn't rely on the same brand. And besides, Buzzfeed is more reputable than Buzzfeed News, because the former is obvious nonsense and the latter pretends to be serious and honest.
I'm not complaining, just pointing it out. Enjoy your passive aggression.
let's all bike, jog, juggle in parks and leave some news every now and then
Had you checked the article after this encounter? I guess they eventually realized you were right and made the change, but I wonder when that happened. Other comments here discuss how it's odd that they don't allow their site to be archived, and it's interesting to see a real example that illustrates why they may not want that.
I’ve been thinking in 50 or 100 years from now, will this be the case for the Apple Starship campus? I’m sure Motorola seemed indomitable at the time of its construction.
Or, people on the spectrum have a temporary leg up. Make use of it guys!
Shifting from Lua to JS is not trivial! What JS engine did you use?

And can you tell us a bit more about the choice of Java to create apps? Wasn't it frustrating for all the C++ coders in your team to use such a "slow" language for apps?
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

Not according to the Earth System Science Center in University of Alabama-Huntsville. July 2021 was only 0.2C above the 1991-2020 average based on satellite measurements of the lower troposphere.

Greenland had a mild melt season and is currently above 1981-2010 average surface mass balance:
http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

The southern hemisphere has had a rather cold winter, resulting in below average temps for South America, South Africa and Australia.

Brazil had snow: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-snowfall-blan...

Coffee crops froze in July.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/freak-brazil-frost-hi...

Four south african cities had their coldest temps on record: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/weather/breaking-weathe...

Australia had one of its coldest, wettest July's in decades: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/wettest-july-...

Antarctica sea ice extent is well above 1981-2010 average: https://usicecenter.gov/Products/AntarcCharts
It looks like sorting by duration is subtly broken, sorting by number without considering units (6 months > 5 years, etc)
> IMO masks are severely harming social and interpersonal development of young children, but any suggestion of removing the masks creates shit storm of controversy.

That's because serious illnesses which are easily transmitted can severely harm social and interpersonal development.

Yes, kids do mostly OK with covid, but their parents and other close contacts may not. If wearing masks brings the risk level down enough to have school in person, that's probably better than online school without masks.
FLTK is retained.

It’s, from my experience, the sanest of all toolkits - much easier and simpler to use than almost any other, for 98% of tasks, and usually faster. Back in 1998(!) when I started using it, it was also the only flicker free one for Windows and X (without very significant effort) although I believe that gap was finally closed circa 2008 or so.
@dang Is there a reason why all the comments pointing out the FACT that the Taliban also partakes in pedophilia are getting [flagged]? This is extremely suspicious. The comment I'm replying to is going to be flagged within minutes, as is this one.
I generally take that as an empty threat for the following reasons:

(1) Strongly suspect based on what? There's 0 precedent for the scenario you suggested, but plenty of examples of right-wingers using this idea to scaremonger.

(2) Where are you actually going to go? European countries already take higher taxes, and most other countries have higher inequality and lower general standards of living than the US. I don't doubt that some of the wealthy consider themselves "global citizens", but the majority of people aren't going to leave their home country over marginally higher taxes - especially at today's pitifully low rates.

(3) Most of the upper middle class people I know will stop being hysterical about paying higher taxes after a moment, and recognize that a billion is 1,000x more than a million, and 10,000x more than 100K. American's don't hate wealth, they hate aristocrats, which is what the billionaire class has become. The same logic does not apply to people with "mere" eight-figure wealth.
> Working with humanitarian charity Care International he is now aiming to deliver 7,500 of his manual washer and dryers to those most in need in 10 countries including Lebanon, Kenya and India over the next three years.

"Mass production" can look different for different things. If I had a complicated widget that normally took a month to produce, and I found a way to crank out 10, then that'd be a massive increase in production by comparison.
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=india+worker+protests+site%3Anytim...

I am talking about the 2020 general strike(s) (trade unions estimate 250 million people joined, though others push for much smaller numbers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_strike_of_2020.

I have not found a single article about this in the NYT, BBC, Washington Post. The Guardian in the UK did cover these.

> Do you mean the protests in support of Alabama miners?

Yes, I mixed things up a bit. I have not been able to find an article about either the strike, nor the NYC protests about it. Rather amusingly, looking for UMWA or Alabama miner strikes, there are several articles about this, from ~1900s.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Alabama+miner+strike+site%3Anytime...

The main point I was making is that there is systematic bias on certain topics - especially workers' rights - in mainstream publications. There are other such topics as well, usually to do with the nitty gritty of US imperialism.
> To the person who made the claim, it was the first, because of their limited view of the world.

Then one would say 'it was the first i've seen'

We have language for a reason. Despite what you hear on daytime talk shows about 'your truth', back in reality, actual truth is objective
I started to use WinCompose when I changed from a full size keyboard (with numpad) to a TKL keyboard which omits it.

As a mechanical engineer, I often need to type things like the degree symbol and with WinCompose it is just Compose, o, o whereas I used to type these using alt codes.

Other common uses are for sub and super scripts (₁¹), bullets (•), and my own custom ones like on for my email, which I set as Compose, e, m (since these days working from home I am constantly logging into lots of things).
I've been happy at how relatively cool it's been. I don't think I've seen a single day in triple digits yet and it's the first time I can remember that happening since moving to Texas. Not a fan of the rain, though, but I guess it's probably good for the land.

It's definitely been weird sitting here in the coolest summer I can remember hearing about these heat records being set elsewhere, but thankfully I well understand how averages and spatial variation work.
The project depends on `libspeechd-dev`/`speech-dispatcher-devel`, but there's no mention of support for voice commands. Does the framework support speech recognition? That could be pretty neat.
Ask HN: Why does SQL require commas between select items and not joins?
Why is it that the columns after the SELECT and before the FROM require comma delineation when the JOINS and conditions in the WHERE clause do not? It seems like you could write an implementation of SQL that can manage without commas, what's stopping someone from doing this?

Or, is there some flavor of SQL that eliminates the need for comma delineation already?
Why shouldn't they take pride in their work? Its honest and important work. Not every building can/should be preserved, tearing down these structures is important to remove dilapidated safety hazards and/or build something new
The PolyHack
I found myself more comfortable walking around grocery stores as I was more free to lick my lips, talk quietly to myself, mouth curse words when I couldn't find the spice I needed, etc. I could extend a little of my home life to public life without disturbing my fellow humans.
> The visual derivative is enough to tell the difference between a collection of CSAM and say documents, or pictures of protests.

How would you know ? They have never given details on what this 'visual derivative' actually is. If it's detailed enough to recognise it as CSAM, then Apple isn't allowed to look at it.
It was probably the best phone OS at that point in time. It was just a little too late for Nokia and they disastrously threw their lot in with Microsoft.
I have found (as I've gotten older, and, hopefully wiser) that I no longer seek out objectivity because it cannot exist in most human interest topics.

Economics has no objective truth, as evidenced by its inability as a whole to make accurate predictions. Politics has no objective truth, because we need to understand people's motivations which are often hidden from themselves.

If you see this kind of headline and get upset because of the editorializing, I suspect you should only read about physics and math. At least until you start to see the subjectivity in those fields as well.

We cannot escape our biases. We cannot communicate objectively - the decisions of what to talk about, how we express it, and how much context to include - those all fly against objectivity.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not a logical robot and to embrace the parts of humanity that I previously found distasteful because it couldn't be cleanly reduced to a binary.
That's not what Buzzfeed is doing, though - they are taking individual quotes and snippets from the Reddit thread and weaving them into a narrative and description written in their own words. You could in fact do the same with a NYT article and it wouldn't be copyright infringement; there are many, many publications which create such articles based on mainstream news sources.
Hmm, I have not heard of a paw paw before. But it looks like an interesting fruit to try!
Agreed. On a near daily basis I run across articles that are just summaries of things from other places. Sometimes it is a game of telephone where one site summarizes a second site that has summarized a third site.

But let's not kid ourselves that this is only online. It happens in all news media. One person breaks a story then all the other news outlets just repeat the original story sometimes with their own followup quotes.
You could maybe use AltGr combined with dead keys to accomplish that, but I suppose it would be limited to combinations of two keys (plus the modifier).

EDIT: Actually, it seems Windows supports chained dead keys, so I think you could accomplish longer sequences with a plain old Windows keyboard layout definition too. But that's not supported with MSKLC.
If i add a file to google drive, I can share it with others pretty quickly via just a url.

Does icloud offer that? Including public sharing (aka hosting)? I thought it was more of a private backup?
Yeah, the enumerations require the preprocessor to understand the language and process the struct definitions... which may not even exist yet if they contain macros :D.

It's not an easy problem. Generating some kind of macro-usable list like you suggest is probably the way to go, essentially making the entire thing a 2-pass process. (That said, the C preprocessor doesn't have a concept of "lists", perhaps that's the thing to actually add here.)
> For example, you could say that July was the hottest month on record this year, and that wouldn't really tell you anything interesting (except that maybe more humans live in the north hemisphere and we mostly take observations where humans live).

Water has a relatively large heat capacitance, which means that it is more resistant to changing temperature. As a result, places near large bodies of water tend to see lower highs and higher lows than places not near them. Compare the climate of, say, Mumbai (whose highs vary between 30 and 34C around the year) versus Nagpur (whose highs vary between 29 and 43C), both of which are at roughly the same latitude, but one is coastal and the other substantially more inland.

The southern hemisphere has very little land, especially in the temperate belt (between Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle)--that land is Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, a smallish part of Brazil, South Africa, half of Australia, New Zealand, and small fragments of a few more countries. There's no major landmasses to vary in temperature with the seasons like there is in the northern hemisphere, and hence the southern hemisphere has a much smaller role than the northern hemisphere in measuring global climatic fluctuations.
A coworker of mine had his big toe amputated after it was crushed while moving a refrigerator. Afterwards he had no problems and remained very athletic.
Google’s biggest game yet: An Olympics-themed JRPG
I think you are just dead wrong about this. I’ve played video games my whole life and they always always had more complicated UIs, akin to web apps. It’s always been a richer experience.
We've changed the URL from https://summit.news/2021/08/12/danish-who-chief-says-covid-p... as flaggers and commenters seemed to be reacting particularly strongly to that site.

The story itself is arguably significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), so I've turned off the flags after changing the URL.

Generally on HN we go by article quality rather than site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) but in this case I think it is less distracting simply to change the URL. Actually the original domain is banned on HN, the same way most highly politicized sites are (regardless of which politics they practice) but users vouched for this submission, no doubt because they felt the story to be significant.

If anyone comes up with a better URL, we can change it again.

Edit: users in the thread have pointed out these other links (thanks!):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/12/who-origins-...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/head-of-who-team-investigating-...

Every one of these articles is presenting a somewhat different story and I'm not sure what a good title would be. According to the WaPo and WSJ articles, Ben Embarek wasn't just a WHO official but the leader of the investigation ("Ben Embarek led a team of international scientists on a mission to China") - that seems particularly significant so I've added it to the title above. If anyone comes up with a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
https://archive.ph/C4Hda
Regarding prices: There is really no "natural" price, but the one that can sustain the entity providing the context, space and publishing reach. (Clearly, this is not the case at the moment.) In contrast, the collateral damage of not being able to afford tons of Google Adsense impact for less than a meal is probably tiny in comparison. (Especially, in a scenario, where your recipe blog may provide you with revenues worth a living, once established, which may well justify a small investment.) IMHO, the rational behind online advertising is completely off. – And, we may observe, this is partly due to newspapers outsourcing their control over prices together with their advertising departments, in favor of handing their powers over to the various ad provider networks. (We may also observe that it was then these networks, who radically devalued the context/quality and reach parts in the equation in favor of ad targeting, which was entirely in their domain of power.)
"Apple’s Software Chief Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features"

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-techn...
That is false, and I linked to a new, different article, not a "retconned" one. They didn't change their stance, they criticize those that do, and reference a medical journal article from 1.5 years ago as evidence.

As you said, you agree with the evidence they cite...
to the non expert ear, Get Free sounds much much more similar to Creep, than Creep does to "The Air that I Breathe"
There are a couple angles you argued that from. 1. In any for-profit company, it’s unreasonable to expect a margin of 0. Even if the company is worker-owned or something, you still want a (small) margin in order to build up a rainy-day fund so that the company can still operate during a future rough time.

2. I think you’re making the mistake of only measuring the things youth at are easiest to measure. If a company can bring “non-adversarial working agreement” to the bargaining table, that’s worth something to most people. In other words, a company which offers you frequent good raises without you having to fight for them is actually offering you good money PLUS giving you back all the time and effort you used to spend fighting political battles inside the company and keeping active on LinkedIn. Also as a result, you’re going to stay working there longer. Which also means they can amortize the cost of your ramp-up over a longer period of time. And look at that: the non-adversarial wages just “paid for themselves” from the company’s point of view.

But really: no employee wants their employer to be their adversary. And employers likewise gain from stable relationships with their employees, and even more so by crafting an environment that lets the employee focus on work instead of other concerns (like money or “fairness” or politics).
People are discussing in hushed tones of mangoes at parties?

The world sure has changed.

Yes, this is a comment about what I call the New-Yorker tired long-form style of writing. Hype, hyperbole, weird mix of personal anecdotes, facts and always with a heavy syrup of cold-war-era like of under-cover midnight-meeting, world-weary, globe-trotting investigation.
I had a friend who worked at Motorola back when they had acres of clean rooms... he said he always had to fight the urge to open one of the emergency exits, sneeze loudly into it, and then close the door. ;-)
Interesting, I've just had a massive Mango year (one of the silver linings of COVID I guess), and these are varietals I haven't seen before. I'll keep a look out for a chance to snag them.

It sounds like a rare variety to find though. Is this the case?
Study finds artificial antibodies can protect against malaria
> The point is that Musk would/should never have gotten to such an oversized amount of control in the first place

There would never have been anything for people to be in control of without Musk. It isn't as if companies like SpaceX or Tesla just spontaneously "occur" from time to time, for whoever's standing nearby to claim as their own.
This is great! This is a nice direction to go. Also, I don't mind if the creators would like to charge a small fee to use the book.
That's a great perspective, and seems both logically consistent and supported by current reality.

The "your centrist, but no other" political motivation (even if not economic) is a piece I missed.
> The problem is that, without type information, it would be too fragile, so I decided to leave it out.

typeof() is being considered for ISO C2x and has been around for ages in GCC/clang. _Generic is already in C11. With a struct member iterator, these 2 could/should be useful to branch out into type specific handling for each field.

Admittedly those are somewhat limited, particularly when working with typedefs, but that's a bit of a fundamental problem in C :(
Sure, but they need to be clear that they aren’t committed to it being an accurate story at the time of publish (expectation of a newspaper).

If they want to be an encyclopedia then be one.
I, too, delete entire projects!
Thanks for these insightful posts. I’m in a role that is exactly what you described above. (Perhaps prior to the “initial success” phase, due to political challenges.) It feels like I’m tilting at windmills in a management vacuum. Any general thoughts on how to detect in advance if these kind of projects are worth pushing through or if one should deftly sidestep them? Seems to be an unfortunate but necessary corporate skill.
I hope he does it - civil war will break out and we can start killing some of these commies.
But the same can be said about photosynthesis which is less efficient at capturing solar energy than PVs.

The instantaneous efficiency is much lower, sure, but the lifetime efficiency is another question. The resource cost to create a plant is the nutrient/energy cost of producing and dispersing a seed. The energy cost of producing and installing a solar panel is enormous by comparison, and takes years if not decades to capture more resources than it took to produce.

Home solar panels capture 11-15% of incoming energy. Plant leaves capture 3-6%. Do you have solar panels now? If you could throw five dollars in seeds over your roof and get half that amount of electricity, would you?
I really don't like this whole "OFFSET" kills performance thing that you see everywhere because it's only relevant for huge sets, think millions of rows.

And then, there's a reason why people are using offsets, cursors are usually not a good alternative and the after_id pattern is not flexible and don't allow to go to a random page number...

But still, some people are preaching for alternatives that are not actually solving the same problem as offsets.
I know what it does and how it works. I just don't like being considered a potential criminal without any reason.

For starters they should exclude photos made on the phone's own camera. Because it's literally impossible for a just-taken photo to appear in this database since that only contains already known content found in the wild. And most people's photos would be original content. So it would alleviate a lot of concern while not harming Apple's goals.

If those goals are indeed what they say they are, of course.
Hah, I can't even believe there are that many words to write about this. That might be the longest get back to work propaganda article ever written.
Back in the mid-1990s I had created a webpage about an exclusive tourist destination, which included several digitized photos I had taken.

Snopes stole those photos for their page and never credited me, even after I emailed asking them to.