skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one’s saying they can’t be useful, the problem is that a lot of people don’t take the time to verify that they actually are well implemented and achieving their intended goals, which often gives people a sense of false confidence about how safe an environment actually is. The argument is that safety is a lens for looking at a situation, not a task to be completed. It doesn’t matter how many accidents you’ve avoided, people still need to be vigilant.
I was going to say, 's/amputees/lonely guys/g'
I like taking the stairs at those stations. I think Russell Square is the station with a particularly long staircase; 200 or more steps.

If you like epic spiral staircases you can't go wrong in London.
This is a very bad news. According to one obesity expert I follow, the best variable that explains growth in obesity epidemic is processed food consumption.

Everyone that struggles with weight can tell you, this foods are just to addictive.

For a good overview of how food industry makes it more addictive read a book Hooked by Michael Moss
Depends on how closely you are trying to run those trains! If they are both skipping every other stop, they will both have the same mean speed, and thus shouldn't have to pass one another if there is sufficient initial spacing.

For example, in the simple case where the stations are evenly spaced, if train B arrives at station 1 at the same time that train A arrives at station 2, then they will leave at the same time and arrive at stations 3 and 4 respectively at the same time, and never catch up with each other.
Seems like any profitable plant should count. Some designs work best at smaller scales, but if they worked out they'd be cheap and for more power you just build a lot of them. Even in fission, there's a big push now to build reactors small enough to mass-produce in factories. Maybe say at least 100MW total power?
Boston Dynamics shares a behind-the-scenes look at robot-building
So you see people preparing against those threats, and not devoting any time to the bears-in-manhattan threat vector.

Except Covid risk - especially if you work in crowded spaces, ride the subway, or go to bars and clubs - is much, much greater than from bears in the park.
Europe (ESA) has a satellite program that can measure methane emissions from space.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...
First of all really a great work!
Incredible!

Second, in my opinion, looking at the documentation, I don't understand all immediately or, better, I've got a little bit of confusion regarding a lot of things.

I'm unable to find "connections" with other languages / frameworks that I use every day (for example Angular, Vue and so on). So my question is: is somewhere some big example in the style of "Angular Heroes" example?

I really want to understand better every single part of Imba and I think that with an extensive example it could be more simple and fast.

Thank you.
I do both C# and Go so have no axe to grind here. Just two small points though.

> .NET needs a runtime

It doesn't. With a single command .NET Core can produce stand-alone single-file cross-platform deployables needing no SDK, Framework, runtime, or other dependency on the server.

> Go at least partially solves some of those problems, by being compiled, having decent performance, somewhat rich ecosystem and passable package management, all while the language remains usable.

It does, and I've been a big fan of Go for a fair few years now. However every point made in that sentence applies equally to .NET too.

The one area where Go beats C# (and most others) hands-down for me is the build time. It's a whole order of magnitude (possibly several) faster than most alternatives.
I'm actually reverse-engineering a game myself... interestingly, for me Ghidra produces very good results, way better than IDA did ten years ago. On the other hand I may be lucky simply because 1996 Borland C++ is a pretty dumb, unoptimizing compiler and there is absolutely no copy protection or whatever present in the game, not even a dead code elimination.

Only thing where Ghidra lacks any form of knowledge of is how to deal with the FS register that is used for SEH on win32... it just marks it as in_FS_offset with no way to tell it that it can replace FS:[0xXX] with appropriate TIB access macros.
I love the font chosen for the demo code, the descender on the f is very charming.
Small criticism: the histogram from the UK DoT uses varying size buckets, that makes the data look like a normal distribution. The histogram from the dataset is plotted with constant size buckets. It does not affect the conclusion though.
They are advocating not crashing a local industry. How would you fair if your own industry or other local businesses was suddenly destroyed because China decided to give your work away for free in massive overabundance? With zero guarantees that they wont randomly stop supplying on an irregular schedule.
I attended high school in Phoenix in the late 1960s. There was a widespread irrigation infrastructure that consisted of gated ditches running throughout residential areas. This was way before drip irrigation or other water conservation measures were a thing.

These ditches were supplied with water on a scheduled basis. One watered one's lawn by shutting off your downstream neighbor's ditch gate and opening yours on schedule. After your hour or two of flooding, your upstream neighbor would do the same, leaving your deeply flooded yard to absorb the water. This was a 2 or 3 times/week thing.

It was horribly inefficient in terms of evaporation losses. About the only positive aspect I recall is socializing with our neighbors in the after-midnight hours that we usually drew for our turn at the floodgates.
I just checked and actually got them for Christmas 2019 (so like 2 months after they released, my mistake, I thought I got them sooner). I use them almost every single day for 30min to 4+ hours depending on what I’m doing.

So to answer your question I’ve had them for around 20 months.
More than you wanted to know about light scattering
Why is the sky blue, the moon red and mountains blue
If you copied the .ttf file and sold it, it's a copyright violation just like any software copying. The foundry takes you to court.

If you copy by hand (at what size? at what accuracy? do you include the same hinting and ligatures?) the file will not be bit-for-bit identical. The foundry cannot sue.
Because it exposes cross-site data to every website that didn't have access to it previously and tracks users on websites that they weren't previously being tracked.

FLoC is fundamentally is a proxy for your aggregate browser history which is something that hasn't really be exposed before.
Warren Buffet has a great quote on this topic. He says he hires on three criteria: Intelligence, energy, and character. He adds, "Those first two will kill you if you don't have the last one. If someone's immoral you want them to be dumb and lazy".

Being a high performer is not a positive when someone's looking to take advantage of you.
Difference between dialogue, discussion, and debate
> We don't even need empty strings (or collections, really) if we have null.

This feels exactly backwards to me: I almost always want my sequence-like types to have a well-defined zero-length element, and I almost never want to allow a NULL value for a variable. NULL is so much worse than [] or ''. Think about concat(). When the trivial members of a type support most of the same behaviors as the nontrivial ones, that makes error checking so much easier.
Wasn't he a Bond villain?
Only one small past related thread:

Drawpile is a free software collaborative drawing program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17141368 - May 2018 (4 comments)
Assuming light background in introductory probability, try the first 4 pages of this: https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/RESEARCH/BOOK/partA.pdf
We're just going to end up back at contextual advertising again...
One thing that could be done - and which is already what's being done by most video streaming companies - is to just propose really poor audio qualities to devices/softwares with less DRM capabilities and only unlock the better qualities when e.g. Widevine L1 or PlayReady SL3000 is available.

What's more, media-oriented devices like smart tvs or game consoles usually have those requirements.
> Inflation over the last 10 years averages 1.7%, which makes it probably the least inflationary 10 year stretch ever.

The US went through several stretches of deflation, prior to the modern fiat era. Some of those eras likely saw ten year stretches with close to no price inflation, particularly around the time of the industrial revolution (which applied enormous downward pressure to price inflation).

"Prices dropped an average of ten percent every year between the years of 1930 and 1933."

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040715/were-there-a...

Or

St Louis Fed, 2010

"U.S. Historical Experience with Deflation"

"Many people associate deflation with difficult economic times—slow growth and/or high unemployment—such as in Japan since the early 1990s or in the United States during the Great Depression. Yet, not all deflationary periods are associated with hard times. For example, in the United States from 1876-79, the price level fell on average almost 5 percent per year while average output growth exceeded 7.6 percent."

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/es/10...

Of course this always invites the common economics debate centered around whether inflation should properly only be considered a purely monetary phenomenon or should include more comprehensive factors (eg supply and demand pressures). Ultimately I find the only thing that really matters is to define one's terms when discussing it, for clarity.
Don't forget to put each await in a try/catch. You are handling all errors aren't you!? ;)
Buzzfeed news has some suprisingly good content. Like, Pulitzer Prize winning journalism now coexists with listcles and quizes.
That was a great read, thanks for the link.

> Plato was a dreadful fellow, the source of a persistent evil from which the world has not yet been liberated, [...]

Does anyone more familiar with Plato know what Nelson could have meant by that?

Edit:

Alright, I think I found the reason: "platonism" is a form of mathematical realism, while Nelson strongly favored mathematical formalism.
“This sounds quite anti-progressive and anti-scientific, I have trouble understanding where this sentiment comes from.”

It can’t be, it was first published in the Progressive.

It comes from my scientific knowledge of the field and is my factual description of what I personally observed, working on-and-off in both magnetic and inertial fusion for many years. My motivation is not anti-scientific but in defense of real science that is not getting done because of the billions wasted on fake energy projects.
I cannot imagine a single piece of software that is more widespread and used without issue by huge swathes of people than excel.

But one specific use case for genetics means its totally unsuitable & and big problem with the product. Got it.
Arizona was built on the 5 C's: Cattle, Cotton, Citrus, Copper and Climate.
A distinctive font can be very recognizable, just like a logo, colour pallet and other parts of a house style.

I've recognized fast food places abroad with the logo text translated into Arabic or Cyrillic by the font.
https://hsivonen.fi/utf-8-detection/ explains why Firefox doesn’t.
I didn't misunderstand. We're sort of saying the same thing.

Palantir had $50M to spend on "something else (labor, inventory, market research, sales, etc...)" and simply shifted this opportunity to the gold broker.

The parent comment implied that this new found $50M was somehow going to magically create new opportunities for the current circulating capital. It's not.

The price of gold is speculative which means its very possible (and very likely) they lost money on the transaction.
I don't see how it forces you to ignore? You don't have to be explicit to ignore the returned error code.
In no particular order:
- Broke up with girlfriend
- fucked off from london
- Spent 6 months at home (until the whinging from the parents got too much)
- Found a Research Associate position
- Bounced from there into DARPA-funded research
Somewhat related but kinda in the other direction:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27988260
Haskell is great at mutating variables. Reactive programming was even pioneered in it. It's just that the Monads that allow you to do this are somewhat like sticky tar - everything they touch becomes a part of them.

The traditional structure of Haskell programs is to build a pure functional 'core', and layer around that the 'sticky' parts of the code that need to interact with the outside world.
Senator reveals 30K US troops in Taiwan, equal to declaring war on China if true
Well, there were good reasons to change the way py2 worked with Unicode, and I don't think this could have been made right without severe breakage either way. The only thing that should have happened sooner is support for u"" literals.
And a prime recipe for antibiotic resistance to develop.

If an MD prescribed antibiotics for that long a continuous time period, they should lose their license.
Wind and solar also "just use less fuel" when you throttle them. The point is that for all three there's no real cost saving from doing so, as the marginal cost is very low and so finding a way to use it productively is a better option.

For example, many nuclear plants generate excess energy at night and various countries have used this otherwise wasted energy to refill pumped hydro or store heat energy in electric storage heaters or water heaters they turn on with ripple signals through the mains. Off peak price signals give incentives for power users to shift demand away from peaks to better match nculear's flat profile.

This is decades old tech in wide use across the globe. You'd think any serious attempt to advocate greater nuclear use would mention it.
> The gold broker likely bought them for $49.5 million and sold them for $50 million

If they bought a year ago, they not only would have lost money on the transaction just from the transaction alone, but would have lost even more money due to inflation.

This is why assets that provide no utility (gold) rarely create value long term.
Sure, it's just that not that long ago, it was economically feasible, so it's not like it's some kind of unattainable fantasy. A couple laws, and a 5-10% hike on the costs of drinks distributed in bottles (thanks to the added costs of handling & recycling glass), and we'd be back there. It's something we definitely could do.

But yes, right now the main glass recycler in our area just crushes everything up and turns it into fiber glass. Only an irrelevantly-small fraction of bottles are re-used. I expect we'll switch to some kind of plant-based plastics before we bring back glass recycling for drink containers, though I wouldn't wholly rule out the possibility of a shift back to glass.
Discussed at the time:

You don't need to work on hard problems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22398118 - Feb 2020 (43 comments)
I grew up in CT. Had it 4 times, only got the bullseye once. It is no joke, and as you get older it seems to suck more and more. Last time I had numbness in my face as the only symptom, but...thrice bitten, fully paranoid, and I was treated pretty fast.

One thing which is important with a vaccine is that when I was a kid (early 90s) the rate of ticks carrying lyme was in the 10% range or less, while now it is >50%. A vaccine is critical.
I call it empathy.
>Lastly, they divide walmart.com from walmart pickup and delivery for no reason.

This is actually changing very soon, and both results will be on the same site.
There is an awesome useful addon if you like hunting down fonts that you came across the sites that uses them. It is called "WhatFont" for Firefox and Chromium browsers. Click the button and then click the font, it will reveal every detail of that font.
In A View to a Kill.
sorry waste of time
One past thread:

How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698886 - July 2017 (50 comments)
Congrats on the launch. Have you tested the generated UI for accessibility, particularly with a screen reader? If I can try a finished demo app without going through the design process myself, I'd be happy to provide feedback.
The same way humans can add, multiply, etc. arbitrary-sized numbers armed only with addition and multiplication tables for single-digit numbers and the knowledge that multiplication by ten can be done by appending a zero.

(Numbers typically are in binary and multiplication uses more advanced algorithms than the ones taught in primary school, but those are implementation details)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic.
Exploiting CVE-2021-21225 and disabling W^X (Chrome Renderer RCE)
The List of Sans Cheat Sheets – Sans Institute
I suggest that the title on HN should include the subtitle:

"Bad News, Selling the story of disinformation".
>HomeDepot and Bestbuy are what I would hold up as the best websites.

https://www.mcmaster.com/
I attended a webex earlier this year and I found the experience was far better than Zoom. The audio and video quality was better, and also the presentation controls were much more sophisticated.
Git's new guidelines for gender-neutral documentation
On the contrary, it will be so much energy it will be like a new agrarian revolution. No society outside the be able to resist it.
I didn’t mean to move the goalposts. I just want to exclude demonstration projects that might produce some net energy but not be serious commercial sources of electricity. But thanks for accepting anyway.
Maybe if Mozilla spend some of that google cash on making the browser better instead of lining the pockets of the execs and pushing for social issues they could at least retain some semblance of a user base.
Thanks! This is super helpful

What'd be your thoughts on the following options:

- IAM role account-to-account (no credentials sharing)

- Self-hosted webapp that runs in your account

- Mac app so that creds never ever leave your laptop
Agreed, I'm not a fan of AWS's online console and its UI/UX, but my distaste isn't enough to login to AWS through another site. I'd rather navigate by CLI/API before I do that.

Furthermore, I'm not really a fan of these closed-source available-for-pricing, enhancement products. They last for a few months in pre-release form, gauge that they don't have the customer numbers to justify their revenue, and then cease development.
It's like Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona, going from the green line down to the more central yellow and purple lines.

It's sometimes quicker, or at least nicer, to walk above ground than it is to take the gigantic tunnel (spanning maybe 3 blocks) between the two.
Ha. All I said was that the current way of working killed my passion for working in enterprise IT. Not sure why the character assassination.

As it happens, I spent most of the year on the beach with zero regrets whatsoever.

Enjoy your WeWork.
Measurement in Market Making
Spot on, thank you kindly!
> It's also not a video conferencing platform.

Yes, it is: https://telegram.org/blog/group-video-calls.
lol yeah y'all aren't in denial, sure....
Concurrency Differences in Cardano+Ethereum Smart Contracts Account vs. EUTXO
I saw it in at least two movies.

They haven’t been able to yet, because we don’t have any fusion reactors out there.
> Excel is used as a database/storage/interchange format, especially after the initial analysis by someone who uses python or R. Bioinformatician does the analysis

Sometimes, but the situation is in reality worse than that. Excel is also used as the gold standard database/storage/interchange format of record for random shit that clinical researchers have typed in by hand whether directly or transcribed from other notes, often when that data isn't actually fundamentally tabular in nature because people really like working in grids. Even when grids hurt more than help.

A big secret in genetic research is that the MDs, grad students, project managers, and coordinators running the research programs are often not super focused on what well-structured data looks like and don't know what things like "key-value store" or "nested tree-like structure" mean, and even if they did there aren't good GUI tools for entering them anyway, and it leads to countless errors that maybe (here I speculate) they just assume will wash out as noise.

> I think the important question is why is date conversion a default?

Yes, why any kind of conversion is ever the default is a real money question.
Interesting. The next question is how you inform the user that by identifying yourself to a website, you are also associating all your FLOC interests with your identity, which you may or may not care to do. That used to be a question between you and Google, but now it’s between you and every website that has your identity. That sounds exhausting.

I’m skeptical that fingerprinting can be “solved”, but let’s suspended disbelief.
Why? They aren’t going to escape.
I have no sympathy for someone with 24 properties with only 4 taking rental assistance. If he is hurting it is b/c he took out loans to get multiple houses and does not own them out right. He is part of the problem affecting many americans that are trying to get their first home.
I personally think they should take the hint and not even have this be configurable. If beta testers hate having the address bar at the top so badly that Apple felt the need to introduce a toggle, then they should just permanently move the address bar back to the top.

As Joel Spolsky said in User Interface Design For Developers: "Don't break user expectations" We've had browser address bars at the top of the screen for nearly 30 years. That's what users are used to and expect.
“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”

― Idi Amin

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9082497-there-is-freedom-of...
Who actually does this for a living? And where do I sign up? :D

In all seriousness, I've never worked at a company that did anything like this. What is the use case for creating lots of small apps as opposed to maintaining a larger product?
It’d also be handy to put other limits on my numeric variables, for instance to automatically throw an exception if an angle delta goes out of the range -180 to 180, or whatever.
> At the moment, many people want to vaccinate their kids, but I doubt it will still be the case in a few years when the panic induced by the pandemic has subsided and people have realized that SARS-CoV-2 is harmless to children.

Except, SARS-CoV-2 is not harmless to children. I think it will become a common seasonal vaccine for kids, just like the flu vaccine.
But none will know that unless your are good at marketing!
makes you wonder how much "public pressure" came from the operators of quack lyme disease message boards and alternative treatment providers...after 4 times having it, I'm happy to say, in Doxycycline I trust. just don't go reading Lyme disease message boards without a tinfoil hat on.
Love the approach, let the user switch and gradually introduce them to the new designs.

And even the bottom option became much better with the return of the toolbar.
So meta

A course for learning Imba on scrimba, which was made using Imba to make people learn Imba.
You can drain a river to dust, harming everyone down stream and still be a net contributor to ground water by, say, dumping it on desert sand to grow crops.

Arizona is not in any form a net contributor to water resources as that is physically impossible unless they are fusing hydrogen and oxygen from space.

If there's no precipitation, every drop of water we have came from someone else's bucket.