skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you go beyond a one word dismissal? Who is being puerile? The author, the reader, the women selling themselves, or the men buying them? Is it better or worse than straight forward prostitution?

(I vouched for the article to bring it back from the dead, because I thought it was a well-written article about a contentious modern phenomenon. I don't much like it as a direction for society, but I think it's worth discussing rather than ignoring.)
So rust also has goto :)
Another fun day a year or two ago on Tumblr involved the old classic top-posting vs bottom-posting debate. I don't remember the details precisely, but it was something like this:

They switched the default from one to the other one day, so that mid day your replies started being top posted. And so you got that wonderful mix of top and bottom posting. Then they fixed it, and so you could have a thread that had just top posting in the middle. Neato. Thanks Tumblr.
The human mind defaults to the truth, so it's not good at detecting lies. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory)

The human mind is good at linear estimation, but sucks at other stuff like exponential estimation. (https://youtu.be/UUE34Mbqx2k)
Not all software has a user present when it runs that can make decisions like that. Probably the vast majority doesn't. If an automated update process that runs on thousands of servers encounters an expired certificate, it's not like it can pause and pop up a prompt to ask me if it should continue or not. I do a lot of immutable infrastructure and don't even have shell access on those machines, so even if I wanted to, it wouldn't be possible.
I think the bigger issue is finding the places where strict mask use has reduced COVID. You seem to think there is a lesson to be learned however I'm unable to find any data that support that lesson. Yet, you assert it like it's truth, as if you know the truth and can back it up somehow, but you don't.
Agreed. Thanks for pointing this out. I'm genuinely curious now what their Twitter profile is, but my guess is they'll delete the tweets or remove the Twitter account.

Microsoft notoriously hires a lot of people from the Federal Sector who unfortunately appear to be mostly right-wing religious zealots.
'Secure' Is Meaningless
To me the ideal of using technology like this is a brute force solution. I'm always suspect of the scientific credentials behind the permaculture movement but I suspect that they have got this one right. Slow water down high in the landscape, let it absorb into the ground, build leaky damn structures and many of the water security issues go away. I think this has been proven fairly well in a number of semi-arid areas such as parts of India.
What are the three cables? Lightning, usb-c, and ??
This app is the infomercial equivalent of the latest gadget that promises to give you 6-pack abs in 60 days.

In the same way that building muscle requires actual work and dedication, so does meaningful connections with your friends.
I have a Casio F-105W. The resin strap broke after 2 years of wearing it inconsistently.

I would not buy it again.

I also have a Casio MQ24 (analog). It has a resin strap, which so far hasn't broken. When it does I will upgrade to an analog watch without a better strap.

I prefer analog because the hands act as a visualization of them time. They make a pie chart. I am somewhat "time blind" so this helps me.
You are denying the conquest of the sovereign nation of Poland in World War II?
> I've never understood how this isn't a standard feature with standalone Kindles.

Is this an accessibility issue? I work fairly extensively with ebook devices and users in my job and this has never come up, I doubt it even occurs to most people, which probably answers your question. However, I also work quite a bit with accessibility (for which the Kindle is excellent for many common challenges that come with age) and I know users that this would be quite useful for if it was a standard feature, so I'm curious what your use case is.
Even at the cutoff of 25 km/h you will get passed by roadies all day long.
or under capitalism.
In python with mypy, runtime checks (e.g. assert) also inform the type system.
Communicating with a dreaming person is possible
I have 3 Oceanus (Casio boutique brand) watches.

The two that I got in Japan actually have “Casio” under the “Oceanus” label.

They are great watches. Not especially cheap, but they are far better than my kilobuck Junghans.

I wear none of them, though. I have been wearing my Apple Watch (cheaper than the Oceanus watches) for the last couple of years.
My watch collection is 50% vintage soviet, and modern Vostok pieces, and 50% high-end Swiss. Along with a single Casio F-91W.

The Vostok pieces are what I'd recommend to anybody interested in mechanical watches, they're cheap, cheerful, and come in so many varieties and designs.

(Today I'm wearing a Vostok Amphibian 120813.)
Can Indigenous Language Comics Save a Mother Tongue?
Mysterious Signals Picked Up by New Gravitational Wave Detector
Imagine you had a person with a broken ankle who wanted to stop, and you whipped them so they'd keep moving because you don't care. Does the master's lack of interest prove laziness is real?
Please stop. This is so boring and unproductive.
Elm's architecture is practical, and I haven't found the ecosystem lacking after having shipped tens of thousands of lines of it over the past five years. I've shipped a bunch of big React applications also, but Elm is the one I would choose every time.
Amazing how an article so long misses expositing the most critical information.

You would never guess that: We know now that saturated fat is not just absolutely fine, but necessary for good health, particularly brain health; that the heart disease epidemic of the last century was caused not by "sat fat" but by trans fat -- margarine, Crisco, "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" -- and sugar.

You would never guess that: Half of all the sugar you are probably encounter is fructose, which your liver treats as a toxin it must neutralize; and that if blasted with more than it can, by eating (drinking!) it without enough fiber mixed in, it gets cirrhosis and you get sick and, probably, fat too; and that your body does not count the fructose when it decides whether you have eaten enough.
I get spam emails all the time which claim to have webcam pics of the recipient in flagrante delicto, oh and here’s a Bitcoin address you should send to if you don’t want them public. Rubbish, of course, as there’s nothing targeted about them; just a cleverly-worded mass email disguised as an individual extortion attempt. The next obvious step, however, is sprinkling enough details in to make it more convincing. “I have pics of what you did in Thailand in January 2019” would surely generate a lot more concern in a subset of the recipients.
Well, to be fair, my experience is limited to a couple locales and only an hour or so away from major cities. I might have lucked out because I made a solid first impression on the community and don't have to worry too much about having the wrong opinions.

I suppose you could say that ruralites are more tolerant of intolerance in general, even when they individually may be welcoming. No argument about the flags around here...but I get the impression that, at least where I've settled, even if you're a little different, if you stick to your property and don't make waves nobody is likely to mess with you...and to be honest I kind of appreciate that sort of live and let live attitude, even if it requires some degree of conformity.

As far as I can tell, a somewhat rigid common culture is sort of the price of high trust living, where you can leave your doors unlocked and your keys on the porch. That doesn't justify violence against minorities/lgbt of course but... there's always the city for that I suppose. It's definitely a very different non-pc attitude around here. I certainly understand why a guy like Trump is so popular in these parts.
Windows Hello supports PINs and/or patterns in addition to biometrics.
Coral reef biodiversity predicted to shuffle not collapse as climate changes
Amazon has their hooks deep into Overdrive in exchange for supporting Kindle delivery for library books, so I doubt this will ever get better. Overdrive has moved its focus to its mobile app. I hope Kobo support will improve, but I am not optimistic.
Considering this thread is "what are the advantages of IP6", would you mind elaborating?
I assume the third is for an Apple Watch.
The custom charger for the Apple Watch
Alright, and read more than one book on the subject and realize that's an oversimplification
> You're talking about the old extension API,...

No, I'm talking about only supporting "trusted" extensions (all 17 of them, last I checked) unless you use nightly and install extensions through a predefined list.

> Luckily we can rely on tooling, such as benchmarks and profilers, to gather...
> I remember switching from Chrome to FF right around Quantum, because it was finally usable on my hardware.

What are you talking about? I'm on an ancient phone and FF is far from slow. Is Chrome faster by X percent? Who cares. Installing an ad blocker is all one needs^W^W I need to surf the net easily.
Marc Andreessen – Making the Future Podcast Transcript
Why is this post marked as being from 2017? Wasn't it released yesterday (20th according to https://n-o-d-e.net/rss/rss.xml)
It didn’t disappear, it’s still
there. It’s just scattered over a much larger area ;-)
I can only speak for myself but given the choice I would never read an ebook on a digital screen over an e-ink screen. The difference to me is night and day. I have an older paperwhite and the backlight is truly wonderful, I imagine a newer model would improve on this (I believe they have a warmth adjustment setting which I would personally adore).
The Best And Easiest Ways To Protect Yourself From Hackers: https://www.hackerslist.co/the-best-and-easiest-ways-to-prot...
>Having small, clean, relatively harmless electric vehicles is honestly by far the best transition path I can see. Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing them with a roof in a few years.

Why not put them on the road instead of the bike lane, then?
Honestly, both times I wanted to see what was there. It provided no material benefit over, say, tilde.town, with added (1) legal risk (CSAM) and (2) ethical risk (providing some hosting to CSAM).

There's this thing where a certain level of censorship resistance and free speech seems to yield some very horrible things. I don't even want to remark on the US law (first amendment rights, legal analysis) here, just focusing on ethics.

> A free public space which is only controlled by the general public needs the general public to take care of it.

I would remark here that the traditional system for taking care of a general space is to have a government controlling it, whether that be the council of elders, a senate, or a monarch. Fully democratic/anarchist space management is not typical of a human society. The historical outcome of fully unregulated online spaces seems to be a lot of CSAM and groupthink.

anyway. freenet is technically interesting, legally dodgy, and, imho, an ethical trap.
Probably to get away from Whatsapp, but they had to wait for Signal to get critical mass in the pretentious art friends circle. I probably don't have to explain why people want to get away from Facebook-owned Whatsapp.
Well, except for those cosmic rays ;)
> Other founders approach business AS the passion.

Yes. And my feeling is, this is where our market economy has jumped the shark. People running a business for the sake of running a business are able to put more focus, effort, knowledge and skill into optimizing its success. Many ways of doing so involve reducing the value delivered to the customer, but compensating it with manipulation (e.g. more marketing) or abuse (e.g. lock-in, dark patterns) - and all advantages gained this way compound. Thus, in a fair competition, a business run for the sake of its value has little chance of prevailing against a business run for the sake of being a business.

The problem I see with this is that the value of a business to its customers, and to the society at large, is in the product or service being delivered. The business as an entity is incidental, a necessary evil to generate the value. Businesses being run for the sake of running them seems, to me, like optimizing for precisely the wrong thing - putting the cart before the horse.
Ask HN: How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?
I own a couple thousand books. I'd like to catalog them all. I have a child who is a broke college student, so I was thinking of paying them to do it over break.

What's the most efficient way to do this from an INTAKE standpoint? I need to get all the ISBNs into a database of some kind.

(The only other info I need is whether or not it's a hardcover or software -- that's something only the physical copy can tell me, everything else I should be able to get from the ISBN.)

I don't want my daughter to have to find and key all the ISBNs in. Can they be scanned in some way? Is the ISBN in the UPC code? Could I buy a cheap bar code scanner and just have her scan away?
It's because it's nonsense. ~200M Americans have received a COVID vaccine. Some of those people died afterwards. Correlation does not imply causation.
Oh, the cops just park all over everywhere. Fire department, too. On the sidewalk, half on the sidewalk, in the crosswalks, over the ADA sidewalk ramps in neighborhoods where they get good amounts of use — hardly worth mentioning the bike lanes at that point.

Check out this massive permanent NYPD/FDNY parking-lot that starts on the freeway shoulder and goes along Tillary St / Gold St. These guys are here basically every day:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6970284,-73.9813054,3a,75y,3...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6962375,-73.9813369,3a,75y,6...

And that's not even a bad day; there's only one or two cars parked on the long narrow triangle where the onramp merges with the street.

And the ambulance drivers park in the bike lanes to take a nap or for their lunch break. And the Post Office parks wherever and they just doesn't care, because they're federal, and you can't fine them.
> doing it when receiving updates

Updates are how they deliver updated battery management algorithms, not the metric they use to determine battery age.
At this point, all you need is the back motherboard from a beaten up Game Boy and you can get a fully function unit for about $100. The front daughterboard, screen, power board, sound board, membranes, buttons, case, stickers, and lens can be bought second hand, and in good quality. Then you can add on USB C rechargeable batteries, sound amplifies, AV out (for GBA and above, for now)... Every few months a radical new mod comes out.

My only concern is that modders might be tempted to pull out old mods to install slightly upgraded versions. We're talking about 30+ year old devices, and yet the mods are going out of date.
Why are you calling your friends pretentious?
This still happens. Same for GitHub/Microsoft and Azure. Probably Google, too, though I've not seen that personally. Haven't seen it for CloudFlare but there definitely should be companies close enough to the spaces they're growing into that they'd be well-advised not to send traffic through them if they can avoid it.

There's probably room for niche services selling "we're not hosted on 'the cloud', aren't owned by anyone likely to be in competition with you, and control our hardware" but there's a lot of overlap there with companies/owners/managers who take this to the point of not trusting anything that isn't self-hosted (because there might be security problems, nevermind that DIYing is at least as likely to have such problems, or because they fear vendor lock-in to a perhaps unhealthy degree), so it might be a hard market to sell to.
I think it's all just a matter of team preferences and for many this is less "too little too late" and more "yet another great release" when compared to the other tools they're using.

I personally find Actions to be a far better product than GitLab CI and we're moving all our CI from a mix of Circle/Jenkins to Actions.
NYT today: “The Fight About Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure” https://nyti.ms/3hJJwuH
> Expecting simple and final answers to questions depending on a myriad of factors (some unknown or even unknowable!) is stupid.

I don't think "covid sceptics" are the only ones guilty of this. Far from it in fact.

Vocal believers in "covid orthodoxy" (can't think of a better descriptor right now) seem much worse at acting as if simple and final answers exist for everything.

Annoyingly necessary disclaimer: I am not a "covid sceptic" by any stretch, I am fully vaccinated and believe that many precautions are warranted. But I am sick of being told what to do based on uncertain emerging science.

Case in point: vaccine passports seem to be an example where the policy was concocted based on assumptions about the science which turned out to be untrue (the assumption being that vaccinated people wouldn't carry or transmit Covid.) I believe that most governments are only keeping them in place in order to inconvenience people into getting vaccinated. This is exactly the sort of thing that fosters more scepticism, even if a lot of it is misguided.
>>> Some 7,200 buildings in six cities across the region were damaged by the explosion's shock wave, and authorities scrambled to help repair the structures in sub-freezing temperatures.

Just read that bit - six cities ! 7,000 buildings. Imagine something breaking windows in LA and SF.

(wikipedia)
> Everyone is jumping on it because no longer do they have to deal with a GCC/LLVM backend

That seems like why everyone in the low-end space would be jumping on it (like WD for their storage controllers). But that's not really an advantage over the existing ARM & X86 ISAs in the mid to high-end space since they already have that software tooling built up.

But that also seems rather narrowly scoped to those who are willing to design & fab custom SoCs, which seems to need both ultra-low margins and ultra-high volumes to justify. Anyone going off-the-shelf already has things like the Cortex-M with complete software tooling out of the box. And anyone going high-margin can always just take ARM's more advanced licenses to start with a better baseline & better existing software ecosystem (ex, graviton2, Apple Silicon, Nvidia's Denver, Carmel & Grace, etc..)
The person you are replying to isn't asserting that masks definitely work. He's asserting that stating "you don't need to wear masks" is not the same as saying "masks don't work".
I'm concerned this is another patch on a very difficult problem. There are something like 16 different combinations of source alignment, destination alignment, partial starting word, partial ending word memory-move operations. What's needed is an efficient move that does the right thing at runtime, which is to fetch the largest bus-limited chunks and align as it goes.

This includes a pipeline to re-align from source to destination; partial-fill of the pipe line at the start and partial dump at the end; and page-sensitive fault and restart logic throughout.

Multiple versions of memcpy is suspicious to start with: is the compiler expected to know the alignment statically at code generation time? It might be from arbitrary pointers. Alignment is best determined at runtime. Each pass through the same memcpy code may have different aligment and so on.

Years ago I debugged the standard linux copy on a RISC machine. It has a dozen bugs related to this. I remember thinking at the time, this should all be resolved at runtime by microcode inside the processor. It's been years now, and we get this. Sigh. It's a step anyway.
Nm, found it:

https://twitter.com/JoeB_in_NC

First thing is a retweet from Ben Shapiro.
That's an interesting point and I wonder what's the cause. It's possible that minorities who had bad experiences growing up in rural areas moved to urban areas and developed left-leaning political identities.

I think there's also an element of cultural mismatch. Trevor Noah has a great passage in his autobiography about how he could cross the intense inter-tribal antipathies in South Africa by speaking another tribe's language: https://www.josephineelia.com/power-of-language. Rural places in America are like places everywhere else in the world--you have to "speak the language" of the people in the place where you are. If you go to rural France and conspicuously don't speak French, you'll face hostility. Obviously in America we speak English everywhere, but if your mannerisms and attitudes give you away as an outsider, you might not get the same warm reaction as someone who knows the cultural cues.
Good! We need to get back to the basics and stop shoehorning React into every application.

I regret that my post is yet another React promotion. Not intended: architecture depends on use-case. I’m hoping to write more soon about selecting tools appropriately, which probably doesn’t mean React in many cases.
How is it that no one calls out the planned death of flash as a monopolistic effort by other larger tech giants? Apple got to reduce competition for their App Store by killing the best platform for creative development on browsers. Google got to take over web standards through the influence and control they enjoy via chrome. Today there’s nothing like the old flash games, and nothing like those vibrant communities either.
Ask HN: How to approach WHY people do and don't convert on your website?
Products, tools, guides, processes, etc... I'd love to hear what people consider the best way to answer WHY people don't convert!
Managing Work and Workloads on Remote Teams with Discourse
Note - a week ago in the thread "High-powered motorcycle vibrations might impact iPhone camera", a good number of comments talked about excessive noise and the lack of enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28491372
Wireless charging is where it’s at, and it’s waterproof rated!
> But the problem is people claiming the poor software is so that "you can have a more distraction-free experience". That's just ridiculous, and the net conclusion is that again I have to bring a entire backpack full of gadgets rather than just one because of _minimal_ software differences.

Fair, I think "distraction-free experience" is a cop-out.

But I guess my point would be that there is a trade-off when you try to take a specialized gadget and make it more multi-purpose. The iPods and MP3 players of old did not have wireless-accessible storefronts, for example: you plugged them into a computer and pulled down your library, podcasts, etc. It was definitely more of a hassle from that perspective compared to using your smartphone as an mp3 player, but the advantage was arguably superior audio quality, and objectively superior battery life, since the mp3 player's OS had only one purpose compared to a smartphone's.

I'd argue the same on an eReader versus a conventional tablet. Yes, if you really wanted to browse the store / browse Libby & Overdrive library /browse Wikipedia while reading, you definitely could do all the reading on a standard iPad or Android tablet and use the Kobo App instead, and it would work. I have a 10" Samsung tablet and do this on occasion (mostly for comics, because the Galaxy Tab S5e has a gorgeous screen for a mid-range device). But I generally don't do it for any book that I'm going to read for more than an hour, because the reading experience on the tablet is subpar compared to that of the Kobo, to say nothing of the battery life (measured in hours on the tablet versus weeks on the Kobo).

And this is just me personally, but I don't think it's that big of a deal to pull out my smartphone and buy a book on the Kobo app, then click 'Sync' on my Kobo to connect to WiFi and bring it over. Or do the same with a Libby book checkout, or a Pocket article. It's not like I would've left my phone at home if the Kobo had been able to better do it on its own.
Very cool result, and yet not one simple example of a chessboard with 8 queens in the discussed configuration. Boggles the mind.