skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did Church kill more people than Hitler? You shouldn't believe estimates that, for example, Spanish Inqusition killed "millions" - those are obviously false, since they sometimes exceed total population of Europe at the time. Modern estimates are 3000-5000 [1]. The same goes for victims of missionaries in America and Africa.

I'm not denying the fact that Church DID in fact kill people thorough it's history, it's just many popular estimates are wildly inaccurate, and sometimes deliberately, to make Church look worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition
Policies like eviction / foreclosure moratoriums are not sustainable long term. Eventually people will need to come off those crutches and start paying their rents and mortgages again. Those things aren't free right now, it's just other people paying for them. Including our future selves via taxes and inflation. The longer this goes on, the more painful it will be for everyone. Long term there is no free lunch. We've been in this crisis long enough that emergency stopgap policies don't make sense any more.
Analysis of collection technologies, data laws and and reforms during Covid-19
The moment I realized I needed glasses was when we got our first HD TV. I was the only one who didn't notice any difference in quality.
The pros and cons of staking with Cardano
Following an inline link on Wikipedia I know what to expect, basically a definition of the linked concept. External links on the other hand I consider more like footnotes at the end of a book chapter or an article. Regarding inline links all over have a look at the 1999 website a-blast.org / assoziations-blaster.de
>People have been saying this for a decade, and I still sit there realising how different a bubble a lot of commenters here live.

Nearly every thread involving cars or traffic also makes this abundantly clear.
Pass: A large-scale image dataset that doesn't include any humans
How does this tool deal with the issue of nominee companies owning shares on behalf of a beneficial owner?
MIT Technology Review podcast: How games teach AI to learn for itself
For my particular limited resource it is skill, money could be one but not necessarily since currently working two jobs for this as well.
Checklist for an Efficient Code Review
No, the size of the target market is certainly not an indicator of quality - on the contrary: an idealized public tends to enhance quality.

Rankings exist; a widespread one is the Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders. If you check the 2021 ratings on the map¹, you will see that excellence is reserved to a few countries only - CostaRica, Portugal and Ireland fare better than the UK, France, Germany, the USA and Australia.

With "receiving public funding yet not reaching thresholds of quality for public use" it was meant that if the news organization receives public funding, its quality should reach some level well above that of an agency financially left to its own devices, and its quality should justify public investment. An entity receiving public funding is supposed to respond about its use - practices, outcomes etc.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Press_freedom_2021.svg

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Now: the poster seemed to indicate a relation between "market" (number of buyers) and quality. The idea that information, commentary, analysis and research results and validation can be made akin to a "deregulated and for profit industry" (e.g. the music industry) is perplexing. Bread and water - privatized or not - must be accessible and not toxic, as part of societal organization. Less buyers' funding does not imply quality decrease, and free access to vital parts of knowledge is public concern.
I don't think it has much to do with Trump. The first place I noticed this in the left wing of politics was when they started to move on climate change. It is difficult to frame "we believe you are going to doom us all!" in a respectful and non-judgemental way. Also that belief shut down a lot of curiosity.

Any hints on the first precursors on the right?
Is privacy in all our interests? (Opinion)
> [...] could one day lead to new tools for measuring attentiveness, both in the classroom and the clinic.

The day they will finally get me.
Right, the narrative could alternatively read “America’s top trade partner” just as well.
GPS stands for 'Global Positioning System', but if you instead think of it as 'global positioning system', then all these satellite systems are GPS, because yes they are literally all a 'global positioning system', they're just not the 'Global Positioning System'.

That's what happens when you give something specific a very generic name. People shouldn't do that.
Or because it’s not the focus of this website. Either way, you showed your true colors by using a biased assumption to accuse others of using biased assumptions.
Ask HN: What’s so hard about good tests?
I was chatting with a friend and we agreed tests are both hard and not hard. Assuming you write tests, I’m curious to see what your responses are to the following:
1. What about tests do you find hard?
2. What about writing tests do you find hard?
3. What do you think others find hard about tests?
4. What other test related questions should we ask ourselves? (And your answer)
It is database state consensus acknowledgment, not blockchain promotion.

If you deploy a development environment where certain functions can run, it doesn't matter if the underlying hardware is using 1% of global emissions, or a couple households worth. This post is acknowledging that the "nearly none at all solutions exist" and are good enough for some purposes, while also acknowledging that it is weird that a standards committee did not acknowledge them but reacted to the global emissions one.
I suspect hearing is similar.

When I was a freshman in high school, nurse calls up my mom and angrily questions her on why I had never gotten a hearing aid for my right ear for the loss. Mom was like, what hearing loss? The nurse had looked up my record from elementary school. I had been failing hearing tests since 2nd grade and nobody told my parents, or me for that matter. They tested it every year, so that's 7 failures in a row. Catholic school BTW, but it was the 80s, might be better now.
There's a strong strain of (bogus) piety in conservative American Christianity that thrives on pages, sites, and media branded as Christian. "Wow, I can get my ticket punched for the stairway to heaven just by visiting the Jesus Is Lord page? Cool."

It's weaker in other countries. At any rate, it started out weaker.

So this sort of trolling is, in the early 21st century, peculiarly successful at targeting Americans. In that way it's similar to the televangelism craze of the late 20th century. Like televangelism, it is spreading globally.

FB should pay these trolls. They're a huge boost to FB's "engagement" business model. There's nothing to be done about it except mass boycotts (account cancellation) of FB. Clergy and other church leaders could try, if they got organized, to drive such boycotts. But they won't; FB is too convenient.

Similar analysis applies also to targeting of Black communities, in which church leaders are big offline influencers.
There are many, many studies one could run in Baltimore which, if extrapolated to the rest of the country, would definitely paint a pretty grim picture of the USA.

The life expectancy in Seton Hill of Baltimore is lower than that of Yemen's. The murder rate in the city as a whole is higher than El Salvador or Guatemala.

Those who've never visited have a hard time understanding just how undesirable of a place Baltimore really is.
Better imho to ask: what user problem is DID solving?

Because: if it's truly decentralized then there's no need to publish it. But publication is a core aspect of DID. That it must be published is a jedi mind trick that allows in "on a blockchain". Now we see the real problem being solved (not a user problem): need something published on a blockchain.
Have a look at the ACT's QR code check-in system. It's a simple 8 digit (I think) number that needs to be scanned with the ACT's check in app.

What I would love is poster sized QR codes instead of a small patch of an A4 page. That way you could scan it from afar.
I think McCarthyism?
If prayer stops people forgetting about the problems of the world, I'd say it does.
I would like a backup heart, but not sure if it makes sense from an engineering standpoint.
You also need to be a Fastmail customer.
It used to be illegal to be homeless in the US as well, it was called vagrancy.

There were various solutions depending on the cause. If you were homeless because you didn't want to work, there was the workhouse. If you were homeless because you were insane, there was the asylum. If you were homeless because you were a drunk or a drug addict, there was jail.

People complained that those were authoritarian policies. Judges ruled against vagrancy laws. Petty theft was de facto legalized. Judges made rulings that make it very hard to commit insane people to an asylum. People wanted drugs legalized.

Now there are bums defecating on the street, people passed out drunk or on drugs, needles on the sidewalk, insane people ranting and committing assault, so much shoplifting that stores are closing. Things are that way in San Francisco because people there want them that way.

It's not a bad place to live if you are rich, you can insulate yourself from all that. And if you just want to shoot up heroin and meth every day until you die, well you know where to go.
> On a rooted phone the local database copy could be fiddled with I guess

If you depend on users (attackers) not being able to modify their software or environment and poke around at each and every bit of your (publicly accessible) interfaces you are doing something awfully wrong!

> but the user needs to be authenticated to upload a database

Is registration for your service limited to a fixed amount of trustworthy people? Otherwise this isn't an obstacle.

> the lambda that extracts the data is sandboxed to access only what it needs

Using a simple serialisation format would be orders of magnitudes safer (and simpler)

> Unless there is some way to introduce a malicious side effect to a select statement in sqlite?

See all the links posted here already
Obligatory link when the subject is toasters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

Actually, he's done a few more, so: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=technology+conn...
> the share nothing architecture on Python, what benefits does it give vs PHP

A programming language with better ergonomics, developer experience and more mature community.
Kind of agree, but I think it should be twitter, not FB.

Twitter is inherently more "revolutionary" in aesthetics. Lots of politics, shrill arguments and such. It's also popular among journalists, politicians, and such. It represents a relatively elite user base.

FB is the populist social media site. Your Uncle who never had a computer until he got a smartphone in 2013, he's a facebook user. The fisherman who got a smartphone before home electricity, he's a facebook user.

The dichotomy isn't necessarily FB-Twitter, but a lot of social media's political stuff in the west (Brexit, Trump...) has come from the non elite parts of social media. It was neither mainstream nor fringe, which hints at the populism of it.

Religion is a great candidate for revolution. Major power shifts could happen in broad daylight and journalists, politicians and social media execs probably wouldn't even notice.
I missed that on my read, thanks! Did you get that from the MIT Tech Review article, or the original Facebook report, or what? Can you post a quote?
Co-founder here. It's been an incredible time to build fintech infrastructure to address the most burning needs of small businesses. We've been able to launch with some incredible partners and have our update at: https://www.parafin.com/blog/announcing-parafin
Not for the extension developer though. Good thing it was not monetized.
Pancake is 'not VR' i.e. a traditional flat monitor.
HTML5 is expressible as valid SGML with some exceptions such as ARIA and data-* attributes. And SGML, which is a super-set of XML, has rules for both optional elements - e.g. HEAD - and for elements with optional closing tags - e.g. P.

http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html
It's supposedly 500 dollars more and that's excluding the fact that they will bill that in euros if you live in the EU. That makes it almost three times as expensive.
Lynk demos global satellite connection for phones,prepares for commercial launch
Can you please add region specific pricing? As a user from India, price is the only thing that holds me back from subscribing to RescueTime.
Supremely curious: as a 12 y/o, did you assume everyone struggled getting around, always?
At the end of the day, trust attaches to people more than to processes / institutions, especially if the institutions are too large.

I trust articles co-signed by Katalin Karikó, for example. She seems to be a very dedicated researcher. But this kind of trust cannot be easily extended to any random professor of Acme U.
Would you make the argument the other way? Where employees owe their company more than their agreed upon effort? I don’t think so.

But what exactly did Amazon do here that was immoral or not ethical? Honestly I don’t see where it failed. The company may not of met the author’s expectations, but I feel like his expectation was “pay me no matter my performance because I cannot afford to take a LOA when my wife is dying, and I am way depressed because I never grieved for my brother…who died before I even came to work here.” Frankly, that is a wholly unreasonable expectation to place on any company.
Had to change the title a little since it was too long:
Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

Their website: https://lynk.world/
California seems uniquely incapable of building anything, so of course a freeway there has stalled.

Elsewhere the US continues build tons and tons of roads. According to the Bureau of Transport Statistics the US highway system went from 4,050,717 miles in 2009 to 4,171,125 miles in 2019. This is a delta 120,408 miles, or an increase of 2.9%.

The 710 might be an interesting example, but it's not exactly indicative of a trend.
Well, he no longer has to maintain it, and an even better version of the feature now exists
The human cost of extracting fuel is missing from all energy sources, but it would unlikely change the full picture. Coal mining has a very long history of harvesting human lives, being one of the most deadly profession that have ever existed. Oil in turn has been in the center of wars since world war 1 and the collective number of human lives lost is hard to even imagine. Natural gas as a by-product of oil and coal would only share in the deaths caused by the others.

The more closer comparison would be between rare-earth metals needed in renewables and the uranium in nuclear fuel, but which one wins is questionable. There are more children picking through e-waste than there are children picking through uranium. Mining uranium however is not that great either. Then again, mining rare earth metals aren't great either. Feel free to point to any sources that compare the two in terms of produced energy.

> the environmental cost of nuclear waste disposal

We can compare that to fossil fuels method of waste disposal. Nuclear could release it waste into the air over a long period of time, letting the radiation slowly spread out over a very large area through rain and weather. This is not accounted in fossil fuel as CO2 is only one kind of pollution, with coal power plants actually creating more radiation waste per watt produced than a nuclear power plant. Fossil fuels waste just happens to be released into the air and spread out over a large area/time rather than being stockpiled. Renewables should fare better but you would still need to account for e-waste and CO2 emissions from construction and waste recycling.

All in all, fossil fuels would not look better in comparison to nuclear. The human cost in fossil fuel production would be humongous and the environmental cost of waste disposal would dwarf anything that nuclear create.
I’d argue that’s not really Facebook anymore than Instagram or WhatsApp are.
How does this compare with corneal moulding?
That's not at all what's happening here. It doesn't even have anything to do with input fields, except that the field in the HTTP request that stores the information on Apple's servers was supposed to be filled from one.

This kind of attack essentially tricks Apple into including arbitrary HTML/JavaScript in the webpage that shows information when someone scans the tag. There's no reliable way a browser could even know something untoward was happening.
> I believe that squirrels are much more common in US (and Canadian?) cities [...]

Yes, very common in Canada. I live in Montreal and frequently have as many as four just hanging out in my backyard.

Funnily enough, gray squirrels were also introduced in London parks in the 19th century and have completely taken over the city, much like here in North America.
I think asking "how" is a better idea. "How do you think it work", "Don't you think X have more impact than Y?", "How do that work in your mind?".

Because if you're wrong, asking why doesn't really help you, You will highlight blindspot and that's all.

Why is a trap.
Love the idea! The issue is already open. I will merge a PR before the next release. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/issues/49
But it still has inline links all over (and so does the site you link), which Gemini doesn't allow.
If it's written in Haskell, it's highly likely that it'll be far harder to modify than something written in, well, not-Haskell.

Haskell might be easy when you get the hang of it, but the vast majority of programmers haven't, and the language ideas are alien compared to the mainstream ones (Python, JS, C++, Lua).

The design of Haskell also encourages users to be very clever, which only makes code harder to read.
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Background code analysis in Visual Studio grinds my windows VM to a halt after every few keystrokes. Yet they spend time speeding up colorization of bracket pairs, which worked just fine for the last 10 releases or so.
It might work for you for now. The more people figure it out, the more likely it is that whatever vulnerability you are using will get patched out. Then you will get banned, because they hate you for doing what you are doing (not providing them with as much personal information as you can).
I agree with the title change. It's quite misleading, especially if they are referring to the kids who have vision impairment.
Show HN: Integrating Chatwoot with Wordpress and Facebook with Kevine Nzapdi
What’s the Real Difference Between R and Python?
Exactly. I was confused by the majors owning their own MVNOs. Until I realized that's just how they do market segmentation now.
Interestingly rainbow-delimiters in emacs seems to be instantaneous even with elisp being an slow interpreted language. For better or worse emacs does run "extensions" synchronously; this allows extremely fine grained control of the buffer, but a slow extension can kill interactive performance.
I interpreted the parent post to be more as “sound financial strategy to saving” rather than “good investment” (buying for levered appreciation)

Would also note that housing can be affordable nationally, and unaffordable in some markets given the local nature of housing.
Really interesting. And when I have a headset that is comfortable and has high enough resolution I may switch to working in VR. Right now the Quest 2 that I have is too low resolution and too uncomfortable.

There are a few reallly high resolution VR headsets that I can't afford. But I just heard about a 200 gram (supposedly) on coming out of China. If it has good resolution thag might be a viable choice for this (as an alternative to whatever the hardware is which they didn't say).

But what makes this stuff REALLY interesting to me are the possibilities for 3D widgets and interface elements and metaphors. That has been explored a little and generally discarded in flatland but I think in an environment that is always 3d with good hand tracking, it's a different ballgame.

One thing to imagine would be, what could 3d "web browsing" be like if you knew that everyone looking at your site was in VR? Maybe something along the lines of JanusXR. Although I think they barely began to scratch the surface.

To me the idea of working in VR could be a gateway to the 'metaverse'. It could start with people trying to make more interesting environments for their floating 2d windows. Then they add some physics and locomotion. Now they want to collaborate over the network.

In three years, the most popular Linux distribution could be the one you run on your headset, and could come with multiplayer VR baked in.

But anyway I would want to escape from the 2d windows. There might even be some interesting ways to represent code or codebases in 3d. Or even new ways to manipulate text with your hands.
That sounds awesome for VS Code users in general, but I guess it's sad news for the independent developer (CoenraadS) who made the pair colorization extension popular and famous.

With the editor's native performance 10,000 times better, I suepect the number of installs of their extension will plummet.

It's hard to compete with 1st party powers, as all the hoopla around app stores (and before that, the famous "Embrace, extend & extinguish" [1] strategy) show all the time.

That said, I'm not saying it's a hostile move, it's just ... interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Don't forget us Windows too!
France goes after Amazon’s books business
A followup study has revealed blindfolds reduce academic performance
It would be interesting to see the motivations. But the effect is the same: spreading discontent, fake news and extremism is bad whether people do it for profit or geopolitical advantages...
At least in my religion, those versed in it and who deal with it have resolved or are working to resolve such tensions. Maybe some religions don't. But then your statement should be "Foo religion", not "religions".
> You get to report posts (3 reports mean that the post is deleted), and warn users (24-hour ban after 3 "active" warnings, and then it scales up to a permanent ban after 15 "active" warnings). Warnings become "inactive" after a month.

Sounds like I could do some damage there by signing up with three accounts?
Since there are that many communication channels today I believe press events will get less prevalent. Larger companies are already organizing their own events instead of using third party expositions and have PR agencies that directly target potential customers.

Smaller ones have these channels too and the press probably won't be interested anyway.

I hate how a lot of tech sites have become advertisers for products. Given, a lot of them only get the deal with the devil. NDA and no negative reporting in exchange for access. But a "test" from a magazine isn't worth too much anymore.
How does Python have better ergonomics?

Better developer experience for Python is probably true, more mature community I can't say either way.

Edit: One thing that would be nice in PHP is decorators.
I think that may be outdated information.

The terms of service states that it is independent of but owned by MIT.

https://www.technologyreview.com/terms-of-service/

From what I gather, there was a relaunch in 1998, and MIT has owned it since 2001. In general, I’d be extremely surprised if MIT ever just licensed its name out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Technology_Review
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What? If the independent developer didn't want his technology to be used, he would have patented it or made it closed source. This is not what EEE is about.