skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well we certainly didn't build an xml semantic web rendered to xhtml using xslt stylesheets. And xmlhttprequest is mostly used to fetch json. And I don't think xml is used that much for new protocols or fileformats anymore either.
> AFAIK we already simulate brains of silk worms or some such thing?

I'm pretty sure OpenWorm has not achieved its goal.

My take on this would be, sure, copying it is an important step, but they don't know to copy it, so it won't work.
I make a monthly donation to charity: water that I believe directly impacts the life of some ~20 people in South America, Africa, and Asia who otherwise wouldn't be able to access clean drinking water.
It's not like I created the charity, so I don't think I'm some superhero for doing the minimal thing of giving them some of my hard-earned money, but I do think the charity is making a difference in real peoples' lives.
Nice. I wonder what kind of social media is gonna grow next to tiktok/fb/insta
Absolutely agreed, I implied with "writing the checks" it was the actual owner(s) of the business making the decision but could have been more explicit about it.
everyone is an asset picking genius in a bull market. Buffet is an old school investor wary of the froth in the market.
I'd love to know the list of companies actually willing to hire someone who owns web sites like whitesencyclopedia.com, and theholocaustisfake.com.
Frequently abused in countries like Hungary to push state propaganda.

Idea is nice in theory but not bulletproof.
The US is a very poor example in how to implement financial service regulations (a better example would be Europe, where they have instant payments and cram down interchange fees with regulation). Non-Indian software companies are accustom to business friendly recurring payment policies, not the more consumer-focused financial regulations India has.

From OP's relevant article link [1]:

> He adds that this directive caters to two problems. Discontinuing standing instruction to a merchant was a task earlier while some asked for a letter by post asking for the discontinuation.

> Moreover, credit cards were mainly used for recurring payments while debit cards weren't as much in use.

So, it would seem that the regulator is attempting to make it harder for businesses to lock customers into recurring payments they don't want, and to encourage debit card use versus credit card use. I imagine this is keeping in line with India not wanting capitalistic colonialism, which is why the Indian central bank kneecapped US payment networks [2] in support of their own instant payment system (UPI [3]). Developing countries don't want to pay unnecessary drag on their economic systems to rent seeking first world corporations, if they can avoid it.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/financ...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57817618

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
I don't think so personally. I see it based on what I know versus what they know. I know about my reality, whereas they want to believe something different about my reality. I'm not saying they want to believe something about their _own_ reality, I'm saying that it is about my own. I had an experience and they are saying "no, you didn't", which is them projecting their belief onto my experience of reality. So I think that both of your examples do not express what I meant.
I think it's incredibly obvious that just about any tool that can used remotely will be orders of magnitude more effective and helpful than sticky notes.
> Second, if it comes to "hard-power gatekeepers," $1000-$2000 a months buys you employment of a local toughboy ready to receive punches, and deliver punches for you.

Sure, but at this point isn't your advice just "why not bribe government officials and go to war with the mafia"? Sure, someone could do that. But...maybe we can imagine reasons why they would be reluctant to do so?

One notable failure mode of this strategy would be: mafia guy shows up at your house and hits you with a hammer until you're no longer able to/interested in continuing to pursue this strategy.
How? I know exactly zero people who uses it. However, I do see TikTok videos on Instagram and Facebook all the time.
Maybe you could just background highlight the empty cells?
In America being illegals pays. The entire America is based on the concept of "risking it and if it is illegals it is even bettet - rule of laws my ass".
Apologies for the jargon.. IC = individual contributor. Someone who does not manage other humans.
What "facilities" and what "club"? The EU is not a club and does not have "facilities" - we're talking about people and governments here.

You seem to be replying to arguments I didn't make. I haven't mentioned selling stuff to the EU anywhere nor does this topic have anything to do with that.

Brexit is excellent because the EU is a terrible political/constitutional project, but that has nothing to do with petrol stations or truckers. Indeed Brexit supporters aren't blaming the EU for this because it'd be a non-sequitur, it's the other way around: people loyal to EU ideology are blaming Brexit for it, without evidence actually and in ways that appear to be quite manipulative (e.g. deliberately lying to provoke a run on petrol then blaming that on Brexit).

BTW the attitude you display here is exactly one of the reasons leaving the EU was so important. I've never once encountered an EU fan who displays a friendly and cooperative attitude, or an understanding of why people voted to leave. It's always immense bitterness, stupid analogies and insults.
I went to the supermarket on Saturday - every shelf was fully stacked - I walked around looking for missing things. I got bored and bought a steak and a bottle of wine and went home.
I'm not paying websites to not track me, id happily avoid those that do track me. Same difference.
Many people are going to compare Lite XL to Sublime Text and VSCode so I would like to make a few comments about the comparison.

Sublime Text is a more mature and has more resources than Lite XL. As far as I know it has a team of engineers dedicated to its development. It makes for an excellent editor and it is hard for Lite XL to compete. To my eyes the main reasons one *may* want to use Lite XL over Sublime Text are:

1. because Lite XL is free software
2. because customizing Lite XL using Lua is quite easy and fun

If you are okay with being non free and you look at the features you may prefer Sublime Text and that's fine.

Personally I moved from Sublime Text to Lite XL just because it isn't free. It is not only a matter of the cost of the license but also about the fact of being free software.

If we speak about VSCode, it also has a ton of features more than Lite XL, a formidable set of plugins and growing and big company behind it with dedicated engineers so it is well placed to be much better than Lite XL. In reality, personally, I never used VSCode even before Lite XL, I was just using Sublime Text. The reasons I *personally* cannot tolerate to use VSCode is that:

- it is slow to start, and it starts incrementally
- the UI it is somewhat flickering, in the syntax highlighting and in the menu (for linux only)
- it has a ton of popups, bells and whistles that are annoying to me.

This is much a matter of personal preference. May people are tolerant to some slowness and some occasional flickering to have more features. In this case they may prefer VSCode and this is fine too.

I personally prefer when the editor gets out of the way being fast, responsive and still nice on the eyes. In addition it is free software and easy to hack and this is very important too.
Show HN: Simple Svelte, Vue, HTML form generator
Quoting the article:

"In May, a tool used to predict the chance a woman who previously had a cesarean section could safely give birth via vaginal delivery was updated to no longer automatically assign lower scores to Black and Hispanic women."

Empirically, do Black and Hipanic women with a prior cesarean have a higher chance of a miscarriage with a later vaginal delivery than white women? If an algorithm that uses racial classifications produces better outcomes for the mother and baby than an algorithm that does not, it should use the racial data. Lives are literally at stake.
Exactly. Managers look for metrics and point and velocity are what they use.

Well anyway, managers in my current company are dumber than second coat of paint and I inflate points.
Since he had nothing to do with Soviet cybernetics or the invention of the US internet?
NPS is a marketing tool. I agree it's misused in this case, but the people at the extreme ends of the scale DO matter. They are the ones who will passionately voice their opinions, write reviews, do blogs posts, etc. The people in the middle of the scale can't be bothered with doing anything about their opinions.
There is no solution to deal with the life killing waste of nuclear power plants.
The last paragraph caught me by surprise, most eastern European expats I know are quite anti-socialist.
I think you misunderstand. I said that I thought that DDD would proscribe something along these lines. I am not endorsing this as a fully complete, usable process, I am saying that something like this is both possible and necessary for the paradigm to function.

It's a critical topic that is right at the heart of DDD. I researched up and down on this topic and unlike 'where to use a factory" the DDD community refuses to go into even as much detail on this topic than I just did with my half baked comment.

I am not trying to "complete" DDD here. I think DDD should largely be consigned to the trash heap.
Shows how great alibaba's cloud is

It's sad they recently got forced to use something else in the west, i bet that was one of the conditions to avoid getting banned in the west ;)

That's why we can't have nice things

Looks like the american's administration don't want cloud competition globally, reminds me of Alstom's story, and recently OVH 'fires', sort of

- https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/TikTok-owner-ByteDa...
This is not a ban, and has been in the works for a long time with at least one six-month extension granted that I know of.[1] What the RBI has done is introduce AFA (additional factor authentication) for recurring transactions.[2]

But this is India and we like to do things one day before any deadline expires. That explains the panic.

[1] https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=1205...

[2] https://support.stripe.com/questions/important-updates-to-rb...
>“The election is not suspect and the end results (Nixon won) are not going to change. It was settled decades ago.”

From my point of view, “settled” does not mean the issue has been decisively proven or disproven. More often than not I see “settled” as meaning “nothing can be done about it”. Especially in terms of fraud and organized crime.

If you really dig into the 1960 election there are a ton of discrepancies and oddities that were investigated by partisan committees or had suspects end up having all charges against them dropped. In the 1948 Senate example, the SCOTUS case about the discrepancies was not taken up on jurisdiction grounds. So in that sense, no true ruling was ever made about the challenges in the case. But it is considered “settled” all the same.

>”In 1990, Robert Caro said, "People have been saying for 40 years, 'No one knows what really happened in that election,' and 'Everybody does it.' Neither of those statements is true. I don't think that this is the only election that was ever stolen, but there was never such brazen thievery." Caro said that Johnson was given the votes of "the dead, the halt, the missing and those who were unaware that an election was going on"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_United_States_Senate_el...
Good sci-fi read on this is "Reamde" by Neal Stephenson.
Certainly any brain is just a biological machine. No magic.
But it's workings - even for simple brains - is still way beyond human understanding.
Yes technically this is a branch, but like a frictionless branch. You don't have to name a branch for instance. You don't have to worry about branch deletion, even though now this is all automated.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...

A fork is still a lot less friction. Otherwise, technically yes it is a branch.
Bias is relative to a null hypothesis, you are just begging the question. Predictive power is the final arbiter
If you’ve been to NYC, L.A., London, and so on, this definitely isn’t true — this seems true of smaller cities like Cleveland, Tampa, and San Diego.

The largest cities are almost entirely void of most chains, as nobody who lives there wants to eat chain food. (There’s usually some chains in the tourist central area, like Times Square in NYC).
I prefer to call it TwinkJock, because those are the only two body types I see. :)

http://TwinkJock.com
Personally, I think BTC is more appropriately priced than TSLA
We don’t need to rely on photographs to physically see the sparse shelves with our own eyes
Get some dry-erase markers and an eraser, Amazon or Staples carry them.
It can be an easy mistake to make. Too often we assume that everyone is high functioning and higher than average aptitude with higher than average support. I'm sure all those kids did okay during distance learning. It is all the other kids that will struggle. We forget that there were kids in our classes that struggled even with the full support and structure of school. I think it may allow us to change our approach to education moving forward. We had a forced experiment that created a lot of data. Hopefully we all learn something from it.

I always take it back to a conversation I've had with co-workers about meetings. Frequently, people all leave the same meeting with different expectations and understandings. This is despite a long meeting, discussion, white boards and back and forth. Communication is hard and a skill we tragically under develop. Education is the same, you have abstract concepts that must be converted into internal mental models by students at different levels and abilities.
This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that "competition is for losers" probably applies to competitive sports as well.

Most of them have very little room at the top. You're likely going to end up spending tons of money and time and not really get anywhere as a professional athlete. Not to mention the risk of injury. I think swimming is pretty safe, but if you look at mountain biking or, gasp, gymnastics, there are competitive sports where you can really damage your body, and your career will be over after just a few years. Then, there's also the issue that working extremely hard to become say, an olympic gymnast, can actually be damaging to a child's mental health (no time to relax and develop socially like the other kids).

So yes, if nothing is at stake, then why not? Go ahead and try to swim faster than your buddies, you'll probably get fitter in the process. But trying to get to the top of a very crowded field, I think you should only do that if you really really enjoy competition for its own sake and you have some kind of a backup plan.
What does that matter when they're replying to "Once you go over 16% or so alcohol, no cell will grow in it. That’s why alcohol above that is distilled"?
let's say they succeed and copied the network of neurons of average Joe to a chip. Would this chip have consciousness?
I've got a tesla and a plug, there's no need for a pump with that setup either...
MAUs?
Honestly that's the whole problem with Democracies. And we solve it with sampling and surveys. Probably if we can come up with a better answer, we will improve Scrum, and Democracies :-)
I don't agree with that at all. Governments should protect their own citizens first and foremost, but deliberately killing civilians anywhere is abhorrent, and the US does not deliberately target civilians. When civilians are killed by the US, it's an accident. Assad kills civilians to send a message.

That said, the US should absolutely work to reduce its collateral damage, but let's not pretend that accidentally killing a civilian and bombing a city (because they are disproportionately critical of your dictatorship) are morally equivalent.
AWS EC2 North Virginia outage resolves but some issues linger
Do you know many people under 30?
> Quebec

I confirm that Quebec uses SHC.
If they chose to work in the sweat shop and are free to quit at any time but choose not to, then they probably do enjoy working in the sweat shop, or at least prefer it to the other options they have reasonable access to. Without understanding the nuances of their current situation, it is impossible to say what changes will actually improve the situation, and it is easily possible that well intentioned changes can make things substantially worse.
It's an amazingly cheap 10g switch. (It has 4x10g along with the 1g ports).

It's even a very cheap fully managed switch.
They're cheap certainly, but they're not an example of a good idea for a high growth startup. I also wouldn't personally call the experience great as a user either, but that's subjective.

If you're trying to start a new company, an airline would probably be a bad idea - unless you're bringing something new to the table that others can't easily compete on (like supersonic jetliners maybe, eg the YC company Boom - though even then I don't think they're planning to run their own airline).

The airlines all pretend they're special and unique, but they're basically commodities offering similarly bad experiences (imo) that aren't very differentiated.

Meanwhile when companies are more dominant, like Google, they constantly point to their tiny competition (Duck Duck Go) and talk about how competitive the space is - the opposite of how airlines behave.

If you're trying to build a startup you want something that leads to a Google like outcome, not a United Airlines like outcome.
Better yet, just never do alignment.

Obviously readability is subjective, but personally I find alignment is never valuable outside of tables of data, and I'd argue generally having tables of data embedded in your code isn't ideal.

#include<stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
printf(
"%s %s %s %s\n",
__FILE__,
__LINE__,
__DATE__,
__TIME__
);

return 0;
}

Reads better to me and avoids the issue entirely. It also plays more nicely with traditional diff tools anyway.
One thing I’ve noticed a lot of in the last five years, has been that the thing being objected to by a Leave supporter can vary from the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances[0] to the Lisbon treaty.

When it’s half the country each way, you’re going to get a lot of people with very different ideas on what they voted for even at the best of times; with two different competing leave campaigns and shockingly inept government communications on the topic, it’s even worse.

[0] I’ve tried to engage with someone who blamed “the EU” for Russia annexing the Ukraine.
Surely there was a third option of keeping schools open. I’m not a parent and am not sure whether that was the right option, but that your comment doesn’t even acknowledge it is part of the problem.
you’re asking for them to remove the part that prints them money. the only reason they’re going this route is the whistle blower leaking and hopes to appease regulators before regulation.
Was this red tarp always there? I have no recollection of seeing this before
There are plenty of public-health mandates out there--because it's not about you, it's about the people you impose upon with your unmasked, unvaccinated presence--and even if you think lockdowns weren't a good idea (which I think is an arguable point, even if it's one with which I disagree) to try to contest that one about a mask over your nose and mouth reveals your position as an unserious one.

There's no serious objection in the whole of existence to "wear a mask to reduce transmission", and you tip off your false reasonableness by trying to sliiiide that one in there.
You seem bent on belittling me or just being confrontational.

I'm not sure why, maybe you resent my career choices or simply don't agree with my viewpoint and are choosing to take a stranger's opinions very personally.

Either way, I apologize if I said anything that offended you.

Have a good one.
I’m very surprised by this number as well. It must be young kids. I don’t know a single TikTok user either (and I don’t have kids).
Monthly active users

Number of distinct people that opened the app in the last thirty days
good. a lot of these kids will be able to vote in 2024 and crush Trump the way he never seen before.
The following post is from October 2020, but I remember having used an interface to PostgreSQL more than 10 years ago:
https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/swi-prolog-connecting-t...
For those who don't get it: side-effects allow for the power of Prolog, just don't use them if you don't want them...
As my career progresses I find myself increasingly leaning towards opinionated tools that sell a methodology more than flexibility, for exactly this reason.
This is binary thinking. There's an entire spectrum between those two poles.
So, I'm now on the trial and I'm trying it out again! :)

I have a silly question - does stereo recording work in both portrait and landscape orientations? I'll do more tests, but I'm hearing less stereo separation than I do when I shoot video (and I'm wondering if it needs to be held in landscape or something?)
TikTok has definitely become the platform for short form video content. It used to be YouTube, but it's since matured into a place to watch more well produced videos in the 20 minute range. If you haven't given TikTok a chance, try it out.
Agreed, thank you for this. I think we should do more to defend quiet spaces.I work for a library, and much of the emphasis is on creating "collaborative" spaces. Those are important too, and I fully understand the irritation librarians have with the "shhhhh!" meme. But public silent spaces are rare, and may be a truly under appreciated resource by people who have the means to access quite private spaces.
> Their political opponents have spent months dismissing their concerns as scaremongering.

Years, not months. Pretty much all concerns about Brexit were dismissed as being Project Fear.
The problem I've found with kids' platforms - thinking mostly of YouTube Kids but others too - is that they are so tied down that your children can't get to things that they or indeed that you want them to - often quite educational things, so you end up just giving them access to the adult versions because you want to support their interests.

Also, the 'needing to be 12 years old' rule for many sites is a very handy one for parents as it gives you a solid reason for not giving permission for certain sites. It may be widely ignored but it's still very useful and enough parents do adhere to it, that you don't feel like you are making your children an outcast!
Distribution of outcome is probably somewhat skewed by performance management, but I would say the worst performers would be c30% less than the measured standard and the best performers c30% above.

Good note on the scoping of the tasks - it depends totally on the implementation! Ours was pretty good, but the difficulty was keeping it up to date as you have to change the walk routes and distances any time you move physical equipment on site, or change site rules/physical processes.
This. WuuuU! I can live my porn addiction for eternity!
The worst part is the outrage part is downright addictive. Trying to get people who are plugged into this loop to take a step back and consider others' perspective is like taking their favorite toy away
Resistance to front-line malaria drugs confirmed in Africa
Can we just get rid of all electronic voting, please. Not because it's susceptible to fraud, but because it's susceptible to fraud conspiracy theories. It's just such an easy attack vector for people who wish to sow discord. Why the heck are we keeping this attack vector open for such marginal improvements in efficiency...
Free to read link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/business/media/ozy-media-...