skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deactivated the "Bracket Pair Colorizer" extension from CoenraadS which I've first installed years ago. Activated the internal Bracket Pair Colorizer.

First world problems: Bracket colors are different now and especially XML looks off... seems I need to fine tune that some day (but not today).
Things I would like to see in a knowledge base:

* built in document aging and asset maintenance strategies - ideally including a time estimate for billing. A document not worth maintaining is not worth having.

* similarly some sort of automated / well-designed change management component - I changed this codebase / design component / business offering / org chart, what knowledge bases are affected

* and similarly a much more intelligent (and harsh) judger of documentation, Wiki content etc - the human curator today comes back to the room and says, "everything we have is old or sh!t," the KB comes back with "31 pages of results!" Infuriatingly shallow experience.

* graph and Venn diagram representations of viewer/authors and tags/topics, metadata, etc with killer app search and browse capabilities. Eliminate hierarchies, embrace dependencies
> Brackets are queried when rendering the viewport and thus querying them has to be really fast.

Then by querying them only when the document changes could make it another 10,000x faster ;)
Sounds like you're just addicted to excessive political correctness and are shocked when it's absent from a report that has no place for it. The author's job is not to express moral stances that you agree with, but to provide accurate fact based estimates without ceremony, which they do well here.
Developers hate WordPress – and so should marketers
I Achieved My Goal of 5000 Views on YouTube in September
> Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors may actually succeed in ushering in a new era of transparent, trustworthy institutions and gleaming, functional infrastructure

Or they could erect more big data institutions that gobble up personal data which is 'monetized' or sold out the back door for profit.
The first offer in a negotiation can impact the eventual outcome significantly
Clomacs: Simplifies Emacs Lisp interaction with Clojure and vice versa
My Job Offer Was Rescinded After I’d Given Notice
Author of the blog post here.

We openly discussed various approaches with CoenraadS and other extension authors here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
Other articles have mentioned this before, but in reference to the second half of the entire decade.

Almost all "Black Lives Matter"[1][2] and anti-police[3] brutality, and pro-police status quo pages[3] on Facebook were run by foreigners residing in other countries. Some foreigners are firms and keeping score on how many in person protests and counterprotests they can accomplish.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/business/facebook-black-l...

[3] https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-pag...
The original developer doesn't sound too worried and seems to have collaborated on the feature: https://github.com/CoenraadS/Bracket-Pair-Colorizer-2/issues...

Plus it helps him getting rid of 399 open issues.
Check out WatermelonDB: https://nozbe.github.io/WatermelonDB
Google running intimidating ad of KGB murder of Belarus opposition
Theft?
There was (is?) a popular Facebook page called I Fucking Love Science

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/dont-trust-that-face...
Olafur Eliasson and Kevin Kelly: Dream Boys
https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ does something like this. You can turn off visualizations and let it run for a while then turn visualizations back on or replay the best result.
This is interpretation is very much a stretch. He is simply stating a fact. To get the supply chain fixed you need to reduce the spread of covid, only way to do that is with... " increased global vaccination and acquired immunity". If you are dead, you don't really fall under the "acquired immunity" umbrella he is calling for, you are just dead. More dead people would lead to a reduction in labor and put more strain on the supply chain which is the opposite of what the author wants. The world has to continue to run and it needs to run on hard data, not on messages drafted to support feeling's. Covid was and is rough on everyone but people running businesses need to be able to make predictions and those predictions must be based on unvarnished facts.
So, what's the plan? Reimplement every popular extension that doesn't have good performance?

> the asynchronous communication between the renderer and the extension-host severely limits how fast bracket pair colorization can be when implemented as an extension. This limit cannot be overcome

Nope, I'm not convinced. If it can be done internally, then you should expose more internals until it's possible to do it with the public API.

I bet this could be made really performant if vscode had incremental parsing, like tree-sitter+Atom.
Yes, the intro mentions "cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines", and the conclusion is "This significantly improves the Studio high quality proxy generation efficiency". While the article avoids mentioning why they actually need this, it reads like they have some collaboration platform for post-production of their own productions, and that involves frequent exports into a streamable format.
I recently bought a (very) old game from GOG. The install directory contains two 48x48 icon files ("gog.ico" and "support.ico") and the game exe file. Together, the two icon files are larger than the exe file...
Particl anonymous blockchain marketplace v3 released
Ask HN: What must-have extensions are there for VSCode for AWS, GCP, K8s, etc.?
This sounds more like dialectics than debate.

If anything "debate" is something private school kids and self-proclaimed "intellectuals" do to grandstand.

Dialectics, or trying to reach a better and more insightful conclusion through collaboration and understanding, is far more productive.
>He just made it impossible to debate calmly. But now that Trump is gone, the climate is just as bad and, if nothing else, much worse.

Understanding why this is happening is exciting.

It's the emergence of a new religion. You can't debate with a religious tenant. Why OP is seeing it much worse in less than a year is because of this.

This is history in the making right now. The interesting thing is trying to think about the future but the present is even crazier. Is the religion unformed with no leaders? If not, why are they hiding? Oh that's why...
"Prayer Warriors Unite"

Even more interesting would be Christian anti-vax since this would seem to involve many of the already existing networks discussed here. I've been following the Herman Cain Awards for some time now and you notice a consistency in the memes among particular groups of users. Same with phrasing and messaging. How much discourse is actually affected by these troll farms would be very interesting indeed as it has real life impact, such as huge numbers of needless deaths.
China wants war, just look how close they put their country to our military bases.
Much less. Teams where the manager is paid less than the engineers that they manage aren't rare either.
Impact Assessment: risk of disruption to the UK fuel supply [2017] [pdf]
I have a few questions that may have some reasonable answers, but would hopefully spur some thoughtful discussion.

1) What is a "troll farm" and what is the criteria used for a distinction between a troll farm and merely some points of view one might disagree with? Maybe this is mentioned somewhere, but I don't see it clearly defined in the link.

2) What is the proof that these are indeed foreigners? It would be trivial for a social media company to label domestic users they find distasteful as foreigners to more easily silence certain points of view, especially given the media's unwillingness/inability to understand nuanced technology issues.

3) Heck, where is the proof that these pages are even moderately operated by actual people and are not mostly bot-generated content?

4) We live in a global, connected world that embraces diverse points of view, right? Are eastern Europeans or others, many of whom still embrace a traditional Christian heritage, expected to not post about their point of view because somebody in San Francisco claims its a troll?

5) How can a data scientist make a definitive claim that the people running these sites have "never been to church"? Maybe these social media firms are making big assumptions about people and are entirely wrong. Maybe they have entirely far too much information about people.
OMG it's like a virus.
Great improvement of performance for those who like to code blind!
> Troll farms—professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content, often propaganda, to social networks

How is this any different than what BuzzFeed or Upworthy were doing ten years ago to build their audiences?

It's frustrating that we're not shown content from these groups. Hard to imagine that stuff from "Happiness Is In Your Mind" or "Positive Quotes" lines up with the kind of stuff you'd imagine when you see the words "troll farm".
Your conscience is judging you. Your family is judging you. Your employer is judging you. Your neighbors are judging you. Your customers are judging you. We are social entities with a judgment organ: the brain. Good luck rationalizing that away.
Opting Out of TurnItIn
Software tests, or educational assessment tests?

They have overlap, but know which you mean will help HN answer better :)

Software tests are hard to write right because you don't know what you don't know - you have no idea what kind of garbage data or garbage system or garbage network the software will run on

To cover as much of that as is practical is hard

Educational assessment tests are hard because you do know what you know - but you're trying to ferret-out what the folks you've been trying to teach have learned

If you go for multiple-choice, true/false, or fill-in-the-blank, you have to make sure you:

- word the questions in such a way as to not "give away" the answer
- ask questions the participants have an actual chance of answering (not based on an endnote from the middle of the glossary)
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If you go for short or essay answer, you have similar issues:

- expectations-setting on length, style, etc
- word questions in such a way as to give the participants a reasonable chance of answering them well

There are other problems around writing good tests - but there are a handful
They signed a treaty stating they would not develop nuclear weapons. I'm pretty sure it was a very awkward conversation.
“Creative” really just means “ideas unlike everyone else’s ideas.”

Ergo, if you have the same inputs as everyone else, you’ll most likely have the same outputs too.

The solution? Change your inputs. The three people you mentioned are all very much in the same milieu of thought, which one might call “technology-adjacent rationalist.” They all basically have the same worldview, when it comes down to brass tacks.

My suggestion is to start reading things by people without this worldview. Fashion designers, Islamic philosophers, voodoo priests, Deleuzian cyberneticists. Anyone that is outside of your normal range of input. Especially people from the distant past, as most pop science/etc. books today all have the same basic worldview, which historical writers don’t have.

You will make connections between the things you know and the new things. This ability to make connections is fundamentally what creativity is all about.
The real way to change anything (imo) is to get the tax payers more angry at the status quo and out-inovate the current journals.

Right now, I'm pretty sure most people don't care about academic publishing or even know what is going on. The scandal in my opinion is that a professor or phd candidate is paid by the state to do research and then the state has to pay again to license the contributions their employees made. Meanwhile the taxpayer who already paid for the research cannot access that research for free.

The main problem is that the academic system is a dog eat dog world with people clinging to their positions or fighting with all dirty tricks in the book to get tenure, reputation or funding. I'm not sure how to fix it.

The way to get to a better world probably leads through blood sweat and motivation by small groups. Run an open access journal, make it the best or highly regarded in your small niche. The more of these exist, the better.

Maybe that's an interesting area for an accelerator to pump some non-profit money into. Hire some people as editors, make the content available for free. Use startup strategies to turn it into a very feisty publisher where academics want to publish. Make sure the stuff in the journal is easy to cite and becomes cited often etc.
Use a bowling pin strategy to start with one topic (probably something computer science related) and once that is excellent, branch out.
There were additional issues too, like access to token information discussed here

> This is another challenge of the Bracket Pair Colorization extension that affects performance negatively: it does not have access to these tokens and has to recompute them on its own. We thought long about how we could efficiently and reliably expose token information to extensions, but came to the conclusion that we cannot do this without a lot of implementation details leaking into the extension API. Because the extension still has to send over a list of color decorations for each bracket in the document, such an API alone would not even solve the performance problem.
Being Not So Bad at Bad Reviews
The founder is actually from Florida (where Rivian then operating under a different name originally started in 2009). They moved the headquarters from Michigan to California about a year ago.
Your provider can for example filter out all ICMP packets giving you timeouts for "ping", but you can still reach the host just fine with other protocols. Similarly your provider probably prioritizes protocols that require low latency like VoIP over ICMP packets.
Unfortunately I don't find that FB is in decline. I've found that groups organized on FB on any particular hobby topic are much more successful and active than on other platforms. Recently formed a group for discussion of DIY electric farm equipment. 70 members joined in 1 day.

FB feels like it should be a public utility. It is clearly filling a niche that people feel is needed. The barrier to entry to use is very low. I've encountered so many people who simply don't use other parts of the Internet much at all, and expect almost all content to be mediated through Facebook.
> Insulating windows often have metallic films that can block radio signals.

Yep that's pretty much what I inferred at the time.

It was pretty frustrating back then though, good thing I moved in in late summer and opening the windows any time I needed to do admin (either online or by phone) was fine, would have been rather annoying in winter.

> Which is sort of ironic in that modern communications is dependent on radio. Older buildings tend to be better for cell reception.

Indeed, and moving from an older building (where reception had never been any issue) is exactly what I was doing.
Does anyone know of something similar for native Swift (iOS/macOS), that can work with a standalone backend (not CloudKit/Firebase)?

Last time I did something similar I had to roll my own Rails API and client-side cache.
A brief looks in the git history of a repo, or of the user will betray this scam because it's too transparent. Counting productivity by commits is silly.

Here is my current git commit history: https://imgur.com/a/Hl1rkPp

It doesn't mean much if you don't account for what I was doing.
China's land border with Vietnam terminates at the shore of this sea, so of course in that area the "territorial waters" don't extend so far. It's the same as e.g. Canadian waters located right next to USA. In addition, China and Philippines are separated by about 400 miles at their closest points, so that would curtail a 230 mile perimeter for at least one of those nations.
Every time this comes up, I ask if the “academic publishing industry” provides any service where I, as an individual, can subscribe for one reasonable subscription fee, to one single site, with all the research.

It seems no.

- No one service or site or subscription or pass

- No reasonable fee

- No aggregation of all the research

They’ve externalized the useful work back onto the user. Sci-hub does that work for me.

If I could pay $100/month* for sci-hub, I would.

* Footnote: Arbitrarily rating it as 3x more value than, say, Bloomberg. And while I think it should be a public service rather than a fee, if there is a fee, it likely should be geo-adjusted by global income bands: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/4085814679889422...
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VS Code is an amazing piece of technology, despite all the "Electron hate" (although changing to WebView2).

I recently commented on it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28556588

Microsoft engineers are top-notch and this is another feature I'll be using daily. Good stuff!
CLI tool to make automated changes across repositories
Scientific papers are incredibly specialized, and no amount of general training makes them easier to read. The best way to get good at reading your topic is to... well, do a lot of reading/corroboration reviewing of said papers. Access to scientific papers is needed, no matter what.
Thanks for your awesome work! Can't wait to try it.
Should have mentioned, it's a private slack for supporters, mostly to keep the quality high.

https://www.patreon.com/acwpodcast
That's great, I did not research this beyond reading (most of, it got pretty technical!) the article.

In retrospect I guess I'm a bit disturbed that I even think about these things in terms of fame/popularity, when it should be solely about tool capabilities and power for its users. :) Shame on me, back to reading FSF doctrine.
I think you have a decent comparison, but debate about what the CIA did in the US is widely reported in the US while. There is no free press in China. Pressure to stop China will only come externally, whereas pressure to stop US can come from within and external.

Also China is continuing to carry out a genocide that is unparalleled in this century.
I don't understand the purpose of this device. Is it just a tablet and camera on wheels? My Roomba at least keeps the floors clean...
not yet, but identity giants like okta and ping are already looking at SSI very carefully. digital identity will be key in the next years
Seems weird that a CSS framework is required
Forget sexy and lucrative. You make the NSF and NIH et al. require a link to an open website like Arxiv for each paper mentioned in an annual report. Instead of the crazy system that NSF currently has where you have to upload PDFs to their private Department of Energy archival service that taxpayers can’t access.
Quoting CoenraadS:

> Author of Bracket Pair Colorizer here.

> I follow this thread with interest, my extension is something that grew a bit out of control, and I grew tired of maintaining it.

> If there are some quick wins, I can still apply them, but I think my extension is so hacky it is easier to do 1.b or 1.c

Seems CoenraadS is completely in favor of the native implementation (and probably could have been called out in the blog post as few people will find this context).
Ah yes! Would you say that in the field of philosophy, practices around publication and exposition are in general more aligned with the humanities than the sciences? Hadn’t even thought in that direction yet, thank you for the heads up!
Global witness does some work to link together the actual beneficial owners, as CH not quite there in determining the structure

https://github.com/Global-Witness
Haskell reduces the size of the developer pool, but increases their productivity (the Haskell ecosystem is enormous and astoundingly solid given the number of devs in that space), and also makes the docs a joy to read.
His first point, that you don’t change people’s minds, is why I’ve largely given up on debate and social media. Sometimes I feel bad about it. Sometimes I feel it’s completely reasonable reaction to the political environment. If every single issue is framed as some huge battlefront, it can be revolutionary to just leave the battle. Or cowardly. I dunno.

HN is one of the few places I venture out, because the user base seems a little more open.
A PWA (web app) can queue it up until it has connectivity at a latter point in time.
Browsers aren't doing anything differently because the people who write browsers happen to understand the threat model.

You can sanitize input fields on the client all you want and an attacker would still send whatever the hell they felt like to the server.
Or open an issue on GitHub with a few screenshots? Vs code devs are iterating!
I can understand the frustration of the users. They did the same thing with Heroes of Hammerwatch. I was super excited to get the second game, after enjoying the first Hammerwatch. They advertised it without DRM, but it required their GOG Galaxy software to work. They also hassled me about a refund, and eventually gave me store credit, and said they would never do so again. It was a bad customer experience, and I feel they deceived me. I haven't done further business with them since.
It isn't about the DRM, so much as the false advertising. While I love DRM free, and that's why I was shopping at GOG, the deception wasn't right. I buy a lot of games on Steam, which has DRM, but at least they are upfront about it.
SoftBank, Zuckerberg back Andela, global developer platform
It is body on frame. They just combined the cab and bed into one unit.
Why is the marketing for stuff like this so absurd? “Industry 4.0”, “transformative IIoT solutions”, “AI-powered”. Why would I want my networking equipment to be “AI-powered”?
Once or a few times. It still saves money. Certainly in the Netflix scale.

You invest some in engineering and you will save constant percentage $$ in the Netflix scale.

Many smaller distributors don't invest internally in this kind of things (and don't have the internal engineering to achieve this). They will buy of-the-shelves solutions though.
Arathron and team are UX gods — just give them time.
> One tip to do this well is to rephrase what the person just said and ask if that's what they meant.

So you're saying we should start sentences with "So you're saying..."?
> Yet they spend time speeding up colorization of bracket pairs, which worked just fine for the last 10 releases or so.

You must have missed the part where it is now 10,000x faster. Given your complaint about performance this should excite you!
Python, Debian, and the Install Locations
Growing “HelloTech” from 50 to 750 members in 6 years: Our Journey
Isn't that kinda what you want though?

- Make an extension to solve a problem that probably should have been in the core

- Product owners notice and realise it should be in core

- Work with extension developers to get it in to core

- No longer need to work on extension
For sudden cardiac death? Isn't that mostly caused by arrhythmia? So a prophylactic pacemaker maybe? Isn't that already a thing?
Covid can infect cells in pancreas that make insulin, research shows
You need read between the lines and look at the full context of what they recommend.

Just saying “NSA bad” is a lazy argument.
I like it. I don't want personal anecdotes, author conjecture, awkward analogies, unnecessary tie ins to hot topics, or rehashing context if none is necessary. This quote is the core content of this piece of news.
https://archive.is/qHPX0