skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users correcting the weather in-app is a huge curiosity of mine. I first blogged about that like 8 years ago for a now-defunct project: http://www.jacobsheehy.com/2013/12/locally-crowdsourced-weat...

I have also re-implemented this feature in All Clear on Android [1]. My main lesson from all this so far is that it is useful and fun to collect and show the data, and real insights can be had by users seeing their peers' data, but incorporating the data into a model usefully is a bit more difficult! Making numerical predictions that actively use the user's weather data (rather than just showing 'x users say it is raining nearby even though the forecast says it shouldn't be') is much tougher.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe...
Being Dutch as well, I'm going to guess that the name Hiawatha is taken from the Disney character of the same name, given how popular the Donald Duck comics are around here, and Hiawatha is a recurring character in them. It's orders of magnitude more likely that a person here grew up with the Donald Duck comics than that they are aware of Native American history.

So what's it called when someone appropriates a Disney character name for their own use? Should the Debian project have to worry?
From the Eurekalert version:

> 44 healthy volunteers aged 18-36 participated in the trial. 23 were given prucalopride, and 21 were given a placebo.

> “Participants who had taken prucalopride for 6 days performed much better than those receiving placebo on the memory test; the prucalopride group identified 81% of previously viewed images versus 76% in the placebo group. Statistical tests indicate that this was a fairly large effect – such an obvious cognitive improvement with the drug was a surprise to us”.

What is the p value of this? There are missing data in the press article, does someone have more information?

My guess is that the variation in the number of images you can recall is like 20% (or more), and ~25 subjects reduce it like sqrt(25), so a 5% of difference between the trial and control group is not very significant (p<.04999).
No. Drawing the line on the map was just used to decide where you wanted to show the prediction for. The forward looking prediction models themselves have been around for decades.
Facebook bought Instagram and had the last laugh for a while. I'm sure they would have bought TikTok for an insane price if they thought regulators would approve the sale.
Its well publicized that Steve Jobs wouldn't let his kids use iPad because the project is engineered to manipulate your brain and/or harm your brain.

Anyone who uses facebook or an iWatch or any of this garbage has all the information they need. They choose to be a victim. Its a cultural problem not a Zuckerburg problem.
Text Hates You (2019)
Thanks, these are great ideas.

Names and locations of fuel stations are coming from openstreetmap, and it most cases it doesn't have good addresses.

I will add ability to edit locations and addresses of the fuel stations when submitting the updates. Eventually this could be added back to OSM.

Information here is fully crowdsourced, and the project is around 8 hours old. The more people contribute, the better it gets.
>it's more important to educate people not to panic-buy fuel since that's adding a significant strain to the problem

I wonder how true this actually is, certainly a useful narrative for the government. But surely, if fuel supply at point of sale is down 30%, there is 30% less fuel, no matter how you dress it.

There were isolated reports of people bringing jerry cans to petrol stations, and I agree this is artificially inflating demand, but I'm not sure this is very widespread.
It looks like refterm is hard-coded to use Cascadia Mono, which isn't included in-box with Windows 10. So I don't know what happens if you don't have that font. If that's the only issue, then I think we can let that one go, as refterm is clearly only a proof of concept, and one-time logic for choosing the correct font at startup would presumably have no effect on rendering speed.
It's remarkable that "Facebook owns the four most downloaded apps of [2010-19]" [0]

1. Facebook

2. Messenger

3. WhatsApp

4. Instagram

The rest of the T10 have "one owner": Snapchat, Skype, TikTok, UC Browser (Alibaba), Youtube, and Twitter.

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50838013
The whole lab leak debate had been deliberately tarred as conspiracy theory and is still being suppressed by mainstream media. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2003
[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656
Quite a few google results reporting same thing, such as this discussion

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1479443
And he had a condescending tone from the beginning (as he always does). Maybe if he was more respectful / likable, the developers would have responded better.
Dark Waters (2019) is a worthwhile dramatization of the historical contamination and legal battle against DuPont
Assuming that your commute is around an hour means you're "only" paying £4k/annum (after tax) for that benefit. I agree there is a benefit to the commute (for me it was the walk/exercise), but I find it hard to rationalize otherwise and that's a willpower thing
This is the way to do it. When they're very young, it's by saying "No." When they're a little older, it's by explaining why. By the time they're a teenager, you have to trust them and make sure they know you're there for them.

You also have to model the behavior for them in the first place.

I'm also a parent. You begin as a shield and end as a foundation in your child's life. It is a process.
Tax (in the UK and US, probably much of the rest of developed world) has never been more progressive. I have never understood why this isn't more widely known on HN.

Not saying we should maintain the status quo but if we want "substantive change" it would be helpful to start with reality.

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxe...
It's possible to have a Messenger account without an activated Facebook account. Perhaps you could move to Messenger group chats and keep up with relatives there, so Facebook doesn't even get to add you to their MAUs.
Thanks!

I think I know what is that :) I was grepping for "fuel" in osmconvert csv dump (as in ameniity=fuel)
Don't know why but I've always associated Ohio with poor environmental regulation. For the last decade anyway.
Well I don't see it. No one thought Facebook was evil until Trumpnwas elected.

Funny how Facebook was hailed for being a paragon of access after Obama's win.

Is anyone actually reading these leaked docs? No, they're just seeing the headline and assuming whatever pet issue they have is true.

I don't see what's so evil about trying to be profitable. It's a corporation. They didn't start out trying to fix society of every ill.
I agree, which should also be terrifying.
This looks like something out of a Luc Besson film.
Bad USB-C cables and hubs could brick M1 Macbooks as recently as February of this year before Apple issued an update.
If everyone is panic buying, the only solution to your own fuel problems is to buy as well.

This is ultimately worse for society, but the only rational response as a single actor.
uh... Nancy Pelosi has limited control with the Capitol Police. She can't call in the national guard, or DC police.
There is no evidence that the media was part of the conspiracy, they just parroted the talking points and a few media outlets did heavily question the rationale.. the fact is both wars were hugely popular when they started so few listened.

This is not even close to a comparable situation to the social medial platforms, these platforms and democratized and weaponized mis-information. But it not just them, the ad-funded internet creates perverse incentives for views not truth, FB et al don’t care about truth they care about engagement, they know emotional touch points particularly angry drive engagement so their feeds optimize for that.

Our fractured society is just an emergent behavior from several complex systems with poor incentives, as such we need to find out a way to realign the incentives
I wonder if Apple realizes where this is going for developers that don't only do web stuff.

No x86 VMs from either virtualization product means I also need a x86 box around. What does that lead to? I'm no longer a Mac Pro customer, just a Mac Mini customer. And I'll be running Linux as the main OS on the x86 box, which I haven't done in ages.

Are they trying to push Linux/x86 adoption? :)

Edit: at least they were honest enough to announce the transition early. I would have bought a new Mac Pro last year otherwise.
Not necessarily. Not only is it Option.Some/None/ProbablySomeBuyMaybeNoneBecauseJava, it doesn't offer the exact separation that Options can offer: you can stick a value in Option.None (String? can contain null or ""). Nullable types are different to options.

(Bonus point for Java that has introduced Option types, that can still be null)
Convert Prospects to Customers
I assume they meant code directly funded (i.e. written by a subsidiary of) the NHS, not proprietary purchases. Seems that's not the case here though, the device is proprietary.
On the one side, you are correct and it's only last year / this year that mRNA vaccines have seen widespread adoption.

On the other, mRNA research goes back to the 80's, and mRNA vaccine research goes back twenty years; these facts are often overlooked by the "it was developed too fast" crowds.

That said,

> It's not a popularity content.

And yet, they gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize the year he was elected, without any merit or achievements to back it up. That decision was politically motivated. Same with giving it to Al Gore for his climate activism. They even tried to nominate Hitler in 1939, albeit in jest.
The use case they are selling seems to be closer to level 4, given the dedicated lanes and very limited speeds.

This wouldn't be the first level 4 shuttle/taxi, so at least that part seems doable.
Not far from what I'm looking for!

Just needs:

* Is it publicly accessible, and if restrictions exist based on time what times is it accessible (i.e. chargers in car parks that aren't open 24/7)

* Can members of the public PAYG with no membership required? If so at what rate? And is this via contactless or requires a specific app?

* Is it free right now and known to be in working order?

Some of this you've covered... but there is no single view of this I can find, and things like Zap Map are partial and have some incorrect data (it's not unusual to be caught out by opening hours of a car park for example).
> doctors and nurses can (and have) also spread COVID misinformation

Especially Fauci.
This is (imo) the same debate as funding for science. Yes, big pharma seems to show you can have privately funded science - but this is a small corner case for science as a whole, and they still make their work public - its just copyrighted.

Imagine a pharma company announcing a brand new cure for "baldness" - but people would have to sign NDAs, could not remove their hats in public and so on.
I once bought a vmware fusion professional license. It came with threatening emails from vmware marketing to renew my 12 months of support contract (which I never used).

So now I just don't buy the professional version any more. And I'm saying both companies are shady as f*k.
Is there any kind of projector display might would work for this?
Do your demos like a boss at KubeCon
A 1951 Air Force plane crash in Maryland came after hours of tension in the sky
SRE is not a monolithic role
Trouble for them is that even with WhatsApp Telegram is on their heels.
My wife has a lot of her professional and academic groups in telegram and she loves things like bots and channels, not to mention their Mac desktop application
Sure, they have this model for CPU time, but not for network bandwidth. If your monthly allocation is 4TB and you use it for one day, you have 4TB / 30 bandwidth in that day. If you go over it they reserve the right to cut you off, if you go significantly under it, they don't discount you.

The average Linode customer is not using 136GB of bandwidth per host per day.
Splendid. From now on for anything in my study involving correlation and causation to define future events, I will stamp AI on every sentence of the paper.
Whilst I applaud the sentiment, this demonstrates one of the flaws with crowdsourced data (I presume).

The result list for me (that goes as far as 7.5 miles away) shows 'unknown' for every garage, which therefore renders the list useless. No doubt it would improve as more users offered up information, but unless there is a way to automate the data the majority of more rural areas (perhaps even anywhere that is not a large city centre) will never find any use for this.
yep, I was researching precipitation nowcasting i.e. extrapolating radar images years ago using "AI"
Facebook is no stronger than Myspace, Friendster, Orkut, or any other social network. Everybody looks unassailable at first, but when social networks collapse, it happens overnight and you never see it coming.
The 3D spherical wheels seem to offer suspiciously little clearance (less than 2 inch according to the 16:26 mark in video) for real world use.

I also have to wonder about the efficiency loss of driving such wheels, which appears to be via 8 tiny wheels in the cage enclosure.

Does any existing vehicle use such spherical wheels?

I see some other takes on omnidirectional wheels at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_wheel
We live in a village at the top of a very steep, mile deep, ice covered valley. Mercury is a village at the bottom of the valley.

Your house is high up the valley but you actually live thirty feet deep in a pit. To get to Mercury you have to build a car, lift it out the pit, then slide down the steep valley. The car has to be lightweight so that you can lift it out the pit: the engine and brakes are weak and do next to nothing.

So you build a feeble car — more of a four wheeled bicycle really, hoist it out the pit, and slide down the valley in it. By the time you whizz past Mercury you’re doing 100mph so you can’t stop. You go straight past and start sliding up the other side, but you do also put the brakes on for a bit. You’ll eventually slide back down to Mercury again at 90mph and put the brakes on again, and slow down a little more.

Do this ~10x and you’ll eventually stop.

Going in the other direction is easier. Earth is surrounded in a 100km soft squishy cushion of gas which means to all intents and purposes you can just fly straight at it.
It has to be biases in reporting. How else could North Carolina be riddled with it but there be none in Virginia and South Carolina?

Also so far as military bases go it seems to be all of them.
Possibly, but this is a DeepMind result. They've had enough non trivial successes to earn some credibility. Even if it is hype, more understandable than most overhyped PR headlines.
A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA
Tesla cars have the highest safety ratings in the world and they have the the best active safety features and complete fleet compliance with their whole fleet for new standard of active safety features (literally the only company that does have that).

This is literally just the basic fact of the situation. If you want to disagree with literally every state safety agency in the world, then you are the one who needs to come up with real evidence.
I Am Not a Resource (2017)
I'm pretty sure that USB wasn't created originally with charging capabilities "back in the days". Just power supply (5V @ 500mA max). Charging through USB came after and was when things started to be more complicated: someone used USB as a mean for charging a battery, then bigger batteries came, then people started to complain that devices took too long to charge, then the 500mA limit was moved, then every vendor would implement their own proprietary handshake to negotiate charging current.

> things were simple

I think USB accomplished its goal by standardizing a lot of communication protocols for a lot of (type of) devices. I lived through the 80's and 90's as a kid. I still feel the pain of plugging a new mouse or joystick and try to make it work. Then USB came and it was 'magic'.

Edit: still, if I have a serial port outputting data from a device I'm debugging and I turn on my PC, sometimes Windows would think it has a Trackball mouse connected to the serial port and will move the cursor around until I reboot my computer... I say this as a reminder on how things were back in the day (regarding communication protocols for devices).
There's absolutely no data that could lead to this conclusion - the difference in time spent in the toilet could be anything, even negative values.
Didn’t even need to open the link to know what it was, thanks for the laugh!
Then again, refterm doesn't f*ck it up. It still renders proportional font; just aligned to tiles. It is essentially doing the same as for emoji.
It's a lot worse than it seems.

The top 4 apps are 100% controlled by one person, Mark Zuckerberg.

There is no board or committee that can overrule him. If rumors are true, he cut a deal with the previous White House to avoid regulation, so even government (until recently) couldn't stop him.

There is one, semi-educated, ruthless, unscrupulous person running an unprecedented experiment on billions of under-informed people. He has access to a substantial percentage of all messages sent between people every day.

No one person (even an elected person) should have that much power.
Show HN: Old Reddit iOS Extension
Have you ever clicked on a Google link to a Reddit page on Safari mobile only to be unable to scroll and prompted to open the Reddit app? This mobile extension may he for you. Created in memory of aaronsw, who almost certainly would have preferred the old Reddit interface.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reddo-old-reddit-extension/id1588666191

[working on updated to the ux, a counter in the app of how many times activated, optional history; stoked to get something basic out there I have personally found immensely useful]
Fedora Server 35 Performance Looking Good
Good thing John Bolton was never put in a position of power ever again...
Ohio certainly doesn't have a pristine environmental record. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire
> There were isolated reports of people bringing jerry cans to petrol stations, and I agree this is artificially inflating demand, but I'm not sure this is very widespread.

I know several people who have brought jerry cans to petrol stations. None of them were panic buying / hoarding. All of them were buying fuel for other people who were literally at zero, having burned whatever little they had left in queues that led to nothing.

Beware the assumption that jerry cans == hoarding / panic buying. It's great for tabloids to stir up anger and resentment, but the real world is always more nuanced than the headline.
I'd say software is more like math literacy (as opposed to numeracy) which is also fairly poor in many countries.

Keep in mind books/writing have been around for a long time, and language (which writing is arguably a written form of) has been around even longer and vital to both everyday life, and the human psyche.

It's going to be hard to compete there. I'd say simpler things might be achieved first: e.g. use of word-processors and spreadsheets.
They quit. Now they want their jobs back
> And none is better than the other.

I agree with you, but few companies know how to appreciate those who decided to progress in the technical excellence. In most not taking a "leadership" (aka management) position means your career reaches a dead end.
Another one is rsvg: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/rsvg.htm
Developers are quite a small segment of Apple's customer base. They're simply trying to improve the experience of their devices for consumer use cases. As long as you have a mac of some sort and are developing for their platform then that's all they need.
Employ HTTP 5xx retries on the client-side (well, they are a must-have anyway).

One minor word of caution on this one. While this is a very good idea you also have to be careful how this is implemented. The application needs to be aware of these retries or you can submit the same data multiple times and jobs can run-amuck. This can get expensive if the jobs are financial in nature. Some proxies can re-post data on 5xx's but you have to be sure that the receiving side can detect duplicate submissions or your PITA network timeouts can turn into very expensive job transactions. I'm sure all the developers here already understand this. I am posting this for the folks that implement middle-proxies that can re-post data such as haproxy, F5, netscaler, etc...

Overall good article. I have run into these same problems many times.
https://i.imgur.com/WeV8Ror.png

no, doesn't work with cascadia either.

so what now?
I run Windows Arm64 11 beta with Parallels and it can emulate x86/64 apps well enoug even on 4.5k resolution things are very snappy. And I run pcon planner which is a 3d modeling program which worked fine. Not sure exact speed though.
React SEO: Tips to Build SEO-Friendly Web Applications
doesn't work even with the proper font https://i.imgur.com/WeV8Ror.png
https://i.imgur.com/WeV8Ror.png so what now?
As someone who has moved to the middle east (from the bay area), a large portion of this society heavily relies on Facebook, particularly for FB groups and also FB marketplace. Aside from that, this entire society basically functions on Instagram for any news / personal connections, but as it relates to Facebook, having groups is a great way to connect with people and ask questions and since we don't really have a good alternative to Craigslist here, FB marketplace fills that void.

That said, I'm sure people here use Facebook for other reasons, but anecdotally, this is what I'm seeing. Instagram and Facebook aside, the most used app I've found here is WhatsApp, so the society here is deeply integrated into the Facebook web of services
What’s up with Michigan, New Jersey and New Hampshire? They seem totally fouled up.
> An unwrap() is a dev explicitly saying this should always contain a value

Isn't expect() supposed to cover that case?
Would you take that project or finish your studies?
I‘m studying Software Engineering and also do a lot of freelance work. Since now, everything went fine side by side. The new project I got offered would interfere with my studies, in a way that I‘d need 1 semester more.

Would you do the project or focus on studying?
The section that you're linking to in Effective Go does not state anywhere that "branches are clunky, they are so intentionally to make the points where your code branches much more obvious".

It only promotes the concept that of using guard-clause style ifs that return an error and have no else clause, gradually eliminating each possible error condition.
This style of programming was later termed in the Go community "Aligning the happy path to the left"[1][2]

[1] https://medium.com/@matryer/line-of-sight-in-code-186dd7cdea...
[2] https://maelvls.dev/go-happy-line-of-sight/

I wholeheartedly agree that this style makes code more readable and I have adopted it - and encouraged others to adopt it - in other languages besides Go. This style would stil be followed with the try or check/handle proposals. For instance, let's take the example:

f, err := os.Open(name)
if err != nil {
return err
}
d, err := f.Stat()
if err != nil {
f.Close()
return err
}
codeUsing(f, d)
f.Close()
return nil

With the simple try proposal that would be:

f := try(os.Open(name))
defer f.Close()
d := try(f.Stat())
codeUsing(f, d)

With OP's variant of the try proposal, using a question mark this is arguably even more readable (less noisy):

f := os.Open(name)?
defer f.Close()
d := f.Stat()?
codeUsing(f, d)

As you can see, these proposal reduce - not increase - nesting, so they are completely in line with what Effective Go is saying.
The fitness pod is like the most ironic thing ever...
You picked the wrong example considering that teflon hasn't been made with toxic chemicals for decades.