skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t like this new form of writing, I’m not sure what it’s called. It’s not just informal, it’s cringy.

I especially hate funny error messages as they just frustrate me. It’s ok when Reddit has a funny image because they can’t show my video game forum, but it’s infuriating when Microsoft shows a “whoops, what happened” when it just failed to sync the last 30 minutes of my work document.
Mine is just html, css, and javascript. I have a couple widgets which use iframes. hosted on github. https://jccalhoun.github.io/
I can hate both Google and Microsoft for using the same tactic.
> Also the pre-pandemic norm was not to wear a mask, so according to you mask mandates definitionally cannot "work".

The idea is we wear a mask for a temporary amount of time, eliminate community spread, and eliminate masks. Countries outside of North America have done this. For example, the UK is just now requiring theater goers to wear a mask again.
The natural endianness is "little endian", as it was originally devised in India. We just do it backwards (big endian) in left-to-right writing systems due to inertia (though originally for backwards compatibility with existing mathematical texts in the 10th century).

Little endian has too many advantages to be ignored, which is why all popular architectures and also newer protocols are now little endian.

I did a write-up about it here: https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/on-endianness/
if i bought files from 7Digital or HDTracks - then how do i sync FLAC files to devices?

If there's no "file matching" service - how does the OP i'm responding to "upgrade" the sound quality of the files on the device?
Just compile it all to Wasm and we'll run it in virtualization.

Give us memory segments back and I think we have a shot of making this a reality.
> If you consider the compactification of R^3 by a single point “at infinity”, an electric charge inside the surface is the same as the opposite charge at infinity (this is just Gauss’ result)

This is a mental operation, not physically possible. The difference is real: for example, charge inside a perfect conductor cavity generates electrostatic field outside. A charge outside perfect conductor cavity does not generate any static field inside.
Here is a famous example of such an article which looked great, appeared to have sources, and even won distinction as a "Good Article":

"After a half-decade, massive Wikipedia hoax finally exposed"
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/wikipedia-bicholim-conflict...

There are a few more examples here:

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...
Grosskreutz shouldn't have had a gun either (his concealed carry permit had expired), but at the end of the day he didn't kill anyone, which sort of sets him apart.

I'm not trying to say that the people Rittenhouse shot at were angels. But none of them killed anyone.
For me, this is one of those dodged-bullet moments. I was pursued by a recruiter there last July, and I'm damn grateful I bailed after getting bad vibes from their communication style.

In Dec 2019 I was laid off two weeks before Christmas for a similar reason, and I really feel for those affected by this with no warning or ability to plan at a time of year that's particularly difficult to get hired quickly. These folks are in for at least a month of unemployment, if not more, while companies get their Q1 in order.
Because people are lazy in general. It’s easier to follow what perceived to be a convention, without questioning these conventions. Programming books and university classes don’t update that frequently, the amount of old information creates that perception.

I am only using big endian for variable-length integers: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8794.html#name-variable-si...

In that particular use case, allows to find length of the integer by only reading the first byte. This feature helps for use cases when you wanna skip fields instead of de-serializing them.

And, it doesn’t screw up bit patterns. A variable-length integer 0x808080 gonna have three 0x80 bytes somewhere in the serialized stream. This feature sometimes helps debugging things. A little endian equivalent would have them bit-shifted by the size of header.

For fixed-length integers, I only using little-endian in my file formats.
I used GeoWorks in a job in 1994, on a 386sx, I forget how much RAM. It was excellent, thoroughly up to the task!

... except it crashed at the drop of a hat, multiple times a day. Most annoying.

They wouldn't spring the whole $45? for a Windows 3 license.

Should try the open source version, and see how 27 years' memories hold up - probably badly.
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. It Perpetuates Them
Better explanation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
[OT]
Lundukes writeup of desqview X https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...

Was something I aspired to acquire, but never did.

Just running real-mode Win 3.1 in a window was a pretty awesome feat.
The tin is painted, and paint is nonconductive. A very thin long slit in an otherwise conductive surface or mesh can be extremely leaky.
Travel bans are only effective if each area has different rates of infection. Without that bans are simply another form of social distancing, shutting down airports being roughly equivalent to shutting down movie theaters.
Mexico doesn't have a competing People's United Mexican States to be confused with...
Additional context: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/04/tucker-car...
What do you mean by "destructively"?
Helicopters by definition require a power-to-weight ratio >1 and are inefficient compared to fixed wing aircraft, let alone e.g. trains. They're loud, dangerous (comparatively speaking) and inherently expensive. Tall walls can cause them to crash (c.f. vortex ring state) as can the weather.

A subway has none of these disadvantages, with the advantage of serving ~1.5k people at once as opposed to ~15, and the ability to not conflict for surface space.
I just use bookmarks, and open my 'Daily' folder each morning which, as the name implies, opens up the sites I read each day. If you want something fancier, more power to you, but I don't have a problem with simple bookmarking.
I disagree, I think this is an marginal improvement over zoom. With this, you can’t see others on the call without both people turning on their web cam. Zoom allows people to keep their camera off and see the rest of the group. I think this is more like a feature than a company at this point though.
Yes.

They simply call city/state/country X, and tell them: Yo, we are going to build a datacenter farm here for AWS. You are not going to tax us, provide half the funds, and we will try to source the workforce in your region mkay?

And that is how their datacenter is almost gratis, and ours costs millions.

Once you are at the AWS scale, things are differen.
> But none of them killed anyone.

They attempted to kill Kyle, but he defended himself. The reason Kyle wasn't murdered is not due to their sense of morals but instead their incompetence as combatants. It seems the rioters had more experience assaulting women and children and were ill equiped to assault a young man.
A sad but regular occurence of business mindset.. quantity .. quality and the usual.
Yes, I have been to prison. In Scandinavia, where the prisons are supposed to be the best in the world.

> prison guards, rec specialists, medical providers? Some of the best people you'll ever meet

Some of them, yeah. There’s always a few people who came to work in prisons to make the world a better place. Most of them? It’s just a job they could get, not a particularly cozy one at that.

Arendt shocked the world by writing about the banality of evil, the nazis weren’t monsters. Instead, they were just boring bureaucrats. Most of them were perfectly nice, ordinary people just following orders.

The prison guards obviously aren’t nazis, but even the nazis seemed like perfectly normal people until you paid very careful attention.
Frankly it's a bit hard to untangle your point from the way you write. Something to consider.

> and profoundly misunderstood history.

There seems to be a good deal of that.

> They didn't know better.

For what it's worth, we always knew better with C and C++. As I mentioned elsewhere languages were often designed to be safer but as C became more popular the design mistakes of C were pushed on other languages. You can look at FORTRAN, Algol, etc, to see that compiler writers took measures to ensure certain bug classes weren't possible, and those languages were overtaken by those who wanted their code to just compile, correct or not.

Your post definitely comes across as very preachy, so it's odd that you say you were trying to "avoid the immature shouty part" - that's what the parent was basically criticizing you for.

And then to end it on the implication, once again, that some people are "doers" while the rest of us are just posting on HN (the same thing you are doing????) kinda exemplifies it.
>and after that you just move diffs.

Until you get a new phone.

>the cost is dealing with iTunes, the benefit is carrying around all the music you’ve collected over the years in your pocket.

I have this benefit without iTunes. I get to keep the 30% or so of my collection that is in FLAC, don't have to use 3rd party software for transfer (as any OS's file manager will do) and when i get a new phone i merely swap the SDcard.
As you rightly pointed out, the funding strategy will be quite different for hard tech startups. They have different milestones and different investor bases with different risk appetites. You’ll also look at other options (grants, collaborations, etc.)
I am mainly inspired by C#. Ok, I can agree, that some things depends on the interpretation. You can think about several returned values as a tuple. In designing Algorithm concept, I was thinking how to decompose or deconstruct a mathematical function - to be able to operate with parameters, to transform input into output. Here You will say that it is the definition of function. Well, I went little bit further. In KatLang it is very important if you use brackets () or {}. Both brackets defines an algorithm, but () cannot hold implicit parameter. Maybe thinking from this perspective will help you see some more value in KatLang. What I wanted to say is that in KatLang I 'destroyed' or 'decomposed' mathematical function and used the parts to construct a concept that in KatLang is called an algorithm.
Show HN: Earthly v0.6
>he's single-handedly prevented several careers in archaeology.

Only by the same reasoning that a hydraulic grabber arm prevents a career in household refuse removal.

This dude had a career in archeology. Granted he did some dumb stuff, particularly regarding handling skeletons, but I have a hard time believing those practices weren't more prevalent in professional archeology back when he picked them up (being super anal about leaving things undisturbed is a fairly recent trend). He did the traveling and digging part that's hardest to get funding for for on his own time. If anything the stuff the FBI dumped into museum collections has enabled more careers in archeology. Nobody will fund gallivanting around the globe looking for artifacts. But if you have an existing artifact it's much easier to convince people to pay for a trip to go look for more stuff like it, investigate the site further, etc, etc. It's a positive feedback loop.

The only way the outcome could have been better would be if the FBI didn't get involved until after he died. That way the bones still could have gotten back to the tribes that wanted them but more of the low value stuff that isn't novel or special enough to be worth museum space or repatriation would have been kept out of the dumpster. The government doesn't have the processes and isn't well practiced at the ways you get rid of many small lots of niche stuff that's not novel enough for museums so that's likely where a large chunk of the collection will end up.
A change in real dollars still affects lower income folks more because a higher percentage of income is devoted towards basics. Inflation reduces purchasing power for all, but some categories of spending cannot be substituted or eliminated.

U.S. households with higher incomes spend more money on food, but the amount spent represents a smaller overall portion of their budgets. In 2020, households in the lowest income quintile spent an average of $4,099 on food (representing 27 percent of income), while households in the highest income quintile spent an average of $12,245 on food (representing 7 percent of income).

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
> It’s just annoying that the author comes out with a grand theory and provides nothing to back it up.

Paul Graham has been doing this for 15 years.
> They would have to literally stand on street corners with megaphones to shout their messages

This is the primary problem. "Speaker's corner" has always been the place for insane people to shout. Social media has elevated it to the mainstream. (And made a handsome profit).

Insanity is contagious. What I mean by that is: Mental instability, FUD, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and simple sociopathic narcissism are viruses. No one who has witnessed 2016-present could doubt that. But anyone who knows about 1932-1945 already understood it.

Individuals with violent and malevolvent personality disorders are very capable of spreading their mentality to others. All they need is a channel. Radio and television, in the wrong hands, were used to mobilize millions of people to their deaths. And suddenly we open a channel for the craziest of crazies, and think their mental afflictions won't affect billions of people around the world?

There is no right to be heard. Over all of human history, being heard by the masses has been an extremely rare privilege. Creating a technology that allows crazy people to be heard is frankly the definition of insanity breeding more insanity. Speech is not the problem. Proliferation is.
I’m getting vibes of “Extinction” by Mark Alpert here.
> Just looking at raw stats says Africa did really well with Covid even without the vaccine.

Africa is doing surprising well with COVID-19, considering expectations. Reasons may include:

* Not kidding themselves like UK and US did that they were "world leaders", and had this in the bag. (1)

* Recent and ongoing experience of combatting other diseases, e.g. HIV, TB, Ebola.

1) "In October 2019, an extensive report two years in the making placed the US and the UK first and second respectively in a global ranking of countries’ pandemic preparedness." https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/uk-coronavirus-pandem...
> Microsoft hasn't been in the news as much, at least not regarding privacy matters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053352

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144733

...and many more.
There have been reports of people banned from Twitter for tweeting e.g. "Rittenhouse did nothing wrong." [0][1]

> In your scenario, do I not have any other options for showing my side of the story other than Facebook?

I guess you could go with alternative college newspapers? The town crier method? Creating a blog?

My point isn't necessarily that you have zero way to attempt to give your side of the story –after all, Rittenhouse's attorneys, people who saw the videos & defended Rittenhouse in public and even the NYT all produced content and were able to spread it among themselves–, but that your enemies have a tech-amplified bullhorn to distribute false claims about you (most of which are "opinion"), which you have been deprived of.

In my opinion, it's not hard to see that in the absence of additional rebuttal context, especially the kind that disrupts the original framing, people's first impression will become hardened into "their truth."

[0] https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/22/twitter-suspended-me-fo...

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-libertarian-party-kyle...
Globally Editable Musical/Matrix Sequencer (Gems)
For social reasons. There's so much information you get from one person face that keep using the mask forever would have very negative social effects that are probably almost impossible to measure.
They can't afford to buy them.

Getting in debt isn't going to help them afford it, it just makes them get deeper in the shit before they realize they can't get out of the swamp.
I just take a Bulma template, and edit the CSS styles within its html.

If i feel ambitious, I install v/ node, then edit the sass (compiles to css)

https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

Typically for a simple website:

1. Generate an express app with --view=ejs (ejs is virtually the same as HTML but lets you inject js into your html)

https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

2. Display & edit a simple html (i.e. ejs) page.

3. ???

4. Profit
Text files. ASCII text. The same page has a link to a Project Gutenberg book about the first 45 years of digitizing ebooks. First document he did was the U.S Declaration of Independence hand typed on a teletype. They didn't get a scanner and OCR until the 90s and didn't move to HTML until then either.
Hello HN.
Earthly is a tool for build automation and we just had our biggest release yet.

Earthly is a modern build solution that is similar to a sandboxed makefile. It works with your existing CI and the #1 reason people use it today is to able to reproduce a CI build locally.

Today we promoted a number of important features to GA status in our 0.6 release including:

- WITH DOCKER : Earthly can execute any number of containers in parallel, via an isolated Docker daemon that it starts up within.
- User-Defined Commands: Extract common repetitive build steps into a command you can use across your projects.
- Shared Cache: Earthly v0.6 now provides shared caching. This extends our existing build caching to work in ephemeral CI runners by storing the cache in regular container registries.

We started working on this project in 2020[1] on GitHub [2] and while time has gone quickly the number of people and projects using Earthly now is truly exciting.

Let me know what you think! Feature requests always welcome :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890612

[2] https://github.com/earthly/earthly
> Facebook choosing not to allow praise or support for a killer is, in my opinion, sensible and logical.

Surely the hard question is "the line drawing". Claiming you support his right to be in a place at a time with a gun and defend himself from attackers who were intent on injuring him... feels extremely reasonable? As though it should be protected.

Far from saying Facebook needs to allow "lol I'm glad those fuckers are dead" posts to stay up but surely advocating for his innocence of any crime is not a thing that should be censored?
Being decentralized does not prevent them from making the job of an insurer.

Nexus Mutual just told on Twitter that since it is not a smart contract attack, they're not going to pay.
I had not, I will now thanks.
State Identity Solutions: Build? Buy? Or Both?
Buyable state #identity #solutions help state governments keep up with the customer experience citizens are used to getting into the private sector.
I understand the argument against mass transportation with helicopters but they are completely banned except for cities like Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Why are rich people who can pay a premium to "get there fast and in privacy" forbidden to land on buildings?
It doesn't say what to do instead: use compiler intrinsics, if portable code won't do. Those get tailored for different target architectures automatically.
I imagine the TikTok market must be the perfect demographic
It's easier to scan or photograph loose sheets than a bound book. If you want to do it fast it's much easier to cut the pages out of the bindings.
I'd be less concerned about him shooting his eye out than I would be about something unexpectedly breaking and sending debris flying.
Thats pretty cool. A friend of mine is pretty artistic and I've mentioned NFT's to her before. Any tips on how one might get started as an artist making them?

I've heard a bit about Solana nft's having much lower transaction fee's. Have you see anything going on in the Solana NFT space? Seems like that might be better for making them if you were a creator.

Also any recommendations for crypto/nft aggregators or communities?
> i dont ever want to wear one again!

Why do you feel so strongly about this? Masks of a few kinds are standard PPE in many fields, it's not like they're particularly restrictive or anything.
I wonder if it could be argued in court that use of such a system makes you party to a conspiracy.
Glad to see these tested. I've been using the EDEC bags for probably a decade to have on hand for incident response/forensics in security consulting, but I never had the gear to test the bags, I just trusted their supplier. Good to know about millimeter wave / 5g though.
You need to follow the links to get the details.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27045/pg27045.html
"On July 4, 1971, on Independence Day, Michael keyed in The United States Declaration of Independence (signed on July 4, 1776) to the mainframe he was using."

As for what it looked like, well that would depend on your terminal at the time.
he is a huge gamer..and needs a PC. Tablet can easily be broken...and we live in Patagonia where we cant fix that.
> Residents of neighborhoods where PredPol suggested few patrols tended to be Whiter and more middle- to upper-income

Is this bias in predicting crime though? Or just fits into overall, societal structures where middle- to upper- income neighborhoods report fewer crimes? There’s certainly systemic reasons for why this is, but if the goal of a crime predictor is to predict crimes; and if bias means an inaccuracy then this may not be bias.

If a city has limited patrol resources, is it fair to send them equally to rich and poor neighborhoods?

Obviously, we need to work to remove the underlying reasons causing higher crime for race, ethnicity, and other factors that have systemic bias against those groups. I’m not sure if low income populations will ever commit the same crimes as high income populations as poverty seems to be a big driver to crime. Our resources are likely better spent to eliminating poverty.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288599
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