skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tcl vaues do not have null and they are immutable - value assigned to a variable cannot change unless variable gets reassigned. Lists are immutable, for one example, even if they can be shared.

These two properties make Tcl much more suitable for programming than most other contemporary scripting languages.

I regularly use Tcl for various peeaonL scripting tasks OR EXPERIMENTS and rarely use Python or bash. The reasons are stated above.
https://overpass-turbo.eu/ is a complete search for OpenStreetMap.
It’s a bit cumbersome to use, but the wizard is great and the search is super powerful.
I particularly like “banks far away from police stations” example: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_AP... ;)
Merge GraphQL Resolvers with GraphQL Tools (Screencast)
The text dims a bit too fast to read comfortably on my phone (especially since in the latest version of iOS Apple has inexplicably moved the address bar from the top of the screen to the bottom).

But this scrolling paradigm is just fantastic for looking through the CT scans on my phone - I can easily move up and down layers. Kudos to the web design.
That's not exactly the truth.

The majority of Hacker News users can't downvote, and because of that, you're almost certain to get more upvotes than downvotes, unless your comment has few redeeming qualities.

The majority of Hacker News also doesn't really upvote much. Your typical front page post has under a thousand votes, and posts are the easiest things to upvote. Comments rarely get over a hundred, and almost never get over three hundred.

A single vote can change the outcome of a thread. A reply, even a vicious one, can increase your chances of getting votes; there's a phenomenon in which people will upvote comments they dislike and or disagree with in order to have their response be higher up.

This does mean that HN punishes certain styles of particularly offensive or non-contributing comments, but most won't be punished at all. It's, like vmception pointed out, a system that encourages comments that do "well enough." Because there's no punishment in making a mediocre comment, there's always reason to post. Even people saying absolutely rancid things ideologically aren't likely to get downvoted unless they frame their comment wrong.

HN is about style more than it is substance; it's not an echo chamber, because it doesn't select on ideology. It selects on how pretty your words are.
They are not "trying to bring you down to their state" just as much as a person on a wheelchair is not trying to make you go around slowly.
Does this work if you want to allow an iframe to execute code in a parent browser window from a different domain? (Assuming you control both domains and can inject a different Sec-fetch-mode header into the parent page)?

Context here: I'm maintaining a PWA that has to run on local iphones/android devices and maintain contact with a server on local networks in the 127.x block. But the point of download for the app itself is under an https domain on the open internet. It uses an iframe to check lots of local 127.x.x addresses until it finds one with a local server, and bootstraps itself to the code on the local server that way; unfortunately, it can't run as a true PWA because the iframe at the center of it violates CORS (due to the ban on mixing clear and SSL requests in the more recent versions of Chrome and Safari). Would be nice if the local servers could simply serve up their content and control the window without a whole domain-specific postMessage protocol.
I can only speak for myself in this matter, and I've got to say I'm absolutely tired of people who argue ferociously for ideas that are barely supported by evidence, cherry-picking studies and anecdotes, confusing plausible stories with evidence, and so on. Don't get me wrong, being sceptical and having a critical mindset is always good. That's not the problem. The problem is how awfully many people believe with the highest strength of belief in positions with which most experts disagree. If you're sceptical, you should first and foremost be sceptical about your own beliefs. It seems obvious that anyone who is not an expert in a subject matter should have very weak beliefs about it, i.e., very low epistemic entrenchment, be willing to give up those beliefs very easily and readily acknowledge that subject matter experts know better. Unfortunately, in the case of Covid the number of laymen and experts in different fields (= also laymen) posting questionable views with absolute certainty is staggering.

That's why I've started aggressively downvoting and sometimes flagging posts making claims against the common expert opinion as long as they are presented with unreasonable certainty. Presenting an unusual position is fine as long as it is accompanied by an adequate amount of self-doubt or clearly expressed as speculation.
Mostly because of credit card fraud.

Credit card numbers are constantly being leaked like crazy, and criminals have a hard time testing them by hand. So they rely on automating fake purchases on small shops so they can verify the number is correct.

Another common thing is criminals selling products via non-legitimate shops for very little to "launder" those card numbers. After a customer pays, they buy the proper product on a proper shop with another stolen credit card number. Any investigation takes long enough for those people to just disappear and get away with it.

We gotta fix credit cards as much as we need to fix the web.
>> The thing that strikes me is how obviously nonsensical that is. It's not only a lie, it's someone straight up insisting that 2+2=5.

As Pauli said "It's not even wrong."
A lot of the stuff we learned at schools turned out to be bullshit or even harmful.
They couldnt hear you over the sound of Capristo exhaust in the Lambo.
In my opinion, the best take away from the book was the "atomic" part. Meaning, start building your habits with something very small, like one push-up if you want to get into the habit of working out. It's only one example and the rest of the book really helps building the habits into bigger ones and lasting ones which is also important. But this bit was the real eye opener to me.
Renting isn't like owning a house. You can be kicked out of your rental unit if your landlord decides to do a number of things, such as converting your rental to a condo or sell the property. Rents can go up arbitrarily.

A paid off house gives you a type of stability, belonging and security that rentals don't generally offer (at the expense of flexibility and mobility). I'm not trying to say that owning is better than renting, just that they are different enough for the "buying your house isn't an investment" statement to be mostly true.
Genuary 2022: Generative Code Art Prompts for a Month
1. Maximization of profits.

2. Attempts to regulate and attempts comply with regulations.

The rest are just forms of these phenomena.
Another article posted here, defending Wilson, states that he himself later agreed his work was sexist.

So we may need to add specific dates to quotes about him being hounded for "nothing" or it'll not make much sense.

> He acknowledges one charge as having validity, the accusation from more thoughtful feminists that he had over-simplified the role of women. “As time has gone on two things have happened,” he says. “One is that we are vastly better informed about gender differences, their genetic and physiological bases, right down to fine- tuning of hormonal regulation of behaviour. Another thing is that scientists like Sarah Hardy have been able to demonstrate a far greater richness of female flexibility in reproductive strategies. It’s far more subtle and sophisticated than we anticipated. The theory in the 70s was that women were more passive, judging between male capacities, but now we know that women are vastly more powerful than that in establishing relationships

So that's a 2001 quote from a positive article interviewing 71 year old Wilson.

Presumably we've not learned anything about the genetics or other aspects of race since the 70s and so all his theories on that are still valid and anyone who disagreed was totally unreasonable, like the less thoughtful feminists.

Oh and your article, is 3 years later, and in which he returns to it all being a big misunderstanding, that he was technically right and invented "evolutionary psychology" but he just needed to add a disclaimer that although he said that women were genetically designed to act the way his society wanted them to, and not like some of them claimed they wanted to behave, that didn't mean his society was right and they were wrong. But he won a Pulitzer, so he was right and they were wrong.

Glad we cleared this up.
Thank you for your service.

I don't want to do it though. Cause I don't want to touch a used mask with bare hands (I got gloves with me, but these are against cold weather specifically). However, with a grapple device and bag (the bag being the easy part) it could be reasonably easy and clean to take care of them. I got one, but I'm not carrying it around to e.g. work or family (that's when I usually see a mask). When I go with my child to the playground, and I'd see one, I could go home to get the grapple. However, I don't remember that occurring. There's quite some firework plastic still lingering around, so I could clean that up before I go with my child to the playground (mainly, to clean the playground).

Btw, I want to comment on the amount you found. 122, 180. That's a lot. How much time did it take you? Cause I only see a mask occasionally (but it annoys me).
You've tried many things, and I have two suggestions that may help, social connections and yoga. You can do both together at some yoga studios with events like the kiirtaan singing as well as the exercise classes. ps Yoga rather than other exercises as it regulates hormones and organs as well as other benefits of exercise.

And regular yoga brings feelings of joy, adds delicious juiciness to life.
> But here, if you were called racist - well, in the 70s it was like a death sentence.”

I find this argument really hard to buy because at the same time someone like Richard Lynn had a successful career despite being openly racist (talking about “caucasoids” vs “negroids” (or is it “congoids”? I'm not sure)
I’m baffled even pop pulp rag “editorial” leadership wouldn’t be familiar with the famous “stats don’t mean normal exists” examples dating back to the 1950s:

No “normal” man:

“Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions. One pilot might have a longer-than-average arm length, but a shorter-than-average leg length. Another pilot might have a big chest but small hips. Even more astonishing, Daniels discovered that if you picked out just three of the ten dimensions of size — say, neck circumference, thigh circumference and wrist circumference — less than 3.5 per cent of pilots would be average sized on all three dimensions. Daniels’s findings were clear and incontrovertible. There was no such thing as an average pilot. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.“

And no “normal” woman:

“Before the competition, the judges assumed most entrants’ measurements would be pretty close to the average, and that the contest would come down to a question of millimetres. The reality turned out to be nothing of the sort. Less than 40 of the 3,864 contestants were average size on just five of the nine dimensions and none of the contestants — not even Martha Skidmore — came close on all nine dimensions. Just as Daniels’ study revealed there was no such thing as an average-size pilot, the Norma Look-Alike contest demonstrated that average-size women did not exist either.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

On the other hand, maybe the editor of Scientific American being unaware of this is why there’s room for a not so new book, “The End of Average”:

”Yet, as Rose, Ed.M.’01, Ed.D.’07, a lecturer at the Ed School and director of the Mind, Brain, and Education Program, writes in his forthcoming book, The End of Average, from the moment we’re born to the moment we die, we are measured against a mythical yardstick — the average human — and it’s hurting everyone. That’s why with this book and through his nonprofit, the Center for Individual Opportunity, Rose is on a mission to dismantle this myth of the average and instead help the public understand the importance of the individual.”

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/15/08/beyond-average

http://www.toddrose.com/endofaverage
"Recycling" IP is a dumb complaint about Nintendo. It's not like Microsoft, Sony, EA, Ubisoft, Activision, etc. aren't doing the same thing. There's more Ratchet and Clank's than 3D Marios, more Forzas than Mario Kart, more Assassins Creeds than Metroids, more Call of Dutys than Pokémon games.
> I got an Advance at release and the screen was really nice when I could strain my eyes enough to see anything.

I seem to remember you could get the picture to fill up the screen. I wouldn't be surprised if this introduced some artifacts though.
I was hoping I wouldn't be on this list. Lots of time spent here. Maybe too much.

HN is such a good community though... No other place like this exists on the internet.
exclusive and? Just guessing, I use some of these chips in my synthesizer
That is absolutely true in some sense - then again, it is one solution where you start with a decent architecture that can grow and is scalable at linear, and very low, costs.

If you were to really only deliver some HTML, it's overkill. For this reason, my blog is hosted with an old-school 90s-style FTP-backed "webspace" provider.

But the architecture described is used to develop-build-deploy a full-flegded web-based application, with a persistence layer for user data and a potentially complex user-interface.

And for this, having a sound architecture and tech-stack where you do not need to care about low-level server issues is, while certainly not a silver bullet, quite a productive experience.
> Having gained their audience share, Amazon and Google have switched from a 'customer is king' perspective to one which suits their business model most.

At least for Google most of the time the end user is not the customer, the advertiser is.

This has various reasons, one of them being economics, another one being end user psychology.

Also for Amazon this is more and more becoming the case, as sellers and businesses using their services contribute much more to Amazons margin than an end user does.

The rest follows pretty much automatically from the internal incentive structures of those companies, which are dominated by share value increases.
> Fact check: false. The early cases in Wuhan almost all cluster near the wet market, not the virology lab, which is on the outskirts of town on the other side of the river some ~30km from the market. (And to the extent they don't cluster near that market, they do favor quite strongly the market's side of the river, not the virology lab's side of the river.)

To be considered:

> the Wuhan CDC ‘hosted animals in laboratories for research purpose, one of which was specialized in pathogens collection and identification’. Moreover, the Xiaos described how a lead researcher at this laboratory who collected bats had featured in articles and at least one broadcast video revealing that ‘he was once attacked by bats and the blood of a bat shot on his skin. He knew the extreme danger of the infection so he quarantined himself for 14 days. In another accident, he quarantined himself again because bats peed on him.’ Given that ‘surgery was performed on the caged animals and the tissue samples were collected for DNA and RNA extraction and sequencing’, relatively close to the Huanan seafood market where clusters of Covid-19 cases had been detected, it was reasonable to ask whether an accident had occurred, the two scientists argued.

If a case like this was hypothetically true, it would sit on a line between zoonotic origin and lab leak. Remember that lab leak doesn't imply bioengineering.

> the virology lab, which is [...] some ~30km from the market.

Independently of lab leak or not, this is wrong. You can check on google maps that by car (and even more in a straight line), is less than 15 km.
have fun installing and managing widevine!

i was so surprised by how hard it was to step outside of the walled garden
I'm not sure, but instead of vaccines. Would it be possible to increase mutations that benefit us by using a large population of mice untill a variant pops it that is more beneficial than the one in a pandemic? Eg.

- severely reduce severity

- replace previous variant

- more transmittable

I'm just wondering. Since
even Lions in the zoo in Belgium had COVID.
This would suggest that a good tactic for those that do support racism and sexism is to magnify and focus on such people, even make them up if they don't exist in sufficient numbers.

Then they could gather in echo chambers where they could trade stories about how out of hand it's all getting, rather than focus on the middle ground which is slowly moving away from what is generally accepted as a racist, sexist, classist past.
They did detect virus on the ground in the market. It seems there were wild animals in the market illegally that were all removed before the scientists got there. There was also a lot of wild animal farming in the Wuhan area which would be quite a likely candidate and which wasn't tested at all probably for political reasons. It had been encouraged by Xi and so would have been embarrassing if they found that to be the cause.
If recycling IP is what allows the games to be so good, then who cares? I'm very much a gameplay focused person, I'm not looking for new stories.

Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Smash Ultimate, and Metroid Dread are all best-in-genre level games.
Users voted with their wallets at the time (back in the late 2000s), which led to Apple and Google becoming the dominant forces in the market and the providers of a huge chunk of the worlds smartphone.

How would users vote now with their wallet when everything is tailored for users having either an iPhone or an Android phone?

(Yes, I know alternatives exists, even alternatives not built on top of Android, but it's extremely limited and targets very tech savvy users, possibly requiring coding skills to use to their fullest).
Show HN: Simple yet unreasonably effective recipe to tackle burnout
> So. Anyone fancy creating the 2022 version of what Google was in 1998?

Well... it's not fair!!! In 1998, most of the content was published by enthousiasts for fun, the "business web" wasn't really existing yet, and Google was a minor player, so nobody was interested in "gaming" the search engine because there was not really some money to take

Fast forward: now, the web (and apps) is a major driver for ANY business, so there's a lot to win (or lose) to game the system. So the SEO and other user-hostile strategies are widespread (and no IA or algorithm will be good enough to change that)

Solutions that could help ? Maybe:

1) meta search engine: using cross verification and ranking with different search engine might help a little bit (more different algo to game for the SEO)

2) user-validated search: allow user to rank website AFTER they checked the page to exclude bad actors. It's gamable too (like comments and Amazon rank)

3) not-for-profit web: excluding business from search engine (but informations without sell is a kind of pre-sale however)

In any way, I don't see a lot of ways to decide an un-gamable system
> Causing problems for who?

It's everyone isn't it? The attacks on free speech, the erosion of our institutions, the lowering of education...etc.

This affects as all.
Simulating FPGA designs on a GPU via gpurtl
What is aquamation, Archbishop Desmond Tutu's requested flameless cremation?
COVID on masks is gonna break down with a half life on the order of hours.
"The point" is because it's fun to farm points. This is the same reason people play in competitive video games, or even why people posted videos of themselves online before there was a financial incentive to. It's fun to do something inherently collaborative, like being viewed by an audience.

Hacker News fills the same niche for me as competitive video game tournaments do (during a certain time of the year, an easy way to predict whether or not my account will post during any given month is to see how tournaments are going in the game I play most). Hacker News is like a video game you can play at work.

That said, you can also pretty easily monetize farming points. It's pretty obvious when people are doing this, but I also don't see it as mattering too much, so I've never minded it, even though I'd never do so.
Ingo wasn't working at Linux full time at the time of his peak. He was indeed a Jedi master level C programmer even before he started working at Linux kernel seriously.
Good in this context seems to mean efficient at communicating ideas, but this is far from the only purpose of writing. Sometimes while writing one may want to obfuscate the meaning for certain readers like innuendo in childrens' media. It would be a tragedy if every novel was written in the style of Hemingway.
Perhaps it's intended to disambiguate it from the 20 µm resolution photo we released in May 2020 (the new one is 5 µm sampling resolution, so 16 times the pixel count). From the title alone one might dimly recall that past headline and assume it's a repost.
Something I’m curious about is how folks handle depression and its impacts with their employers/bosses. For context I am generally a high performer who is now on my second bout of below standard performance since the pandemic.

A few thoughts I have:

* I am getting help (again), it didn’t feel like the last therapist I had understood or empathized how this was affecting my work performance so trying elsewhere

* I believe the job itself is both a cause and effect. I’m reevaluating what I want out of a job in terms of fulfillment. I also moved from a technical to more people facing role, good during good times but not good during down times. Finally I’ve come to terms with the job itself may not be a good fit for me, but finding a new one is especially exhausting when dealing with depression/anxiety

* I’m not choosing to mention any of this to my manager - my below standard appears to be around average or at least acceptable for my position based on feedback/reviews, the biggest consequences are lack of new opportunities and slow erosion of trust over past couple of months

It doesn’t seem like there’s a playbook on this so would love to hear others’ thoughts.
The “users voted with wallets” / “free market decided” line often ignores how consumers are not choosing in a vacuum or choosing simple things or sometimes not choosing at all.

Often choices are made for short term benefits that come with a long term negative trade off. ie choosing features like a phone camera even though the device also disregards the user’s privacy.

In other cases, choices aren’t even made by consumers directly. Like when a company acquires potential competition before they’re able to grow into a threat. Or even a company uses their growing economic power and position for regulatory capture.

Sometimes a company just breaks away from their competition and end up the only competitive choice in the market and are able To cement their position through the means above.

Especially following the previous cases, users sometimes don’t choose at all because there remain no meaningful choices in the ecosystem they purchase in.
For the Nintendo specific stuff, for sure (though a Switch cannot handle all Nintendo stuff, can it?). For the Steam stuff: its a big plus which Switch wouldn't have (compare proprietary platform with the relatively open PC platform), as no other handheld in this price bracket can have access to so many games (requiring these resources). If the community takes off (and I got reason to believe it will) then this is going to be a gamechanger. Consider something like Lutris. Its not "out of the box" but its easy to work with.