skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but this same concept is relevant in the fact that some minor offense can sometimes literally turn into police ending up killing people, e.g. the various horrible cases in the US that sparked BLM protests.

In free societies, the monopoly on violence is granted by the people in order to create a more just society than would exist in the alternative (power granted through popular or mob violence.) It only considers violence as encoded in law to be justified to that end, not all forms of violence committed by any person representing the state. So police arresting and detaining people is an example of the state exercising its monopoly on violence, but police brutality isn't.
Imagine an app that does the lookup based on a photo you snap. Does something like that exist?
Yes. But I still think that nobody (lets say <1%) will watch this.
These guesses seem counterintuitive in that they waste letters by repeating previous guesses. Interesting if this is optimal though.
Maybe, but i think every platform that has a lot of influence or a big audience is a valueable target for propaganda.
Except the EU can’t enforce GDPR against NSA, so who cares?

And, realistically, the EU can’t enforce GDPR outside the EU. If somebody in the UAE, for example, were to hoover up all the EU citizen data they can get their hands on what is the EU going to do? Send a strongly worded letter?
pretty much, as is a circular dependency in OOP or dependency management.
holding out for Gates, are we?
This article is super insightful, I believe more and more extensions will be taking this approach.

At Wasmer we are planning to do the something similar for the VS Code WASM extension [1]. Right now it uses wabt.js (wabt compiled to Wasm + js bindings with Emscripten), but there are some more interesting ways to approach automatic bindings via Interface Types... here are some prototypes! [2]

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dtsvet.v...

[2] https://github.com/wapm-packages/wabt/
That's the upper limit, not a minimum requirement. Levying the full 4% of global income is something that's reserved for those who blatantly refuse to comply with orders of their respective DPO or repeat offenders.
Solar System Scope
> But slow/fast isn't quality. What were the rigorous measurements? Latency of results to click? User clicked above the fold?

Slow and fast is what we experience. We live in a phenomenological world, not a world of millisecond metrics. While it isn't rigorous, for humans, numbers are pointless. We can't experience them. What matters is whether it feels fast.
Where is the court judgement for that?
I watched that trailer so many times... The video file was 15 MB, very high quality for the time. Could only run it at around 5 fps.
> Germans were starving in the 20s too due to the outcome of WWI. The Nazi 'fixed' that.

It sure seems like a reach to say that China in the 2020s is like Germany in the 1930s because Chinese were starving in the 1960s (and, to lesser extents, the 1970s and 1980s) and Germans were starving in the 1920s. Wouldn't it follow that China in the 1970s (or 1980s or 1990s) is analogous to Germany in 1930s? Oh wait, of course not, because it's an absurd analogy in the first place.

> And since we're talking about people starving, why don't we talk about the Great Leap forward and the massive famines caused by CCP policy?

Sure, but I'm not sure what there is to say about it as I don't think anyone is going to argue that the Great Leap Forward was sensible policy or that famine is a good thing...
My question was about this site, not elsewhere.
Interesting. It seems that "brand name search" actually searches by product name not by brand.
TBH, if no-one recognises the car, we'd just radio in the registration number and get control to do a look-up. For various reasons, we're not allowed private phones on the boat.
I mean, you can make ricotta and mozzarella at the same time.

I also agree, paneer is a great start.
put *off
Really nice post, thanks for brining the idea that the revolution doesn't necessarily have to have happened in what we now consider to be that entity. It's often a challenge to put aside our modern biases when looking back, and it really help appreciate how different the past was.

In the mid 1800's there was a period of "quiet revolution" with a number of reform bills, and less quiet riots. Before 1832 a very small number of people, just the upper class were part of the democratic system. After 1884 almost all men over 21 were allowed to vote. A number of other electoral weirdness was removed. This period had a similar effect on a persons rights to the big revolution in France, whilst maintaining the power structure. I guess if you move with the times and give up some power, you can keep on top still.

I would also argue (pedantically perhaps) about calling a 67 million population country small, this is the 21st most populous country in the world out of 235, so in the top 10% of countries by size (almost 1% of world population). Calling this small doesn't really leave anywhere to go for smaller countries. I would suggest having Huge (1Bn+), Large (1Bn - 100mil), Medium (100mil-10mil), Small (10mil - 1mil), Tiny (less than 1mil).
you're right. Thanks for pointing that out. The encryption of the secret has to happen of chain, so that the secret is still secure. So typically that would be done by the provider of the NFT and thus is not decentralised. Essentially, this would eliminate the need to put the secret on the chain at all. Only the proof of ownership would be on chain.
I cannot rate any of the results anymore as being good.

I want my search engine to search for the keywords i typed in, not what the search engine thinks I want to search for.

If Google shows me a different person then the one I'm looking for, I am at fault, not the search engine. I should be more specific.

So yes, Google's search quality sucks big time, but not in the way the author thinks. He think Google should know what you are searching for. Which is for me, a really bad factor.
I really love this comment, thank you
Form Validation Using JavaScript's Constraint Validation API
Wow this belongs in the comment museum, excellently written and insightful. It reminds me of the The Body Rituals of the Nacirema[1]. I wish more people wrote things like this, it gives a dash of objectivity to how things are.

I agree with both you and GP though, in some ways things really haven't changed at all despite these technological changes. If you can't see the constancy too then I don't think you see the big picture. All of this that we have is a product of the same work that began back then, all for the same reasons. You have to abstract to see the constancy. I think you really miss out if you don't see what GP is saying too.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema
Sorry, I didn't understand what you mean. Can you type more carefully? English is not my first language and I can't guess what you're trying to say.
In my car phone overheats quickly when I'm charging phone and using wireless CarPlay/AA :(
You won't ever know if it is "it" before after it's become "it".

Before success, anything is a calculated risk, and the success depends as much on your hard work and dedication and BELIEF in the idea, as it does in whether that belief is actually correct, and, since no one has done it before, it is unknown.

Comfortable life is whatever makes you comfortable, be it working hard on something you want to try, or working at a company and be relatively certain of a good income.
I suspect you missed my point (if you didn’t, I apologise).

I was not merely pointing out the volume of comments.

Instead I was embracing the joyful timing coincidence of 220 comments, in reference to one of the most iconic ThinkPads ever made - the x220.
I've found my result quality has gone up dramatically now that I use extensions allowing me to block domains from google search results. It seems silly that I ought have to do this, but Google has finally become useful again as a result.
Improving API Response Times by Migrating from Cloud Functions to Cloud Run
We use Firebase for basically everything at our company ─ we run an API-first "digital keychain" ─ and we love it! however our API (based on Cloud Functions) response times were... not so great to say the least, with some of our endpoints taking more than a couple of seconds to respond, which was kind of a big issue for our clients.

We tried several techniques but by far what got us to reduce response times the most was migrating from Cloud Functions to Google Cloud Run.
As far as I understand that is what everyone caught violating these laws gets at first, a warning pointing out the issues and a time frame to fix those. The real trouble only starts if you fail to meet the deadline or get caught again afterwards.
Ah yes, that would be interesting to hear too. I suspect a place like this might skew a little higher in age and toward oh, I dunno, highly paid tech workers living comfortably upper-middle class lives
It's really a hit and miss. This [1] book also came as print-on-demand but looks perfectly fine. Good layout and clean colors.

[1] https://mml-book.github.io/book/mml-book.pdf
The lack of an ability to vote on search results seems like a baffling omission. Normally Google loves to crowdsource their work, but for this one area where we would actually want it, they decide that they know better when they clearly don't.
So ... 108 minutes.

Here's the transcript:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/pub/TheThirtyMillionLineProblem.t...
I too tried this (geolocated to Argentina) and cannot reproduce the behaviour. All the results I am seeing on the first couple of pages are relevant.

P.S. Chrome, incognito window.
Judging by last summer I spent in southern Russia, probably the deathly heat and lack of chilly summer mornings
That sounds like a very nice idea!

This would be a great base for a secure browser, which is something we are interested in long-term.
Maybe we can have a chat about a possible future partnership?

We won't be able to support such an initiative at the moment, but we are definitely interesting in investing in that area at some point in the future.
i am chinese, i followed asian boss.
just for click and ads and money , politicized emotion is also for money.
they need money like every company else.
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Thanks for the reading suggestion
I cannot be the only one disappointed by the lack of unicorns with guns.
It depends how you view the problem. If one assumes that humans make mistakes - it's probably reasonable to show people things outside their selected search scope. If you're an exacting user, this is rather frustrating.

Realistically neither of the above were the concern. It's an attempt to boost engagement in the hopes that you'll find a product for eventual purchase, nothing more.
but i am unsubscribed asian boss servral days ago.
Libui-ng: a maintained fork of libui, a cross platform desktop GUI interface
RubyMine is the only IDE I've seen that seems to actually get Rails projects ie. the relationships between models, controllers, partials, .erb files, etc... For single-language completion I've found language servers and Emacs are just as good, but Jetbrains seems to be on another level when it comes to contextual understanding when using a framework like Rails.
(Half jokingly) Brexit?
Good mask helps only so much. You must also wear it properly.

Cheap surgical mask is just as good as N95 respirator if you don't wear them properly. It much seal around your skin. For example, if you don't trim your beard so that mask touches skin all around, better mask does not help.

In fact, increased humidity under the mask may be one of the main reasons why wearing mask protects their user.
Hahaha yes, that's what I was referring to and you're right to be infuriated by it. It's purely elitist horse-dust from The New Yorker to use ö rather than chucking a hyphen in there instead.
The 16-235 brightness value issue I've heard about before and indeed, it's absurd to me as well. Especially when banding is such a huge issue on 8 bit video. We could use those values so much in the lower end.
Frankly at first I misread it as Gnunicorn and was just relieved not to see Richard Stallman in a fursuit.
It's not too bad, but a language server works entirely with file IO and local network requests which are all quick anyway so I doubt they'd see much benefit. File IO is actually slower when done asynchronously unless you use io-uring which hardly anything support yet.
I have no experience in this field. The article wants a hard-copy behind the sun visor of each car. I would think having a digital copy could be grabbed from the VIN number with minimal coordination. In practice, it could be pulled up before rescue services arrive on the scene from the license plate or driver's registration with a final spot-check on scene. That might help the parent?

I would think a lookup via a photo (unless it's the vin number or a QR code) would be more difficult and take much longer to adopt. I would think something like having the car broadcast basic info with an emergency beacon would be more ideal...but has privacy concerns, would require opt in from manufacturers, and equipment and training on the emergency services side. Maybe another industry like planes or boats would be easier to adopt something like this?
This has been discussed for centuries, I dont think we can reach a judgement here easily
> state plainly that you’ve gathered representatives from all segments of the Taiwanese political spectrum

Hang on. Why do you have to do that? When did Youtube become a place to escape from bias, propaganda and misinformation?

There's jargon in this article that suggests it's not meant for the likes of me. I clicked the "deep blue" link at the top, hoping to find out what the term meant (nope!) before I realised it was explained below. But KMT? Isn't that Kuomintang? Is ROC Republic of China, or Russian Olympic Committee?
Yeah, nah, I think you've missed the point of the guy's post all together. Understandable if you're grieving the loss of someone.
Perhaps it doesn't say exactly what you're looking for, but you might find it interesting anyway: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
Yeesh. OLE objects.

I thought it was a bad idea, back then, and I think most folks were of the same mind. I’m actually shocked that OLE is still a thing.
Or as was posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29874052 by @jcalvinowens a few hours ago, we can also simplify this to just:

#!/bin/cat

Example:

$ echo '#!/bin/cat' > foo
$ chmod +x foo
$ cat foo
#!/bin/cat
$ ./foo
#!/bin/cat
I think this only exemplifies that the title can be hard to decipher if you're not deeply familiar with the context. If I understood this exchange correctly, the commenter above received the exact opposite of what the title was supposed to convey. The fact that I'm not sure either furthers the point.
Reducing the possible position of letters can drastically reduce the set of possible words; but intuition probably tends towards getting more information about the presence or lack rather than the position of letters.

I don't think anyone has released an 'optimal' player, yet. I imagine getting all target words (in the wordle dictionary) in four guesses is doable and three is probably not.
I generally start with TEARS, INDOL and CHUMP, which seemed to match the 15 most common letters in the right order in the word list I had available at the time.
this is really so important!

(btw, I add the final dot in The Guardian website to be able to be considered anonymous at each load: this way you can bypass several paywall)

but I've just checked and see so many relevant websites nowadays not working when the final dot is added, many institutional ones: e.g.

* https://parlamento.it.

* https://senato.it.

* https://www.comune.roma.it.

How bad is nowadays this issue?
Yes, it does! Here's a an example of such an app being used, courtesy of the Lunteren fire brigade (video with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoK_QOvm8n8&t=882s
Why? Time is money, and pretty sure everyone makes more in an hour than the cost of using a Jetbrains product for a month...
The page gives very poor idea what your app actually does.

I honestly have no clue.
It might be enough. Like open source - not everybody needs to read the source code, it is enough when one knowledgeable person does that and makes a stink when they find something fishy.
Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
Demanding decency is not being against capitalism, just recognising that your wallet is less important than your neighbour.
> to paper coffee pads

They're plastic, actually, but the other ones you mention are worse.

> we have things like infusions (ginger, mint, fruits, but also Rooibos) that doesn't really "do" anything but definitely make for a tasty hydrating drink.

Rooibos, for certain, 'does' a lot. It lowers your blood pressure. You can use it as a downer though it might be unnecessary if you don't use caffeine otherwise.
It took few years for traditional auto to learn that Tesla-style dedicated EV platform is the way to go, but they are doing it now. Their first EVs were ICE cars "converted" to electric (e.g. e-Golf) but VW now has their ID-platform, for example.
Please add NSFW in title.
> ~20% which doesn’t seem ridiculous for an insurance business.

I think the issue with healthcare insurance companies in the US is that they collude with the hospitals to artificially inflate the cost of things so that their 20% is 20% of 10x the actual value of the treatment.
Being able to filter the list by pass/fail or minimum PFE and/or maximum breathing resistance would be nice.
uh, I see I have to rewrite those links this way, or else my Firefox "fix" them

* https://parlamento.it./

* https://senato.it./

* https://www.comune.roma.it./
Dr. Dhani Ram Baruah was a pioneer of pig heart transplants and tried this in 1997, and his patient lived for 7 days. However this was not received well and Dr Baruah was later arrested.
Time and time again it has been proved and backed by research that it was indeed purposefully created. I don't understand why people aren't able to swallow that Churchill was responsible for the devastating famine. Its the same everywhere, even in r/history subreddit people just straight away deny Churchill was responsible for the famine. I understand that he is hailed as a hero for WW2 but he definitely has 3 million Indian's blood in his hand.

https://theprint.in/science/proved-by-science-winston-church...
> And how woefully undereducated and uninformed - or willfully ignorant (maybe even dumb) - a large percentage of the population is.

A couple of people-on-the-street interviews will never ever give you an accurate representation of "a large percentage of the population".

Edit: see also this comment- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29889236
They were against stealing wages by owners. It's separate from capitalism (but very often *isms lead to that anyway).
Google results for Windows error codes have been gamed to hell and back by the likes of Easus and Drivereasy, where their tools are somehow the answer to every single fault Windows could possibly manifest.
I was so naive :cry: Damn you Asian boss! Damn youuuuuuuuuu!
Part of the issue is old games were designed for the shitty 13-15" CRTs of the day. They had a natural amount of antialiasing from phosphor bleed and dot pitch of the shadow mask. Game art often took advantage of these limitations.

You see the same issues with old console games on emulators. While some people like the "pixelated" look you see with default settings, it's not how the games actually looked on a CRT.
For those who like me didn't understand the title. From paragraph 9:

> For those who don't know, "deep blue" means very pro-KMT, generally favoring Chinese identity, closer ties with China and eventual unification with China.

Search for KMT leads to Wikipedia article that says it is the same as Guomindang, the party was exciled from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949. I don't know how it evolved to "eventual unification" from "Taiwan is the only China", so I prefer to skip the article entirely as non-comprehensible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang
Ask HN: What are the hard problems when building apps with a realtime back end?
Hi!

What are the hard problems I can expect if I try to build realtime features into our product?

Should I even try to build it or look at third party suppliers? I've seen various articles that compare DIY with buying it in, but they're from those suppliers and I wonder how neutral they are.

It's obviously complex, but what are the primary engineering challenges? Message delivery ordering/duplication and missing messages? Is it security/authentication or problems with debugging and observability? Or should I worry most about infrastructure, scaling and performance?
I think crypto enabled by default is too bold, there isn't anything particularly bullshitty about their crypto stuff imo but people legitimately feel icky about it.
> but they don't have a $250k mask lab to make sure the fabric is good

Hard to argue against that, but on HN I'm sure someone's gonna try :-)
I'm not sure any of the those points is true always, and at the very least will raise the bar slightly. Blocking on a naive hash wouldn't work, but there are more sophisticated video matching algorithm. If they're good enough to be applied to DMCA type content, this seems like a higher priority.
And also non-Chinese people that support the PRC, like myself. Many of us are communists, but not all.

The trend on HN is indeed quite clearly anti-China and anti-communist, so Chinese propaganda is definitely less successful than that of the US and Western Europe.
I really like the clear example at the bottom of the page.
Surely we can deduce whether there are meaningful numbers of serious side effects by looking at past years in population data - especially in populations that have high vaccination rates. If rates have increased markedly, then there's obviously something to investigate. But as noted elsewhere, the rates seem to be 'in line' with pre-vaccine rates for a fair few side effects in a given population. They just get more press now because of the focus on health issues in the media and the hysteria around "vaccine injuries"

You'll get no argument from me that reporting standards leave a bit to be desired. The trials are the trials - they could be improved, sure - but side effect reporting didn't end with trials. Plenty of governments kept tabs on side effects post vaccine once they were being widely administered
Agree, just I'm lacking the evidence. Plus, we might overrate the importance of HN for the CCP. Most of their thought control is for internal use. The external influence is usually based on money and access to the chinese market, not by thrall farms. Exceptions apply to social media, but I think that they concentrate on the large platforms like FB, Twitter and Youtube.
Every single tree lining that road in 1902 gone and not replaced by 2015.
I am pro Chinese myself, I’m not getting paid by anybody, and I can assure you that posting pro Chinese comments here gets them flagged pretty quickly. But I’m not sure if it is because people don’t like those opinions or because they think it’s unlikely anybody can be pro Chinese so they automatically think you are a propaganda account. It could very well be either, based on my past experiences posting comments that go against the “allowed” politics of the site.
Chip aging becomes design problem (2018)
How are you calculating “biggest reduction in size of candidate pool”?

Wondering if you’re trying to split the pool 50-50 or more like 90-10.
I think the joke is that the Koala wins everytime? As in Djokovic will fail to play the Australian Open. Or am I just too bad at the game?
No, we can eat meat but we are by no means obligate carnivores like cats are.

A cat will die on a no-meat diet, while we can easily live on plants alone.
Wishing you had never been born is one thing, wishing someone/something else had never been born is not a response of empathy but rather personal guilt.