skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? WordPress is from an era of PHP where the ties between PHP and MySQL were tighter than tight. What reason would they have to change away from that? I would love if WP worked with more than just MySQL as well, but I understand why it doesn't.
Your power is making it all the way to adulthood, literate, apparently aware of the external world and at least some of its history, without ever noticing that you've been "[seeing] other races or genders described in that manner when a individual member of a group acts in a particular way" for your entire life.
This is the promise, but in experience nasty bugs occur when the abstraction inevitably doesn't work.

If it doesn't work with an real life implementation e.g. docker test container, then I don't consider it a robust test.
That's when you give em the name "a" and a temporary email address. Gives them one more chance to prove themselves, and if not, they get left with garbage in their database.
> good taste in EDM … HN needs to have more creative nonfiction

So …

“Sandstorm was fucking inescapable in the SoCal rave scene in the late nineties, to the point that it became sort of a joke. Even if you went to an event where you could be reasonably confident that it wouldn't be played (a jungle or gabber event, for instance), you'd still hear some asshole blasting it from his car while you were in line.”

”I heard it being played from art cars twice at Burning Man this year. I'm choosing to believe that the perpetrators were doing so ironically, because the alternative is to despise/pity them.“

https://www.metafilter.com/145171/Ubiquitous-Sandstorm

// Welcome to MF.
Nice idea on legiblenews.com, however it looks to me like it's just using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events and changing the format? All the articles are from there, verbatim, and you are exactly copying the list of articles - even the categorisation of them.

I'm not sure that a 10% donation to Wikipedia from subscription revenue is quite enough when you are doing quite a simple reformat of all the volunteer work that goes into the current events section of Wikipedia.

You are effectively changing $9.99 for a weekly email digest of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events page and giving them $1. I think if you went 50/50 on it I would probably feel it was more fair, you are adding value but I assume thats all automated.

I will give you credit for your 100 score, that page on wikipedia gets an 86 on page speed insights.
shoot, fixing this now, thanks!
People do not vote for Democrats because they share their values, but because they like free money that Democrats typically promise.
Isn't it amazing how the . operator can cleanly replace :: and -> too?
The dealbreaker here is having to do this dance for every nested field on every entity, and having to write a separate backend query for each separate front-end use-case for a single entity.

It just isn’t feasible to write everything out when the schema has >30 entities, some with N:M relations, and when queries routinely go several levels deep to fetch dozens of joined fields at every level. The boilerplate overhead is too much.

A natively GraphQL database makes such queries a magnitude less verbose to write out, and all the queries can stay in the frontend (or can become persisted queries on a GraphQL ”middle-end” server).
> as it could lead to the (clearly false) belief that measured differences in cognitive ability between different human sub-groups is also based in genetic differences.

This is, in fact, false. Hope this helps.

If I told you a way it was true - people with phenylketonuria become "less intelligent" if their environment contains Diet Coke - you wouldn't take that as a win, because by "genetic differences" you mean "science says I'm better than this other guy in a way they can never overcome".

Or possibly you're getting info from people who think "heritable" means "genetic", which it doesn't.
> In UNIX this info is embedded in the file system and generally not needed to run a program.

UNIX just considers that a file/stdin/stdout/stderr is a sequence of binary octets of arbitrary size, any information on how to deal with it is left entirely to the program.

In a way, IBM VSAM and other record access methods are more like tables with types that a UNIX-like file sytem.
Speaking of which, why doesn't any military in any kingdom in A Song of Ice and Fire have jets? That one immense building (pardon my spoiler-avoiding vagueness) with seemingly no interior columns led me to wonder this. But the answer may be that the book building and the show building are nothing alike, and the show exaggerates characteristics that aren't such a big deal or leaves out realistic details that interfere with making the building impressive. I have read part of the books but not the relevant part.

And I'm not even referring to the speed of movement that characters seem to mysteriously have.
Not a rare algorithm, but used Dijkstra along with [0] to create a timelapse video from a sequence of videos. The Dijkstra was used to choose paths of most similar frames across videos to morph between.

[0] https://learnopencv.com/face-morph-using-opencv-cpp-python/
> IMHO when you’re providing language patches you probably choose the wrong language.

In your world, who does provide language patches then?
> - Few 20 years experience dudes that finished their growth at "Cobol is the best" with "Mainframe" T-Shirt on them

Probably joking, but a reminder that people with 20 years of experience started their careers after the dotcom bubble burst, and might not even have turned 40 yet.
It's not about the marketing cooy itself, it's about knowing if the team is aligned with that.
Single-instance private FaaS (as opposed to multi-instance public FaaS) allow to implement edge databases, assuming there is persistence. Currently only Cloudflare offers this with Durable Objects and the industry seems to not have caught on, maybe not even understood, yet.
Wrapping image in div always seemed weird to me. Thankfully they are fixing that
It reminds me the Watchmen. Alan Moore talked about how he despised the fans that identified with Rorschach :

Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example, but I have people come up to me in the street saying, ‘I am Rorschach! That is my story!’ And I’ll be thinking, ‘Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me and never come anywhere near me again for as long as I live?’”

A few years after this interview he wrote the TV show, where the main antagonists are the Seventh Kavalry, a white supremist group that follows Rorschach's teachings.
You can use custom addons in Firefox Nightly though, at least.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
The big issue is that for considerable portion of extant COBOL software, you have to deal with entrenched runtime environment. Purely batch processing COBOL might be easier to move to newer languages... And possibly was already picked for rewrite.

Where you're going to hit major issue is with COBOL running under the likes of CICS or IMS, where sure, you can use some more recent languages, but what you'll get in the end will be possibly even worse because now you'll have to find Java programmer who knows CICS.

And CICS or IMS aren't that easy to replace.
Interview: Andreas Kling of SerenityOS
Even though we have incendiary weapons, steel and building materials that work for us today, people still wonder about how to make things like Greek fire, Damascus/Wootz steel or Roman concrete. Even if we have better techniques, I do think it's a worthy academic endeavor to at least properly document stuff like this for posterity. If not, someone hundreds of years down the line will look at a painting of a sailboat and might go crazy trying to figure out how to make the sails or something. :)

Also, knowing how to make a glass eye might somehow some way help in some other application where you have to make something out of glass in that particular shape. Or, it might just be fun to try your hand at it :)
Impressive text wall sir, madame, or they. Unfortunately very challenging for me to read on mobile.
Like 6 years ago I got really good gigs, like every other proposal lead to a job.

The last years, whenever I tried, I was just writing proposal after proposal and either I was to expensive or I heard nothing.

Maybe it's me, but my impression was that it got way harder to land proper paid jobs.
Public transit users do pay more during rush hour, at least where I live. The metro has rush hour and non rush hour fairs.
Yeah.. I'm definitely in the camp of "follow up more than once and I instantly mark you as spam". If its an urgent message you are sending me then fine, whatever (although you should have alternate means of contacting me as well). If you are just "hustling" then no, absolutely do not badger me in any communication channel.

Its like a telemarketer saying "just keep leaving voicemails until they call you back", or a door-to-door person saying "you have to knock for several minutes to be sure they heard you". No way! One follow up, no exceptions. Work on your pitch instead of spamming the void.
I think the most pressing concept in The Boys is that power corrupts and the more powerful you are, the more disconnect you feel from the little guy.

<-- Potential Spoilers ahead -->

We are told that the ends justify the means, but it becomes increasingly obvious that the means are just an arms race between right cunts as Butcher puts it. And not one person in the show with superpowers hesitates for a microsecond to achieve a variety of selfish goals (usually involving revenge/violence), collateral damage be damned in the process, with the slight exception of Starlight.
I'm confused by this. Yesterday there was an article about how Apple only lets browsers use WebKit for rendering, and that was considered bad because it means that mobile browsers can't support add-ons. But it looks like Firefox doesn't support them anyway, so what's the problem again?
Worth noting that the abortion rate is 1 in 5 pregnancies. Roughly 10x the rate of ectopic pregnancies.

Note: Thanks both of you for engaging in a respectful conversation.
I use ff almost exlusively both on my laptop and the phone.

The existing gap between even the core features has been puzzling for a while.

On mobile I can add a current page to home screen, collections and the top sites. Neither is available on desktop (with the same profile).

WTF mozilla? What kind of usability is this? I am totally not looking forward switching to another browser but it looks inevitable...
You don't even need modern ML to find a set of candidate SNPs for introduction, GWAS studies of educational attainment[1] give you these SNPs with weights as parameters of the statistical polygenic risk score (PRS/PGS). The problem is, intelligence is a massively polygenic trait which necessitates introduction of many SNPs (into the embryo, mind you, because most of these are likely active only during the early stages of development) to achieve life-changing effect for the person in question.

Given this knowledge, the realistic way to improve human cognition would be widely available (perhaps state-sponsored) voluntary embryo selection[2] for intelligence. Embryo selection via PGS is already being applied[3][4][5] as an optional procedure in IVF, so there is no technical risk, the only impediment for now is simply social inertia, politics and lack of large-scale investment.

Compared to this possibility cognitive enhancement in healthy adult individuals is a much harder problem: no solution is known as of now. Still, it would be interesting to speculate about realistic procedure of such type. It is unlikely that with sufficient effort we couldn't find some way to toggle[6] the correct genes and developmental processes in an adult, and deliver it via a gene therapy. Or maybe a cell therapy[7] could impart necessary neural progenitors into the mature tissue.

Given such problems at the frontiers of the known science, it is natural to think that strong ML systems operating over large -omics datasets could offer human scientists valuable help, but the progress here looks more funding-limited than technology-limited right now.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104

2. https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection

3. https://www.ivfbabble.com/on-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-fir...

4. https://www.orchidhealth.com/

5. https://www.lifeview.com/

6. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2018.0046...

7. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0808488105
How far along is the story of cross compilation for the two ecosystems?
This is crazy. You made a lightweight, text-only news site, but then refuse to compare it to the other lightweight, text-only news sites.

As well as CNN, NPR has one too: https://text.npr.org

There's also http://68k.news which is particularly nice because it hyperlinks to images in the stories rather than embedding them.
Return to Monkey Island trailer features an “adrift and unfulfilled” Guybrush
You can run those pages through speed reports at https://pagespeed.web.dev

I don't include in the rankings because their distribution isn't wide enough, but I'd guess they're relatively slow for the reasons you mention.
And yet plenty of websites that don't have ads are painfully slow. The snark is a little unwarranted in my opinion.
Apologies, I missed the username change. I thought it was fair game given the context of the comment chain but missed that a different person made the original claim.

Most of what you’re writing about is sort of a silly basis for an argument though, by definition excess consumption of anything is bad. The issue is what counts as excess.

I don’t disagree on the findings. I repeated points of agreement not because I didn’t read your comment, but to highlight the shared understanding. I agree with your opinions on nutrition as shared, I just don’t think it’s right to claim that the specific underlying research is enough to support the overall nutrition guidance opinion as settled science or fact-based. I think there are plenty of ways to read the underlying research and still support a claim that individual specific components of a diet should be chosen to moderate saturated fat intake.
Your site is 3.1mb, which is way too big. (1.1mb of JS?)
It's only a matter of time before we get a good NSFW image generation algorithm. Text erotica generation is already a not-insignificant part of the public AI world (remember AI dungeon? Most people used it for porn). The question is whether it's going to come out of the established adult industry or not. There are clear benefits (no real humans needed anymore, personalized fetish material forever, etc.), the only issue is whether they're willing to deal with the inevitable bad press (e.g. fake images of real people, taboos like underage content or disturbing imagery). I wouldn't be surprised if any models from the adult industry will basically be heavily gimped from the start to avoid liability.
That is interesting to see.

I wonder if fly.io/heroku matters for the servers however. Caching the webpage with a CDN sounds like most bang for buck right? One request is slow at the start of the day for the news (maybe its a user requesting far away the main server worst case) but every subsequent request is served from close to user CDN. (Not 100% if thats how it works in practice)

Speaking out loud here just to see if server location matters if you have a good CDN setup or something I'm missing which would make requests need to hit the main server.
> We assume an unborn person would prefer to be born than killed.

A clump of cells doesn't have enough coherence to have a preference. In fact, babies don't have the kind of brain development necessary to comprehend this question, let alone form a preference until years after being born.
> However! There is something to be said about triples and normalisation. Is the general idea of triples a really good format for databases? Maybe not. Is it a really good format for knowledge representation? Yeah I think so.

There's Datomic and XTDB as practical examples of databases built on data models that equal/similar to triples.
Some stuff can only be done through bpy.ops, like changing the order of modifiers (if you really didn't want to use bpy.ops, you would need to remove all modifiers and recreate them, though this would severe any references to the old modifiers outside of your script, so you really can't do it without bpy.ops). Also sometimes operators are faster, so resigning from them sacrifices performance. And of course sometimes there just isn't an equivalent non-operator function, so you would need to recreate a functionality in order to not use an operator.
This seems like a https://newsasfacts.com/ clone with less features.
They probably should be making how-to videos at some point, and post them on YouTube.
The point is, if you don't like an organisation for reason A, you'll easily find reason X, Y and Z why you don't like them.

Ask someone who grew up supporting a certain sports team or religion why they don't like the rival team or religion, and they'll happily give you answers why. They may even believe some of them themselves. Some of them might even be valid criticisms, but they are almost certainly not why someone chose their home team or religion over another.

This never ending drama seems to mostly stem from Mozilla ditching a potential CEO because his religious beliefs meant he felt he had to fund anti-equal marriage organisations. It all seems like echoes of that to me. 8 years of boring whiney echoes.
Lots of examples in nature where mothers kill their newborns (and sometimes eat them). They do this for a variety of reasons. Nature does care about making babies, but it also gives a fair bit of leeway to moms.
> Sadly, I personally can't see how this remains to be the case any longer... RBR with Newey or Dall'Igna with Ducati have been in championship dry-spells for a really long time (last year's win for RBR was the first championship where Mercedes didn't dominate all season like they have since the introduction of the V6) and have only managed to come 2nd best for some time.

I don't buy this. The basis for TFA and the reason Newey is back in the spotlight is because of this current season. RBR is the only team that has nailed the regulations change. The porpoising issue alone makes this clear.
haha, lol... So I'm a top 1% dev then :). I have all the megabytes in my frontend.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, and please don't use HN for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do these things because they're not what this site is for and destroy what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
That's the point. Quebec doesn't want to be Canada.

A better example would be if Texas had preserved its Native/Hispanic culture and resisted Anglo intrusion, and maintained pressure for independence.
Looking at Google Scholar it appears the related paper is here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ac006f/...

There also appears to be a patent but I don't trust my googlefu enough to try and search for that.
Can anyone defend product management to me? Shouldn't this basically be UX/UI designers working together with developers based on user input acquired in some scientific way (either quantitative or qualitative)? How do product managers provide additional value?
They both seem extremely arbitrary:

Short scale: A short n-illion equals 10^(3n + 3)

Long scale: A long n-illion equals 10^(6n) and a long n-illiard equals 10^(6n+3)
Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News?
I hate how unclear the degree of echo chamber is with Google News. It also keeps showing me the same articles for days or weeks after I've already seen and read them.

Are ther any real contenders out there? Ideally it'd aggregate all news across the globe and let me browse by region, perhaps with automatic translation for non-english articles.

The idea of a global, non country-centric front page is highly appealing to me (I want to deprogram myself from the western slant, it possible).
OP here. I use Ansible a lot in my day-to-day work, and the day the OpenZiti Python SDK came out, I wrote a wrapper around the Paramiko connection plugin to secure the connection to the target. It was so easy, and worked so well, I wrote a small demo so you all can try it too. Happy to answer any questions, and if you try it, share whatever feedback you have!
I definitely like the UI, speed, and the simplicity.

The two things that will prevent me from actually using it for my pods are the much discussed VST support and the lack of ability to select a range and mute the selection. The second is actually more important, because it allows for small audio imperfections, like a cough, um, or smack, to be removed from the recording without requiring a split -> truncate workflow that breaks the recording into two pieces, which then have to be moved and repositioned separately.
And later when google-AI locks their account and makes the videos unavailable, knowledge is lost.
People vote for Democrats for all sorts of crazy reasons, including agreement with one of their many policy platforms. People also vote for Republicans for reasons that aren't "I'm a fascist".
I was never an Apple fanboy as a kid, and as an adult I've developed a strong aversion to anything Apple related. This is due to my ideological bent towards open source, open systems, open standards, open hardware, etc. - which is basically anathema to Apple.

And yet...

The Apple IIGS was one of the things I lusted after when I was a kid. I remember reading about it in the magazines and just being enamored with this thing. I wanted one so bad. Sadly my family couldn't afford the price tag and I never got one. But even now, I occasionally consider jumping on Ebay and trying to find one for sale and buying it. It's the one Apple product I can still see buying even now.
Bitcoin is not ever going to replace the fiat economy, it simply solves the wealth preservation problem by acting as gold v2.0. This is a huge deal as most empires in history have risen and fallen via currency manipulation, hurting millions of people in the process. The life preservers have finally arrived, just in time.
> There are a lot of hyper-driven people stuck in poverty

Doubt. Working to provide doesn't automatically make you "hyper-driven".
I have a similar tool called a 'Speedy Sharp' - I think it was about $5. I like it for hasty sharpening at the expense of removing what I'd consider 'too much' metal. Much more than a conventional stone (and hence, much faster). I would never touch a precision edge, such as a plane iron with one.

I have a drawer-full of sharpening gizmos, but after many years I'm convinced that there's really no substitute for stones - although there are poor to great stones. They all require some understanding of developing an edge, particularly if a fine edge is wanted. Probably the easiest (for knives) is the Spyderco Sharpmaker. Probably the best is anything that helps you hold an angle, high quality, flat, stones, and developing a little skill.
great point, and i'm starting to agree. we battled with this when implementing this design but after now stress-testing realized it may be a bit too much.

as someone who strives to write concise copy, i find myself dying to just change to a white background with a heading and bullet points sometimes.

will keep in mind as we improve this, thank you!
Podhale, yeah talk about expensive.
Markdown is a dead end, and that's why I'm using it. There's only so much syntax you can put into plain text and remain readable more or less as text, as opposed to code.

I, too, would prefer some other language for complex expressions, although that's to keep Markdown simple rather than to obtain power.

I never want to decypher latex in READMEs I read, unless it's a readme for a latex library.