skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The notability standards aren't remotely as much of a problem as the inconsistent enforcement of them.

My current wikipedia pet peeve:

Session Private Messenger[0] is absent from Wikipedia's comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients[1] because it doesn't have a wikipedia entry. Session does not have a Wikipedia entry, despite having a well-sourced draft[2] because "github, medium, app stores are not sources".

I note that github is cited throughout the Wikipedia entry for Signal messenger[3]. Furthermore, why is Session's page on the Apple App Store not a valid source for the claim that Session is available on the Apple App Store?

[0] https://getsession.org

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_cross-platform_i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Session_(software)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
Seems like this would have the opposite effect - increase the proportion of sub-notable women on Wikipedia makes it look like male researchers standout and female researchers are mediocre. It also discounts the prestige of any Wikipedia article about a woman that deserves to have one - since people will know there is a much lower bar for women.
So I assume you would’ve avoided Medium which was limiting how many articles a user could read for free, since then it literally wouldn’t work for many.
That depends on your definition of rehabilitation.

I think those in question would say that they are trying to develop a more accurate understanding of the person and their historical context.

Not everything is about morality.
We actually already have access to O'Reilly learning, but I can't say I take advantage of it. How would you approach learning via O'Reilly Learning?
But its usability would go down. How many people named Smith, Li or Gonzales are out there? Good luck finding the right one if the count of entries go into hundreds of thousands.

Also, why limit yourself to living people only? And once you add, say, everybody whose name has been recorded in writing, you are probably looking at 15 billion or so.
Not only will Emacs help you order pizzas, but it will also help you do bong hits to stimulate your appetite. Try doing that in vim!

Original UniPress Emacs MockLisp:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/bh.ml

Ported to Gnu Emacs Lisp:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/bh.el

Arbitrarily shaped user defined bong and big stash of hash:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/bh.txt
I think it'd be cool to order pizza from the commandline, but this makes my workflow a lot more efficient! Well done!
They're a bit much, but in this case, they've clearly added to the discussion. It helped to show the distrust and skepticism around product announcements by Google. It also helps us question whether it's worth it for us to invest time, money and/or effort into a project.
Do you not think people are less likely to go into fields where they don't see themselves represented?
> Cork allows for an air exchange which no other artificial material does.

Air exchange is the one thing you least want, it means oxidation. The entire point of the cork is to keep air out. Air is the enemy.

> I don't know a single Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese winemaker that even sells without cork.

Again, because of the cachet of cork. Most buyers don’t even know what they’re drinking. Plastic and metal caps feel cheap, therefore buyers don’t want them.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal"
What is more valuable to you right now? Sales, or feedback that will help you improve your product and its positioning?

Don't let anything (e.g. lack of the right approach) keep you from listening to people.

Only after you've spoken with 10-20 people will the advice in sales books (Founding Sales, SPIN Selling etc.) be valuable.

If, after hearing what those 10-20 people have to say, you've decided to focus on changing your product instead of selling what you have, you might try to implement the steps in "The Mom Test".

Disclaimer: random advice on the internet. Take it with a pinch of salt!
Not sure what your a talking about. Google/Fb/Twitter etc are all banned in China. The major surviving ones are Microsoft and Apple.
I like the idea of digging deeper into counterfactuals at foundational levels. Science that has any use needs valid counterfactuals. It tells us that if we arrange stuff just like so, we can engineer things. Or that no matter what action we take, the heat death of the universe will happen.

But counterfactuals and foundations don't mix easily, especially in QM where "what if I had measured X" isn't a really valid question in the standard view (the quantum zeno effect is an example of how hypothetical measurements and actual measurements aren't the same in QM).
I wouldn't assume a fragment is any bigger than the raw data when it's compressed.

{ "things": [
{ "id": 183,
"name": "The Thing",
"some date": "2016-01-01",
},
{ "id": 184,
"name": "The Other Thing",
"some date": "2021-04-19",
},
]}

Vs

<tbody>
<tr><td>183</td><td>The thing</td><td>2016-01-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>184</td><td>The other thing</td><td>2021-04-19</td></tr>
</tbody>

They seem extremely similar to me.
There is also Koomey's Law https://rhombus-tech.net/whitepapers/ecocomputing_07sep2015/

If I had a master's thesis, it'd be that the increased system requirements of bloated software upgrades prevents Koomey's law from allowing solar powered smartphones and laptops: https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-libre-autarkic-laptop
Working prototype (not mine) : https://www.freethegameboy.info/
An example of animation that responds to prefers-reduced-motion is the subtle animation on the Kagi home page:

https://kagi.com (you should see stars and clouds animate, same is used for logged in users on the main search landing page)

We have a FAQ entry how to find this setting in different OS so that users can control it:

https://kagi.com/faq#reduce-motion
I disagree. It isn’t about smartness. There are plenty of intelligent women who may enjoy and be well suited for science, but were discouraged from pursuing it at a young age.
C used to have a close to bare metal semantics, and on some environments¹ still have it. So if you need low level semantics, it normally beats assembly on those environments.

The Rust people are working hard to support everything that C does, so in the future C and asm will probably not have a monopoly there. But this is still not our reality.

1 - Of course, not a PC software stack, and not on any ARM available today.
Amiga folks always overlook Apple’s emphasis on user experience. The Amiga workbench UI at the time looked like an Apple IIe high-res mode if someone had forgotten black and white monitors existed. Everything was ugly blue / orange combination and the graphics seemed chosen to emphasize pixel bulkiness. Put that and the 1985 Finder head to head and the user walks out the door with the Mac.

Something like DeluxePaint vs MacPaint would be a much different story, easy Amiga win. However, pretty much every user considering a computer would need word processing, where again the Mac had a rock solid look and feel advantage.
Is it true that rabbit’s eyes are pretty close in structure to that of a human?
How I Code at the Speed of Thought (Part 1)
Is it possible to have a quantum theory where there is no "measurement"? The universe simply evolves according to the Dirac or Shroedinger equations, and the phenomenon that we call measurement is an emergent, statistical property?

The motivation for the question is that in quantum physics there are two phases:

1. The phase where everything is quantum, and things evolve according to Dirac or Schroedinger. The state of a system at any given time then determines its state at all times in the future and in the past. Everything is in all possible classical states at once.

2. Some measurement happens that is irreversible. The quantum state collapses, and information about the quantum state before the collapse is lost. The result is a single classical state.

I haven't read TFA, but having something like phase 2 be emergent from phase 1 seems like a major breakthrough. Phase 2 is then an illusion. This seems better than the status quo. (I am not a physicist).
* > I believe the key to success here will be "Cold Sales" *

100% correct.

1. Get a demo ready that you can show on a laptop. Focus on features.

2. Smile and dial. Set a meeting with the business owner or manager to show the demo.

3. Listen. The things they say (mostly objections) will guide your product development.

4. Accept rejection. You will get meetings from 10% of your calls. You will make sales on 2% of your meetings if the customer even needs the product.

Reading is a good way to forestall the heartache of actual sales, but that's it. Everything you need to know you'll learn in meetings.
Or have her wear Gucci.
Why do you think so? I assume that writing the same piece of code in assembly would take more than twice as long (conservative estimate) if you do the same in high level languages without much benefit. Can you elaborate your opinion a bit more as I am curious. I have been wanting to get into learning assembly but just cant seem to do it as high level languages are so easy to code in and want to know if anyone really uses assembly nowadays.
What does this have to do with wokeism?
Demo and HN reaction make this promising congratulation on the launch. The only thing that will drag me any my years of OneNote notes is Grammarly integration and support for using with Remarkable. For the last five years I have been on the look out for free form writing tool that I can use with any E-Ink tablet writers. My pesky OneNote + surface sort of works but code highlighting and typo corrections always drive me nuts. I have tried notion, OneNote and recently a direct graph note taking competitor anytype.io to no avail.
Well of course, more complex applications are going to have more complex state. Rails does a lot more than most web frameworks, so it has a lot of extra state to keep track of. This doesn't make it any less a function, it's now just a function that takes in the internal state (including the db contents) as an input. That's exactly what the article describes.
This is how I treat my NixOS config repo.
If you want to blame them for the bad you need to give them credit for recent accomplishments.

Unless you think it's a line that Americans sunk themselves in The Great Depression and therefore American leaders should get no credit for the following recovery.

Leaders change. Economic policy changes. China changed direction and lifted a huge number of people out of poverty. It's as simple as that.

> They opened up after visiting Asian Tiger economies and realizing they were far behind Singapore, South Korea, et al.

And? What's the point? That they learned by observing? Is that bad?
I must have had barriers in there. I knew what they are. I had worked on glibc threads some five years before that (under the maintenance of Ulrich Drepper at the time), using lock-free algorithms, where we had operation like "compare and swap with acquire semantics" (meaning doing the right kind of barrier for acquiring a mutex).

The hardware this was running on supported cache-coherent NUMA, but we didn't use it in that mode; the blades that had multiple nodes ran multiple Linux instances that didn't share memory. Reordering effects at the hardware level weren't observed in the separate mode; if one core wrote to a location A and then B another core would not see the B update before A. Under ccNUMA, had we used it, I believe that would have been an issue.

Compiler reordering is always a threat, so you need at least that __volatile__ __asm__(": : memory"). In the user space infrastructure of that project, I made a library of atomic operations; there must have been barrier macros in there; I can't imagine providing atomic primitives without barriers.
IBM System/360 machines had programmable IO Channel processors back in the 1960's. Everything new is old.

Nor is io_uring the first or only asynchronous I/O API available to Linux userspace. It's just the best.
> I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously.

I mean, I think that's the issue. Seems like you agree with Wikipedia that there's a minimum requirement for notoriety, but want it to be lower than it is: how low? What's the cutoff? How would you define that clearly and have volunteer editors enforce it consistently, so that everybody looks at it and says "that's just right"? It's easy to notice the problems with Wikipedia, but I think it's harder to solve them.
There are multiple ways to approach this but here's the core you should integrate: sales is a quantitative discipline. Be quantitative about it.

This means building a sales pipeline and tracking the effectiveness of whatever channels you use. How many leads do you get for $X in ad spend? How many of those become customers? What (ultimately) is the value of those customers?

Whatever you read, you will have to try different things. Some of them work. Many will not. Get in the mindset that you will fail more than you will succeed and don't just assume that you will get organic sales with sufficient reach. Sales is an active discipline. You will need to go out of your way to make potential customers aware of you and you will have to work to find a problem of theirs you can solve.

Be prepared to make a financial case for why they should buy from you vs [alternatives].
> Furthermore, why is Session's page on the Apple App Store not a valid source for the claim that Session is available on the Apple App Store?

Because that’s a primary source which Wikipedia tries to avoid. Obviously this can get quite weird, but good luck arguing with a wiki rules lawyer fixated on that. People are often more reasonable than that though.
> Analogy: the best time to buy a car from a specific manufacturer is when everyone knows that the manufacturer is only producing crappy cars. Because that's when they're likely doing everything they can to rectify their reputation.

Maybe—or maybe they’re still in the stage when they’re producing crappy cars, and unwilling to commit to the serious changes that would ultimately lead to a better product and better reputation.
Lol. Selling your data to the government is one of the ways they make money. BigTech and BigBrother have been in cahoots for more than 2-3 decades now. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM for more info.
Came here to say this, I still have it in the Applications folder even if I don't use it anymore. Too perfect.
When will the laws change to finally put a stop to vicious plagiarism of usernames?
I didn’t go into all the ramifications, consequences, and threats to the global order that results from China’s change in direction under Xi, I only showed how Xi’s premiership has been a distinct change in direction for China than his recent predecessors.

From that and China’s own statements about its intentions you can determine why it’s seen as hostile by the US and Europe. For instance, a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is absolutely a huge threat toward US and European interests, and would cause them substantial economic harm. Moreover if China were successful in it there’s also not much that would stop it from using military force to take over other countries in the region, because the justification would be as legally flimsy.

The post-war consensus against the use of force to conquer, annex, and swallow other countries has been extremely effective in preserving a level of global peace and allowed for a level of trade that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. It’s also arguably necessary in an age of nuclear weapons, where wars between major powers become unthinkable dangerous.

What Russia and to a much lesser extent China are doing, with regard to Ukraine and Taiwan respectively, is tearing up that post-war global order, returning the world to a might makes right system without much care given to international law, and therefore destabilising the world. I’d say those are reasons for Europe and the US to begin treating them as hostile and disengaging.

To be clear, none of this means the US or European countries are entirely blameless or saintly either. The US’s invasion of Iraq was wrong, possibly illegal, and cost them a huge amount of moral authority.
If the problem is that your fork just looks like the upstream and you can't modify README in there because this would make sending patches to upstream painful, you could:

- create a new branch in your fork, aside from original master/main (possibly a bare orphaned branch (with 0 commits))

- set it as default branch in repo settings

- then in README.md of the new default branch, explain your contributions to the upstream (possibly with a link to github.com/<repo>/contributions?user=<yourname>)
I'm always up for checking a well-kept garden, care to share?
Don’t just accept rejection, but learn to thrive on it. That is the secret of sales.
No, but only because I already saw that episode of black mirror.
API Bites – Tactics to Secure Sensitive APIs
It should have been cheaper. The thing you’re overlooking is that the 1984 Mac was not actually a market success. Success required more memory and the LaserWriter. The Apple II carried Apple until sometime in the late 80’s when people finally started buying Macs for desktop publishing.
all of those companies have also cancelled or killed products and services. you might say Google has killed more, but Google also starts more, so...
> In the 90s, Wade would've started a website/wiki called "Female Scientists" and she would've ranked just fine on search engines.

Agreed - and it isn't helped by the schisms between the Mediawiki community and Wikimedia. The priorities Wikimedia have for the Mediawiki software are so focused on Wikipedia and Wikidata that any potential it had as a platform capable of forking subject areas into domain-specific sites and merging those updates back into Wikipedia has long since passed. You can see the possibility of that still floating around in old import/export features that haven't been deprecated or removed yet.
I don’t understand modern healthcares obsession with extending life.

Part of the allure of life is because it’s temporary, so each moment is more valuable.

In a life where everyone lives to 200, the value of each moment (of your family, of the choices you make) is less, because you’ll probably have another chance sometime in the future.

Personally, I don’t want to live a day past 80.
Because humans like other humans? humans want a legacy? humans want the species to persist and even excel? Not everyone is a nihilist.
Google Trends would have probably been a good source of data too. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Show HN: How to quickly build a random quotes API using data from Kaggle
This blog post shows how you can build a fast serverless API for a large data set. We'll use a 144MB file with 500K famous quotes to create an efficient NoSQL datastore using code hooks. We'll build and deploy a public serverless API to serve random quotes from the NoSQL database to clients.
Static results are served directly from Nginx including index.html (I was worried about hn hug of death) everything else is on unicorn/rails/sql/custom python scripts/etc.
Anatomy of Blockstream Satellite
In hindsight, this wasn't a great question. I don't associate vandalism with van life or Instagram tourism. A lot of people found time to travel during the pandemic, some for the first time, and the large numbers of tourists were probably the main cause of any damage. I just worry about the damage worsening if more people are able to be digital nomads but don't work at their own personal responsibility.
This is true now, but once they have those data you can't know what they will use them for in the future. Maybe they will keep using them in the same way as now, maybe not. Also don't forget the recent case of users that got reported to the police by Google because they took pictures of their children for medical reasons.
Your comment dovetails with my primary point: how an app serializes or renders data is entirely trivial compared to planning for network availability issues when it comes to app function and user experience.

GP asks: "is it ever acceptable to round-trip to the server to re-render a component that could have been updated fully-client side?" This is a question that's oriented around what is generated on the server and pushed over the wire rather than the fact that there is a network call at all.

If the network is not stable, a typical 1st-load-heavy SPA-framework will make... a tenuous network call returning JSON with iffy chances of success instead of a tenuous network call returning an HTML fragment with iffy chances of success.
No you've missed the point.

Parent was not claiming you need to be an expert on something to talk about it. parent is claiming you should do at least a bare minimum of research (i.e. read the lawsuit) before making claims about what the lawsuit contains.

You also initially made the claim "[Alex Jones] was just fined approximately $1 billion USD for no more than speaking" which is also (as far as the courts are now concerned) demonstrably false. He was fined $1 billion for encouraging and paying for the harassment of multiple individuals in addition to speaking and other offenses assumed to be true as he did not defend himself through the courts. I mean what information lead you to make this point? This is the problem that the Parent is talking about, any sort of cursory reading of the case would show you why Alex Jones is in trouble.
When I was still programming in C++ that tool was the method to discuss compiler internals and language semantics with colleagues. Just setup a minimal example and share it with your colleagues. Impressive and sad at the same time. Impressive for obvious reasons. Sad, because the language is so confabulated that there is no easy concise way to talk about its semantics.
As opposed to having it be the default?
Probably the best is learning null-safe types and why it is important for basic hygiene.

When you don't learn elementary type-safety, you create languages like Java and Go which are plagued with NullPointerException's and nil panics.

So please, learn an ML (and a Lisp).
Lowering notability to allow more entries will just lead to a flood of mediocre articles not backed by much, which wikipedia already has a problem with.

The end effect is new articles don't get the attention they need, existing articles will get less attention as a result of more articles to patrol overall -- I've already seen less popular subjects become targets of vandals or activists, sometimes its subtle perversions of facts; with only a couple page watchers, these are far more likely to pass under the radar.

Articles can go years with offensive or misleading info if not attended, which is fine for run if the mill articles, but not for pages about living people, where the content can affect their lives or employment.
To be fair,

Assembly once worked directly on the hardware. On modern machines it doesn't.
Are you actually saying all programs should be written in a macro assembly language? Tied to only one hardware platform, with high level concepts completely obfuscated by the need to express them in assembly? So when MS wants to make an ARM version of Windows, rewrite! When Apple switched from 68k to Power to x86/x64 to ARM, rewrite! Port the Linux kernel to a new platform, rewrite! Port the unix utilities to a new platform, rewrite! Any application writer wanting to port their program from one hardware system to another, rewrite!

That would be an awful world to live in, though more people would be employed. Less would actually get done, though.